Biography

Hugues Mingarelli was the EU Ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019. Previously, he was in charge of the Middle-East and North Africa at the European External Action Service between 2011 and 2016. Between 2003 and 2010, he was in charge of the countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia at the European Commission. In this capacity, he negotiated the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement. After the end of the wars in the Balkans, he was asked to set up and run the European Agency for the Reconstruction of the Balkans (1999-2002).