Dr. Walter Goetz

Head of Office at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington D.C.

Walter Goetz joined the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington D.C. as Head of Office in September 2023. He served as Head of Cabinet of Transport Commissioner Adina Vălean from 2019 to August 2023. Before moving to the European Commission, he worked in the Secretariat General of the European Parliament in Brussels, where he mainly headed several Committee secretariats (CRIS, TRAN and ITRE) in the years 2009-2019. Previously he also served as administrator in the ITRE secretariat and in the European Parliament’s Transatlantic Relations Unit. His European career took off in 2003 when he joined the European Commission working on financial services. As a junior official, he worked in the German Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn and Berlin in the years 1998 to 2003, where he held various positions as a desk officer in customs, fiscal policy and legal departments. He studied Law and Administrative Science in Konstanz and Speyer, Germany, and holds a PhD from the Faculty of Law of the University of Konstanz.