Christian Holzleitner is currently Head of Unit responsible for Land economy and Carbon removals at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action. Previously, he worked as Head of Unit for Finance for Innovation and Land Use and assistant to the Director-General for Climate Action covering all issues related to EU and international climate policy; and at the Directorate-General for Competition in the area of State aid for services of general economic interest in the postal, transport, and health sectors.

Before joining the European Commission, Christian worked as senior manager with KPMG Germany on international transfer pricing.

Christian is an economist and holds a PhD from the University of Linz (Austria).

Adrian is founder and director of Tolvik, a leading providing of market and commercial due diligence services in the UK waste sector. Adrian started his career in the waste industry 20 years ago at Cory where he led the team which took Riverside EfW to financial close.

In 2012-13 Adrian was Managing Director at the UK Government owned Green Investment Bank with responsibility for Waste and Bioenergy investments.