Harvey Rouse to head EU Office to HK and Macau

The European Union’s High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Harvey Rouse, will replace Thomas Gnocchi as Head of the Office of the European Union to Hong Kong and Macao. Before his current position, Rouse was Head of the Trade & Economic Section at the EU Delegation to Indonesia/Brunei Darussalam, as well as the EU Delegation to ASEAN. Thomas Gnocchi, who has served as Head of the EU Office to Hong Kong and Macau since September 2020, has been appointed Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Japan. Gnocchi will now be heading to Tokyo to take up his new diplomatic post.