Christian Danielsson is the Director-General in DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations with extensive experience in foreign affairs and external relations both at national and European levels. From January 2011 to October 2013 he served as Deputy Secretary-General in the Secretariat-General of the European Commission. In the period from 2008 to 2010 he served as the Ambassador in the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the EU. From January 2007 to September 2008 he was acting Director / Director in DG Enlargement managing and coordinating the accession process with Croatia, Turkey and North Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at the time).