Speakers

Ms Bartels has been working on financial instruments for SMEs and related policies since 2011. Prior to that, she worked in the area of chemicals legislation, where she was instrumental to setting up the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki. Before joining the Commission in 2002, she was a consultant for Bain & Company and also a corporate client relationship manager at Deutsche Bank. She holds a Vordiplom in economics from the University of Hagen and obtained an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Kenan Flager Business School, USA.

Yves is an agronomist and economist. He was senior advisor to the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development during the last CAP reform. Before that Yves worked in the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food in Paris and advised food companies and governments in London, Brussels, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. He has an in-depth knowledge of international negotiations, agriculture and food policies.

Dr. Philip Lyons is the global manager of aquaculture research for Alltech. In this role, he develops, coordinates and executes the company’s global aquaculture research program from Alltech’s European Headquarters in Dunboyne, Ireland. He previously served as a nutritional researcher on the research and development team at Alltech Coppens in The Netherlands, before assuming responsibility for all aquaculture research projects within Alltech globally. Lyons holds a bachelor’s degree in applied freshwater and marine biology from the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Ireland, and both master’s and doctoral degrees in fish nutrition from the University of Stirling in Scotland. His doctoral research focused on the impact of dietary factors on the structure and function of the intestinal microbiome of farmed salmonids. He is also passionate about education and is responsible for Alltech’s link to academia through the supervision of multiple undergraduate and postgraduate research projects in industry-applied topics within the field of fish nutrition.

Fabrizio Fabbri holds a higher education diploma in Agriculture and Forestry and a university degree in Natural Sciences. He has 28 years’ experience in environmental sciences and policies and has extensive knowledge of the European Institutions having served as Environment Attaché of the Italian Permanent Representation to the EU and as Environment Policy Adviser with a political group of the European Parliament. During his mandates, he took part in, among others, the revision of Directive 2009/128/EC on the safe use of pesticides, Regulation 2018/848 on organic farming and Regulation 2018/841 on in-land use, land use change and forestry. He has authored six books on environmental issues and has written several position papers and documents including on biotechnologies and nanotechnologies.

Gaëlle MARION is the Head of Unit for Environmental Sustainability in the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission. Before that, she was the Head of Unit for Conception and consistency of rural development. She has been involved in the development of the Common Agricultural Policy since 2007, both on rural development and farm income support, and horizontal aspects such as governance, delivery models and networking. Her past career as Secretary General of Euromontana, a European association for the development of mountain areas, gave her in-depth expertise on territorial challenges, local development and interlinks between agriculture and the environment. She is an agro-economist from Agro-ParisTech (1993), France.

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