Views from the LAMASUS Policy Board

The LAMASUS Policy Advisory Board met during the LAMASUS General Assembly meeting on November 28-29, 2023. The Policy Advisory Board provided guidance and feedback for key project achievements. A summary is available here.

LAMASUS Policy Advisory Board member Tassos Haniotis discusses the importance of setting a credible baseline for EU agriculture policy

For the assessment of commodity markets and the green transition, providing a reliable baseline of EU agriculture is essential. There is a need to incorporate food inflation, energy shifts, Ukraine and recent CAP changes in such a baseline.

LAMASUS Policy Advisory Board member Tassos Haniotis was awarded the EAAE fellowship

LAMASUS Policy Advisory Board member Tassos Haniotis, awarded the EAAE fellowship at the EAAE Congress in RENNES in recognition of his relevant and continuous contribution to the advancement of agricultural economics

LAMASUS Policy Board Meeting June 2023

LAMASUS Policy Advisory Board meeting, June, 2023. The Policy Advisory Board provided guidance and feedback for key project achievements. A summary is available here.

Policy Advisory Board

The LAMASUS Policy Advisory Board (PAB) gathers EU-level policy makers and agencies. PAB members provide updates on the evolution of the policy context, advise the Consortium to maximize the policy relevance of project outputs, and provide feedback on the policy options considered, the LAMASUS Portal, and project results.

PAB members are providing their feedback during the two-day annual consortium meetings and will also meet online once a year to provide feedback on specific project output.

Summary of first Policy Advisory Board meeting

Views from Policy Advisory Board - Nov 2023

Dr. Annemarie Bastrup Birk

Forest Expert European Environment Agency (EEA)

Dr. Nicola Di Virgilio

Policy Officer, European commission Directorate-General Agriculture and rural Development Unit AGRI.B.2 Environmental Sustainability

Dr. Andreas Gumbert

Policy Officer, European Commission Directorate-General Environment, Directorate D – Biodiversity, Unit D.2 – Natural Capital & Ecosystem Health

Dr. Andrea Hagyo

Expert – Agriculture and Agro-Ecological Systems, Biodiversity, Health and Resources Programme, European Environment Agency (EEA)

Dr. Tassos Haniotis

Director of Strategy Simplification and Policy Analysis, Directorate-General for Agriculture, European Commission; Guest senior research scholar at IIASA

Dr. Olaf Heidelbach

Economic and Policy analyst European commission, Directorate-General Agriculture and Rural Development

Dr. Simon Kay

Deputy Head, European Commission, Directorate-General Climate Action, Unit C3: Low Carbon Solutions (III): Land Economy & Carbon Removals

Dr. Joachim Maes

Policy Analyst European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, REGIO.B.1 – Policy Development and Economic Analysis Unit

Prof. Alan Matthews (Emeritus)

European Agricultural Policy, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Dr. Nicolas Robert

Expert bioeconomy and Forest, European Environment Agency

Dr. Johannes Schuler

Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General Climate Action

Jurij Krajcic

Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General for Climate Action