Jeff Huntington
Senior Adviser
EEA
France
Biography
Jeff Huntington is Senior Adviser at the European Environment Agency (EEA) placed in the Executive Director's Office (EDO). He has an MA honours degree in Engineering from Cambridge University (UK), and, following a move to Denmark in 1973, a Masters degree in Environmental Planning from Roskilde University (DK). He has worked in the Danish Ministry of the Environment (1979-88) and for Scandinavian Airlines System as an environment consultant (1988-1993). From 1993-96 he was Counsellor for the Environment at the Danish Permanent Representation to the EU. This was followed by three years as Member of the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for the Environment. Since 2000 he has been employed at the EEA in a broad range of functions. From 2004-2009 he was Head of Programme: initially of the Corporate Affairs Programme, and subsequently of the Environmental Assessment Programme and the Air and Climate Change Programme. 2010-11 he headed the Eye on Earth Group in the SEIS Support Programme.
Research Interest
Air and Climate Change Programme.