Volver a Blog Gijs Schilthuis May 14, 2022 Gijs Schilthuis is the Head of Unit for Policy Perspectives at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development. He has worked since 2008, in different capacities, on agricultural policy reform in this Directorate-General. He first joined the European Commission in 2005 at the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers. He earned a Master’s degree in agricultural economics from Wageningen University in 2000. He is a Dutch national.