Peter Van Kemseke is Senior Officer at Directorate-General Climate Action. As Belgian diplomat, he served in the OSCE, NATO and the UN Security Council, before joining the EU institutions, as Deputy Head of Cabinet of President Van Rompuy and Expert at the Commission Vice President Šefčovič’ cabinet in charge of Energy Union. He authored several books on diplomacy and the EU, including Europe reinvented : how COVID-19 is changing the European Union (2020).