Christian Holzleitner
Christian Holzleitner is currently Head of Unit responsible for Land economy and Carbon removals at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action. Previously, he worked as Head of Unit for Finance for Innovation and Land Use and assistant to the Director-General for Climate Action covering all issues related to EU and international climate policy; and at the Directorate-General for Competition in the area of State aid for services of general economic interest in the postal, transport, and health sectors.
Before joining the European Commission, Christian worked as senior manager with KPMG Germany on international transfer pricing.
Christian is an economist and holds a PhD from the University of Linz (Austria).
Doris Wydra
Doris Wydra is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, University of Salzburg, where she also served as Executive Director. Her research spans EU politics, external relations, and neighbourhood policy, with a particular focus on the Western Balkans. She has contributed to major international projects on contestation and EU enlargement and previously worked in Ukraine and Russia. In addition to her work on democracy, illiberalism, and contested EU actorness, she investigates the evolving landscape of EU forest-policy instruments and the political struggles that shape their meaning, uptake, and implementation.
Sarah Adams
Sarah Adams leads communication and dissemination activities for EFI’s Mediterranean and Genetics Resources Facilities. A former NGO project manager, she had broad experience in international development and marine conservation, before joining EFI where she has been leading communications activities for over 12 years.
Sarah has led and shaped EFI's network communications for the Mediterranean region and has been involved in many European-scale multidisciplinary projects. She joined the EUFORGEN Secretariat in July 2022 and develops strategies for dissemination and communications for the Secretariat and its affiliated projects. She has a postgraduate degree in secondary education from Exeter University and a bachelor's degree in modern languages and literature from the University of Birmingham.
Helga Pülzl
Helga Pülzl is Assistant Director for Policy Support of the European Forest Institute and responsible for the Policy Support Facility and its Trust Fund. Her main research interests are in European and international forest governance and policy change, bioeconomy perceptions and sustainability indicators development. She coordinates the IUFRO Working Party 9.05.01 on bioeconomy policy and holds a Phd and master’s degree in political science from the University of Vienna.