Heads of Department

Martin Adams is Head of Environment at the EEA. He is responsible for the strategic development and operational activities of the Agency across three work areas of the EEA Eionet Strategy namely biodiversity and ecosystems, human health and the environment, and circular economy and resource use. The general work of the programme covers a broad range of activities including support to EEA’s member countries and the European Commission with data flows and regular reporting, indicators, environmental assessments, and networking activities towards the EEA’s key stakeholders.

He holds a BSc honours degree (1995) and a PhD in Chemistry (1999) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Martin has more than 20 years professional experience working on environment and climate issues, and has worked at the EEA since 2007 in several expert and management roles. Prior to joining the EEA, he worked in consultancy across specific environment, health and climate mitigation topics for organisations including European national governments and agencies, and EU institutions.

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Eva Jensen is Head of Climate at the EEA. She is responsible for the strategic development of the Agency's work in the areas of climate change mitigation and adaptation, land use change and forestry, as well as the cross-cutting themes on energy and transport. The work of the CET programme covers data flows, indicators, regular reporting and assessment activities.

She has an MSc in economics and management from the University of Copenhagen. Before joining the EEA, she worked as Director of Secretariat for the Danish Council on Climate Change, Head of Cabinet and Deputy Head of Cabinet for the European Commissioner for Climate action, the European Commission, and as Head of Department and Special Advisor at the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy, the Danish Ministry of Environment, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Energy Agency. She has 20 years of professional experience in climate and energy issues.

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Riyong Kim is Head of Sustainability at the EEA.

The Programme activities include the five-year European state of the environment and outlook report (SOER). The work of the Programme covers sustainability challenges and responses including the many interdependencies between social, economic and environmental objectives in Europe and globally. Key foci include progress towards policy objectives and targets, drivers of change, foresight, system transitions, indicators, environmental accounting, environmental economics, sustainable finance, and urban sustainability.

Prior to joining the EEA, Riyong led the Programme on Decision Metrics and Finance at EIT Climate KIC. This work included developing a systems innovation approach to tackling short-termism and mainstreaming climate in financial markets in the EU. She has worked in environmental and climate policy closely with the UN Environment and UNFCCC, and before that, led the work on developing the methodology for identifying environmental and forest resources under the Living Standards Measurement Survey with the UN FAO, CIFOR, and World Bank PROFOR, and for the regional ENPI-FLEG program with IUCN.

Riyong has an interdisciplinary background, with a BA, and BSc. in Environmental Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia, a MSc in Agricultural Development (Forestry) and a PhD In Natural Resource Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She started her career working in international development and leading country programmes in Timor Leste and Aceh, Indonesia, and brings experience from the Brazilian Amazon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as EU and CEE countries.

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Katja Rosenbohm is Head of Communications at the EEA and is responsible for the EEA communication strategy and its implementation. She coordinates EEA strategic messages in order to contribute to political and public agendas. Katja ensures that EEA communication initiatives are fully integrated into the agendas of the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of Ministers. The programme is responsible for the tools and channels used to publish and communicate EEA findings and ensures that they are adapted to the way society creates and consumes information.

She was appointed Head of Programme in 2009. Katja holds a university degree in geophysics and has worked for more than 20 years within the environment and energy sectors on communications and public relations.

Before joining the EEA, she worked at the German Emissions Trading Authority – part of the German Environment Agency – where she built up and headed the Communications and Customer Services Section. Before that she worked for many years as a PR consultant on environment and energy issues focusing on Eastern European markets.

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Karl Hamilton is Head of Digital at EEA, where he provides strategic leadership for the agency’s information and communications technology, data management services, and digital transformation.  In this role, he oversees the management of the platforms and services underpinning reporting, core data flows and knowledge services for the work of EEA-Eionet and the evolution of these in line with EEA-Eionet’s digitalisation ambitions.  The programme also leads on EEA’s work on earth observation through provision of the Copernicus Land Data and In-Situ Services and supports their adoption towards environment, climate and sustainability goals.

With diverse experience as a technology leader, Karl has successfully driven business technology and digital transformation across both private and public sectors. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Computer Science from The Queen’s University of Belfast (2004), and a Master of Science (MSc) in Technology Management from The Open University (2020). Additionally, Karl is an experienced and certified Agile practitioner.

Before joining EEA, Karl served as the Head of Digital Change for the Digital Business Transformation Task Force at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). There, he led diverse teams in fostering innovation, implementing digital change management strategies, enhancing digital capabilities, and executing digital and data transformation projects related to the product lifecycle management of human and veterinary medicines. Karl's responsibilities at EMA also encompassed various aspects of IT, ranging from operations and infrastructure to managing software development teams and overseeing technology projects, including the ICT aspects of EMA's relocation to the Netherlands between 2017 and 2020. Karl's professional journey also includes roles at Microsoft, where he worked in software engineering  and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), where he engaged in software development and technology business management and capacity building projects.

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Søren Brostrup Nielsen is Head of Resources at the EEA. He is responsible for human resource management, budgeting and finance and resource management, accounting, legal matters (including procurement and grants) and facility management. He participates in the network of Heads of administration of EU Agencies and other inter-agency networks relevant to the ADS Programme.

He has an MSc in Economics and Business administration (Cand. Merc. Human Resource Management) from the Copenhagen Business School. He took up duties in the EEA in 2000 and has worked as a resource manager and later as Head of Group Finance, Budget and Resources. Prior to being employed at the EEA, he was Head of Section at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) at the Ministry of Environment and Energy in Copenhagen.

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