Board
The Board, consisting of minimum eight and maximum 12 individuals, is the highest decision-making body under the General Assembly. It normally meets at least four times a year. The Board is in charge of preparing the meetings of the General Assembly, strategic planning and overseeing the operational aspects of the organisation. All Board members are also automatically members of the EEB Council. Board meetings are chaired by the EEB President.
Toni Vidan
EEB President
Toni Vidan has been the President of the EEB since 2024.
Long term sustainable energy campaigner from Zagreb, Croatia. President of the Zelena akcija – FoE Croatia (1995 – 2000), first coordinator of the national network of environmental CSOs Zeleni forum. During career, active in Climate action network, Friends of the Earth, and INforSE. Initiated and coordinated the project "Solar Academy for South-east Europe" (2002.-2020.), the educational centre on the island Šolta. From 2013 till 2020 member of the European Economic and Social Committee. Since 2020, active as independent expert and trainer, primarily in the Western Balkan region on the topic of green transition, and currently representing the City of Zagreb in the Board of the regional energy and climate agency REGEA.
CROATIA
Stefan SCHEUER
EEB Treasurer
Stefan Scheuer leads EU policy advocacy for CHEM Trust, a European member of the EEB, and represents civil society at the European Chemicals Agency.
Stefan has been shaping EU environmental policies for the last 25 years. He headed the Coalition for Energy Savings to make it a climate priority and lead the EEB’s campaigns for the Water Framework Directive and the REACH regulation.
EUROPEAN MEMBER ORGANISATION
Andriy ANDRUSEVYCH
EEB Vice President
Andriy Andrusevych is Senior Policy Expert at Resource & Analysis Center “Society and Environment”, an environmental think-tank organization in Ukraine. program of the Ukrainian Catholic University Law School. Mr. Andrusevych has many years of experience working with environmental public interest law organizations. Mr. Andrusevych is active member of the coordination body of the European ECO Forum, a coalition of environmental NGOs from all parts of Eurasia and delegation member for the Aarhus and Espoo Conventions, and SEA Protocol bodies. He has served for many years as European ECO Forum Legal Focal Point for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and has extensive experience in promoting implementation of and compliance with multilateral environmental agreements, especially the Aarhus and Espoo Conventions. He authored several publications in the area of environmental human rights, international environmental law and compliance mechanisms under multilateral environmental agreements. In recent years he has focused on Ukraine’s implementation of the EU environmental and climate acquis.
UKRAINE
Pegah MOULANA
EEB Vice President
Pegah Moulana is a 28 years old British-Iranian, currently working as the Secretary General of Youth and Environment Europe (YEE).
Pegah is the current Committee of Ministers Recommendation paper on Climate Crisis and young people rapporteur at the Youth Department of Council of Europe and has been the founding portfolio lead on climate crisis and young people at Council of Europe. She has been the chairperson of European Youth Foundation from 2019 to 2021, tasked with supporting youth led organisations across Europe to receive monetary assistance in running youth led, non-formal education centric programmes across Europe.
EUROPEAN MEMBER ORGANISATION
Anke STOCK
EEB Vice President
Dr Anke Stock is a lawyer and board member of WECF, a European and international network of over 250 women’s and civil society organisations working on transformative gender equality and women’s human rights in interconnection with climate justice, sustainable energy and chemicals, safe water and sanitation for all. Anke is working on gender mainstreaming environmental projects and programmes within WECF’s network and beyond and is advocating for gender equality within multilateral environmental agreements and the European Green Deal.
EUROPEAN MEMBER ORGANISATION
Bernhard ZLANABITNIG
EEB Vice President
Bernhard Zlanabitnig is of Austrian origin, living and working in Vienna. He holds an M.A. in law from the University of Vienna and 2 post-graduate degrees, M.Sc. in humanitarian management & logistics from the University of Lugano and M.A.S. in renewable energy systems from the Technical University of Vienna.
He is Director of the EU-Umweltbüro in Vienna and Vice-President of the EEB. He is also Steering Group member of SDG Watch Austria and SDG Watch Europe.
AUSTRIA
Nuria BLAZQUEZ
EEB Board Member
Nuria Blázquez is a biologist and Ms of protected area management. She is the head of international affairs of Ecologistas en Acción, a Spanish grassroots confederation of over 300 environmental groups working in biodiversity, energy, transportation, agroecology, water, air quality, ecofeminism, and mining, among other environmental issues. She conducts EU-related activities and assists local organisations facing serious consequences in their areas in raising their voice in Europe.
SPAIN
Karima HAMMOUCHE
EEB Board member
Karima Hammouche is a lawyer and a member of the Luxembourg Bar and a founding partner of the law firm “Etude Hammouche, Avocats à la Cour ”.
She specialises in national and international litigation, with a particular focus on environmental disputes.
She is very active in the environmental field. She advices Natur&Ëmwelt ONG which works for the preservation of the biodiversity in a diverse and cultural landscape through awareness raising advice, practical, scientific and political actions. She has been appointed expert of the Luxembourg Bar in the CCBE (Council of European Bars) Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility and Comittee on Environment and Climate Change. She is editor-in-chief of the legal review "Jurisnews Droit de l'Environnement".
Also, she is a regular lecturer in the Council of Europe's HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) programme on environment and human rights
LUXEMBOURG
Ivana MALEŠ
EEB Board member
Ivana Maleš is an environmentalist and the co-founder of the Institute of Circular Economy in Slovakia, which was established in 2016. Since its foundation, she has been working on the topic of circular economy, especially in the area of policy making and on circular economy in local governments.
In addition to her professional activities, she is also active in the development of the organisation.
SLOVAKIA
Andre PRESCHER-SPIRIDON
EEB Board member
André Prescher-Spiridon is an environmental planner, originally from Munich, now living in Brussels. He is currently coordinating the EU policy work of BUND e.V. (Friends of the Earth Germany) from their EU office in the European capital. André is working mainly on biodiversity and climate files and is leading BUND’s advocacy work in Brussels in this context.
GERMANY
Arnaud SCHWARTZ
EEB Board member
Arnaud Schwartz is an organic farmer and board member of France Nature Environnement. FNE is the umbrella organisation of French nature conservation and environmental protection associations. Arnaud has also been FNE’s president (2020-2023) and is representing the French federation in the European Economic and Social Committee since 2017, mainly working on environmental law implementation, biodiversity, climate and agriculture related issues.
FRANCE
Attracta UI BHROIN
EEB Board member
Attracta Uí Bhroin, is Manager and Law Officer of Environmental Law Ireland - an initiative concerned with the protection of the environment through improved transposition, implementation and development in the law. She engages at national, EU, UNECE and at times at UN levels. This initiative was up previously hosted by the IEN, the coalition of national eNGOs in Ireland, where Attracta was IEN's Law Officer. It is now hosted by An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland.
Attracta works across sectors, but has a particular focus on environmental democracy and the intersection with Human Rights, and also on the intersection of Trade with sustainability and Human Rights concerns. Prior to her move into the environmental sector, she had many years of experience of working in business at the most senior executive levels, as a Senior Management Consultant specialising in Strategic Investment Management and Business Benefits Realisation, and before that as a Systems Engineer, and has worked in the UK, the USA and Canada, as well as Ireland.
She has a Masters in Economics, and a BA in English Language and Literature, and Political Economics, and an Advanced Diploma in Planning and Environmental Law from the Kings Inns. Attracta served as a Vice President of the EEB for multiple terms and is active in its new Council structure. She is also an active member of the EEB’s law group, and assisted in the founding and establishment of EEB's Economic Transition Working Group.
IRELAND
