SPEAKERS

Mr. Dietmar Müller-Grabherr
Mr. Dietmar Müller-Grabherr
General Secretary to Common Forum on Contaminated Land in Europe and International Committee on Contaminated Land, Environment Agency, Austria

Contaminated Land Management towards 2030 – ambitions for change under the EU Green Deal.

Mr. Dietmar Müller-Grabherr works with Environment Agency Austria (EAA). National main responsibilities include supervising the national program, chairing the working group “Risk assessment of contaminated sites” at the Austrian Standards Institute, and acting as associated expert to the Austrian parliaments Commission on the Remediation of Contaminated Sites. By the background of his national function, he also defines and represents Austrian positions with regard to soil and groundwater related EU policies and international standardisation procedures regarding soil quality (ISO TC 190 and CEN TC 345). During the period from 1998 until 2014 he was regularly involved to European R&D activities (e.g. BRIDGE, EURODEMO, RISKBASE, TIMBRE) focused to land management and remediation. Since September 2017 he is General Secretary to COMMON FORUM on Contaminated Land in Europe (www.commonforum.eu) and ICCL (www.iccl.ch), the European and the global network of policy advisors and regulators in contaminated land management.