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Florika Fink-Hooijer

Florika Fink-Hooijer is a European civil servant at the European Commission. She leads the Directorate General for the Environment, which holds large responsibilities under the European Green Deal.

Florika Fink-Hooijer
Florika Fink-Hooijer
Director General

Directorate-General for the Environment

European Commission
Assumed office
1 September 2020
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
Preceded byDaniel Calleja Crespo
Director General

Directorate-General for Interpretation

European Commission
In office
1 June 2016 - 31 August 2020
PresidentJean-Claude Juncker
Preceded byMarco Benedetti
Personal details
Born (1962-03-16) 16 March 1962 (age 62)
Darmstadt, Germany
SpouseJohannes Jeroen Hooijer
Children3
Alma materFree University of Berlin
University of Bonn
University of Lausanne
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

She joined the European Commission in 1990 and has held various high level management posts in the area of external and security policy, humanitarian aid, disaster risk reduction and environmental protection.

Early life and education edit

Fink-Hooijer was born in Darmstadt, Germany and grew up in Berlin. She studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn, and the Université de Lausanne before completing a master's degree in International and Comparative Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.[1][2]

She later earned a PhD in copyright at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the subject of immediate termination in copyright contract law.[3][4]

Prior to joining the European Commission, she worked at the law firms such as Nordemann, Vinck & Hertin in Berlin, and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in The Hague.[5]

European career edit

Fink-Hooijer started her career as a European civil servant in the European Commission in 1990 where she first occupied positions as administrator in the internal market and the external policies department where she wrote extensively about EU policy.[6][7][8][9]

In 1995, she became a member of the Cabinet of Monika Wulf-Mathies, the Commissioner in charge of EU Regional Policy. Fink-Hooijer was tasked with the development of the pre-accession instruments as part of the Agenda 2000.[10]

From 1999 onwards, she helped create the European Patent Convention alongside new approaches on copyright, e-commerce and data protection in the digital age as part of Commissioner Frits Bolkestein's cabinet responsible for Internal Market and Financial Services.[11][12]

Between 2000 and 2010, she took up various middle management positions, first in Directorate-General (DG) RELEX (the predecessor of the European External Action Service) and then in the Secretariat-General. In this period, Fink-Hooijer contributed to the creation of numerous EU civilian crisis missions and early EU military structures as well as negotiating and implementing for the European Commission the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme on conflict diamonds.[13][14] She later became responsible for bilateral relations with South East Asia and the Monitoring and Certification Mechanism for Bulgaria and Romania.[15][16][17]

In 2010, she headed the Cabinet of Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva during her term as International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Commissioner helping create the European Emergency Response Coordination Centre and strengthen the EU Civil Protection Mechanisms.[18][19][20]

In 2012, she became the first policy Director in the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations working on the Ebola Crisis[21] and Maritime Incident Response Groups.[22] She substantially advanced the international role the EU plays in humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction with the introduction of cash-based aid as well as gender and age sensitive aid.[23][24] She also was instrumental in creating the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps to strengthen local capacity and resilience of disaster-affected communities. As a policy director for humanitarian aid, she further shaped the civil-military cooperation mechanism for the better protection of civilians in emergencies.[23][21]

In 2016, she was appointed as Director General of DG Interpretation, the largest interpreting service in the world.[25][26] Under her leadership, the first ever Knowledge Centre on Interpretation was created.[27] She had spoken about the need to “futureproof” services by strengthening the skills of colleagues to work with new technologies.' as well as how Artificial Intelligence may be an (un)desired revolution in linguistic services.[28][29] Subsequently, she drove forward the digitalization of the service by introducing features like automatic speech recognition and other support services to interpreters.[30] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she scaled up multilingual interpretation in hybrid meetings via new digital platforms and technologies, which was a "watershed moment" for the interpretation profession.[31]

In 2020, Fink-Hooijer became Director General of the Directorate General for Environment.[32] She is responsible for implementing the European Green Deal focusing on Circular Economy, Biodiversity and Zero Pollution.[33] On behalf of the European Union, she has attended various summits, including the international Biodiversity Summits.[34]

Personal life edit

She speaks German, English, Dutch and French fluently. She is married to fellow European Civil servant Johannes Jeroen Hooijer and has three children.[35]

References edit

  1. ^ "European Commission appointed IES alumna Florika Fink-Hooijer as Director-General of its department for Interpretation (DG SCIC) | LLM". www.llminbrussels.eu. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  2. ^ European Commission. "Florika FINK - HOOIJER CV" (PDF). European Commission.
  3. ^ Fink-Hooijer, Florika (1991). Fristlose Kündigung im Urhebervertragsrecht: die Beendigung von Dauerschuldverhältnissen im Urheberrecht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kündigungsrechts. Berliner Hochschulschriften zum gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1989. ISBN 9783631428856.
  4. ^ Hoyng, W. and Fink-Hooijer, F., 1990. The patent term of pharmaceuticals and the legal possibilities of its extension. Intl. Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law, volume II, pp. 161 - 182
  5. ^ "Florika Fink-Hooijer". POLITICO. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  6. ^ Fink-Hooijer, Florika (1994). "The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union". European Journal of International Law. 5 (2): 173–198. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.ejil.a035865. ISSN 1464-3596.
  7. ^ The Evolution of the EC / EU Sanction Policy, CFSP-FORUM, vol. 4 (1994), Institut für Europäische Politik Bonn.
  8. ^ Florika., Fink-Hooijer (1991). Fristlose kündigung im Urhebervertragsrecht : Die Beendigung von Daverschuldverhaltnissen im Urheberrecht unter besorderer Berücksichtigung des Kündigungsrechts. P. Lang. ISBN 3-631-42885-5. OCLC 870526867.
  9. ^ Fink-Hooijer, Florika. Schutz des Urheberrechts und der verwandten Schutzrechte in der Informationsgesellschaft ein Zwischenstandsbericht über jüngere Entwicklungen auf europäischer Ebene. OCLC 1185316059.
  10. ^ Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria (2015). Handbook on CSDP missions and operations : the common security defence policy of the European Union. Vienna: Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Republic of Austria. pp. 84–89. ISBN 978-3-902275-42-4. OCLC 913782433.
  11. ^ The challenge of resilience in a globalized world. Europäische Gemeinschaften. Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle. Luxembourg. 2015. p. 60. ISBN 978-92-79-48438-4. OCLC 950726773.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ "MOFA: Japan-European Union (EU) Regulatory Reform Dialogue in Brussels in FY2005 (Overview)". www.mofa.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  13. ^ Sara., Govaere, Inge. Poli (2014). EU management of global emergencies legal framework for combating threats and crises. Brill Nijhoff. pp. XIX. ISBN 978-90-04-26832-6. OCLC 905947144.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Financing of terrorism (Views from governments and civil society on cooperative security)", SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, Washington, DC – Vol.2, No 1 – March 2004.
  15. ^ European Company for Strategic Intelligence (2010). "Going Global: Europe's Security Policy Challenge" (PDF). pp.97.
  16. ^ L'efficacité des mesures financières restrictives – évaluation de la pratique; Collection Contentieux Européen, édition A. Pedone 2006, Université de Paris, pages 129-137.
  17. ^ Financing of terrorism (Views from governments and civil society on cooperative security)", SAIS Centre for Transatlantic Relations, Washington, DC – Vol.2, No 1 – March 2004.
  18. ^ The challenge of resilience in a globalised world report by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's in-house science service. European Commission. Joint Research Centre. Luxembourg: Publications Office. 2015. ISBN 978-92-79-48438-4. OCLC 1056521089.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. ^ Fink-Hooijer, Fink (15-16 May 2013). Disasters: Protecting and responding together - 4th European Civil Protection Forum. Brussels.
  20. ^ EU-Japan cooperation in disaster management and humanitarian relief: a challenging new dimension of a long standing partnership; University of Tokyo/ KU Leuven, EU-Japan Conference, 2011, 14th edition.
  21. ^ a b Fink-Hooijer, Florika (2015). Civil protection and humanitarian aid in the Ebola response: lessons for the humanitarian system from the EU experience. Humanitarian Practice Network. pp. nr 64. Archived from the original on 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  22. ^ "Dr. Florika Fink Hooijer - maritime incident response group". studylib.net. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  23. ^ a b Fink-Hooijer, Florika (2014-01-01). "7 The EU's Competence in the Field of Civil Protection (Article 196, Paragraph 1, a–c TFEU)". EU Management of Global Emergencies: 137–145. doi:10.1163/9789004268333_009. ISBN 9789004268326.
  24. ^ Boin, Arjen. (2013). The European Union as crisis manager : patterns and prospects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781461936695. OCLC 854975218.
  25. ^ "World's Largest Interpretation Service Gets New Boss". Slator. 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  26. ^ "European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - European Commission appoints new Directors-General to lead its departments for Informatics and for Interpretation, names three Deputy Directors-General". europa.eu. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  27. ^ European Commission (2018-04-20). "Summary of SCIC-Universities Conference 2018" (PDF). European Commission.
  28. ^ Fink-Hooijer, Florika (2017-01-11). "Artificial Intelligence – the (un)desired revolution?". Lebende Sprachen. 62 (2): 269–274. doi:10.1515/les-2017-0020. ISSN 1868-0267. S2CID 67104547.
  29. ^ Interpreters, E. U. (2019-05-27). ".@FlorikaFink 'We need to "futureproof" our services by strengthening the skills of colleagues to work with new technologies.' #IAMLADP2019EU @EUinterpreters |@EP_Interpreters |@EUCourtPress |@EUCouncil |@UNDGACM_EN|@translatorespic.twitter.com/XMCotLRgrE". @EUInterpreters. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  30. ^ Sarno, Ivano (2019). "IAMLADP: Directors General of Interpretation and Translation discuss multilingualism". Knowledge Centre on Interpretation - European Commission. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  31. ^ edited by Kilian G. Seeber (2021). 100 Years of Conference Interpreting : A Legacy. Newcastle upon Tyne. pp. 284–288. ISBN 978-1-5275-6878-5. OCLC 1247835775. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  32. ^ "College Meeting: The European Commission appoints two Director-Generals and two Directors". European Commission. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  33. ^ "European Recovery under the Green Deal: All hands on deck!". Water Europe. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  34. ^ EU Green Week 2020 - Opening Session - A New Beginning, retrieved 2021-05-26
  35. ^ "SCIC-UNIVERSITIES CONFERENCE 2019 (05/04/2019) - Streaming Service of the European Commission". webcast.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
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