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Mette Quinn

Head of Unit at DG CLIMA, European Commission

Mette Quinn is the Head of Unit for ETS Policy Coordination and International Carbon Markets and Deputy Director for Carbon Markets and Clean Mobility in the Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action. Working on climate policy since 2011, she is currently focused on delivering the European Green Deal, in particular the negotiations on the review of the EU ETS, the Market Stability Reserve and the Social Climate Fund. Previously, she worked on ETS implementation, notably free allocation to industry and the ETS Union Registry. She also has a number of years’ experience on international and EU domestic climate finance and innovation issues and she took part in the negotiations of the international climate agreement in Paris in 2015. Within the European Commission she has previously worked in the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry on innovation policy and benchmarking. She worked for the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and also spent a few years at the Danish Permanent Representation to NATO. She is an economist (Cand. Polit.) and married with one daughter.