Francois Lamoureux
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François Lamoureux (17 December 1946-26 August 2006) was a proeminent European civil servant whose powerful career has been spent at the centre of European integration
[edit] A passionated integrationist
Educated at the Lycée Buffon and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris François Lamoureux began his professional career in the legal service of the European Commission in 1978. He was later spotted by the Commission's Secretary-General Emile Noël, who led him to join Jacques Delors's cabinet in 1985. There he directed the haydays of European integration as deputy-director of the Commission President's cabinet, working on the Single European Act, the Maastricht Treaty and the development of European integration. He worked briefly in Paris, as the Cabinet director of Edith Cresson, the then French prime minister. But soon, he returned to the Commission in Brussels. Then, he pursued his high-flying career, embarking most noticeably in a fruitful cooperation with Loyola de Palacio in leading the European Transport and Energy Policy as Director-General of the Directorate-General for Transport and Energy from 1999 to 2006 creating the Galileo positioning system and drafting policies to enlarge the role of the European railways.
He died of cancer in the summer of 2006.
