3rd European Water Conference Brussels, 24 – 25 May 2012

Charlemagne Conference Centre Brussels,

Room Alcide de Gasperi

Speakers’ bios

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Last name: Bidoglio

Name: Giovanni

Function: Head of the Water Resources Unit at the Joint Research Centre of

the

European Commission

Giovanni Bidoglio is Head of the Water Resources Unit at the Joint Research

Centre of the European Commission where he provides science-based

support to the implementation of EU Directives related to water resources

and contributes to the integration of water resource-efficiency considerations into sectoral EU

policy areas (agriculture, industry, energy, trade, environment, development cooperation). His

research interests include the sustainable management of water resources, mapping of ecosystem

services, modelling of bio-geochemical fate and hydrological processes of pollutants, environmental

risk assessment and environmental monitoring. His previous work included research on soil and

groundwater protection and greenhouse gas emissions from natural ecosystems, and assessments

of impacts of agri-environmental and rural development measures. He is member of various

advisory boards and has published widely in the scientific press

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Last name: Borchardt

Name: Gustaaf (Guus)

Function: Director, Directorate D: Water, Marine Environment & Chemicals,

Environment Directorate General

Wide experience in different aspects of European policy : European Commission:

Environment, Relations with Council and co-decision, Justice and Home Affairs;

NL Permanent Representation to the EU; European Court of Justice and NL

Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Open eye for private sector based on experience as investment

manager in London and Buenos Aires.

Professional experience

From 1 April 2009 : Director – DG Environment – responsible for protection of water and marine

environment, chemicals and nano-materials.

From 1 September 2003 to 31 March 2009 : Director – Secretariat General of the Commission –

responsible for the relations with the Council and co-decision; Commission representative in

Coreper I

From May 1995 to August 2003 : Director - Justice and Home Affairs

Responsible for free movement of persons, visas, Schengen, external border controls; asylum and

immigration, European Refugees Fund; judicial civil cooperation; coordination for the fight against

drugs; citizenship, Charter of fundamental rights, Daphne programme. In the Convention on the

Charter of fundamental rights, chairman of the DG network in charge of preparing the positions of

the Commission representative (Commissioner Vitorino).

From 1988 to April 1995 : Permanent Representation of The Netherlands

Legal and institutional adviser. Chair of the Friends of the Presidency Group during the

Intergovernmental Conference preparing the Maastricht Treaty during the Dutch Presidency.

From 1986 to 1988: Office of the legal adviser at the Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs: senior officer

responsible for all issues of Community law.

From 1981 to 1986: Clerk at the Cabinet of the Advocate General, VerLoren van Themaat, at the

Court of Justice of EC.

From 1978 to 1981: Office of the legal adviser at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 1975 to 1978: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs– Directorate of European Integration.

Private Sector experience

Investment manager in London at Stock Exchange Brokers Strauss, Turnbull (London – 1967 to

1968) and Banco Shaw (Buenos Aires – 1968 to 1970)

Studies

Law, with specialisation in EU law, at the University of Amsterdam (1975)

Summer courses at Harvard Law School (1992 et 1994) with success: US constitutional law and

Harvard Law School’s Programme on negotiations

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Last name: Delsalle

Name: Jacques

Function: Policy Officer, Environment Directorate General

Work experience

• Since 1 April 2009, I work in European Commission, DG Environment,

Unit Protection of Water Resources. As leader of the Knowledge Base

team. I am in charge of the preparation of the assessments for the

forthcoming Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's waters to be presented by

the Commission end-2012. I am co-ordinating studies on the vulnerability of water resources,

water accounts, water efficiency, land-use management and adaptation measures, etc.

• Between 2003 and 2009, I have been working in DG Environment, Units Clean Air and

Transport, then Sustainable Development and Economic Analysis. I was in charge of Impact

assessment of policy proposals (White Paper Adapting to CC, CO2 & cars regulation,

Thematic Strategy Air Pollution), implementation of innovative tools and methods for the

elaboration and evaluation of EU policies, (model TREMOVE2, Land-Use modelling, valuation

of external costs, adaptation to climate change, etc.) and integration of environmental

concerns in sectoral policies(Advice on evaluation methods, and assessment of the

effectiveness and efficiency of policies and actions proposed).

• Between 2000 and 2003, I have been working in DG Economic and Financial Affairs, on

economic evaluation and policy guidance on the Common Transport Policy and Community

policies in the interface of transport, energy and environmental issues.

• Between 1990 and 2000, I worked as Consultant in Madrid (EPYPSA, BBJ CONSULT,

PricewaterhouseCoopers). I have been responsible for the management of numerous

studies and projects in the fields of transport engineering, transport network modelling,

transport economics, investment appraisal and strategic Planning

I am economist by training (Maîtrise en Sciences Economiques, Université de Paris II, 1988), with

post-graduate in transport planning (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) – Transport, Ecole

Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées – Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, 1990)

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Last name: Falkenberg

Name: Karl

Function: Director General, DG Environment, European Commission

Karl Falkenberg has a long experience as a negotiator in the European

Commission. He started his career in the Commission as textiles negotiator,

has dealt with international fisheries issues and since 1985 with the GATT. In

1990, he served as foreign policy advisor to EU President Jacques Delors, with

particular focus on the German unification process.

He was involved in the Uruguay Round negotiations and has been negotiating the

telecommunications and financial services agreements in WTO. From 1997 to December 2000 he

was in charge of the coordination of all WTO issues. In 2001 he was appointed Director in charge of

sectoral trade policies and bilateral trade relations with North America, Japan, the Mediterranean

area and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and in 2002 Director for Free trade

agreements, Agricultural trade questions, ACP.

From 2005 to 2008 he coordinated all bilateral trade policies as Deputy Director General. In January

2009, he took up the position of Director General of the Environment, covering the EU's

environmental policy in both its domestic and international dimensions. Karl Falkenberg is a trained

economist and journalist.

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Last name: Faergemann

Name: Henriette

Function: Policy Officer, Environment Directorate General

Henriette Faergemann is a Master of Science in Chemical and Environmental engineering from the

Technical University of Copenhagen.

She has been working in the European Commission, DG Environment since 1998. Until 2008 she was

mainly working with Enlargement Countries preparing them for accession to the EU and on regional

co-operation with the Danube & Black Sea countries on financing of water projects. Since 2008 Ms.

Faergemann has been working in the Unit responsible for protection of Water resources within DG

ENV where she is Team Leader for the Water Scarcity & Droughts team and responsible for inter-

alia Water & Agriculture, Water Efficiency and Water Innovation.

Last name: Gammeltoft

Name: Peter

Function: Head of Unit Water – European Commission – DG Environment

Born 1949, M.Sc. Chem. Eng. 1976

Chronology

European Commission, DG Environment, Water Unit 2006

European Commission, DG Environment, Clean Air and Transport Unit, 1998-2005

European Commission, DG Environment, Water Unit 1991-1997

Danish EPA, 1979-91

Copenhagen Gas Works, Denmark, 1977-79

Roskilde University, Denmark, 1975-77

Current responsibilities: include: Water Framework Directive, Groundwater, Chemicals in Water,

Floods Directive, Water Scarcity and Droughts, Water and environmental resources vulnerability.

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Last name: Holzwarth

Name: Fritz

Title: Dr.

Function: Deputy Director General for Water-Management - German

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear

Safety

Fritz Holzwarth was appointed Deputy Director General for Water-Management in the German

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1991. His

professional responsibilities, are inter alia Head of the German Delegation, Baltic Marine

Environment Commission (HELCOM), Head of the German Delegation for the Protection of the

Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR), Head of the German Delegation for

International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), President in 2003 and

President of the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) (2004-2007),

President of the International Commission for the Protection of the River Elbe (2008-2010).

He is a Member of the Board of Advice of the European Water Partnership, of the External Advisory

Group of WATCH (Water and Global Change), of the Board of Advice of the Institute for Technology

and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, Cologne University of Applied Sciences,

of the Supervisory Board of the Helmholtz-Center Geesthacht, (Member of the Helmholtz

Association), Member of the Kuratorium of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and

Biotechnology. Member of the International Steering Committee of Great Rivers Partnership (GRP).

Mr. Holzwarth has been actively involved in transboundary cooperation in international river basins.

Together with the World Bank he was one of the initiators of the “Petersberg Process on

Transboundary Water Management”, a global initiative. In his position as German Water Director he

has been actively involved in developing EU-Directives such as the Water Framework Directives, the

Marine Strategy Directive and other water related regulations. Furthermore he jointly initiated with

EU-Commission and the Joint Research Centre the discussion process on Climate Change and the

European Water Dimension and was Chair of the Conference under the German EU-Presidency

“Time to Adapt - Climate Change and the European Water Dimension Vulnerability – Impacts –

Adaptation” in February 2007. He also was part of the discussion process on ”Marine and Coastal

Dimension of Climate Change in Europe”.

Fritz Holzwarth studied Economics, Law and Political Science at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau

and holds a Diploma (1977) and Ph. D. (1984) in Economics and a Diploma in Business

Administration (1973) from the College of Economics, Pforzheim

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Last name: Kyrou

Name: Kyriacos

Title: Dr

Function: Director – Cyprus Water Development Department

Kyriacos Kyrou received a BSc Hons degree in Civil Engineering from the

Polytechnic of Central London, an M.Sc degree in Bridge Engineering and

a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (specialization Geotechnical

Engineering) from the University of Surrey.

He worked for the Water Research Centre (U.K.) as a Geotechnical Engineer (Research) in 1980/81

and he is employed by the Water Development Department (WDD), Cyprus since 1981. During his

employment with WDD he had an active role on the implementation of numerous large water

development projects (mainly large earthfill/rockfill Dams). Kyriacos Kyrou has over 30 years

experience in the water sector and is currently the Director of the Water Development Department.

He is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (U.K.) and the President of the Cyprus National

Committee on Large Dams (CYNCOLD).

Last name: Larsen

Name: Carl-Emil

Function: President, European Federation of National Associations of Water and

Wastewater Services

Mr. Carl-Emil LARSEN is the President of EUREAU, European Federation of

National Associations of Water and Wastewater Services, representing 70.000

utilities and serving 405 million European citizens.

Mr. Larsen has extensive national and international experience on water issues as for example

Vice president of the Danish Water Forum and the Danish Governing Member of the

International Water Association (IWA). He has spent the last 25 years working on water and

environmental issues mainly in the Scandinavia and Denmark as geophysicist, consultant and

director for large international consultancy bureaus.

Carl-Emil Larsen is active on the national arena where he is personal member of the Climate Task

Force of the Danish Minister of Environment, as chairman of The Foundation for Development of

Technology in the Danish Water Sector, Danish Ministry of Environment, board member at The

National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and chairman of the IWA national

Committee.

Since 2005 Mr. Larsen is working as the CEO of DANVA, the Danish Water and Wastewater

Association.

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Last name: McGlade

Name: Jacqueline

Title: Professor

Function: Executive Director – European Environment Agency

Professor McGlade became Executive Director of the European Environment

Agency on June 1 2003. Prior to this she was Natural Environment Research

Council Professorial Fellow in Environmental Informatics in the Mathematics

Department of University College London where her main areas of research

included spatial data analysis and informatics, expert systems,

environmental technologies and the international politics of the environment and natural resources.

Previous appointments have included Director of the UK’s Centre for Coastal & Marine Sciences,

Director of Theoretical Ecology at the Forschungszentrum Jülich Germany, Associate Professor at

the Honda funded International Ecotchnology Research Centre, Senior Scientist in the Federal

Government of Canada and in the USA, Adrian Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge and

Professorships at Warwick University and Aachen. Professor McGlade has won various prizes

including the Minerva Prize, the Swedish Jubileum Award and the Brno University Gold Medal. She

also has Honorary degrees from Wales (Bangor) Kent and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the

Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce.

Professor McGlade has worked extensively in North America, south-east Asia and west Africa; she

has published more than 100 research papers, written popular articles, presented and appeared in

many radio and television programmes, including her own BBC series The Ocean Planet and

Learning from Nature and more recently Our Arctic Challenge, a film about sport and tourism in

Greenland. She has given public lectures worldwide on climate change, energy and sustainable

development, environmental information, conflicts over environmental impacts of industrial and

natural activities, environmental technologies and the use of multimedia and modern forms of web

communication.

Professor McGlade was Chairman of The Earth Centre and a Board Member of the Environment

Agency. She is currently a Trustee of the Natural History Museum, and a member of the

Environment Advisory Committee of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UK-

China Forum and UK-Japan 21st

Century Group. She is also Director of the software company, View

the World Ltd

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Last name: Parris

Name: Kevin

Function: Senior Policy Analyst, Trade and Agriculture Directorate,

OECD

Economist, OECD, Paris, since 1984, working on policy analysis, with

particular focus on agri-environmental issues, especially policy issues

related to sustainable management of water in agriculture (quantity,

quality and climate change) and monitoring environmental performance.

Graduated from University of Reading, United Kingdom (1974), and obtained a PhD in agricultural

economics from Reading (1980). Previously held academic posts at the Universities of Wales (1977),

Oxford (1982) and Reading (1980-81).

Previous research positions were held at the UK Foreign Affairs Ministry, London (1978-79);

UNCTAD, Geneva (1982); FAO, Rome (1982-83); and was on secondment from OECD with the

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), Canberra, for one year in

1992/93.

Websites:

Agriculture and Water: www.oecd.org/agriculture/water

Agri-environmental Indicators: www.oecd.org/tad/env/indicators

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAXd3Ool6RM

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Last name: Pèes

Name: Christian

Function: President - Euralis

Since 2000, Christian Pèes has been President of Euralis, a cooperative based

in Lescar, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. With 15,000 farmers and 5,000 employees,

Euralis is a market-leader in the agricultural and agri-food sectors. It is a

trusted partner for agriculture and food professionals.

Originally focused on maize, the group diversified its agricultural production and services before

going on to invest in the agri-food sector.

Having started out in the South-West of France, Euralis has been expanding both within France and

internationally and turned over 1.3 Billion Euros in 2009/10.

With Euralis, Christian Pèes, a geographer by training but a maize farmer and pig producer for more

than 20 years, wants to popularise the cooperative model, its economic efficiency, proximity to its

members and defence of the values of solidarity, responsibility and commitment.

A passionate farmer and a man of conviction, Christian Pèes is convinced of the importance of the

land and French farming for the future. Currently Vice-President of Cogeca (Confederation of

European agri-cooperatives), he defends the interests of its members and French agriculture in

Brussels and, aware that we live in a changing world, argues for better global regulation of

agricultural markets at the Think Tank MOMAGRI, because agricultural price volatility is the root

cause of many socio-economic and political problems. In his book L'arme alimentaire (Armed with

Food), published in 2006 by Cherche Midi, Christian Pèes demonstrates that agriculture can be a

driving force for our economy at a time when two fundamental questions remain unanswered: how

to feed a planet which will have 9 billion inhabitants in 2050 and how to satisfy our energy

requirements?

Blog: www.christianpees.com

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Last name: Potočnik

Name: Janez

Function: Commissioner

Dr Janez Potočnik was born in 1958. He graduated with honours from the

Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana. He continued his studies

at the same University where he did his Master's degree in 1989 and a Ph.D.

degree in 1993.

For several years (1989-1993), he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Economic Research

in Ljubljana. In July 1994, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis

and Development of the Republic of Slovenia. In April 1998, the Government of the Republic of

Slovenia appointed Dr Potočnik Head of Negotiating Team for Accession of the Republic of

Slovenia to the European Union. From June 2000 to December 2000, he was also the acting

director of Government Office for European Affairs. In June 2001, he was appointed a Minister

Councillor at the Office of the Prime Minister. On January 24, 2002, the Government of the

Republic of Slovenia appointed him for the Minister without portfolio responsible for European

Affairs.

From 1991 until 2004 Dr Potočnik has also been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at

the University of Ljubljana, where he lectured on statistics and economy.

Dr Potočnik became a Member of the European Commission on the May 1 2004. In his first

mandate (2004 – 2009) he was responsible for the Science and Research. In February 2010 he

started a second mandate as a Commissioner for Environment.

In May 2008 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by London Imperial

College. In March 2009 he received the honorary degree from Ghent University (Belgium).

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Last name: Ristori

Name: Dominique

Function: Director General – Joint Research Centre, European Commission

In the period of 1990 – 1996 Mr Ristori was in charge of transnational

cooperation between SMEs at the Directorate-General for Enterprise policy.

Dominique Ristori has been working at the European Commission since 1978

where he has held several positions. Prior to his current position, he was

Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Energy, in charge of

nuclear energy policy, in particular the development of the EU legal

framework and international relations (2006–2010). Whilst Director in charge

of General Affairs and Resources at Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, he was

responsible for inter-institutional relations; enlargement and international relations; coordination of

energy and transport research; internal market, state aids, infringements and public service

obligations; passengers’ and users’ rights; central management of human and budgetary resources

(2000 - 2006).

Between 1996 and 1999, he was Director in charge of European Energy Policy at Directorate-

General for Energy.

Last name: Rodriguez Romero

Name: Jorge

Function: Unit D1 Protection of Water Resources, Environment Directorate

General, European Commission

I am graduated in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Engineer. The whole of

my professional career has been linked to water protection. I am permanent

official of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment (in special leave) and of

the European Commission. I have also worked a number of years as independent consultant and for

an international engineering firm based in Canada. Since 2004 I work for the European Commission

Directorate General for the Environment and since 2008 am leading the team responsible for the

Water Framework and Floods Directives. I am Chair of the WFD Common Implementation Strategy

Strategic Co-ordination Group and Head of EU Delegation before the International Convention for

the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR).

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Last name: Urrea Mallebrera

Name: Mario Andres

Function: Technical Director in the Segura River Basin Authority (Spanish

Government)

Education: 1976-1984.

Civil Engineer. Speciality : Hydraulics and Energy. Polytechnic University of

Valencia. Spain.

Work Experience: 2011-Present.

Technical Director in Segura River Basin Authority.

2004-2011. Head of Hydrological Planning Office in Segura River Basin Authority.

1988-2004. Civil Engineer in Mancomunidad Canales Taibilla (Spanish Government).

Last years spent working as Head of Management.

Additional information: Associated teacher 2002-2009 in Polytechnic University in Cartagena

(Murcia. Spain) in Civil Engineer Degree. Subjects: Hidrics Resources and Desalination Technologies.

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Last name: Weidenhaupt

Name: André

Function: Director of the Water Management Agency, Luxembourg

1972-1978 Primary school at Esch/Lallange.

1978-1985 High school (Lycée de Garçons d’Esch-sur-Alzette). Section

latin-sciences option mathematics (B cl.).

1985-1989 studies in chemistry (Diplom Chemiker) at Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (chemistry department), Dipl.-

Chem ETH.

1990-1991 postgraduate course in sanitary engineering and water pollution control at the Swiss

Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (civil engineering department) and at the Swiss Federal

Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG).

1990-1994 PhD-thesis (Dr. sc. Nat.) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

(environmental sciences department) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and

Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf, advisor: Prof. R. Schwarzenbach.

Professional experience

as of 1.1.2011 chair of the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR)

2010-2011 chair of the International Commissions for the Protection of the Moselle and the Saar

(ICPMS)

as of 1.9.2005 director of the Water Management Agency, Luxembourg

2004-2005 during Luxembourg’s Presidency of the Council of the EU, REACH coordinator, at the

Permanent Representation of Luxembourg at the EU, Brussels, chair of the Ad-hoc Working Party «

REACH » at the Council of the European Union at Brussels.

1998-31.8.2005 director of the Environmental Technology Resource Centre (CRTE) at the CRP Henri

Tudor in Luxembourg, projects in the fields of industrial pollution prevention, gas purification,

wastewater treatment and reduction of air pollution in industry

2001-2005 invited professor an the Université des Antilles-Guyane at Campus de Fouillole, Pointe-à-

Pitre (Guadeloupe, French West Indies).

2000-2005 lecturer in Environmental Technology at the Luxembourg University of Applied Sciences

(IST, Institut Supérieur de Technologie).

1995-1997 senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, (chemical

engineering department, safety and environmental technology group); together with Prof. K.

Hungerbühler (head of the group), advisor of several PhD-theses in the fields of environmental risk

assessment and LCA of chemical products, processes and end-of pipe-technologies

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Last name: Weller

Name: Philip

Function: Executive Secretary – ICPDR

Philip Weller works as the Executive Secretary of the International

Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), Vienna, Austria.

In this position he is responsible for the management of the ICPDR, which is

the forum for the 14 major Danube countries and the European Commission

to implement their commitments made to improve water quality and water management in the

Danube Basin. He is an environmental planner by training and studied general Environmental

Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he received also a Masters of Urban and

Regional Planning.

In his previous position as Programme Director of the Danube Carpathian Programme of WWF

International Mr. Weller was the driving force behind the “Lower Danube Green Corridor” - an

agreement between Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine and the largest wetland protection

and restoration initiative in Europe. Previously he served as director of Great Lakes United, a

unique bi-national coalition of interest groups including local municipalities, research

organizations, businesses and NGOs focused on the clean up of the Great Lakes.

Mr Weller is author of three books on environmental topics including ‘Freshwater Seas’ an

environmental history of the Great Lakes of North America.

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Last name: Zavadsky

Name: Ivan

Function: Senior Water Resources Management Specialist - Global

Environment Facility Secretariat

Mr. Ivan Zavadsky works as Senior Water Resources Management

Specialist at the Global Environment Facility Secretariat. Until 2007 he

served as Regional Director for the UNDP/GEF Danube/Black Sea Regional

Programme. In December 2001 he joined UNOPS as Project Manager of the UNDP/GEF Danube

Regional Project assisting Danube countries in implementation of the Danube River Protection

Convention with emphasis on inter-state cooperation and on nutrient and toxic pollution

reduction.

Since 1992 he served as Director General at the Ministry of Environment of Slovakia responsible

for policy and regulation of water, waste and air sectors. He has extensive experience in

managing and coordinating environmental programmes and projects of large geographical and

policy scope both within and outside of GEF International Waters area. In 1999-2001 he led the

negotiations of the accession of the Slovakia to EU for entire sector environment. During his

more the 15 years long government service career he represented Czechoslovak and Slovak

governments to number of international bodies or organisations, such as International

Commission on the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), Environmental Policy Committee

OECD, Committee on Environmental Policy UN ECE, etc.

Mr. Zavadsky holds degrees in water management (1981) and economics in water management

(1986) from Slovak Technical University in Bratislava