Stefan Jensen
Head of SEIS & Reference Data Group - MDI Program
European Environment Agency
Denmark

Biography
Stefan Jensen holds a geography degree and today heads the group on data management in the European Environment Agency (EEA) which supports the implementation of the EEA?s spatial data infrastructure and of INSPIRE. Before he had joined EEA in 2001 to lead projects on electronic environmental reporting and on establishing the European Water Information System, he began his career in the private sector on the marketing and application of Geographic Information Systems. He also worked as a private consultant for a couple of years and started his European work from the Environment Ministry in Hannover, Germany where he developed the state?s spatial environmental information system.