Mr Cendrowicz brings to this job 30 years of experience in the European Commission, focusing mainly on enlargement and neighbourhood regions as well as connectivity, both in terms of policy and of instruments. He was previously the Deputy Head of Unit in DG NEAR.C1 of the European Commission – the unit dealing with Georgia and Moldova, but also some of the regional aspects of the Eastern Partnership. He was previously the deputy Head of Unit for Regional Co-operation in the Western Balkans.
Before this, Mr Cendrowicz worked in the Serbia and also the Kosovo team in DG Enlargement, having joined from the Romania team when Romania and Bulgaria acceded to the EU. Mr Cendrowicz is also a long-standing expert on energy policy, having worked on this file in the Commission’s Energy department. He was the EU facilitator for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue on both energy and telecommunications matters.
Mr Cendrowicz has a degree in politics from the University of Bristol and a further degree in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.