Maive Rute appointed Deputy Director General of JRC

On 12 April, the European Commission appointed Ms Maive Rute as Deputy Director-General of the European Commission's science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Ms Rute, an Estonian, takes up her post on 16 April. She joined the European Commission in 2005 to become Director for the Promotion of SMEs, Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship in DG Enterprise and Industry. She brought in her extensive management experience in the Estonian public sector, notably three years spent as a Managing Director of the Rural Credit Guarantee Fund and five years as CEO of the Estonian Credit and Export Guarantee Fund KredEx. In the Commission, Ms Rute also worked as Director for Biotechnologies, Food and Agriculture Research and as a Resource Director in DG Research and Innovation, a job she is currently holding.

Ms Rute graduated as an agricultural economist from the Estonian University of Life Sciences and holds an MBA from the Danube University Krems, Austria, and a Masters in international politics from CERIS, Belgium.

Related link: ec.europa.eu/jrc