Brussels, 23 April 2024
On 23 April, the European Commission has appointed Jan Dusik as Deputy Director-General ‘Innovation, adaptation and resilience, stakeholder relations’ at the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA). The main mission of this Commission department is to support the Commission’s efforts to fight climate change at the level of both the EU and internationally. The date of effect will be determined later.
Mr Dusik, a Czech national, has an extensive professional experience of almost 30 years in the area of climate action. Throughout his remarkably extensive involvement in climate issues, he has a substantial track-record of negotiations at senior level, demonstrated solid leadership capacity along with the ability of conceiving innovative solutions in the face of complex policy challenges. Moreover, his involvement in wide-ranging activities both at the national and European level, combined with his excellent communication skills have allowed him to build a broad variety of trusted relationships with a plethora of actors and stakeholders across EU and international institutions, authorities and organisations which will serve him well in his new capacity.
Jan Dusik, a Czech national, has a remarkably long career stint in the Czech Ministry of Environment, where he has had various responsibilities, including the accession negotiations and then EU relations in the environmental sector. Among others, he has successfully coordinated Czechia’s climate diplomacy activities during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2022 and also led ministerial negotiations during COP27 on behalf of the EU. Mr Dusik is also a Senior Member of the Arctic programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In earlier stages of his career, he worked as Deputy Minister for climate protection at the Czech Ministry of Environment, as Principal Adviser on strategic engagement for the Arctic and Antarctic at the United Nations Environment Programme and as Regional Director and Regional representative for Europe at the UN Environment programme in Geneva, Switzerland.
Source – EU Commission