Timo Pesonen
Director-General, European Commission, DG DEFIS
Timo Pesonen is the current Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space. After graduating in 1989 in International Politics from the University of Tampere, he served at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2004 to 2014, he acted as Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Olli Rehn and from 2015-2019 he served as Director-General for Communication. He took helm of Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs in March 2019 and he accompanied the creation of DG Defence Industry and Space in 2020 as the head of the new Directorate-General.
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28 October 2025
MFF in a new era: how to finance competitiveness, security and other European Public Goods
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in Rome, jointly organised with the Ministry of Economy and Finance