Marc Van Hoof

Marc Van Hoof is a Senior EU Legal Adviser in the firm's Brussels office. He retired from the European Commission on 31 May 2025.

In the European Commission, Marc started as an official in the Internal Market Directorate General (DG III) in 1986. He then joined the cabinet of EU Commissioner Karel Van Miert in 1991, where he was in charge of air transport (when Karel Van Miert was Transport Commissioner) and State aid (when Karel Van Miert became Competition Commissioner). During the last two years of Karel Van Miert’s mandate, Marc was his deputy head of cabinet. In 2000, when Mario Monti became EU Competition Commissioner, Marc was appointed as head of his cabinet. After Mario Monti’s mandate, in 2004, Marc was appointed Director for State aid control in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition. After some years in DG Competition, Marc joined the Legal Service of the European Commission in 2007, where he was successively Director of several teams (Social and Consumer Affair, Trade, MIMED [internal market, industry, environment, climate, energy, space and defense]) until his retirement in 2025.

Marc holds a Belgian law degree from the ULB (Brussels University) and a LL.M from the College of Europe.

He published several articles in competition law and co-published a book on State aid.