Martin Rocholl

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ABOUT MARTIN ROCHOLL

Dr. Martin Rocholl is the Executive Director \'Country Programs\' and the Director of the Germany Program of the European Climate Foundation the start of ECF in 2008, he has been responsible for developing ECF\'s European strategies and building up its different programs. As director of the Germany program and the Transport program, he was the co-founder of the projects \"Agora and \"Agoara Verkehrswende\"(https://en.agora-verkehrswende.de/) and co-developed the German and European strategies on coal and renewables for ECF.Before joining ECF, Rocholl worked as a consultant on environmental and European policies and campaign strategies in Berlin, with a specialisation in EU climate and energy legislation.From 1998 to 2005 Rocholl worked in Brussels as the director of Friends of the Earth Europe, a network of environmental organisations in 30 European countries with more than local groups. He was the coordinator of the successful Ecological Tax Reform Campaign in Germany in 19••••97 (with \'Deutscher Naturschutzring\'). Rocholl has also worked as a journalist and scientist and holds a PhD in Biology.Martin Rocholl has over 40 years experience as a volunteer and professional in environmental NGOs, working on a broad spectrum of issues, such as sustainable city planning (Sustainable City Quarter \"Vauban\", Freiburg), EU structural and agricultural policies, transport, energy and climate change. Rocholl has founded and served on the board of several local, national and international NGOs and is the honorary chairman of Friends of the Earth Europe.