Tomas Marques is Regional Sub-programme Coordinator for Science-Policy and Air Quality at UNEP’s Europe Office. He works on environmental assessment processes, implementation of Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) principles of open access to data, and on assessment and capacity-building activities related to environmental statistics and the SDGs, air pollution and air quality monitoring and management. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the main geographical foci of his current work at country level include Central Asian and Western Balkan countries. He is also involved in several regional-level processes related to environmental monitoring and data, environmental statistics and assessments, and air pollution.
Before joining UNEP’s Europe Office, Tomas worked as Economic Affairs Officer in the Secretariat of the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel, where he was responsible for coordinating assessment work streams on sustainable management of metal resources, material flow analysis, integrated scenario analysis, and the circular economy. He also worked on UNEP programmes related to cleaner and safer production, resource efficiency and sustainable consumption and production, industrial risk reduction and emergency preparedness. An industrial engineer by training, before joining UNEP in 2007 Tomas worked for eight years in several environmental impact assessment studies, environmental audits and other environmental-related projects in a variety of sectors including in the construction sector, transport sector (airport, road, light railway and high-speed railway infrastructure projects), and industry.
