Mr. Lutz Güllner is Head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan, the representation of the European Union in Taipei. He is a senior career diplomat in the European External Action Service (EEAS) – the diplomatic service of the European Union – with a distinguished career in various positions related to political, economic and security affairs. He was appointed to his current position on 1 September 2024.

Prior to the current position, he was Head of Division for Strategic Communications and Information Analysis dealing with hybrid threats and non-traditional security issues, such as foreign information manipulation and interference FIMI (2019-2024).
His previous career in EEAS also includes Head of the EEAS’s foreign and security policy communication team (2017– 2019), and Head of the European Commission Directorate General for Trade communication team (2013– 17). He was also Deputy Head of the Trade Strategy Unit and responsible for the coordination of EU-US trade and economic relations.

In 2009 and 2010, Güllner was spokesperson for the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton. In previous positions, he oversaw economic relations between the EU and Russia.
Güllner studied political science and international relations at the Free University of Berlin and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.

Key Publications

  • Im Digitalen Fadenkreuz (Engl. “In the digital line of fire”), Internationale Politik, 4/2021, (July/August), pp. 78-81.
  • Händler und Verhandler (Engl. “Traders and Negotiators“), Internationale Politik, 3/2013, (May/June), pp. 38-42.
  • Threat or risk? The debate about energy security and Russia: five steps for a scientific research programme, Journal of Contemporary European Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 149-153. 2008