Brief Profile of Dr. Cesare Onestini


Cesare Onestini is the Minister and Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to India since August 2014.


Cesare joined the European Commission in 1995. As a European official, Cesare has worked on a variety of policies including the promotion of European cooperation in the areas of education and professional training, the development of European transport networks and the liberalization of gas and energy markets.


Before joining the Commission, Cesare graduated from Oxford University with a B.A. in Human Sciences, an M. Phil in European Politics, Economics and Society and a D. Phil in International Relations.


More recently, Cesare has worked for the European Union in the areas of external relations, international trade, security and crisis management. From 2008 to 2010, he worked at the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York, focusing on cooperation between the European Union and the United Nations on peace and security issues. In 2010 he returned to Brussels for the setting up of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the diplomatic service of the European Union. In the EEAS, he took over the position of Head of the Corporate Board's Secretariat. For the 2013-14 academic year, Cesare was the European Union Visiting Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, focusing his research and teaching on EU-ASEAN relations.