Speaker profile
Axel Singhofen
Since 2001, Axel has been working for the Greens/European Free Alliance in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament as their Advisor on Environment Policy. He drafts and coordinates the political and legislative work of the Greens/European Free Alliance concerning chemicals and waste policies. As such, during the last 25 years, he has actively participated in the legislative procedures of almost all files in the area of chemicals and waste policies, including the preparation and adoption of REACH.
From 1996 - 2000, he was the EU Toxics Advisor for Greenpeace International in the European Unit in Brussels. He was in charge of the political work with the EU institutions in the area of waste and chemicals policy and represented Greenpeace at UN, OECD, EU and Member State level.
MA in Biology, he has worked as a Scientific Manager at the "Society for the Promotion of LCA Development" (SPOLD) in Brussels (1995) to develop a European common format for life-cycle inventory data.