31 July 2019
Members of the Mission Board for Adaptation to Climate Change, including Societal Transformation*
*official membership is subject to finalisation of internal procedures.
Title First Name Last Name Affiliation
(Chair) Ms
Connie Hedegaard Former European Commissioner for Climate Action
Prof. Jean-Pascale van Ypersele Université Catholique de Louvain
Prof. Daniela Jacob Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
Ms Ann Runnel Reverse Resources
Dr Asun Lera St. Clair Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
Mr Mathieu Cornieti Impact Investment
Prof. Mirela Holy VERN' University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Kevin O'Connor University College Dublin
Mr Mark Scicluna Bartoli Bank of Valletta
Mr Hein Pieper Dutch Water Authorities
Prof. Helena Freitas University of Coimbra
Prof. Johan Rockstrom Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Dr Jaroslav Mysiak Euro - Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC)
Prof. Virginia Murray Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England
Dr Per Espen Stoknes BI – Norwegian Business School
Members of the Mission Board for Cancer*
*official membership is subject to finalisation of internal procedures.
Title First Name Last Name Affiliation
(Chair) Prof.
Harald
zur HausenNobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008, Professor Emeritus, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg
Prof. Ruth Lydia Ladenstein St. Anna Children’s Hospital, Vienna
Prof. Martine Piccart Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels
Prof. Andres Metspalu Estonian Genome Centre, University of Tartu
Prof. Tomi Mäkelä HiLIFE, University of Helsinki
Prof. Christine Chomienne Institut National Du Cancer (INCa), Paris
Prof. Gualtiero Walter
Ricciardi Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Ms Fiona Godfrey European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), Luxembourg
Prof. Marcis Leja Institute of Clinical and Preventive
Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga
Prof. Regina Beets-Tan The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
Prof. Konrad Rydzynski Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz
Prof. Pedro Pita Barros Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon
Dr Serban Ghiorghiu AstraZeneca, Cambridge
Dr Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization (IARC- WHO), Lyon
Ms Anne Lise Ryel The Norwegian Cancer Society, Oslo
Members of the Mission Board for Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters*
*official membership is subject to finalisation of internal procedures.
Title First Name Last Name Affiliation
(Chair) Mr
Pascal Lamy Former Trade Commissioner and Director- General of the World Trade Organisation
Mr Sander DEFRUYT Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Ms Gesine MEISSNER Former Member of European Parliament and President of the EP Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA) (until 2 July 2019)
Ms Antidia CITORES Surfrider Foundation Europe
Prof. Lea KAUPPI Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Dr François GALGANI IFREMER
Dr Peter HEFFERNAN Marine Institute Ireland
Prof. Maria Cristina PEDICCHIO National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS Trieste)
Prof. Alan DEIDUN University of Malta
Mr Boyan SLAT The Ocean Clean-up
Ms Monika STANKIEWICZ Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) (until 31 July 2019)
Mr Tiago CUNHA Oceano Azul Foundation
Mr Valentin MOLDOVEANU CPMR Balkan and Black Sea Commission
Mr Darko MANAKOVSKI Global Development, Rare
Ms Lowri EVANS Former Director-General of DG Internal
Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW) in the European
Commission
Members of the Mission Board for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities*
*official membership is subject to finalisation of internal procedures.
Title First Name Last Name Affiliation
(Chair) Prof.
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz Former Mayor of Warsaw
Mr Martin Russ AustriaTech - Federal Agency for
Technological Measures Ltd
Mr Chrysses Nicolaides CNE Business Development Ltd
Prof. Barbara Lenz Institute of Transport Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR),
Dr Katrine Krogh Andersen Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Ms Anne Sulling Former Estonian Minister of Foreign Trade and Entrepreneurship and Member of Parliament of Estonia
Ms Maria Vassilakou Former Vice-Mayor and Executive City Councillor of the City of Vienna
Prof. Julio Lumbreras Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Mr Emmanuel Forest Bouygues SA
Ms Anna Lisa Boni Eurocities
Prof. Paulo Ferrao University of Lisbon - former President of FCT - National Science and Technology Foundation
Mr Joakim Reiter Vodafone Group
Mr Allan Larsson Former Director General of the European Commission for employment and social affairs, former Swedish Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance
Dr Romana Jordan Jožef Stefan Institute
Prof. Bertrand Piccard Solar Impulse Foundation
Members of the Mission Board for Soil Health and Food*
*official membership is subject to finalisation of internal procedures.
Title First Name Last Name Affiliation
(Chair) Mr
Cees Veerman Former Dutch Agriculture Minister
Mr Alfred Grand VERMIGRAND Naturprodukte GmbH
Dr Emile Antoine Frison International Panel of Experts on
Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and Bioversity International
Prof. Lachezar Hristov
Filchev Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (SRTI- BAS)
Prof. Emil Cienciala Institute of Forest Ecosystem IFER Ltd.
and Global Change Research Institute (GCRI), CAS
Prof. Reiner Wittkowski Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
Dr Carmen Vela Eurofins Technology - INGENASA
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Prof. Borbala Biro Szent Istvan University (SZIU)
Dr Catia Bastioli Novamont S.p.A.
Dr Zita Kriaučiūnienė Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy (VMU)
Prof. Johan Bouma Wageningen University and Research (WUR)
Prof. Marta Pogrzeba Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU)
Prof. Teresa Pinto Correia University of Évora and Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (ICAAM)
Prof. Bridget Emmett Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH)
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