DENIS HUBER
Executive Director of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe

After embarking on a diplomatic career in 1990, in the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Denis Huber joined the Secretariat of the Council of Europe in 1993. He gained ten years experience in the Secretariat of the Committee of Ministers, acting as adviser to the (rotating) Presidency of the Committee. In this role, he worked with eighteen successive chairs of the Council of Europe, from France in 1997 to the Russian Federation in 2006. He was directly involved in the preparation and follow up of two Summits of Heads of State and Government - the Strasbourg Summit (in October 1997) and the Warsaw Summit (in May 2005) – and of the 50th Anniversary of the Council of Europe.

In 2006/2007, Denis Huber was posted to Belgrade, as Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Serbia. This period coincided with the Serbian Chairmanship of the Council of Europe (May-November 2007). Since December 2007, he has been assuming the responsibilities of Executive Director of the Council of Europe North-South Centre, in Lisbon.

Denis Huber is the author of the book “A decade which made History : the Council of Europe 1989-1999”, published in 1999 by the Council of Europe Publishing.

See the publication “A decade which made History : the Council of Europe 1989-1999”, here:

- English version
- French version