Jouni Nissinen

Jouni Nissinen is the President, European Environmental Bureau.

Jouni is the Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, the largest EEB member in Finland. He has been an EEB Board member since 2008, Vice President since 2012 and EEB President since 2016. Jouni has experience of working on all of the most pressing environmental issues in Finland and the Arctic, most notably Agenda 2030 and sustainable development, and mining and waste. On an international level, he follows the UN discussions on the environmental pillar of Agenda 2030, and is the Western European civil society regional representative to UNEP. Jouni holds a Master degree in Environmental Science and Policy.

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