Patrick is the Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau, since July 2022. He provides political leadership across all the organisation’s policy areas, oversees the daily management and fundraising of the organisation and supervises the staff.
Patrick also represents the EEB and its member organisations vis-à-vis the EU institutions and in other relevant fora; currently a member of a range of high-level groups, including the Fit for Future Platform, Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform, the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, the Industrial Forum, the Chemicals Sustainability roundtable and the EU Biodiversity Platform.
Prior to the EEB, he was the Director of IEEP-Brussels and head of its Green Economy Programme.
He has published widely, with books on environmental harmful subsidies, on the multiple values of nature and on voluntary environmental agreements, and articles on better regulation, the benefits of EU law, sustainable development, biodiversity policy, transport policy, marine litter, ecological tax reform, green economy, eco-industries and environmental employment, the costs of climate mitigation and EU enlargement.
Patrick is German and speaks English, French, German and Spanish.