Our People

IEEP staff includes lawyers and natural and social scientists with experience in several European countries. Our European outlook is reflected in the variety of our backgrounds and languages spoken. We currently have staff from more than a dozen nationalities.

Directors

  • David Baldock

    Executive Director

    +44 (0)20 7340 2670

    Specialist subjects:
    Agriculture and the environment, Integration of the environment into other policies, European strategies and global aspects of EU policy

  • Patrick ten Brink

    Senior Fellow and Head of Brussels office

    +32 (0) 2738 7474

    Specialist subjects:
    Valuing nature, environmental economics and benefits assessments, market based instruments and subsidy reform, voluntary agreements, beyond GDP indicators, climate change and transport

  • Andrew Farmer

    Director of Research and Head of Industry, Waste and Water Programme

    +44 (0)20 7340 2673

    Specialist subjects:
    water, pollution control and effects of pollution, marine, enlargement

  • Claire Froomberg

    Head of Finance & Operations

    +44 (0)20 7340 2676

Researchers

  • Kaley Hart

    Senior Fellow and Head of Agriculture and Land Management Programme

    +44 (0)20 7340 2681

    Specialist subjects:
    CAP reform and EU rural development policy, agri-environment policy

  • Ben Allen

    Policy Analyst, Agriculture and Land Management

    +44(0)20 7340 2682

    Specialist subjects:
    land use, land management, agri-environment policy, CAP reform

  • Clunie Keenleyside

    Research Fellow

    +44 (0)12 4871 6935

    Specialist subjects:
    European agricultural, environmental and rural development policy

  • Hetty Menadue

    Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2632

  • Jana Polakova

    Senior Policy Analyst

    + 32 (0) 2211 1095

    Specialist subjects:
    agriculture and rural development, CAP

  • Graham Tucker

    Senior Fellow and Head of Biodiversity Programme

    +44 (0)20 7340 2688

    Specialist subjects:
    biodiversity conservation policies and legislation, climate change and biodiversity adaptation

  • Sonja Gantioler

    Policy Analyst

    +32 (0) 2738 7478

    Specialist subjects:
    forestry and woodland, nature conservation and biodiversity, ecosystem services and the value of biodiversity, biodiversity policy, biodiversity and transport, biodiversity and business

  • Marianne Kettunen

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +358 40 4854844

    Specialist subjects:
    nature conservation and biodiversity, invasive alien species, ecosystem services and the value of biodiversity, biodiversity and the EU budget

  • A.J. McConville

    Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 0927

    Specialist subjects:
    economics of biodiversity, sustainable rural development

  • Pernille Schiellerup

    Senior Policy Analyst and Head of Climate Change and Energy programme

    +32 (0) 2738 7470

  • Catherine Bowyer

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2671

    Specialist subjects:
    EU institutional development, environmental assessment and evaluation, waste, climate change

  • Jane Desbarats

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2623

    Specialist subjects:
    monitoring, reporting and verification; greenhouse gas baseline methodologies; greenhouse gas emissions inventories; design and implementation of climate change and energy policy

  • Bettina Kretschmer

    Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2683

    Specialist subjects:
    biofuels, bioenergy

  • Samuela Bassi

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2685

    Specialist subjects:
    market based instruments, valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, sustainability indicators, energy and climate policy, industrial pollution and eco-innovation

  • Leonardo Mazza

    Policy Analyst

    +32 (0) 2738 7477

    Specialist subjects:
    biodiversity and nature conservation, environmental economics, environmental policy integration, environmental assessment and evaluation

  • Indrani Lutchman

    Senior Fellow and Head of Fisheries Programme

    +44 (0)20 7340 2684

    Specialist subjects:
    fisheries, fisheries management, implementation of multilateral environmental agreements

  • Stephanie Newman

    Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 0928

    Specialist subjects:
    fisheries management, marine conservation

  • Axel Volkery

    Senior Policy Analyst and Head of Environmental Governance Programme

    +32 (0) 2211 1090

    Specialist subjects:
    environmental governance, policy effectiveness, impact assessment, strategy and scenario development

  • Kristof Geeraerts

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +32 (0) 2738 7473

    Specialist subjects:
    institutional and strategic EU developments, environmental governance, transposition and implementation of EU directives, environmental liability directive

  • Peter Hjerp

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2679

    Specialist subjects:
    environmental assessments and evaluations, environmental policy integration, land use planning, urban environment, chemicals

  • Keti Medarova-Bergstrom

    Policy Analyst

    +32 (0) 2738 7479

    Specialist subjects:
    cohesion policy, environmental governance and EU institutional developments

  • Sirini Withana

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2672

    Specialist subjects:
    EU institutional developments, environmental governance, European strategies

  • Marc Pallemaerts

    Senior Fellow and Head of Global Issues and External Action Programme

    +32 (0) 2738 7471

    Specialist subjects:
    environmental law and governance, public participation, climate change, chemicals and the EU's role in global environmental policy

  • Victoria Cherrier

    Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2689

  • Doreen Fedrigo-Fazio

    Senior Policy Analyst

    +32 (0) 2738 7489

    Specialist subjects:
    environmental governance, natural resources, products and waste policies

  • Emma Watkins

    Policy Analyst

    +44 (0)20 7340 2686

    Specialist subjects:
    waste, sustainable consumption and production, industrial pollution, air pollution

  • Camilla Adelle

    Policy Analyst, IEEP Associate

    +44 (0)20 7340 2674

    Specialist subjects:
    EU environmental governance, impact assessment, environmental policy integration, and the EU’s role in global sustainable development

  • Olivia Bina

    IEEP Associate

  • Chris Clarke

    IEEP Associate

  • Clare Coffey

    IEEP Associate

    Specialist subjects:
    Strengthening local civil society, good governance (information, participation, access to justice, human rights), public policy advocacy, programme and project development, expert and process training and facilitation.

  • Janet Dwyer

    IEEP Associate

  • Nigel Haigh

    Honorary Fellow

  • Martina Herodes

    IEEP Associate

  • Liz Mills

    IEEP Associate

  • Clare Shine

    IEEP Associate

  • Ian Skinner

    IEEP Associate

    Specialist subjects:
    European and national transport policy and the environment, greening transport taxation

Operations

  • Annie Glynn

    Front of House Administrator, London Office.

    +44 (0)20 7799 2244

  • Nicola Jégat

    Accounts and Administrative Assistant

    +44 (0)20 7340 0933

  • Jens Lindblad

    Finance & IT Manager

    +44 (0)20 7340 2678

  • Sandra Mootoosamy

    Senior Administrative Officer, Brussels office.

    +32 (0) 2738 7482

  • Kathryn Parrott

    Personal Assistant to Director

    +44 (0)20 7340 2670