Directorate for Operations and Partnerships

Michele Amedeo is Director for Operations & Partnerships and EU Representative at the Union for the Mediterranean, seconded from the European Commission, since 2026.

Michele Amedeo is Director for Operations & Partnerships and EU Representative at the Union for the Mediterranean, seconded from the European Commission, since 2026.

From 1998 to 2000, he managed the EU Multi-Beneficiary Environmental Programmes to prepare Central and Eastern European countries for EU membership. In 2001, he became Deputy Head of Office for the United Nation Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in China. In 2003, he directed the Program for Environmental Protection of the Italian Ministry of Environment in China. In 2004, he returned to the European Commission as Head of Operational Section to the EU Delegation in Benin, where he remained until 2008. From 2009 to 2011, he was Global Risk Adviser to the Director General for Enlargement and was later responsible for the coordination of EU funding instruments for Enlargement countries (Western Balkans and Turkey) and the EU Neighbourhood. He was the Head of the Centre of Thematic Expertise on Migration from 2018 till 2021, before being Deputy and Acting Head of the Migration Unit at the Directorate General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement (DG NEAR), until 2024. He led on stepping up EU efforts in addressing migration challenges in the central Mediterranean since 2017. He was  Adviser on Higher Education, Cultural Diplomacy, and Mobilty at the Directorate-General for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf (DG MENA) in 2025.

Amedeo holds a MSc in Environmental Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, a MSc in Civil Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, and a General Management Certificate from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He is a visiting professor on international cooperation and the author of articles on global challenges, migration, and the EU in the world.