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Patrick ten Brinck
European Environmental Bureau
Secretary General
Description
Patrick was appointed EEB Secretary General on 1 July 2022.
Patrick provides political leadership across all the organisation’s policy areas and oversees the daily management and fundraising of the association and supervises the staff.
Patrick also represents the EEB and its member organisations vis-Ã -vis the EU institutions and in other relevant fora. He is currently a member of a range of high-level groups, including the Fit for Future Platform, Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform, the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, the Industrial Forum, the Chemicals Sustainability roundtable and the EU Biodiversity Platform.
Before joining the EEB, Patrick was the Director of IEEP-Brussels and head of its Green Economy Programme. He has worked extensively on circular economy and marine litter, green tax reform, subsidy reform, climate policy, and biodiversity policy. His past work contributed to the Passenger Cars and CO2 regulation, the Industrial Emissions Directive, the Regulation on Invasive Alien Species, and the Regulation on Access and Benefits Sharing of genetic resources.
Patrick has published widely, with books on environmental harmful subsidies, on the multiple values of nature and on voluntary environmental agreements, and articles on better regulation, the benefits of EU law, sustainable development, biodiversity policy, transport policy, marine litter, ecological tax reform, green economy, eco-industries and environmental employment, the costs of climate mitigation and EU enlargement.
He has a master’s degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and a Joint honours Physics and Philosophy degree.
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