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Sir Jonathan Michael Howard Faull KCMG (born 20 August 1954 in Chatham, Kent) is a former British official in the European Commission.
He joined the European Commission in 1978, becoming Director for Competition Policy at the Directorate-General for Competition in 1995, Deputy Director-General in 1999 and Spokesman and Director-General of Press and Communication in 1999. He was Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs (later Justice, Freedom and Security) from 2003 to 2010.
He was Director-General of Internal Market and Services Directorate-General from 2010 to 2015. In the first half – Director-General for the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union which was formed from the DG Internal Market and Services Directorate-General.
On 24 June 2015, the European Commission announced that he would become the Director-General of a to-be-created "Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum" as of 1 September 2015.
He is a visiting professor at King's College London and a member of the boards of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris and the Centre for European Reform in London.
Faull was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2017 Birthday Honours.
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