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Doctor Jos DELBEKE
Director, Directorate C for Air Quality, Climate Change, Chemicals & Biotechnology.

Dr. Jos Delbeke Commission, Environment DG, Directorate A - General and international matters, Climate Change Studies - Corporate Strategy Department Rue de la Loi 200 B-1049 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 2991111 Fax:+32 2 2969970 E-mail: Jos.Delbeke@cec.eu.int

Mr Jos Delbeke (1954, Belgium) holds a PhD in economics. He has been teaching at University of Louvain and at VLEKHO Business School in Brussels. In 1985, he was a temporary staff member at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, and joined the European Commission in 1986. In the Directorate General for Environment, he has been Head of Unit, responsible for economic and fiscal instruments and benefit-cost analysis in the field of the environment. Since 1999 he is heading the Climate Change Unit and he has been the chief negotiator for the European Commission at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties. He has been actively promoting the use of the Kyoto mechanisms at EU level. In 2002, he was the Head of the Task Force on the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. As of 1st February 2003 he is Director at Directorate C for Air Quality, Climate Change, Chemicals & Biotechnology.