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
Darmstadt, West Germany
SpouseJohannes Jeroen Hooijer
Children3
Alma materFree University of Berlin
University of Bonn
University of Lausanne
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Florika Fink-Hooijer (born 1962) is a Senior EU official at the European Commission. She leads the Directorate-General for the Environment, which under her helm became a trailblazer for advancing the green transformation putting circularity and resource efficiency at the heart of the EU sustainability and competitiveness agenda.

Florika Fink-Hooijer joined the European Commission in 1990 and has held various high level and senior management posts in the area of external (bilateral) policy as well as foreign and security policy, humanitarian aid, disaster risk reduction and environmental protection.