Landscape ecologist from Waganingen University and Research Center (the Netherlands) with long practical and research experience in river ecology, nature conservation planning and biodiversity monitoring, project management and programme development
Graduated from Wageningen University in 1993, Msc at Radboud University in 1974.
Former treasurer of the International Association for Landscape Ecology and organizer its World Congress in 2007.
Head of the team on biodiversity and policy and designer of Ecological Networks for Europe.