{"id":111027,"date":"2023-06-06T04:05:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T02:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/?post_type=eeb-staff&#038;p=111027"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:20:50","slug":"faustine-bas-defossez","status":"publish","type":"eeb-staff","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/eeb-staff\/faustine-bas-defossez\/","title":{"rendered":"Faustine Bas-Defossez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faustine Bas-Defossez is EEB\u2019s Director for Nature, Health and Environment .<br \/>\nA French national with far-off German origins, Faustine is a true European. With more than fifteen years of professional experience in EU environmental policy, she is a true environmentalist.<br \/>\nAs Director for Nature, Health and Environment, she leads a large policy portfolio of the organisation: namely biodiversity, water, soil; agriculture and food; chemicals; mercury and air quality and noise and she is part of the senior management team.<br \/>\nBetween 2009 and 2018 she was leading the agriculture work of the EEB. Before re-joining the civil society movement, she spent 5 years in leading roles within the sustainability think tanks\u2019 community, as Head of the agriculture and land management program first and then External Impact Director.<br \/>\nAt the beginning of her career she also worked for the European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.<br \/>\nFaustine has a master\u2019s degree in International and European Law and holds a MSc in European politics from Science Po Strasbourg.<br \/>\nShe speaks French and English and a bit of German.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":113198,"template":"","staff-divisions":[865,846,836],"class_list":["post-111027","eeb-staff","type-eeb-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff-divisions-all","staff-divisions-european-institutions-governance","staff-divisions-senior-management-team-executive-coordinator"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eeb-staff\/111027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eeb-staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eeb-staff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eeb-staff\/111027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"staff-divisions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-divisions?post=111027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}