ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT IN RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT

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Speakers’ biographies

2nd EUROPEAN WATER CONFERENCE 2-3 April 2009 Room Alcide Gasperi, 2 nd floor Charlemagne Building Rue de la Loi 170 1040 Brussels Belgium

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Friedrich Barth , Institute for Organisational Communication (IFOK), Director for Environment, Member of the Executive Board

Friedrich Barth studied Geo-ecology and Hydrology in Bayreuth, Freiburg and Galway (Ireland). He gained administrative experience in various national and international organisations, among them the Environmental Ministry of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the European Commission. Subsequently, Friedrich Barth established and managed several national and international bodies and stakeholder processes. He has been leading the IFOK Department for Environment since 2004.

Currently Friedrich Barth serves as an advisor to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety as well as various UN agencies and the African Council of Water Ministers (AMCOW). He is also Vice Chairman of the European Water Partnership.

Jan Brooke , Chair WFD Navigation Task Group, PIANC

Jan has been a freelance environmental advisor on the practical implications of EU environmental legislation, primarily to the port, navigation and dredging sector, since 1996.

Jan chairs the international Water Framework Directive ‘Navigation Task Group’ on behalf of PIANC (a global organisation providing guidance on sustainable waterborne transport infrastructure for ports and waterways). Jan has organised a number of national and international WFD workshops and conferences dealing with various aspects of the Directive, and she also represents the interests of the port and navigation sector on the CIS ‘Strategic Co-ordination Group’, the ‘Hydromorphology’ steering group and the ‘Environmental objectives’ drafting group.

In the UK, Jan provides advice on the WFD to a number of ports: she is currently involved in reviewing the draft River Basin Management Plans for the Thames, Severn, North West, Anglian and South-East River Basin Districts. Jan has also been involved with the UK WFD competent authorities in developing and implementing a methodology to set good ecological potential targets for transitional and coastal water bodies, and she was responsible for a project exploring the implications of the WFD for local authorities and planning organisations in England and Wales.

Luís Bulhão Martins , Portuguese Farmers Union, Vice-Chairman of Copa-Cogeca Working Party on Environment

• Date of birth: 8 December 1955 • Agronomist engineer • Farmer in Alandroal (Alentejo, Portugal) • Administrator of CERSUL S.A, Southern Cereals Producers Group, since 1990 • Director of ANPROMIS – National Association of Sorghum and Corn Producers • Chairman of the Beneficiaries Association of the Lucefecit Irrigation Perimeter • Chairman of the Vila Viçosa Mutual Agricultural Credit • Director of Olidal, Alentejo Olive Producers • Director of ANCPA, National Association of Alentejo Pig Breeders • Director of ACCS, National Association of Serpa Goat Breeders • Director of CAP Board since 2001 and vice-President since 2005, responsible for the Water and Environment sectors • Chairman of the CAP Advisory Council for Water and Environment • Member of the National Water Council as a CAP representative • CAP expert in the Advisory Group for Agriculture and Environment of the European Commission • CAP expert in the Environment Working Group of COPA/COGECA

Colin Byrne , Water Inspectorate, Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Ireland

Colin Byrne is currently an inspector with the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government in Ireland. Since joining the Department in 2006 he has been involved in national coordination of Water Framework Directive implementation.

Colin holds a Bachelor of Science and Ph.D in the area of aquatic ecology from University College Dublin and also holds qualifications in project management and environmental management systems. After graduating in 1994 he worked with the fisheries boards on the Tourism Angling Measure (TAM) programming which involved fisheries habitat enhancement schemes. He then joined the local authorities in 1998 as a coordinator with the Three Rivers water quality catchment management pilot project, funded under the EU Cohesion Fund. In 2002 he was appointed as the Coordinator for the South Eastern River Basin District where he was responsible for managing the preparation of Water Framework Directive deliverables for the district and stakeholder participation.

Paula Chainho , Vice-President of LPN (Nature Protection League)

36 years old Ph.D. in Biology Vice-President of LPN (Nature Protection League) since 2006

• Ph.D. in Biology, University of Lisboa, Portugal • Post Doc Researcher at the Oceanography Institute, University of Lisboa since 2008 • Coordinator of LPN’s water group and member of the Water National Council and European Environmental Bureau water working group.

LPN is a Portuguese non-profitable national Non-Governmental-Organization, founded in 1948. The main aim of LPN is to contribute to the natural heritage conservation and the species and ecosystems diversity. Its main activities are: Environmental Education, Environmental Policy and Nature Conservation projects. LPN has 3 regional delegations, an Environmental Training Centre in Lisbon, an Environmental Education Centre in Castro Verde and a Recovery Centre for Wild Animals in Évora. LPN has decisively contributed for the creation of many Portuguese Protected Areas. Many projects have been developed concerning Agriculture Policy, Pollution, Hunting, Biodiversity, Coastal Management, Impacts of Structural Projects, etc. More information on LPN’s work, projects and activities can be found at the website www.lpn.pt

Bob Dekker , EU Water Director

Born in 1948 Educated at the Technical University Delft as civil engineer, majoring in drinking water supply and waste water treatment. Since 1977 civil servant in the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. Held several positions in the ministry as project engineer, policy advisor, head of unit and as international negotiator. Took part as representative for the Netherlands in various international negotiations including the United Nations (UNCED 1992, CSD, ECE), the European Union, international River Commissions, the OSPAR Commission, the North Sea Ministerial Conferences. Chairman of the OSPAR Commission from 2000 – 2007.

At present: EU Water Director, Head of the Netherlands delegation to the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine, Chairman of the Permanent Netherlands-German Boundary-Waters Commission.

Joachim D’Eugenio , European Commission

Joachim D’Eugenio currently works as co-ordinator for inter-institutional relations in the Co-decision unit of the Secretariat General of the European Commission.

Joachim D’Eugenio previously headed the WFD Team in the Water and Marine Unit of DG Environment (EC) from 2002 until 2007, among many things coordinating the activities on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD).

Before that, Mr D’Eugenio was seconded as a national expert to the European Commission, DG Environment working on priority and dangerous substances in water. Prior to that, he worked on water protection as a Scientific Employee at the Umweltbundesamt – Federal Environment Agency Berlin (Germany). Mr D’Eugenio studied Environmental Engineering at the Technical University Berlin (Germany). During that time, he was also active in a research project at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton (New Zealand).

Monique de Vries , EUREAU

Mrs. de Vries is a former Dutch vice-Minister for water management affairs and was chairman of the Board of Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier, a Dutch regional water authority, until January 1 st 2009. Mrs. de Vries is a member of the Board of Management of EUREAU for the Netherlands and is chairman of the EUREAU Task Force on the Water Framework Directive.

EUREAU is the European federation of national associations of drinking water suppliers and waste water services. EUREAU’s members represent more than 10.000 drinking water and waste water utilities across Europe, that provide sustainable water services to more than 400 million European citizens.

Stavros Dimas , European Commissioner for Environment

Stavros C. Dimas has studied law and economics in Greece and the USA and has worked as a lawyer for the World Bank and Sullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street Law Firm. He has been elected to the Greek Parliament ten consecutive times since 1977 and has held leading posts in Greek politics.

Personal Details • Nationality: Greek • Born: April 30, 1941 in Athens, Greece

Education • Law and Economics, University of Athens • Masters in Law, New York University

Professional Career • 1969-1970: Wall Street Law Firm Sullivan & Cromwell • 1970-1975: World Bank, Washington DC. Lawyer for the legal department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) • 1975-1977: Deputy Governor of the Hellenic Industrial Development Bank

Political Career • 1977-2004: Member of the Greek Parliament representing the party of New Democracy • 1977: Member of the negotiating committee for the accession of Greece to the EEC • 1977-1980: Deputy Minister of Economic Coordination • 1980-1981: Minister of Trade • 1985-1989: Parliamentary spokesperson for New Democracy • 1989-1990: Minister of Agriculture • 1990-1991: Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology • 1995-2000: Secretary General of New Democracy • 2000-2003: Senior Member of the Political Analysis Steering Committee of New Democracy • 2000-2004: Head of the New Democracy delegation, Council of Europe • March 2004 - October 2004: European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs • From November 2004: European Commissioner for the Environment

Karl Falkenberg , Director General, DG Environment

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.

Peter Gammeltoft , Head of Unit, Unit D.2: “Protection of Water and Marine Environment”, DG Environment, European Commission

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: Protection of Fresh, Marine and Groundwater, Drinking Water Quality and the EU Water Initiative (EUWI)

Gabrijela Gr čar , Water Director, Slovenia

As graduate of civil engineering from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia I have been involved in different aspects of water management in my career, such as hydraulic engineering, drainage and irrigation planning, drinking water management, flood protection. For the last 13 years I am working as Head of Water Department first at the Environmental Agency of Slovenia and after that at the Ministry of Environment and spatial planning of Slovenia. From 2001 I also have the position of Water Director, which is giving me the responsibility for the implementation of European water policies at the national level. The position of water director on the other hand is giving me the opportunity to be involved in the very challenging CIS process and also in the preparation of the first river basin management plan at national and international level.

Richard Harding , Section Head, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) is a public sector research centre - part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - which delivers independent research, survey, training and knowledge transfer in the environmental sciences to advance knowledge of planet Earth as a complex, interacting system. Located at four sites in England, Scotland and Wales with 320 research staff, CEH supports extensive network of long-term monitoring, experimental field sites, data centres and modelling systems and provides an internationally renowned research capacity. Dr Harding is a Section Leader within CEH, based at Wallingford. The section has a theme of improving estimations of the impacts of global change on land surface processes and includes land surface, hydrological, climate and earth observation scientists.

Dr Harding has made soil moisture, meteorological and evaporation measurements in India, Africa, North America and over Europe. In recent years he has concentrated on studies measuring and modelling fluxes of water and CO 2 from land surfaces. Dr Harding is currently a PI on a number of EU and NERC funded projects making measurements and modelling studies in the Arctic and Europe and is deputy Director of Centre of Excellence for Earth Observation, CLASSIC. Current research interests include, Arctic hydrology, including mass and energy balances of snow and ice surface, large-scale hydrological modelling, Global Climate modelling and land surface/atmosphere interactions. Dr Harding is the co-ordinator of the recently EU funded FP6 WATCH (Water and global Change Integrated Programme).

Fritz Holzwarth , Water Director, Germany

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 since 2008. 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 GKSS Research Center (Member of the Helmholtz Association), Member of the Kuratorium of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology.

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.

John Hontelez , Secretary General, European Environment Bureau

Nationality: Dutch Date of Birth: 10 March 1954

University degree: Master of Science in Non-Western Sociology, specialized in political anthropology of Latin America; finished studies in 1979 at the Free University of Amsterdam

Current positions: • Secretary General of the EEB, since December 1996. • Member High Level Group on the Reduction of the Administrative Burden (Chaired by Mr. Edmund Stoiber) – advisory body to the European Commission. • Member (on behalf of environmental organisations) of the Bureau of the Aarhus Convention (UNECE Convention on Access to Information • Member Board Institute for Sustainable Development, Warsaw, since 1996. • Member Coordination Board Ecoforum (a Pan-European network of Environmental Citizens Organisations), since 1994 and Chair of its Public Participation Campaigns Committee.

Previous positions: • 1986-1996: Chairman Friends of the Earth International. • 1988-1996: Founder and Chairman Milieukontakt Oost Europa, and Member of its Board until 2002 • 1991-1996: Member Executive Committee Environmental Liaison Centre International, Nairobi • 1990-1996: Working for Friends of the Earth Europe, resp. as Coordinator Central and Eastern Europe Programme and Policy Coordinator • 1985-1991: Member of the board of Vereniging Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth-Netherlands) • 1985-1989: Assistant to a Member of the European Parliament (Bram van der Lek) • 1973-1985: Lead roles in the Dutch anti-nuclear and energy movement • 1979-1985: Several posts (a.o. Secretary General) in the national board of the former Pacifist Socialist Party, Netherlands

Awards: • 1994: Gold Medal from the Polish Environmental Ministry for my work for the Polish Environmental Movement • 1996: Friends of the Earth International Award, in recognition for my work for FoE International and the environmental movement in Central and Eastern Europe • 2001: Award from the Institute for Sustainable Development, Warsaw, in recognition for my support in the first 10 years of its existence.

Leen Hordijk , Director of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Prof. Dr. Leen Hordijk started as the Director of the JRC's Institute for Environment and Sustainability in Ispra (Italy) in May 2008. Before this appointment, Professor Hordijk was the Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), in Laxenburg, Austria. Prior to joining IIASA, he was Director of the Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research in the Netherlands and a professor in Environmental Systems Analysis at Wageningen University. He was also Chairman of the Programme Committee of the Netherlands Research Programme on Climate Change and Global Air Pollution, and Chairman of the Social Science Research Council of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Leen Hordijk received his Ph.D. in econometrics from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Beginning in 1984, he pioneered the development of methods for linking environmental science and economics for integrated assessments of air pollution problems in Europe. The models he and his colleagues developed, mainly at IIASA in Austria, were widely used by policy negotiators of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. The RAINS model for example, was used in developing the EU CAFE (Clean Air for Europe) programme. His approaches are recognised as among the most effective ever developed for linking science and policy in international environmental affairs. In the Netherlands, he was engaged in a large project on integrated assessment for climate change (COOL). As a truly international top scientist, he is known to many colleagues through his participation in EU-projects and editorial work. He has also been engaged in regular short term stays for teaching in universities in China and Vietnam.

Eduard Interwies , InterSus Sustainability Services

Eduard Interwies is a free-lance environmental policy consultant, working for various national and international clients (including the European Commission, European Environment Agency, World Bank, OECD, WWF, Environment Ministries etc.). Edi is specialised in environmental economics, water management, capacity building/training and the science-policy interface. He delivers services relevant to each step in the policy cycle with an emphasis on strategy development, evidence based policy solutions, facilitation/moderation, capacity building and evaluation and performance management. In his work, Mr. Interwies combines his strong academic background as an economist with multi-disciplinary policy consulting approaches in the economic, social and environmental domains. Water resource management at local, national and international level is his main field of work. He has considerable

experience with the implementation of the WFD and especially with WFD-economics, decision making strategies and transboundary cooperation issues.

Erik Jørgensen , Danish Agriculture, Member of Copa-Cogeca Working Party on Environment

Erik Jørgensen was born on 16 August 1971 in Denmark and studied biology in Copenhagen. He has a Master degree in aquatic ecology from University of Copenhagen.

Erik Jørgensen has worked for Danish Agriculture since 2005, with special focus on water pollution related issues. The Chairmanship in the working party on the environment in COPA-COGECA is currently Danish, and Erik Jørgensen has been involved in the ongoing work regarding WFD.

Between 1998 and 2005 Erik Jørgensen worked with different aspects of aquatic ecology: Restoration of lakes and streams, national monitoring programmes and reduction of nutrient load into water bodies.

Tony Long , Director of the WWF European Policy Office

Tony Long has 30 years experience working in the environmental movement in the United Kingdom, Europe and globally . He is the founder and Director of the WWF European Policy Office (EPO) in Brussels, the international conservation organisation’s representation office to the European Union. He serves as one of 12 members of WWF International’s Conservation Committee responsible for developing and overseeing the WWF global programme.

Prior to moving to Brussels in 1989, Tony worked for ten years for WWF and other environmental organisations in the United Kingdom. He currently serves on several advisory boards including the Andrew Lees Trust in the UK, the Board of WWF Greece and the Dow Chemical Company’s Corporate Environmental Advisory Committee in Midland, Michigan.

Tony graduated from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, with a first class honours degree in town and country planning in 1974. He is a former Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York and a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (FRSA).

Ann-Louise Månsson , Water Director, Sweden

Current position: • Deputy Director at the Division for Natural Resources at the Ministry of the Environment since 2005.

The Division is responsible for nature conservation, maritime and water policy. This work deals with biological diversity and nature conservation issues on land and in the sea, lakes and streams as well s natural habitats and species conservation in our forests, wetlands, agricultural landscapes and mountain environments.

Previous positions: • 2002- 2005 Counselor for Environment at the Swedish Permanent Representation in Brussels. • 2001-2002 Deputy Director at the Division for International Affairs, at the Ministry of the Environment • 1995- 2001 Civil servant at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice

Education: • LL.M in International Laws University of Lund, EU-law in Utrecht

Ladislav Miko , Director, DG ENV.B “Protecting the Natural Environment”

Ladislav Miko is Director, Protecting the Natural Environment, in the Directorate General for Environment of the European Commission, a post he has held since May 2005. He holds responsibility in this position for the Directorate-General’s work on nature and biodiversity, agriculture and soils, forests, biotechnology, pesticides and health. He was previously (2002-2005) Deputy Minister and Director General for Nature and Landscape Protection in the Ministry for Environment of the Czech Republic. From 2001-2002 he worked as a consultant on the evaluation of EU- funded programmes in the Czech Republic. Prior to this, he worked for 8 years at the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, both as Head of the Department of Nature Protection (1993-2001), and as Deputy Director (1997-2001) where he was involved in establishing the inspection system and standards in nature protection, creation of a system for checking CITES implementation, development of legislation and working as a wildlife crime expert within the Interpol wildlife crime working group. His early career was as at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he became Deputy Director of the Institute of Ecology of Agricultural Landscapes. His research interests focussed on zoology, soil zoology and ecology, and he has published widely in the scientific and popular press. He has also worked as a trainer, lecturer and court

advisor. He holds a doctorate in zoology and ecology. In the late 1980s, he was active in the so-called Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakia.

Marta Moren-Abat , Water Director, Spain

Marta Moren Abat is Water Director since 2008 at Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs. After finishing her degree Civil Engineering, she has developed her professional career in a range of parts related to Water Polices and management. She has been involved in the coordination of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Spain and also in the Directorate General for Environment of the European Commission. Furthermore, she has been responsible for the dossier on climate change and water at the Directorate General for Research at the European Commission. Besides, she has been active in transboundary water management negotiations at the OCDE office in Belarus.

Sergiy Moroz , Fresh Water Policy Officer, WWF-EPO

Sergiy Moroz joined the WWF European Policy Office in January 2005. As Freshwater Policy Officer, he is working on a range of issues, including the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and integration of sustainable water management into relevant EU policies.

Before joining WWF European Policy Office, Sergiy worked for four years with WWF Freshwater Programme in Denmark, UK and France.

Prior to that, he worked for WWF’s restoration project in the Danube Delta.

A Ukrainian citizen, Sergiy has a somewhat eclectic background for WWF, a fascination with all things “water” and a sizable collection of history books.

Luigi Papetti , Studio Frosio (ESHA member)

Luigi Papetti is a chemical and hydraulic who is involved in the design and supervision of small hydroelectric plants. Specialised in environmental problems and impacts connected with the realisation of small hydroelectric plants, he took part in several projects supported by the EC in the field of SHPs and related technical and environmental issues.

Jan Pokorný , Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

• Nationality: Czech • Born: 24 June 1946

Education: • Faculty of Natural Sciences Charles University Prague (plant physiology) • PhD in Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on photosynthesis of water plants His research activities are focused on wetland ecology, lake restoration and namely on effect of water and plants on distribution of solar energy and on local climate.

Positions and responsibilities: • Visiting scientists with CSIRO Australia in 1984/85 • Member Scientific Ttechnological Panel of Ramsar Convention • Member of International scientific panel on Natural Sequence Farming (Australia) • Principal or national coordinator of research projects in Africa (Fingerponds, Bomosa) • Tutor of PhD students • Lecturer with Charles University Prague, UNESCO-IHE Delft etc. • Director of non profit applied research organisation ENKI • Scientific director of Scientific Technological Park at T řebo ň, Czech Republic • Author of scientific publications • Co-author of New Water Paradigm (Waterparadigm.org)

Chris Ryder , Deputy Water Director, United Kingdom

Degree in Modern Languages from Cambridge. A career civil servant in the Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food, then the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs – United Kingdom. Head of Water Quality Division from September 2005.

Previous postings have included animal welfare, microbiological food safety, and sheepmeat policy. Chris’s previous post in the Fisheries Directorate, included leading for the UK in EU negotiations on the reform and operation of the Common Fisheries Policy, leading on sea fisheries conservation, and then planning the implementation of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit Report on a profitable future for UK fishing.

Chris now enjoys the challenge of delivering cost effective improvements to water quality under the Water Framework Directive and related EU measures (e.g. on urban waste water, groundwater, bathing water, nitrates), in close co-operation with stakeholders.

Sybe Schaap , Chairman, Union of Water Boards (Unie van Waterschappen), Netherlands

Personal details: • Born: May 20, 1946 • Marital status: Married

Education: • Higher School of Agriculture, Leeuwarden (1967) • MO Economics (1969) • Drs. Social Sciences VU University Amsterdam (1973) • Dr. Philosophy VU University Amsterdam (1996) • Habilitation Philosophy Charles University Prague (2002)

Functions: • Chairman of the Union of Water Boards, Netherlands • Chairman of the Water Board Groot Salland • Senate • Lecturer in Philosophy VU University Amsterdam/Charles University Prague

Former functions: • Farmer Noordoostpolder • Policy Officer Second Chamber of the States-General • Chairman of the Water Board Noordoostpolder • Watergraaf Zuiveringschap West-Overijssel • Agrarian consultant

Publications: • Bedreigd Bestaan (study on corporatism in Dutch agriculture) • Die Verwirklichung der Philosophie (dissertation) • Die Unfähigkeit zu vergessen (habilitation) • De mens als maat (study on resentment) • Afscheid van de almachtige • Several articles on agriculture, politics and philosophy

Martin Scheele , Head of Unit, Unit H.1: “Environment, GMO, and Genetic Resources”, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission

Martin Scheele studied Agricultural Science at the University of Göttingen with a specialisation in "Economic and Social Sciences of Land". In 1990, he received a PhD in the field of Agricultural Economics. He spent a year at the University of Wisconsin in Madison after which he finalised his Habilitation at the Department for Agricultural Sciences at the University of Göttingen.

Martin Scheele works since 1993 for the European Commission, Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development. Having started in the field of Rural Development, he changed in 1996 into the unit responsible for "Economic Analysis and Policy Conception". From October 2003, he led the unit responsible for policy evaluation and studies. Since January 2008, he is head of the unit dealing with environment, GMO and genetic resources.

Richard Seeber , MEP, European Parliament

In 1980, Seeber started his legal studies program at Innsbruck University. On June 30, 1984 he was awarded his doctor of law's degree. In the same period, Seeber was enrolled in economic studies at Innsbruck University and he completed his degree in 1988 with the title Mag. rer. soc. oec. During his studies, he took various language classes in English, French, Italian and Russian. Moreover, he studied Romanian on his own. Thanks to his excellent language skills, he worked as cruise director on Romanian and Bulgarian ships plying the Danube and as tourist guide in Romania and at the Black Sea Coast during 1985 and 1988. From 1987 to the beginning of 1988, Richard Seeber worked for 13 months as barrister at the district court of Imst as well as at the regional court of Innsbruck. In 1989, he worked as trainee lawyer before taking up his new employment in the tourism department of the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce in 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he was the first director of the newly established Europe Department at the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce. In his role as director, he contributed not only to the creation of the Europe Department, but also at its transformation into the EU-Info-Centre at the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce. In 1995, he was nominated as the first director of the newly established relay office of the Euregio Tyrol at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. Furthermore, in 1999 he was elected as president of the Christian Democratic Europe Forum (CDEF), a think tank in Brussels. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party ÖVP. At the European Elections in June 2004, Richard Seeber was elected as Member of the European Parliament. He is member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Committee of Petitions, and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary

Cooperation Committee. Furthermore, Richard Seeber is substitute member in the Committee on Regional Development and in the Delegation for the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. His areas of expertise are water and water quality, climate change, air quality, and mountain regions.

Jean-Philippe Torterotot , EWA Vice-President, Chairman of the European Policy Committee

Jean Philippe Torterotot graduated as engineer from the Polytechnic School (1985) and National School for Rural Engineering, Water and Forests (1987) and obtained a PhD in Environment Sciences and Technologies at the National Public Works Engineer School, ENPC (1993). He made his career in the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, with both scientific and operational positions,. He is currently heading the department on Water Resources, Uses and Risks at CEMAGREF.

Mr Torterotot is board member of the French water association, ASTEE, and vice- president of the European Water Association. He has been an active contributor to the Water Supply and Sanitation Platform Technologies Platform. He also chairs the EWA European Policy Committee, which scrutinizes on the implementation of the WFD.

Ralph Underhill , River Basin Support Officer, RSPB

Ralph is based at the RSPB in Bedfordshire in the UK and holds the post of River Basin Support Officer. He works on River Basin planning full time and although based at the RSPB is a collective voice for environmental NGO’s in England and Wales. The role involves helping and supporting the involvement of NGOs in all the River Basin Districts of England and Wales, providing them with briefings and information and lobbying on issues nationally. The post is funded through the WWF/HSBC climate partnership. Ralph has been in the role for over a year and has been with the RSPB for over three years, his previous role in planning casework focused on ensuring the adherence to requirements of the birds and habitats directive. Ralph has also worked at several other NGO’s including the Council for National Parks.

Ralph has a degree in Zoology and an MSc in Science Communication and an MSc Conservation.

Wim Van Gils , Policy Officer for Water, Bond Beter Leefmilieu (Federation for a Better Environment)

Wim Van Gils holds a master degree in biology (K.U. Leuven, 1999) and worked two years as a researcher on freswater fish before joining his current employer Bond Beter Leefmilieu. Bond Beter Leefmilieu (Federation for a Better Environment) is the pluralistic and independent federation of more than 140 national and local associations involved in nature and the environment in Flanders, Belgium. The work of BBL is directed at supporting and assisting member organisations, at influencing policies of government and societal organisations, and at sustaining behaviour of the broad public and target groups. Bond Beter Leefmilieu is a member of EEB (European Environmental Bureau) and works closely together with EEB on (a.o.) water and agriculture issues. Wim Van Gils is water policy officer at BBL. The focus of BBL’s water-related work is on the implementation of the urban waste water directive, the nitrates directive and the water framework directive. Next to that, BBL is involved in large water-related integrated projects such as Seine-Schelde (a part of TEN) and Proses 2010 (Scheldt river). Wim Van Gils is a member of the Minaraad – the multi-stakeholder council that advises the flemish government on environmental issues - and is observer in the International Scheldt Commission. He is allso secretary of Seas At Risk. www.bblv.be www.eeb.org www.seas-at-risk.org

Jean Claude Vial , Deputy Water Director, Department for Ecology and Sustainable Development, France

Personal details: • Nationality: French • Born: August 14, 1954

Education and Training: • 1974-1976: Agronomist, Agronomical Institute Paris • 1976-1979: Water and Forest Engineer, Water and Forest School Paris

Professional career: • 1988-1995: Minister’s Adviser for Environment and Head of Services Modernization, French Ministry of Agriculture • 1995-2000: Head of Research, Environment and Agriculture; Water Agency Seine-Normandy

• 2000-2002: Undersecretary for Rural Management, French Ministry of Agriculture • 2002-present: Deputy Water Director, French Department for Ecology and Sustainable Development Main responsibility: Implementation of Water Framework Directive

Daniel Villessot , Scientific Director of Lyonnaise des Eaux, EUREAU

Daniel Villessot received his Doctor of Physical Sciences in organic chemistry. Prior to joining the private industries, he was a Professor of Chemical Engineering with specialization in water treatment. He joined the private water industry in 1986 and became, with Lyonnaise des Eaux, the Technical Director of the Northumbrian Group (UK) and then as Technical and Scientific Director of Lyonnaise des Eaux (Group Suez Environment). He is overseeing the joint research and development activities, figuring the relevant national and European regulations’ impacts.

He has served as President of several French commissions (Scientific & Technical Commission from FP2E, and Sanitation Commission from ASTEE). He is also member of scientific councils of engineering schools (Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussées in Paris, and ENGEES in Strasbourg).

Former President of EUREAU, the European Federation of Public and Private companies, in charge of water and wastewater services, his experience encompasses the whole water cycle, the latest developments of the European regulation (Directives and Regulations) and the general management of water facilities.

Philip Weller , Executive Secretary, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR)

Philip Weller is an environmental planner by training. He studied general Environmental Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada and received a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from the same University with a focus on rehabilitation and clean-up of environmental hotspots within the Great Lakes of North America. Mr Weller was appointed in August 2003 as the Executive Secretary of the (ICPDR) International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River. The ICPDR is the forum for the 14 major Danube countries and the European

Commission to implement the commitments they have made under the Danube River Protection Convention to improve water quality and water management in the Danube River Basin. The Commission recently received the prestigious Thiess River Prize for the success in ensuring effective cooperation in the most international river basin in the world. In his previous position as Programme Director of WWF International (Danube Carpathian Programme, 1995-2002) 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 for four years as director of Great Lakes United, a unique bi-national coalition of interest groups including local municipalities, research organizations, businesses and NGOs in both Canada and the United States focused on the clean up of the Great Lakes. Mr Weller has also managed successful consulting businesses in both Canada and Austria and has done numerous assignments for governments and international organizations. Mr Weller has considerable practical experience in the restoration of natural ecosystems and in planning processes to achieve public involvement in environmental decision-making. He also played a major role in the organization of the Danube Carpathian Heads of State Summit held in April 2001 under the chairmanship of President Iliescu of Romania and HRH Prince Philip, the Honorary President of WWF. Mr Weller helped organize on behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Christian Orthodox Church the Symposium “The Baltic Sea: A Common Heritage and Shared Responsibility” and is a member of the Executive Committee of Religion, Science and Environment. Mr Weller is author of three books on environmental topics including ‘Freshwater Seas’ an environmental history of the Great Lakes of North America.

Beate Werner , Head of Group on Water, European Environment

Agency (EEA)

Beate Werner has led the Water Group at the European Environment Agency (EEA) since 2006. As a biologist with over 20 years international experience in ecosystem research and monitoring, her work focuses on assessing ecosystem services provided by water. In the 1980s she researched nutrient balances in forest ecosystems on behalf of the UNECE Critical Loads Mapping Programme before leading the German federal government’s Soil Monitoring Initiative. Since joining EEA in 2003, her work has encompassed developing the Water Information System for Europe (WISE), establishing links between science and policy, and assessing ecological and economic aspects of water quality and quantity.

Martin Weyand , General Director Water: Waste Water, German Association of Energy and Water

Martin Weyand is General Director Water/Waste water since 1 January 2009. He was Deputy General Director since autumn 2007 in charge of the Energy Networks Department.

Martin Weyand was born in Rhineland-Palatinate. He studied at the University of Saarbrücken. Since 1987 he was assistant professor for energy economics. In 1989 he started working with the BGW – German Association of Natural Gas and Water, Berlin, where he was responsible for the Energy Policy Unit since 1994. In 2001 he became executive secretary of the BGW. Martin is married and has two daughters.

2nd European Water Conference 2 – 3 April 2009

Charlemagne Conference Centre, Brussels

List of participants

First Name Surname Organisation

Mats Aastrup Geological Survey of Sweden Veronique Adriaenssens ARCADIS Belgium Vassiliki Aggeli Region of Western Greece Silvestre Aguiar AgroParisTech Hannele Ahponen Finnish Association for Nature Conservation Veronika Ahrens University of Wageningen Damian Allen Department of the Environment, Ireland Gonçalo Almeida Simões Portuguese Farmers' Confederation Sara Amez Cantabria Regional Office Viviane André EC - DG Environment, Sustainable Development and Economic Analysis Unit Antonia Andugar Copa-Cogeca Lysander Antonatos SGS Antonis Antoniou Water Development Department, Cyprus Teodora Artimon Central European University Gonçalo Ascensão Independent Env. Engineer Christoph Aschemeier Wassernetz NRW, Germany Roya Babayev Université de Nice, Greenwich Consulting Group Mariya Babukchieva East Aegean River Basin Directorate - Plovdiv Andreas Bäck via donau Alba Ballester Ciuró New Water Culture Fundation Jean Claude Banon Veolia Environnement Laura Barbugli Euroidees Galia Bardarska Institute of Water Problems - Bulgarian Academy of Science Lilyana Barganova East Aegean River Basin Directorate - Plovdiv Friedrich Barth European Water Partnership Jens Bartholmes EC - Joint Research Centre Geoff Bateman Environment Agency, United Kingdom Jorge Batlle-Sales Universidad de Valencia D.I.Egon Bäumel Office of Styrian Regional Governmnent Jelle Behagel Wageningen University

Andelka Belic University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department for Water Management Michael Bender Grüne Liga e.V. Daniela Benekova Black Sea Basin Directorate - Varna Eivind Berg Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Norway Carlos Berrozpe Garcia EC - DG Environment, Protection of Water and Marine Environment Giovanni Bidoglio EC - Joint Research Centre Agnes Biesiekierska European Water Partnership Aleš Bizjak Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia Karel Bláha Deputy Minister for the Environment, Czech Republic Kerstin Blyh Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Martina Bocci Thetis S.p.A. Elizabeth Bogosian Mission of Uruguay to the EU Karsten Böhm City of Munich Hans-Adolf Boie European Union of Water Management Associations Miguel Ángel Bordas Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Spain Ilke Borowski Institute of Environmental Systems Research René Bosman European Commission Elise Bouyer Lyonnaise des Eaux Desislava Boyuklieva West Aegean Basin River Directorate Cristina Brailescu EC - DG Environment, Coherence Policy Unit Irena Brajevic Croation Crop Production Association Ingo Bräuer Ecologic Sylvie Brissot Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie Steven Broekx VITO Jan Brooke PIANC Gerard Broseliske Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Netherlands Patricia Bruckner Commission de la Moselle Philippe Brunerie EC - DG Taxation and Customs Union Luís Bulhão Martins Portuguese Farmers Union Maxime Bureau GE Colin Byrne Water Inspectorate, Ireland Ana Sofia Caleiro de Oliveira DHL Exel Supply Chain Silvia Callizo EU Delegation of the Government of Navarre Paul Campling VITO Helder Careto GEOTA Dan Carlan Ministry of Environment and Water Management, Romania Joyce Carr Scottish Government Jenny Caruso Competent Authority for the North Baltic River Basin District Franck Casse Altran Europe Mario Cerutti International Meuse Commission Florence Chaffarod Agence de l'Eau Rhin-Meuse

Paula Chainho Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (LPN), Portugal Karina Chertkova University of Kent Eve Chevillard Maison du Languedoc-Roussillon Kalliroe Christofi Environment Service of Cyprus Louise Clark Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, UK Ingrid Coninx HIVA Simona Constantin Tilburg University Gheorge Constantin Ministry of Environment and Water Management, Romania Philippe Cornille essenscia Nunzia Corriere Service Public Fédérale - Mobilité et Transport Marie Cors Inter-Environnement Wallonie Guillaume Cortot European Rivers Network Gulia Costantino European Training and Studies Mihai Costea BROMOTION/EP Anne-Cécile Cotillon EC - DG Environment Louis Courseau Regional Water Management Authority in Warsaw Rui Coutinho Universidade dos Açores Otto Cox KRW Rijn-West Adriana Craciun Astrale GEIE José Cruz Universidade dos Açores Andrea Danowski Bundesverband der Energie und Wasserwirtschaft, Germany Alix d'Armaillé ORAMA/IRRIGANTS de France Richard Dartout Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie Nathalie Dault Mission of Canada to the EU Bengt Davidsson Confederation of European Paper Industries Peter Davies Murray Darling Basin Authority, Australia Sarah Dawson Scottish Water Antonio de Brito North Hydrographic Region Administration, Portugal Guerreiro Frederic de Hemptinne European Water Association Cedric de Meeûs Veolia Environment Anke De Neef University of Ghent Leo De Nocker VITO Pieter de Pous European Environmental Bureau Marc de Rooy Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Netherlands Karin De Schepper Inland Navigation Europe Dirk De Smet Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Watervoorziening Monique De Vries EUREAU Bernard Decock Fédération Wallonne de l'Agriculture Jeanne Defoi Office de l'Eau (ODE), France Emerante Jörg Dehnert Saxon State Agency for Environment, Agriculture and

Geology Bob Dekker Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Netherlands Jacques Delsalle EC - DG Environment Steven Demoulin Ernst & Young Barbara Dequinze VSi Planning Xavier Derrey EuropeAid Cooperation Office Dominique Deschamps RDM-ROW Joachim D'Eugenio EC - DG Environment, WFD Team Rainier d'Haussonville Veolia Eau Philippe d'Hondt Flemish Environment Agency Ilke Dieltjens Flemish Environment Agency Ann Dierckx CEFIC Tom Diez Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Watervoorziening Stavros Dimas European Commissioner for Environment Maja- Dittel European Council of Young Farmers Alexandra Janez Dodiè Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia Elena Donnari ADIE Joachim Dressel BASF SE Johannes Drielsma Euromines Ružica Drmic Ministry of Regional Development, Forestry and Water Management, Hungary Claire Dupont Milieu Ltd. Eveline Durieux AEIDL Thomas Dworak Ecologic James Ebdon University of Brighton Tatiana Efimova OECD Kristinn Einarsson Orkustofnun, National Energy Authority, Iceland Teresa Elola Calderon University of Liège Laurice Ereifej WWF Hungary Mark Esseboom IBM Karl Falkenberg EC - DG Environment James Farrell Environment Agency, United Kingdom Graciela Ferrer Foundation for a New Water Culture Mathieu Fichter European Commission Line Fjellvær Directorate for Nature Management, Norway Nikolaus Fleischmann H2O-net Jürgen Förster European Commission, Eurostat Patricia Fosselard European Federation of Bottled Water Andrei Franceschi Popescu EURMIG Ron Franken Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Arjen Frentz Vewin Renata Fridrichova T.G.Masaryk Water Research Institute

Lauha Fried ESHA Anne Louise Friedrichsen EC - DG Environment, LIFE unit Lorenzo Galbiati Catalan Water Agency Peter Gammeltoft EC - DG Environment, Protection of Water and Marine Environment Eduardo Garcia Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Spain Teresa García Azcárate Agencia Andaluza del Agua Pilar Garcia Doñoro Representation Permanent de l'Espagne Dominique Garrigues European Institute for the Rational Management of the Environment Dominique Gatel EUREAU / Veolia József Gayer Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary Rémi Gelmini Antenne Interrégionale Auvergne Centre Limousin Pauli Gernot Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR) Erik Gerritsen WWF-EPO Veerle Gevaert Ghent University Monica Ghecea BROMOTION/Representative Office Pam Gilder Environment Agency, UK Damien Goislot Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, France Amalia Gonzalez De Paz European Commission Willem-Jan Goossen Ministry of Transport and Water Management, Netherlands Yanne Goossens Flemish Government, Environment Dept. LNE Anna Goszczynska-Zajac National Water Management Authority, Poland Benoit Grandmougin ACTeon Günther Grassl Austrian Chamber of Commerce Gabrijela Gr čar Directorate for Environment - Water Department, Slovenia Karola Grodzki European Commission Baiba Gulbe Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Latvia Aliya Gumarova KU Leuven Verena Günther BDEW - German Association of Energy and Water Industries Klaus Gütling Ministry of Environment & Conservation, Agriculture & Consumer Protection, NRW Theresia Hacksteiner European Barge Union Panayiota Hadjigeorgiou Water Development Department, Cyprus Agathi Hadjipanteli Water Development Department, Cyprus Delphine Haesaerts IZA Nadia Haiama Greenpeace Deryck Hall Consumer Council for Water Lars Ole Hansen Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Denmark Richard Harding Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Jacqueline Heere World Congress on Information Technology 2010 E.H. Simon Henneberg River Basin Commission Weser

Christian Godehard Hennies European Union of Water Management Associations Nuria Hernandez-Mora Fundacion Nueva Cultura del Agua Dorothe Herpertz Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, Germany Magnus J. K. Herrmann Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) Liesbeth Hiele Department for Agriculture and Fisheries, Belgium Edith Hödl-Kreuzbauer Austrian Environment Agency Jiri Holas Agricultural Research Council Fritz Holzwarth Ministry for Environment, Nature Conversation and Nuclear Safety, Germany John Hontelez European Environment Bureau Leen Hordijk EC - Joint Research Centre Marketa Hrncirova Agricultural Research Council Nazmul Huq Vrije Universiteit Brussel Martin Hurst Water Directorate, DEFRA, UK Bjørn Huso Norwegian Agricultural Authority Taina Ihaksi Finnish Environment Institute Eduard Interwies InterSus - Sustainability Services & SEECON Germany Ulrich Irmer Umweltbundesamt, Germany Anders Iversen Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management Bo Jacobsen European Environment Agency Veronika Jaglova Ministry of Environment, Czech Republic Jörg Janning European Union of Water Management Associations David Jellison GE Water & Process Technologies Stefan Jensen European Environment Agency Monika Jetzin Global Water Partnership - Central and Easter Europe Néstor Jiménez Torrecilla Ebronautas Anna Jöborn Swedish Environmental Research Institute Caroline Jones Scottish Water Douwe Jonkers Ministry of Transport and Public Works, Netherlands Henrik G. Jørgensen Danish Ministry of the Environment Henning Jørgensen Danish Society for Nature Conservation Mørk Erik Jørgensen Danish Agriculture Eleftheria Kampa Ecologic Georgios Kampas Region of East Macedonia & Thrace, Water Directorate Wolfgang Kappler ahu AG Ioannis Karavokyris G. Karavokyris & Ptns SA Nikola Karnolski East Aegean River Basin Directorate - Plovdiv Hans Karsten Danish Agency for Spatial and Environmental Planning Christian Lubka Katchakova Deputy Minister of Environment and Water, Bulgaria Zdenka Kelnarová Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic

Marjatta Kemppainen-Mäkelä Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland Lawrence King European Crop Protection Association Robert Kipgen Administration de la Gestion de l'Eau, Luxembourg Erik Klaassens ECORYS NEDERLAND Angela Klauschen WWF Mediterranean Programme Office Inga Klawitter European Council of Young Farmers Maciej Klonowski EuroGeoSurveys Krasya Kolcheva East Aegean River Basin Directorate - Plovdiv Malgorzata Kolodziej- "Dolna Odra" Power Plants Group Nowakowska Desislava Konsulova Black Sea Basin Directorate Rolf Koops Dutch WFD Region "Mid-Rhine" Erik Kraaij Unie van Waterschappen / EUWMA Nils T. Daell Kristensen Environment Centre Odense Durk Krol EUREAU Eva Kubešová Ministry of the Environment, Czech Republic Galina Kulikova University of Kent Anita Künitzer CENIA Volker Laabs BASF SE Wendy Lakin European Small Hydropower Association Brigitte Lambert Administration de la Gestion de l'Eau, Luxembourg Ivan Landa Ministry of Agriculture, Czech Republic Francesc La-Roca Universitat de València Pasquale Lasio Sardinian Regional Department of Environment Safeguard Catherine Latour Department Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Wallonie Mikael Latreille European Commission Max Lauff Administration de la Gestion de l'Eau, Luxembourg Marion Laurenceau UMR ENGEES Cemagref Hélène Lavray EURELECTRIC Barthélémy Le Marc'Hadour Ile-de-France Europe André J. Lecloux ENVICAT Consulting Reeta Lehtinen European Council of Young Farmers Delphine Lepage Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie Lotta Lewin Pihlblad Geological Survey of Sweden Inge Liekens VITO Marie-Noëlle Lienemann European Parliament Willem Ligtvoet Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Tomas Llobet Avisa Partners Tony Long WWF - European Policy Office Gustavo Lopez Cutillas Oficina de la Region de Murcia, Spain Irene Lucius WWF International Danube Carpathian Programme Ellen Luyten OVAM Jon MacDonagh-Dumler National University of Ireland, Galway

Harley Madsen Environment Centre Odense Bundgaard Cornelia Maier Umweltdachverband Willem Mak Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Netherlands Aristoula Malitsidou Water Dirctorate, Region of Central Macedonia Eileen Mallon Northern Ireland Environment Agency Ann-Louise Månsson Ministry of the Environment, Sweden Daphne Mantziou Society for the Protection of Prespa Panayiota Maragou WWF Greece Elvira Marchidan National Administration “Apele Romane”, Romania Wilhelmina Maree Hildebrand European Water Partnership Harald Marent Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management, Austria Aldona Margeriene Environmental Protection Agency, Lithuania Anna Martelli Institute de Haute Formation aux Politiques Communautaires Angel Martin ASAJA - Spanish Farmers Grégory Mathieu EUREAU Claire Mattelet European Nickel Industry Association Verena Mattheiss ACTeon Segard Matthieu COCERAL Åke Mauritzson Swedish Environment Protection Agency Dina Medeiros Pacheco Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal Bernd Mehlhorn German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Ladislav Miko EC - DG Environment Emmanuelle Mikosz European Landowners' Organization Lucilla Minelli European Water Partnership Nina Miron European Commission Sandra Mol Ministry of Public Works and Water Management, Netherlands Giuseppina Monacelli ISPRA Pierre-Yves Monette EUREAU Jean-Louis Morel DOW Agrosciences Marta Moren-Abat EC - DG for Research Cristina Moro Marcos EUROFER Sergiy Moroz WWF Alina Muharlyamova Maria Mulas Sardinian Regional Department of Environment Safeguard Gabriella Reyes Munoz Perez Andalucia Regional Office in Brussels Gerhard Nagl Danube Environmental Forum / BUND Germany Akifumi Nakao Mission of Japan to the EU

Pedro Narro ASAJA Gabriel Nelson Northern Ireland Environment Agency Tatiana Nemcova BirdLife International Nicolae Nemirschi Ministry of Environment and Water Management, Romania Diana Nenz Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research Ventzislav Nikolov Black Sea Basin Directorate - Varna Dragana Ninkovic Jaroslav Cerni Institute for the Development of Water Resources Muntsa Niso Catalan Water Agency Oldrich Novicky T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute Steve Ntifo Water UK Patrick Nuvelstijn Natuurmonumenten Hannele Nyroos Ministry of the Environment, Finland Robert Oates Thames Rivers Restoration Trust Sinead O'Brien SWAN - Sustainable Water Network Gisela Ofenböck Austrian Ministry of Water Management Jakub Ohem Ministry of Agriculture, Czech Republic Wilhelmus Oorthuijsen Ministry of Transport and Public Works, Division Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands Gunter Ossegger Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management, Austria Baghdad Ouddane Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille Ilgar Özgürel Research and Technology Centre Büsum, University of Kiel Luigi Papetti European Small Hydropower Association Gisele Parfait Office National de l'Eau et de Milieux Aquatiques (ONEMA) Eva Pascual Basque Country Delegation Michael Payne National Farmers' Union, UK Steen Pedersen Danish Agency for Spatial and Environmental Planning Natalia Perova BSIS, University of Kent at Brussels Luigi Petito Business Solutions Europa Michele Petracca Regione Molise, Delegation of Brussels Peter Pex Vewin/ Unie van Waterschappen Martin Pfaundler Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland Martin Pigeon Corporate Europe Observatory Simone Pio Tagus River Basin District Administration Celine Piquier Office National de l'Eau et des Milieux Aquatiques (ONEMA) Christoph Planitzer Lower Austrian Government Sandra Poikane EC - Joint Research Centre Jan Pokorný Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology Irma Popovic Green Action / Friends of the Earth, Croatia Zdenek Postulka Hnuti DUHA-Friends of the Earth, Czech Republic Hana Prchalova Water Reseach Institute Giancarlo Prina Pera Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU

Ingrida Pucinskaite-Kubik EC - DG Competition, Energy and Environment Unit Petras Punys Lithuanian University of Agriculture Nathalie Puyal EDF Sophie Puype Flemish Environmental Agency Philippe Quevauviller European Commission Darko Rajhenbah Ministry of Regional Development, Forestry and Water Management, Croatia Laudemira Ramos Ministry for the Environment, Landscape and Regional Development Nathalie Ravot Agence de l'Eau Loire-Bretagne Marie-Anne Reding Monsanto Europe SA Rene Reisner Ministry of the Environment, Estonia Sari Repka Centre for Maritime Studies Francis Rillaerts Water UK Soisic Rivoalan Agence de l'Eau Seine-Normandie Amparo Roca Zamora European Commission Ana Rocha European Landowners' Organization Eberhard Röhm-Malcotti BDEW - German Association of Energy and Water Industries Reinier Romijn Unie Van Waterschappen Fabienne Rosen Administration de la Gestion de l'Eau, Luxembourg Tania Runge Copa-Cogeca Chris Ryder Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Dieter Saha International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine Michael Matthieu Saint-Michel Office National de l'Eau et de Milieux Aquatiques (ONEMA) Leo Santbergen Water Management Board Brabantse Delta Sybe Schaap UVW / Waterschap Groot Salland Dieter Schäfer Bayer CropScience Martin Scheele EC - DG for Agriculture and Rural Development Andreas Scheidleder Umweltbundesamt, Austria Martin Schellhorn European Economic and Social Committee Jurgen Schmandt Houston Advanced Research Center Guido Schmidt TYPSA Theo Schmitz Vewin Robert Schröder Vewin / UVW Timothy Scolnick Comité Economique et Social Européen Richard Seeber European Parliament Ricardo Segura Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, Spain Ana Seixas Insitute of Water, Portugal Daiva Semeniene Center for Environmental Policy, Lithuania Estela Sena Moreno Universidad de Valencia

Finka Serafimova-Duskov Mission of the Republic of Macedonia to the EU Elisa Setien EFCC Hermann Simon Representation of Rhineland-Palatinate Josef Gaia Sinnona European Parliament Björn Sjöberg Skagerrak & Kattegat Water District Authority Ola Skauge Directorate for Nature Management, Norway Sigrid Skølås Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Caroline Smith Inland Navigation Europe Joseph- Smitz University of Liege Simon Lennart Sorby Competent Authority of the North Baltic River Basin District Michael Sørensen COWI Munk Hélène Soyer-Nogueira Business Solutions Europa Dijana Spasojevic TRASYS Lars Stalsberg Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate Ines Strackenbrock- K+S Aktiengesellschaft Gehrke Pierre Strosser ACTeon Bo Sundström Bothnian Bay Water District Authority Gaetane Suzenet WATERWISE Emilie Tafanel Représentation Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur Stelios Tamvakidis Water Directorate, Region of Central Macedonia Remo Tavernari Regione Emilia-Romagna, EU Liaison Office Huw Taylor University of Brighton Evgeni Terziev West Aegean River Basin Directorate Evangelos Terzis WWF Greece Elisabeth Thiéblemont Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, France Sarah Thomas Consumer Council for Water Jens Kristian Thygesen European Anglers Alliance Twan Tiebosch DG Water / Dutch RB Meuse Leonard Tiniakos Region of Western Greece, Water Resources Directorate Nicoletta Toniutti WWF, Italy Hanna Tornevall Skagerak and Kattegat Water District Authority Patricia Torpey Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ireland Jean Philippe Torterotot Cemagref David Travers TRASYS Patrice Tréfaut CIEX Anne Trentels Service Public de Wallonie Thomas Uhlendahl Regiowasser e.V. / University of Freiburg Ralph Underhill The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), UK Agnes Vaillier European Water Partnership Giuseppe Valastro Exxonmobil Mediterranea

Johny Van Acker Waterwegen en Zeekanaal NV Bart Van den Eede Sarens Veronique Van Den Flemish Environment Agency Langenbergh Sonja van der Arend Delft Technical University Wim Van Gils Flemish Bond Beter Leefmilieu Chantal Van Ham IUCN Kor Van Hoof VMM Sophie Vancauwenbergh Milieu Ltd. Noémie Varado DIREN Martinique Dijana Varlec Croatian Chamber of Economy Rositsa Vasileva West Aegean River Basin Directorate Cenka Vasileva Black Sea Basin Directorate - Varna Josephine Verhasselt EC - DG Agriculture Jaap Verhulst Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Netherlands Paul Vertegaal Natuurmonumenten Jean-Claude Vial Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, France Daniel Villessot Lyonnaise des eaux / EUREAU Steven Vinckier Flemish Environment Agency Birgit Vogel International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River Charlotte Vogl Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management, Austria Stephan von Keitz Cards 2004 Twinning Project, Croatia Christina von Westernhagen Dow Office of EU Goverment Affairs and Public Policy Sabine von Wirén-Lehr European Water Partnership Vanesa Vujanic Law Office Rory Wallace Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Les Watson Scottish Environment Protection Agency Fiona Watt Scottish Government Jean Marie Wauthier Walloon Region of Belgium André Weidenhaupt Administration de la Gestion de l'Eau, Luxembourg Philip Weller International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River Claudia Wendland WECF - Women in Europe for a Common Future Beate Werner European Environment Agency Frank Wersandt Administration de la Gestion de l'Eau, Luxembourg Martin Weyand BDEW German Association of Energy and Water Industries Peter Whalley United Nations Development Programme/GEF Tisza MSP Noel Wheatley Ofwat Maeve Whyte British Agriculture Bureau Ulf Wickström Federation of Swedish Farmers Walter Wiesbauer Citizen

Albert Willemsen International Council of Marine Industry Associations David Williamson Scottish Government Katie Wilson SEPA Ivana Wilson FWR Sonja Witte Verband Kommunaler Unternehmen e.V. (VKU) Monika Zabrzeñska- National Water Management Authority, Poland Chaterera Tony Zamparutti Milieu Nicole Zantkuijl Vewin Wanda Zevenboom Rijkswaterstaat Noordzee Michiel Zijp National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands Marta Zlatkova West Aegean River Basin Directorate Raffaella Zucaro Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria, Italy