Jochem van der Waals

About

I have strong analytical skills, and I am able to present complex issues in an understandable manner. I am a diplomatic, enterprising and result driven team player. I have a profound knowledge of environmental policy, housing policy and physical planning, based on extensive experience in these fields.

Experience

• Knowledge Coordinator (kenniscoördinator) at Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal
  Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

  Supporting two Committees of Members of Parliament; the committee responsible for matters in the areas of environment and transport, and the committee for the Interior. I provide scientific information, analysis and advice on government proposals. Knowledge coordinators work within the Analysis and Research Department (Dienst Analyse en Onderzoek), which supports representatives from all political parties.

• Senior policy advisor/project manager safe management of chemicals at Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat
  Jan 2013 - Sep 2020 · 7 yrs 9 mos

  * Representing the Netherlands in meeting of EU Competent Authorities for REACH and CLP, and POP-regulation (Persistent Organic Pollutants) * Initiating and managing an EU project to develop an agenda for innovations that replace hazardous chemicals (Safe Chemicals Innovation Agenda) as input for Horizon Europe * Representing the Netherlands for chemicals policy at global level * EU negotiations for revision of POP-regulation * Managing a programme with stakeholders to mitigate costs of REACH for small and medium-sized companies * Managing national projects to reduce industrial emissions of hazardous chemicals * Principal for projects at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and at the Association of Community Health Services (GGD) in the field of chemicals and indoor air quality

• Senior policy advisor CCS/energy (secondment for four months) at DCMR Milieudienst Rijnmond
  Aug 2012 - Dec 2012 · 5 mos

  * Organising cooperation between industrial/harbour regions in Northwestern Europe for development of CCS infrastructure * Developing long-term scenario's for the Rotterdam harbour

• Senior policy advisor climate policy at Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
  Jan 2011 - Aug 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  * Roadmap for moving to a low-carbon Dutch economy in 2050 * Developing strategies and policy measures for European and Dutch climate- and energy policy * Principal for research by Energy research Centre the Netherlands (ECN)

• Project leader industrial emissions at Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
  Nov 2006 - Dec 2010 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  * Coordination of implementation of EU-regulation PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, an emission inventory of pollution by facilities) * Action plan reduction of industrial air pollution * Principal of a new electronic tool for environmental reporting (e-MJV)