Frank Hoffmeister

Frank Hoffmeister

Frank Hoffmeister holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg (1998) and served
as academic assistant at the Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional
Law from 1998 until 2001. He then joined the European Commission where he
worked first in the Cyprus Unit in DG Enlargement before becoming a member of the
Commission Legal Service (external relations and institutional team). From 2010 to
2014 he acted as Deputy Head of Cabinet of the EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht,
and as of 2015 he was Head of Unit dealing with anti-dumping at DG Trade. He
joined the European External Action Service in November 2021 as Director of the
Legal Department. He teaches EU external relations law at the Free University of
Brussels and has written extensively on EU and international law matters. He edited
(together with J Wouters, G Debaere and T Ramopoulos) The Law of EU External
Relations – Cases, Materials and Commentary on the EU as an International Legal
Actor (Oxford, OUP, third edition 2021)