Authors

 

 

Sirini Withana is the Lead Author of Policy Framework. Sirini is a Policy Analyst working in the Institute’s Environmental Governance Programme. Her work focuses on EU institutional developments, overarching EU strategies such as the Sustainable Development Strategy and the Sixth Environmental Action Programme, the external dimension of EU policies and the future orientations of EU environmental policy. Sirini joined the IEEP London office in August 2007. She has a Master’s degree in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh and a first degree in economics from the University of Cape Town. Before joining the Institute, she worked for the Environment Agency for England and Wales as part of their EU and International Relations team.

Andrew Farmer is the Lead Author of Air Quality; Industrial Pollution; and Water and Marine. Andrew is a Senior Fellow and Head of the Institute’s Industry, Waste and Water Programme, where he specializes in EU legislation in relation to water and air pollution, and pollution control. A natural science graduate from Oxford University, Andrew has a PhD from the University of St Andrews. Before joining IEEP in 1997, Andrew worked for English Nature as its atmospheric pollution specialist and sustainable development coordinator and, before that, undertook research at the Universities of Florida and Wisconsin, USA and Imperial College, University of London. He is the author of a wide range of publications including the books Managing Environmental Pollution (Routledge) and A Handbook of Environmental Protection and Enforcement (Earthscan).

Pernille Schiellerup is the Lead Author of Climate Change. Pernille is a Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the Institute’s Climate Change and Energy Programme. Her specialist subjects include climate change mitigation in the built environment; dynamics of energy consumption; stakeholder engagement and environmental governance; and social forestry. Pernille joined IEEP in August 2009. She previously worked at the London Climate Change Agency, the Environmental Change Institute at University of Oxford, and University College London. She has extensive experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies for climate change mitigation in the built environment at city, national and EU levels.

 

Catherine Bowyer is the Lead Author of Waste and Resource Use. Catherine is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Institute’s Industry, Waste and Water Programme and Climate and Energy Programme. Catherine joined IEEP in 2002, and heads IEEP’s waste team providing analysis of the development of EU waste, product and natural resource use policy including soil protection. She has worked in detail on different aspects of EU waste policy including waste shipment, appropriate target setting, the role of the recycling Directives, the development of the Directive on waste and supporting the evolution of the Thematic Strategies on waste prevention and recycling and the Thematic Strategy on natural resource use. 

 

Peter Hjerp is the Lead Author of Chemicals. Peter is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Institute’s Environmental Governance Programme. He is a trained environmental chemist as well as a specialist in environmental policy. Peter’s work covers a broad range of sectors but tend to focus on environmental assessments, evaluations, governance issues and the implementation of EU Directives. He represents IEEP as a member of the Chemicals Stakeholder Forum, which provides advice on chemicals to the UK Government. Peter holds Master’s degrees from both Helsinki University of Technology and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

 

Graham Tucker is the Lead Author of Biodiversity. Graham is a Senior Fellow and Head of the Institute’s Biodiversity Programme. He has an MSc and PhD in ecology and over 23 years professional experience in biodiversity conservation in Europe. He was responsible for developing BirdLife International’s European Habitat Conservation Programme as well as acting as lead author of ‘Birds in Europe: their conservation status’ and ‘Habitats for Birds in Europe: a conservation strategy for the wider environment’. He then moved into consultancy undertaking a wide range of biodiversity conservation related studies and practical work in Europe, including scientific reviews, conservation strategy and action plan development, impact assessments and capacity building and training. His current interests focus on incorporating ecological science in policy development, particularly relating to land use and climate change issues.

Victoria Cherrier is the Lead Author of Noise. Victoria is a Policy Analyst and joined the Institute’s Industry, Waste and Water Programme at IEEP in January 2010 after having completed a three-month internship focusing on the Manual. After studying law and history of art at La Sorbonne, she came to the United Kingdom and has recently completed a Master in Environmental Law and Policy (LLM) at University College London.

Kristof Geeraerts is the Lead Author of Supporting Policy. Kristof is a Policy Analyst in the Institute’s Environmental Governance Programme. His special subjects are strategic EU developments, environmental governance, and the transposition and implementation of EU Directives and multilateral environmental agreements including the Environmental Liability Directive, the Environmental Crime Directive, the Biological Diversity Convention and the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances. Kristof joined IEEP in December 2006 and is a political and environmental scientist by training. Before joining IEEP, he was a research assistant at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Antwerp where he conducted policy-oriented research on the role the Flemish region plays within the European multi-level environmental governance system.

 

Keti Medarova-Bergstrom is the Lead Author of Funding Instruments. Keti is a Policy Analyst in the Institute’s Environmental Governance Programme and is a specialist in EU cohesion policy and the EU budget. Keti joined IEEP in November 2009 and prior to this she led the programme for sustainable EU funds at CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth Europe and worked on research projects for the United Nations Development programme and the EU within the Centre for Environmental Policy and Law in Budapest. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Central European University, where she also obtained her Master’s degree in environmental sciences and policy. Her thesis explores strategies and tools for environmental policy integration in the programming and implementation of EU Structural Funds in Bulgaria.

 

 

Bogdan Atanasiu is a Contributing Author of Climate Change and Sectoral Policies. He is a Senior Policy Analyst at the IEEP. He has extensive experience in the EU climate change mitigation policies with a particular emphasis on energy efficiency in buildings, energy generation from renewable sources, eco-industry and eco-innovation. Bogdan joined IEEP in April 2010. He previously worked at the EC Joint Research Centre’s Institute for Energy-Renewable Energy Unit, providing implementation feedback and technical support to the EU end-use energy efficiency policy and being part of the management staff for the GreenLight, GreenBuilding and MotorChallenge EU voluntary Programmes and for the EU Codes of Conduct for UPS, data centres, digital TVs, broadband communication equipment and external power supplies. Furthermore, he worked for eleven years as scientific researcher and a project manager in several national and EU projects. Bogdan has authored more than thirty publications on energy efficiency and renewable energy topics, including the 2006 and 2009 JRC Reports on electricity consumption and efficiency trends in the EU. Bogdan has a Ph.D on power management in the photovoltaic systems.

Emma Watkins is a Contributing Author of Waste and Resource Use. Emma is a Policy Analyst working in the Institute’s Industry, Waste and Water Programme. She joined the institute in May 2007 and her research includes: the coherence of EU waste legislation, in particular the EU recycling Directives; preparation of the general implementation report on EU waste legislation for 2004–2006; a study to support the review of the Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste; and a study on inspection requirements for waste shipments. She also authors the ‘EU Bytes’ section of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment’s (IEMA) publication ‘the environmentalist’. Her previous experience includes working for the Brussels offices of two UK regions (the East of England and London), where she monitored EU environment, transport and energy policy and funding of relevance to local authorities.

 

Indrani Lutchman is a Contributing Author of Sectoral Policies – she is responsible for the section on Fisheries. Indrani is a Senior Fellow and is head of the Institute’s Fisheries Programme. She joined IEEP in 2005 and is a fisheries biologist by training. She has over 20 years of experience in the areas of fisheries and environmental policy at a UK, European and international level. Indrani has a wealth of experience of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), having designed, executed and commissioned several projects related to the mid-term review of the CFP in 1992, the 2002 review, as well as the current review. She has specific experience with development of indicators to use in evaluation of the CFP and has participated in several Commission working groups for DG Mare and DG Research as an independent expert and is environmental representative on the UK delegation to the Commission, which manages Antarctic fisheries. Before joining IEEP, Indrani was Director of SCALES fisheries consultancy based in Barbados and the United Kingdom.

 

Kaley Hart is a Contributing Author of Funding Instruments and Sectoral Policies – she is responsible for the section on Agriculture. Kaley is Joint Head of the Institute’s Agriculture and Land Management Programme and has 13 years experience of working on United Kingdom and EU agricultural, rural development and environmental policy. She joined IEEP in October 2007, after six years working for the Countryside Agency and Natural England, statutory advisers to Government on environmental issues. Her particular areas of interest and expertise include agri-environment policy development and evaluation and the integration of environmental considerations into European and national agricultural and rural development policies. Recent work includes: the pan-European study on the provision of public goods through agriculture; an evaluation of the economic, social and environmental impacts of modulation, assessing the environmental benefits of EU set-side and work on the development of an Agri-Environment scheme in Serbia and Macedonia.

 

Sonja Gantioler is a Contributing Author of Biodiversity – she is responsible for the section on GMOs – and Sectoral Policies – she is responsible for the section on Forestry. Sonja is a Policy Analyst and joined IEEP in April 2008, where she works in the Institute’s Biodiversity Programme. Sonja’s work is focused on aspects of EU biodiversity policies, in particular on the costs and benefits of the Natura 2000 network, and the assessment and development of biodiversity and ecosystem services indicators. She also contributes to work on other policy areas relating to nature and biodiversity conservation, including forestry policy. She holds a Master’s degree in ecology – with specialist knowledge in forest ecology, forestry and environmental economics – from Vienna University, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Technical University Munich. Before joining IEEP, she worked as an analyst for a rating agency in the field of sustainable investment, where she was leading the evaluation of the environmental and social performance of 45 countries and of companies belonging to the Transport and Logistics sector.

 

Jane Desbarats is a Contributing Author of Sectoral Policies – she is responsible for the section on Transport. Jane is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Institute’s Climate Change and Energy Programme. Jane’s work at IEEP focuses primarily on the development of policy aimed at encouraging the mitigation of greenhouse gas policies in relation to a number of sectors including transport and energy. Her key areas of expertise include emissions trading, offsets and monitoring, reporting and verification.

 

Ben Allen is a Contributing Author to Climate Change. He has eight years experience of working on agriculture and land management policy issues including bio-energy.  He joined the IEEP Agriculture and Land Management team in September 2010, having spent the previous five years working as a policy adviser on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as well as bio-energy policy issues for Natural England, the UK government’s statutory adviser on the natural environment. Ben has also worked on secondment for the National Trust as a Senior Officer on sustainable land use and management policy, developing their portfolio of work on the CAP and looking at the future of land and water management in the UK.  He has a degree in Environmental Biology and a PhD in the field of Land Use and Spatial Ecology.

 

Evelyn Underwood is a Contributing Author to Biodiversity. She has eight years experience of project management, communications and research in international networks on the environmental risk assessment of genetically modified crops, and on global sustainability issues. Evelyn has also worked in environmental education, NGO campaigning, and ecotourism in Switzerland, Ecuador and Wales. She has a degree in Environmental Biology and a Masters in Agriculture, Environment and Development.

 

Jonathan Armstrong, former Policy Analyst
Odette Carter, former Intern
Håkon By, former Policy Analyst

Tamsin Copper, former Senior Policy Analyst

Camilla Adelle, IEEP Associate

Carolina Valsecchi, former Policy Analyst

Megan Lewis, former Policy Analyst

William Beaufoy, former Intern

Vicki Swales, former Senior Fellow

Samuela Bassi, Policy Analyst

Martin Farmer, former Policy Analyst

Justin Bartley, former Policy Analyst

Marianne Kettunen, Senior Policy Analyst

Malcolm Fergusson, former Senior Fellow

Jason Anderson, former Senior Fellow

Patrick ten Brink, Senior Fellow

Marc Pallemaerts, Senior Fellow

David Baldock, Director

David Wilkinson, former Senior Fellow

Valerio Lucchesi, former Policy Analyst

Thomas Binet, former Policy Analyst

Andrew Jones, former Senior Fellow

Martina Herodes, former Policy Analyst

Ian Skinner, IEEP Associate

James Brown, former Research Fellow

Claire Monkhouse, former Research Fellow

Eleanor Mackay, former Research Assistant

Clare Coffey, former Senior Fellow

Agata Zdanowicz, former Research Fellow

Dawn Haines, former Research Officer

Harriet Bennett, former Research Officer

Chris Clarke, IEEP Associate

Saskia Richartz, former Research Officer

Dirk Reyntjens, former Senior Fellow

Astrid Ladefoged, former Research Fellow

Vanesa Castan Broto, former Research Assistant

Peter Beyer, former visiting Researcher from Ecologic, Berlin

Caroline Connell, former IEEP Associate

Dr Janet Dwyer, IEEP Associate and former Senior Fellow

Neil Emmott, former Research Fellow

Rosy Eaton, former Research Assistant

Chris Grieve, former Research Fellow

Jonathan Hewitt, former Information Officer

Harry Huyton, former Research Assistant

Joy Hyvarinen, former Research Fellow

Karen Mitchell, former Research Officer

Sally Mullard, former Information Officer

Chloe Nield, former Information Officer

Jodi Newcombe, former Research Officer

Jan-Erik Peterson, former Research Fellow
Karen Shaw, former Research Officer
Niki Sporrong, former Research Fellow
Ferenc Tar, former Research Fellow
Nigel Haigh, former Director