There are approximately 1 000 national experts seconded to the European Commission from the 28 EU Member States, the EFTA States and other countries. See the full list and contact details of the EEA EFTA national experts in this section.
The aim of the arrangement is to supply the Commission with expertise that is not available internally and to be a tool for the European Union to increase and spread knowledge of the European institutions and decision-making process. For the employers seconding experts, the arrangement is an opportunity for international training and hands-on experience in policy areas of the EU that are important to their staff. The experts remain employees of their national employers throughout the secondment period and can stay at the Commission between six months and four years.
The obligations of all EEA EFTA national experts towards the EU institutions in which they are seconded are identical. From an administrative and legal point of view, however, the EEA EFTA national experts fall into two categories depending on their connection to the EEA Agreement:
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EFTA in-kind experts are directly linked to the EEA Agreement as they are part of the EEA EFTA States’ annual contribution to the administrative costs of the EU budget, within the framework of EEA EFTA participation in various EU programmes, agencies and undertakings. All administrative procedures linked to their recruitment, prolongation and replacement are handled by the EFTA Secretariat in Brussels, with the exception of the experts seconded to Eurostat in Luxembourg.
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Bilateral experts are seconded by each EFTA State to the EU outside the EEA EFTA budget. All administrative procedures linked to their recruitment, prolongation and replacement are handled by the EFTA States' respective missions in Brussels.
EEA EFTA experts
National experts seconded to the European Commission within the framework of the EEA Agreement and EEA EFTA participation in EU programmes and agencies.
National experts seconded to the European Commission on a bilateral basis are marked with an asterisk.
| Name: | Country: | Phone: | |||||||||||||
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| DG CLIMATE ACTION (CLIMA) | |||||||||||||||
| Ragnhild Børke* | Norway | Governance and Effort Sharing | +32 2 295 8759 | ||||||||||||
| DG COMMUNICATION NETWORKS, CONTENT & TECHNOLOGIES (CNECT) | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas Nortvedt | Norway | Digital Policy Development and Coordination | +32 2 298 5666 | ||||||||||||
| Liv Hilde Westrheim | Norway | Cloud and software | +32 2 298 1127 | ||||||||||||
| Jesper Bæverfjord | Norway | Learning, Multilingualism and Accessibility | +352 4301 35481 | ||||||||||||
| VACANT | Norway | Audiovisual Industry and Media Support Programmes | |||||||||||||
| DG EDUCATION & CULTURE (EAC) | |||||||||||||||
| Sigbjørn Sandberg | Norway | Culture: Creative Europe Programme | +32 2 296 4808 | ||||||||||||
| Sumathi Subramaniam | Norway | Higher Education, Erasmus: Transparency Tools and Programme Impact | +32 2 296 5209 | ||||||||||||
| Geir Ottestad | Norway | Erasmus +: Studies, impact assessments, analysis and statistics | +32 2 295 7593 | ||||||||||||
| VACANT | Norway | Erasmus +: Schools and Educators; multilingualism | + | ||||||||||||
| VACANT | Norway | International cooperation in education | |||||||||||||
| Anita Tøien Johansen | Norway | Erasmus +; Youth in Action | +32 2 298 3039 | ||||||||||||
| Harpa Sif Arnarsdottir | Iceland | Higher Education; "Erasmus" | +32 2 296 5415 | ||||||||||||
| DG EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL AFFAIRS & INCLUSION (EMPL) | |||||||||||||||
| Marinella Van Welsenes | Norway | Mobility & Employment Services, EURES | +32 2 296 5229 | ||||||||||||
| Bent-Ole Grooss | Norway | Social investment strategy | +32 2 295 5176 | ||||||||||||
| Sindre Reinholdt | Norway | Working conditions | +32 2 298 3304 | ||||||||||||
| Bjørn Tore Bertheussen | Norway | VET, Apprenticeships and Adult Learning | +32 2 298 2247 | ||||||||||||
| Hilde Olsen* | Norway | Employment Strategy | +32 2 299 4610 | ||||||||||||
| DG ENERGY (ENER) | |||||||||||||||
| Olav Sem Berg* | Norway | Retail Markets; coal & oil | +32 2 298 5303 | ||||||||||||
| Henriette Nesheim* | Norway | Networks and Regional initiatives | +32 2 295 44 37 | ||||||||||||
| Kristin Thorvaldsen* | Norway | Energy Policy Coordination | +32 2 295 46 39 | ||||||||||||
| DG EUROSTAT (ESTAT) | |||||||||||||||
| Kurt Wass | Norway | Government Finance Statistics | +352 4301 34424 | ||||||||||||
| Ole Villund | Norway | Crime Statistics | +352 4301 38550 | ||||||||||||
| Steinar Todsen (to start 16 February 2019) | Norway | Labour market | |||||||||||||
| Salah Eddine Ziade | Norway | Structureal Business Statistics: Quality assurance and Financial Annexes | +352 4301 37397 | ||||||||||||
| Simen Saeterdal* | EFTA/Norway | Statistical cooperation - EU Enlargement | +352 4301 33917 | ||||||||||||
| Paul Camenzind* | Switzerland | Income and Living Conditions: Quality of Life | +352 4301 33221 | ||||||||||||
| Steinn Kári Steinsson * | EFTA/Norway | Statistical Cooperation - European Neighbourhood Policy | +352 4301 33067 | ||||||||||||
| Fritz Gebhard* | Switzerland | Environmental Statistics; sustainable development | +352 430 134 864 | ||||||||||||
| DG HEALTH & FOOD SAFETY (SANTE) | |||||||||||||||
| Valgerður Gunnarsdottir | Iceland | Health Determinants and inequality | +352 430 130 689 | ||||||||||||
| Jostein Dragset* | Norway | Animal Health and Welfare | +32 2 299 5462 | ||||||||||||
| Magne Mo* | Norway | Animal Health and Welfare | +32 2 298 0251 | ||||||||||||
| Halvard Kvamsdal* | Norway | Food Information and Composition, Food Waste | +32 2 295 1418 | ||||||||||||
| DG HUMANITARIAN AID & CIVIL PROTECTION (ECHO) | |||||||||||||||
| Camilla ELSETH | Norway | Civil Protection - Emergency Response | +32 2 296 94 58 | ||||||||||||
| DG INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SMEs (GROW) | |||||||||||||||
| Martin Blom* | Norway | Defence, Aeronautic and Maritime Industries | +32 2 299 2569 | ||||||||||||
| VACANT* | Norway | Galileo and Egnos - Applications, Security, International Cooperation | |||||||||||||
| VACANT* | Norway | Galileo and EGNOS - Service Provision and Exploitation | |||||||||||||
| Ola Nordbeck* | Norway | Copernicus Infrastructure | +32 2 298 5307 | ||||||||||||
| Helge Rager Furuseth* | Norway | EU Satellite Navigation Programmes | +32 2 298 3731 | ||||||||||||
| dg migration & home affairs (home) | |||||||||||||||
| Ann Kristin Hahnsson* | Norway | Asylum | +32 2 299 60 46 | ||||||||||||
| DG MOBILITY & TRANSPORT (MOVE) | |||||||||||||||
| Astrid Nordahl* | Norway | Aviation Policy | +32 2 297 5575 | ||||||||||||
| DG NEIGHBOURHOOD & ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS (NEAR) | |||||||||||||||
| Stine Andresen* | Norway | Western Balkans Investment Framework | +32 2 295 5523 | ||||||||||||
| DG REGIONAL & URBAN POLICY (REGIO) | |||||||||||||||
| Odd Godal* | Norway | Competence Centre Macro-regions and Territorial Cooperation; Baltic Sea Strategy | +32 2 296 44 37 | ||||||||||||
| Astrid Solhaug* | Norway | Administrative Capacity Building, European Solidarity Fund and EEA/Norway Grants | +32 2 299 38 62 | ||||||||||||
| DG RESEARCH & INNOVATION (RTD) | |||||||||||||||
| Erik Yssen* | Norway | Horizon 2020 - Policy and Foresight | +32 2 299 58 64 | ||||||||||||
National experts seconded to other European institutions and agencies
| NAME: | COUNTRY: | PHONE: | |||||||||||||
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| EUROPEAN DEFENCE AGENCY (EDA) | |||||||||||||||
| Shahzad Ali * | Norway | CapTech CBRN & HF | +32 2 504 2865 | ||||||||||||
| EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE (EEAS) | |||||||||||||||
| Katarina Nordanger* | Norway | Strategic Planning Division | +32 2 584 4983 | ||||||||||||
| Nicolay Paus* | Norway | Electoral Observation and Democracy | +32 2 584 1135 | ||||||||||||
| Ingrid Egeland Thorsnes* | Norway | Human Rights Strategy and Policy Implementation | +32 2 584 4104 | ||||||||||||
| Paal Ivar Mørkved Aavatsmark* | Norway | Regional Affairs - India, Bangladesh, Nepal & Bhutan | +32 2 584 4109 | ||||||||||||
| EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OPERATIONAL COOPERATION AT EXTERNAL BORDERS (FRONTEX) | |||||||||||||||
| VACANT* | Norway | Sea Border Sector | |||||||||||||
| Michaela Raymond* | Norway | Operations Division | +48 222059500 | ||||||||||||