The Secretariat

The Secretariat to the Commission is located at Stockholm Environment Institute. Johan Schaar is heading the Secretariat.

During 2005-2007 Johan was the Special Representative for the Tsunami Operation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Geneva. 2000-2004 he was the Head of Division for Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict Management, Sida, Stockholm. During 1987-2000 Johan had a range of assignments for the IFRC, Swedish Red Cross and the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan. Johan holds a PhD from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Lina Pastorek is a desk officer at the Secretariat. Lina holds a Master in Political Science and has worked with international issues at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Stockholm and as an EU-rapporteur at the Swedish Embassy in Lisbon before joining the Secretariat.

Katell Le Goulven is a Senior Programme Officer at the Secretariat. Before joining the Commission, she was the deputy director of the Secretariat of the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. Previously she was a policy analyst with the Office of Development Studies of UNDP and a research fellow with the Economics Department at the  National School for Agronomy in Montpellier, France. She holds a Ph.D in agricultural economics.