Leena Ylä-Mononen has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA)
Ms. Ylä-Mononen, a Finnish national, was previously Director General at the Finnish Ministry of the Environment. Prior to this, she held a senior management position at the European Chemicals Agency, after working at the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Environment.
Ms. Ylä-Mononen’s appointment comes at a pivotal time for the EEA, its 38 member and cooperating countries and its Eionet network. She succeeds Hans Bruyninckx, who ended his second five-year term at the end of May.