Europe’s emerging transition agenda - Making sense of the Green, Circular, Resource Efficient, Low Carbon Economy?

Dr. Hans Bruyninckx

European Environmental Agency

Hans Bruyninckx is the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA). He took office on 1 June, 2013. He was born in Schoten, Belgium in 1964. Over the last 20 years, he has conducted and managed policy-oriented research in the areas of environmental politics, climate change, and sustainable development. He was responsible for research in the domains of policy evaluation, monitoring and reporting, methodology development, environmental policy integration, and more recently also on long-term transition policies. His academic expertise lies primarily in the field of European and international environmental policy, studying the effects of globalisation on the global governance of environmental issues and sustainable development. He has taught courses on the topics of global environmental politics and global environmental governance in relation to the European Union (EU), publishing extensively on EU environmental policies and its role as an actor in global environmental governance. He has worked intensely with civil society and business actors, in support of public-private initiatives or private regulatory approaches to environmental, climate change and sustainability issues.