Rafael López Sánchez

Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy

Rafael López Sánchez (ES) is Deputy Head of Unit C.1 ‘Audit Co-ordination, relations with the Court of Auditors and OLAF’ in the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy (European Commission). Before Rafael López Sánchez was Head of Sector with responsibility for the ERDF and Cohesion Fund audits in three Member States: Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Rafael has been working in the DG REGIO since 2005. From 2003 to 2005, Rafael was working as an auditor in the Directorate-General for Agriculture of the European Commission. Before joining the Commission, Rafael was auditor in the Spanish public administration for seven years.