Alexandra Jour-Schroeder
Director, Criminal Justice,Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers,
European Commission
BIOGRAPHY
Alexandra Jour-Schroeder is Acting Director of the 60 people strong Criminal Justice Department of the European Commission in Brussels. The Department develops European Union policies and legislation to enhance co-operation in criminal matters, to fight against crime in particular the financing of terrorism and money-laundering. Her Directorate strongly co-operates with the Financial Action Task Force.
Following first assignments in the German federal government, Alexandra Jour-Schroeder started in 1996 to work for the European Commission where she has held so far different jobs including competition, enterprise and industry policies. She served as an advisor to EU Commissioners from 1998 to 2007. Since 2011 she works in the Justice Department where she had several management functions. Since 2011 she headed the Unit in charge of EU criminal law and leads since October 2016 the unit for financial crime and is since autumn 2015 Acting Director for Criminal Justice.
