Belgian official with a long legal experience in the field of EU non discrimination law as well as labour law acquired at national and EU level.

Since April 2014, I have been appointed as a social attaché to the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU where I am responsible for defending the Belgian interests in the negotiation of the legislative and policy files in the field of employment and equality. 

In the past, I carried out 3 temporary jobs (for a total period of almost 10 years) at the European Commission (DG EMPL and DG JUST) and have been appointed for another decade in the Federal Ministry of social security and the Federal Institute for equality of women and men in Belgium.  

Kate Feeney is a Chartered Accountant, a local councillor for the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council in Ireland and Third Vice-President of the Renew Europe Group in the European Committee of the Regions. She has previously been the Renew Europe Coordinator for the COR SEDEC Commission (in charge of employment, social policies, education, training, sports and culture). As CoR Rapporteur Kate shaped the position of European local and regional authorities on the EU’s first ever LGBTIQ Equality Strategy.

Ana Gallego is the Director-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission since November 2021. Before joining the European Commission she was Director-General of International Legal Cooperation and Human Rights in the Ministry of Justice in Spain. She has a degree in law from the University of Granada, Spain and studies in Translation and Interpretation from the same university.