Mr Andras KROLOPP
Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
Andras Krolopp is covering European governmental relations supporting TNC’s policy, conservation and public funding priorities, including both work in Europe, and globally, focusing on the CBD, EU Biodiversity Strategy, Freshwater related issues and biodiversity finance.
Prior joining TNC, Andras was working for IUCN (Brussels) first as Deputy Head for the Countdown 2010 Initiative, later as Senior Policy Advisor covering EU biodiversity and regional policies. He was also seconded to the Hungarian and Belgian Governments during their EU presidencies and covered Biodiversity Finance in preparations and during CBD COP in 2010.
Previously he has worked with the GEF Secretariat , being the Central and East-European NGO representative to the Council. He also worked on several NBSAP processes and contributed to the design of various GEF projects.
Andras has an MSc in Environmental Management and degrees in Biology and Geography.