Bas Eickhout

Bas Eickhout (1976, Groesbeek), is a Member of the European Parliament voor GroenLinks, the Dutch Greens. He is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the United States.

Eickhout studied Chemistry and Environmental Science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and lives in Utrecht. Since 2000 he worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving). He worked on several projects which had to do with international environmental problems, such as climate change, agriculature, land-use and biofuels. He co-authored the IPCC report on climate change which received the 2007 Nobel Peace Price.

In 2004 and 2009 he co-authored the GroenLinks election program for the European elections. Since 2009, he is part of the Program Committee for the National Parliamentary elections. For the past 5 years he has been a member of the GroenLinks delegation to the European Green Party.

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