EEA - Key Persons
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- Head of the Water Assessment Division
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- Deputy State Secretary on Environmental Protection
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- Chairman
- Director - General
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- Senior Advisor / Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
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- Acting Deputy Director - General for International Relations
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- Assistant Secretary / Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
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- Director / Department of Environment / Ministry of Agriculture
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- Deputy Director - Environment and Resources / Environment and Resources Authority
Domingo Jiménez-Beltrán served as the EEA's Executive Director of the Agency from 1994 until June 2002. His leadership and contributions were pivotal in establishing the Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Eionet) as reputable sources of independent and relevant knowledge, supporting environmental policies and policy-making in Europe.
Following his tenure at the EEA, Jiménez-Beltran held several significant positions. He became an Adviser at the Economic Office of the Spanish President, and the founder and first Director of the Spanish Observatory for Sustainability. Additionally, he worked as a consulting engineer and adviser to governments, businesses and institutes. in particular for the Spanish Observatory for Sustainability. Jiménez-Beltrán was an esteemed author, lecturer, and professor who taught specialized courses.
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- Head of Radioecology Section / International Atomic Energy Agency
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- Director of the Research Division, Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies ( RAAS ) Member of the EC Mission Board on Climate Adaptation and Societal Transformation
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- Chief Sustainability Officer, Indaver NV / Associate Professor, University of Antwerp
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- Research Director for Enviromental Solutions / Norwegian Institute for Air Research
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- Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea
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- Head of Department Administration / Coordination
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- Head of Department - EU and International Affairs
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- Deputy Head of Unit - Strategic and Legal Aspects
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- Head of Section for the Environmental Data Section
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- Department of Environment / Ministry of Agriculture
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- Deputy Permanent Secretary
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- Director - General / Slovenian Environment Agency
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- Head of Unit - Strategic and Legal Aspects
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- Director Environment and Resources and Acting CEO / Environment and Resources Authority
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- Research Director
- Environmental Policy Research Centre / Ihnestr. 22
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- Head of Department / Ministry of Agriculture Department for Environmental Development and Strategy
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- Director - General / Environmental Protection Agency
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- Deputy Head of International Affairs Division
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- Subdirector Adjunto De Relaciones Internacionales Del Ministerio Para La Transición Ecológica Y El Reto Demográfico
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- Director of the Environmental Protection Agency
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- the EEA's Executive Director
The EEA's Executive Director, Leena Ylä-Mononen, took up post on 1 June 2023. As Executive Director, she is responsible for all operational matters and staffing issues. In cooperation with the EEA Management Board, she ensures delivery of the vision outlined in our Strategy and Single Programming Documents.
Ms Leena Ylä-Mononen, a Finnish national, has worked with national, European, and international environmental policy and administration for over 30 years.
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- Director of the Department for Coordination of the Environment Policy of the Slovak Republic
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- Deputy Director - General
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- Director of the National Center for the Environment and Sustainable Development
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- Head of Unit - International Policy Cooperation Unit
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- Professor of Agricultural Economics / Department of Agricultural Economics / Technical University of Madrid
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- Professor of Industrial and Biotechnology, and Circular ( Bio ) Economy
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- Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability
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- Visiting Professor, Public Governance / Leuven University
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- Professor of Climatology, Lund University / Climate Advisor
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- Director Inserm Unit 1124, University of Paris / Head of Metabolomic Biochemistry Laboratory, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital
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- Professor, Department of Occupational and Environment Health / National School of Public Health
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- Assistant Professor
- Chairman
- Research Professor / Ghent University / Department of Public Governance
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- Head of Environmental Science Division / Department of Environmental Engineering, Hacettepe University
Prof. Jacqueline McGlade served as the EEA's Executive Director between 1 June 2003 and 31 May 2013. Throughout her tenure, Professor McGlade was an advocate for leveraging new technologies to enhance information gathering and accessibility. She played a vital role in modernising the EEA's information system based on the principles of Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS). Under her leadership, numerous online databases were also established, such as the Water Information System for Europe and the Biodiversity Information Systems for Europe.
Before her appointment at the EEA, she held the position of Director of the Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences of the UK Natural Environment Research Council. She also taught at several universities worldwide, including the United Kingdom and Canada.
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- Deputy Executive Director / Executive Environment Agency
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- Vice - Chair
- President / Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
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- Acting Director - General / Environment
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- Head of Department - Water Resources and Knowledge / Norwegian Environment Agency
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- Director - Directorate E / Sectoral and Regional Statistics
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- Head of Department Reporting and Environmental Impacts / Brussels Environment
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- Director, Directorate a - Strategy, Analysis and Planning
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- Ministry of Agriculture Department of Environmental Development and Strategy