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Speaker: Maria Jepsen, Deputy Director, Eurofound

Maria Jepsen was appointed Deputy Director at Eurofound in 2019. Prior to this, she was Director of the research department at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), and assistant professor and research fellow at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). She is currently also associate professor in labour economics at ULB and external lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). Her main research interests include gender studies, the impact of welfare states on labour supply, wages and working conditions, and more recently the European social dimension. Maria has also served as a coordinator on the European Commission tripartite advisory committee on health and safety at work. She holds a PhD in Economics and a Master’s degree in Econometrics from the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

Speaker: Jock Martin, Head of Coordination, Networks and Strategy, European Environment Agency

Jock Martin has worked at the European Environment Agency for 25 years and is currently Head of Coordination, Networking and Strategy programme where he is responsible for orchestrating stakeholder interactions, networks and partnership and steering future developments under the EEA-Eionet Strategy 2030. Since joining the EEA, he has been strongly involved in delivering outcomes across the knowledge chain from monitoring and reporting to data and indicators, to integrated assessments and what they mean for policy. In particular, he has authored and coordinated several EEA integrated assessment reports including several five year European state of the environment and outlook (SOER) reports. SOER 2020 helped frame the European Green Deal and 8th Environmental Action Programme objectives, while previous SOERs have informed environmental sustainability priorities of EU research programmes and the objectives of previous EU Environmental Action Programmes.

Moderator: Mary McCaughey, Head of Information and Communication, Eurofound

Mary is Head of Information and Communication in Eurofound. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and the College of Europe, Bruges, she started work in Brussels with Europolitics and the Wall Street Journal Europe. She worked with the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) in South Africa during the country’s transition to democracy, and in 1998 she took up the post of spokesperson with the Delegation of the European Union in Pretoria, heading up its press and information department during the negotiation of the EU–South Africa free trade agreement. Following the end of the Kosovo War, she worked as a communications consultant for the European Agency for Reconstruction in Serbia. She took up the post of Editor-in-Chief in Eurofound in 2003.