Stefan Lechler has been working since 2013 in the Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission.

Since 2018 he is Deputy Head of Unit for Electronic Communications Policy, Implementation and Enforcement. Previously, Mr Lechler worked for DG Competition and for the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union.

Before Mr Lechler moved from the private sector to the EU in 2008, he had first worked as an attorney (Rechtsanwalt) in a US corporate law firm in Brussels and then for 10 years in a German telecommunications group (inter alia as head of competition law and major litigation).