T&E last month welcomed two new policy officers working at its secretariat in Brussels.
[mailchimp_signup][/mailchimp_signup]Arne Richters is a 38-year-old Dutchman who has spent the last five years working for the external affairs department of Toyota in Brussels, and before that was transport policy adviser to an MEP. He speaks Dutch, English and German, and will be leading T&E’s work on cars.
Antoine Kedzierski is 25, comes from France but has worked in Germany, Poland and Brussels. He comes to T&E from the Commission’s rail transport and interoperability unit, and will be working on air pollution and infrastructure issues.
Richters and Kedzierski make it four new members of T&E staff this year. Earlier this year, Maurizio Molinari and Audrey Martin joined the T&E communications team.
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