• juan.ronco@jpi-oceans.eu
• JPI Oceans Secretariat

Juan José Ronco Zapatero is a retired European Commission official. He was a Policy Officer at the Directorate General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE). His main responsibilities were in Maritime Spatial Planning. Prior to that, he was with the Directorate General Education and Culture, and Research and Technology. Before starting his career as an EU official, he worked in the information technologies industry in Belgium. He holds a degree in International and Monetary Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain (KULEUVEN, Belgium), and he is currently enrolled in a Master’s Program in Comparative and International Politics at KULEUVEN.