07/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - French national to head DG Energy. Dominique Ristori from France, who is currently the director general of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), will replace Philip Lowe from the UK in the post of director general of the European Commission's DG Energy on 1 January 2014, when Lowe retires. Ristori will return to a Directorate General that he already knows well as he worked as deputy director general at DG Energy from 2006-2010. He began his...