Veronika is an ecologist and PhD-level ecological economist with around two decades of experience at the interface of research, policy and practice, working from local communities to international institutions. She is the managing director of GreenFormation Kft., where she also carries out impact-focused work on biodiversity, energy transition and systemic transformation across Europe, and helps to design, implement and evaluate policies and projects that are socially just and ecologically sound. Building on her role in several Horizon-funded initiatives, she also co-leads participatory research on transformation, working with diverse stakeholders to co-create and test innovative pathways for fair, sustainable and biodiversity-friendly futures.
Veronika is an ecologist with a PhD in ecological economics and around 20 years of experience in international environmental policy and research, working with UN bodies, EU institutions and national governments. As GreenFormation’s managing director, she steers collaborations that bridge science, policy and local practice from Central and Eastern Europe to wider European and global arenas.
Veronika core expertise lies in sufficiency-based energy use, degrowth-oriented urban transformations and just climate and energy policies, co-developing tools such as the Decarbonise! simulation game and the Degrowth Doughnut for Budapest. Through Horizon Europe projects like DAISY and EMCCINNO, she co-leads participatory research on transformative change, supporting civil society, cities and cultural actors to co-create fair, biodiversity-friendly futures.
She has also contributed several socio-economic and ecosystem services impact assessments, having led evaluations of numerous LIFE and Interreg projects as well as strategic studies for municipalities, NGOs and international organizations. She has also contributed to major assessments and policy processes on the values of nature, just energy transition and climate resilience, including work for the European Commission, OECD, BirdLife Europe and UNDP.
Beyond her professional work, Veronika is an ardent mountain climber and a mum of two, drawing on these experiences to stay grounded and to connect nature-focused thinking with everyday life.