Karl Kienzl

Deputy Managing Director, EAA - Environment Agency Austria

Karl Kienzl has a PhD in natural sciences studiing Ecology, Zoology and Psychology  at the Institutes of Zoology and at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Vienna in Austria.
Between 1983 and 1985 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Environment Hygiene of the Medical Faculty, at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Vienna. He joined the Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt GmbH) in 1989 and is its Deputy Managing Director since 2002. In 1994 Karl Kienzl was posted to the European Commission’s DG Environment in Brussels as EFTA-Civil Servant at the Department of Biotechnolgy. Karl Kienzl acts as Environment Adviser to the Austrian Parliament and is also a Board Member of BIOS-Science Austria. In addition to this, he is a member of Bioeconomy Austria, the Austrian  European Forum on Research and the Forum of Scientists for Environment Protection.