Patrick
TEN BRINK

Patrick is the Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau, since July 2022, and before that EU Policy Director. He provides political leadership across all the organisation’s policy areas, oversees the daily management and fundraising of the association and supervises the staff. Patrick also represents the EEB and its member organisations vis-à-vis the EU institutions and in other relevant fora, including at the Informal Meetings of Environmental. Prior to the EEB, he was the Director of IEEP-Brussels and head of its Green Economy Programme. He has published widely, with books on environmental harmful subsidies, the multiple values of nature, and on voluntary environmental agreements, as well as articles on better regulation, the benefits of EU law, sustainable development, biodiversity policy, transport policy, marine litter, ecological tax reform, green economy, eco-industries and environmental employment, the costs of climate mitigation and EU enlargement.

Patrick is German and speaks English, French, German and Spanish.