Malachy Hargadon

Malachy Hargadon is Environment Counselor for the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States. Prior to joining the Delegation in September 2007, Malachy served as Assistant to the Director-General of the Directorate-General for Environment in the European Commission in Brussels.

In his fourteen years at the Commission, Malachy has had responsibility for liaising with the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers on all aspects of transport and environment policy, and for policy coordination within the European Commission. In particular, this included the adoption of the EU's 6th Environment Action Programme in 2002.

Malachy received a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies from the London School of Economics and a Masters degree in environmental policy from the UK's Open University, and is an alumnus of the College of Europe in Bruges.