EC
European Commission
Sandra Gallina
Director-General, Directorate-General Health and Food Safety (SANTE)
Sandra Gallina joined the European Commission in 1988.
She is today Director General for HEALTH & FOOD SAFETY.
Before joining DG SANTE, between 2018 and 2020 she was Deputy Director General for TRADE.
Between 2014 and 2018 she was Director for DG TRADE Directorate D “Sustainable Development; Economic Partnership Agreements - African, Caribbean and Pacific; Agri-food and Fisheries”.
Sandra Gallina was also the EU chief negotiator for the EU-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement.
Between 2001 and 2009 she was the EU Lead Negotiator for Non-Agricultural Market Access in the WTO Doha Round and in that capacity, she defined and presented EU policy for the Doha Development Agenda on non-agricultural market access negotiations.
Before joining DG TRADE, she worked in the Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) at the end of the 1990s.
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