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Nuno Lacasta Nuno Lacasta is Executive Board President (CEO) of th e Portuguese Environment Agency – APA, since 2012 . APA is Portugal’s public regulatory and implementation agency covering a wide array of environmental areas, such as: climate change and air quality, water resources and coastal management, waste, circular economy, noise, environmental assessment, permittin g, nuclear safety and radiological issues, ecolabelling, public participation, environmental educations and awareness, etc. APA also manages the National Environment Reference Laboratory and Information Systems. Nuno Lacasta has worked on environment and sustainable development for about 20 years in Europe and in the United States. He has b een in public service since 2003 . In this capacity Mr . Lacasta served as Bureau member of the European Environment Agency, and as OECD Environmental Policy Committee’s Vice - Chair and Chair . Between 2006 and 2012 he was Portugal’s Climate policy Director and Portuguese Carbon Fund Executive Manager . Between 2004 and 2007 he was Director for International Affairs at the Portuguese Environment ministry. Mr. LAcasta has lectured widely in Europe and the US, namely as Adjunct Professor of Environmental Policy and Law at the New University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Science and Technology (2004 - 12) and Visiting Lecturer of European and Environmental Law and European Climat e Change Law at the American University’s Washington College of Law - WCL/AU (2007 - 11). He has also for several years provided consulting services to the UN, the OECD, the European Commission, NGOs, corporations and foundations. Nuno Lacasta is a graduate of Lisbon University’s Law Faculty and a post - graduate (LLM) from WCL/AU , as well as a graduate from Kellogg/Católica Advanced Management Program (AMP) .