Joëlle Welfring, future Director of the Environment Agency; Credit: AEV

Following the recommendation of Luxembourg's Minister of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, Carole Dieschbourg, the Government Council decided in its meeting of 25 February 2022, to propose to HRH the Grand Duke the appointment of Joëlle Welfring as Director of the Environment Agency from 1 April 2022.

She takes over from Robert Schmit, Director of the Environment Agency since 2004, who has asserted his right to retirement.

Ms Welfring holds a master's degree in biochemistry and a master's degree in environmental sciences and has held the position of deputy director within the Environment Agency since 2014.

From 2010 to 2014, she held the position of director of the “Business development” department at the Henri Tudor Public Research Center after having headed the Resource Center for Environmental Technologies there.