ABOUT

Ms. Maria Teresa FABREGAS is, since March 2017, the Director for Indirect Taxation and Tax Administration in the Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union in the European Commission.

Maria Teresa joined the European Commission in 1997. She has worked in several Directorate-Generals. She held positions in the Directorate-General for Enterprise working on the internal market for industrial goods and better regulation policies and in the Directorate-General for Trade dealing with technical barriers to trade in bilateral and multilateral negotiations (e.g. WTO, FTAs, mutual recognition). In 2005 she joined the Directorate-General for the Internal Market where she worked on the internal market for services field and afterwards in the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union as a Head of Unit first for "Securities Markets" and later for "Financial Markets Infrastructure".

She holds a degree in Law by the University of Barcelona, a post-graduate course in international relations (Centre for International Studies) and a Bachelor's degree in Economics.