Irish barrister turned backroom adviser steps up to powerful EU commission job
Anthony Whelan , a trained barrister turned senior EU back room adviser, has stepped up into the high-profile position until early June.
He has also met executives from several telecom companies, such as Huawei, Vodafone and Nokia, according to a register of senior EU officials’ meetings. One of his roles in the cabinet had been to link in with Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s digital and competition commissioner, best known in Ireland for pursuing Apple over its tax bill.
Originally from Scariff, he is a former pupil of Cistercian College Roscrea, the Co Tipperary fee-paying school. After school he studied law in Trinity College Dublin, where he was heavily involved with the Hist debating society. After five years he joined the legal service of the commission, leading on a high profile case involving Microsoft in 2006, where the tech giant was fined a record €500 million over competition breaches.
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