Bios Keynote Speakers > Bio Sybille van den Hove

Sybille van den Hove is Director of MEDIAN, a small research, teaching and consulting company, and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her background is high-energy physics and ecological economics.

Sybille's work focuses on environmental governance; science-policy interfaces; decision-making and policy formation under conditions of complexity; integration of natural and social sciences; environmental research strategies; and environmental strategies of corporations.

Today, she mainly works in the areas of biodiversity governance at international and EU levels, socioeconomic aspects of biodiversity change, nuclear governance in a post-Fukushima world, and corporate transformation towards sustainability. She has also worked in areas such as: climate change, radioactive waste management policies, and the EU chemical and pesticides policies.

She is chairing the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency.