Working for Louis Michel

Koen Doens, a Belgian foreign ministry official, has become head of the private office of Louis Michel, the European commissioner for development and humanitarian aid. Doens was previously the deputy head, a position which is now taken by Frenchman Hervé Delphin.
The promotion of Doens comes about because Michel's previous chef de cabinet, Sabine Weyand, has moved to the private office of José Manuel Barroso, the president of the Commission.
Weyand, a German, used to work in the office of Pascal Lamy and by coincidence she is filling in at the Barroso cabinet, for Matthew Baldwin, once Lamy's deputy chef. Baldwin has had a back operation and is out for three months. Weyand will be looking after the energy, trade, development and Africa dossiers, which does not sound like a sinecure. On the bright side – she no longer has to work for Michel.