Jindřich Petrlík

Jindřich Petrlík (he/him) is a Program Director of the Arnika Toxics and Waste Programme and an IPEN expert on dioxin and POPs waste. He has worked in the environmental movement in the Czech Republic since 1979, starting with nature conservation and moving to broader environment protection efforts. He has more than thirty years of experience in the field of waste incineration and dioxin, and he also pushed for the first law on protecting the ozone layer in the CEE region and has experience with Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers. Jindrich joined IPEN in 1999 and has coordinated work on dioxins and POPs wastes since 2001. He has an MS degree in physical geography from Masaryk University, Brno. Jindrich grew up in Northern Bohemia, in the region damaged by surface brown coal mining and moved to Prague later on where Arnika has headquarters. He is proficient in Czech, English, and Russian.