European Green Party
Bas Eickhout
Bas Eickhout (1976, Groesbeek, NL) is the Lead Candidate of the European Green Party for the 2024 European Elections, side-by-side with Terry Reintke. Bas Eickhout has been a member of the European Parliament and delegation leader of the Dutch Greens since 2009. He is a member and coordinator of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a substitute member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Budgetary Control.
Bas Eickhout studied Chemistry and Environmental Science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and lives in Utrecht. Before his political career Bas Eickhout worked as a researcher in the Netherlands on several projects related to international environmental problems, such as climate change, agriculture, land-use and biofuels. He co-authored the IPCC report on climate change, which received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2019 Bas Eickhout was the European Green Parties Lead Candidate together with Ska Keller, leading a campaign that led to the most successful Green EP election results ever.
Dream job as a kid:
As a kid, Bas Eickhout wanted to join the Greenpeace fight against Whaling vessels.
