Kevin Keary is a member of the Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Trade (2019-2024), responsible for relations with the World Trade Organisation, ASEAN (including digital trade negotiations with Singapore), Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to that he was in the cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Agriculture (2014-2019). Prior to that he was a political adviser in the European Parliament (2008-2014) during which he worked on files including the General Data Protection Regulation on the Industry, Research and Energy committee. He has also been Chair of the Institute of International and European Affairs in Brussels (2013-2015). He holds a master’s degree in European Affairs from Lund University, Sweden, and a BA International (including an Erasmus year in University of Granada, Spain) from University of Galway. As well as English and Irish, he speaks Spanish, French and intermediate German.