Tassos Haniotis is Director for "Strategy and Policy Analysis" in the DG for Agriculture and Rural development of the European Commission. He has previously held posts as Acting Deputy Director-General, Acting Director for Direct Payments, Head of Unit in the Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives Unit and the Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis Unit in DG AGRI, as Deputy Head of Cabinet of former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler, and as Agricultural Counsellor in the European Commission’s Delegation in the US. Tassos holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia in the U.S., an B.A. in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business in his native Greece. A visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, Wye College, University of London before joining the Commission, and an active member of International and European academic associations in his field to this date, he received in 2019 a Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of Agronomy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.