Hugo de Groof
DG Environment
Governance, Information & Reporting Unit
European Commission
Belgium

Biography
Hugo De Groof studied geography and informatics in Belgium. He has been working since 1986 for the European Commission. He spend twelve years in the Joint Research Centre of the Commission in Italy before moving to the Directorate-General for the Environment in Brussels. Since 2001 a major part of his responsibilities as Principal-Administrator regard the preparation, negotiation and implementation of the INSPIRE directive, which entered into force on the 15th of May.