Juliane Steegmann is Head of Department at the German Emissions Trading Authority within the Federal Environment Agency. She has many years of experience in various roles at the Federal Environment Agency, having served as Head of Division V 2.4 ‘Legal Affairs and Legal Services for Emissions Trading’ (2004–2021) and as Head of Unit Z 1.5 ‘Legal Services and Third-Party Funded Projects’. (1997–2004) She began her professional career at the Federal Environment Agency as a legal officer in Division IV ‘Chemical Safety’ (1994 to 1996). She also worked as an audit assistant at KPMG DTG-Umweltgruppe in Berlin from 1993 to 1994.

Juliane Steegmann is a legal scholar who has passed the first and second state examinations. She also completed a postgraduate course in “European Administrative Management” at the Technical University of Applied Sciences (TH) Wildau in Berlin, graduating in 2001 with a Master of European Administrative Management. In her various roles, she works at the interface between law and the natural sciences as an environmental lawyer, advocating for the science-based enforcement of environmental law at European and national level. As a lecturer, she teaches Environmental Law I and II at the Technical University of Berlin in the Technical Environmental Protection degree programme, in collaboration with other legal colleagues from the UBA.

Contact:

E-mail: emissionshandel@dehst.de