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3rd European Water Conference Brussels, 24 – 25 May 2012
Charlemagne Conference Centre Brussels,
Room Alcide de Gasperi
Speakers’ bios
Organized by on behalf of the
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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