Pieter Everaers,

Pieter Everaers (53) is Director Agricultural and Environment statistics; statistical cooperation at DG Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Communities. In that position he is responsible for the statistics on Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Environment including Environmental Accounting, as well as for the Technical cooperation of Eurostat with European and non European Third Countries and the cooperation with International Institutions. He represents Eurostat in international coordinating meetings as for example in the Management Group of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts. In the field of Environment statistics he is representing DG Eurostat in the Management Board of the European Environmental Agency, he is member of the UN Committee on Economic and Environmental Accounting and represents DG Eurostat in the so called Group of Four (DG Environment EC Brussels, Joint Research Centre ISPRA, EEA Copenhagen and DG Eurostat Luxemburg) coordinating the work on Environment statistics at European Union Level.

He joined Eurostat in May 2004, closing a 20 years career at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). His last position (2000-2004) at Statistics Netherlands was Director of Social and Spatial Statistics. During the last 15 years he has been internationally very active among others representing CBS in the Canberra Group on Income Statistics and Rio group on Poverty Statistics and chairing for five years the Siena Group on Social Statistics.

He has a PhD in Spatial Sciences at the University of Utrecht and is originally trained in Human Geography and Mathematical Sociology.