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Anthony Gooch Gálvez

Director of communication and public affairs - OECD

Anthony Gooch was appointed Director of Public Affairs & Communications at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in April 2008.

Prior to this he headed the European Commission’s Media and Public Diplomacy operations in the United Kingdom, promoting the EU’s major global policy initiatives on issues such as Climate Change.

Between 2003 to 2006, he was based in Washington DC, heading the Commission’s Media and Public Diplomacy operations in the United States, focusing on EU-US trade relations, competition cases such as Microsoft, EU global environmental and energy initiatives, bilateral negotiations on Open Skies and homeland security issues.