James Lovegrove is Managing Director of our European office in Brussels. James is part of a highly professional team: Rob Mulligan (Sr Vice President, AeA), Abigail Cottrell (formerly DTI) our European Affairs Manager and Petra Rahoens (formerly AmCham) our Administrative Assistant. Together we support AeA Europe Members and our Executive Committee, which drives the Association’s policy and strategic direction. This year’s Executive Committee is chaired by Nortel Networks (Thomas Reynaert) and Vice-Chaired by HP (Jan-Willem Scheijgrond ).

James is a British national and a convinced European. He has spent most of his academic and professional life involved in European affairs.  James studied European Studies (politics/administrative law), European Law and French at the University of Kent (UK) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Science Po, France).  He then worked at a Brussels based think-tank (European Policy Centre) on a publication; "Making Sense of the Amsterdam Treaty".  Once graduated, James worked at Freshfields at both their EU affairs departments in Brussels and Berlin and saw the company grow through two mergers.  During his time at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, James was awarded a traineeship at DG Competition (European Commission).

James has played an important role in tripling the Membership of the Brussels council by establishing it as the key platform for the US high-tech sector.  Most recently, AeA Europe launched a unique report into the role of the High-Tech sector to deliver solutions for both climate change and economic growth.  The interest from EU decision makers has been outstanding and is a clear reflection of the strong stakeholder credentials of AeA Europe.

James was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Yorkshire (UK), Ampleforth College.  Having spent much of his childhood in Nigeria and the Middle East he has travelled widely and visited North America, many parts of South East Asia and Europe.  His great passions are aviation (Member of the Royal Air Force Reserve/Pilot Branch) and travelling/trekking (Indonesia in 1994; Saigon-Hong Kong overland via Himalayan foothills in Summer 1996; Hindukush (N/E Kashmir, Pakistan) in Summer 1997, Chiapadas/Bahia (Brazil) in Summer 2001, Laos/Thailand (2003).  James speaks fluent French, good German, basic Indonesian and is learning Swedish due to personal circumstances.

James is married to Helena and they have two sons, Sam and Emil.

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