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Dr. Artur RUNGE-METZGER
European Commission, DG Environment, Belgium

Dr. Artur Runge-Metzger European Commission, DG Environment Directorate C: Air&Chemicals, C2. Climate, Ozone & Energy Bruxells 1049 Belgium Tel: +32 2 295 6898 E-mail: artur.runge-metzger@cec.eu.int

Artur Runge-Metzger, Head of Unit ‘Climate, Ozone and Energy', DG Environment of the European Commission. He holds a doctoral degree in agricultural economics. He started his professional career at the University of Göttingen , Germany in 1985. His main scientific topics were natural resources economics and development economics, which included extensive field research in West Africa . He joined the European Commission in 1993, starting his career in the EC Delegation in Zimbabwe where he was responsible for the bilateral co-operation covering agricultural policies, rural development and the environment. From the end of 1997, he worked for four years in DG Development and DG Environment in Brussels on a wide range of environmental issues, particularly climate change. At the end of 2001, he was appointed Head of Operations in the EC Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina . He took up his position as Head of the Climate, Ozone and Energy Unit on 1 September 2003 .