Jesper H. Andersen’s primary fields of interest are aquatic ecology, development of assessment tools (multi-metric and indicator-based), design and planning of monitoring networks (and coupled courses of action regarding data flow, QA, data storage and reporting), ecosystem-based management as well as feeding scientific information into adaptive and evidence-based management processes. He has a comprehensive knowledge of aquatic ecology with special emphasis on impacts of human activities, environmental regulatory processes and their administrative and economic contexts.Jesper H. Andersen has broad experiences in relation to management of teams and large projects and works a Chief Scientist at NIVA Denmark Water Research. He has been national expert in the MSFD Eutrophication Task Group, as well as chair of the HELCOM HOLAS Task Force. He has earlier on worked as a national expert in the WFD CIS COAST group and the WFD CIS Eutrophication Activity. Another key qualification is organisation of international conferences, e.g. EUTRO 1993, the Symposium on the North Sea QSR in 1994, EUTRO 2006, the ICES Indicator Symposium in 2007, EUTRO 2010, the Marine Strategy 2012 Conference during the Danish EU Presidency and EUTRO 2018.Project manager of large projects, such as: Danish EPA projects on the Water Framework Directive 1998-2004 (phase I-IV), NMR RETRO project 2002-2004, HELCOM EUTRO-PRO 2005-2008, BALANCE 2005-2007 (nominated for the UN ENERGY GLOBE Award 2009 and selected by the jury as national winner of ENERGY GLOBE Award 2009 and also by WWF rated as one out of five 2008 high-lights in the Baltic Sea area), HELCOM HOLAS 2009-2010, HARMONY 2010-2012, MONIS 2014-2023 (phase I-V), ECOMAR 2018-2020, AquaSYNC 2022-2026 plus deputy manager of the European Topic Centre on Biodiversity and Ecosystems 2023-2026 (ETC BE).Jesper H. Andersen’s list of publications includes scientific papers, technical reports, policy papers, books, news paper articles and includes more than 285 references, of which 99 are peer reviewed.Further, Jesper H. Andersen is 1) leader of the Aquatic Syntesis Research Centre (AquaSYNC), a research collaboration led by NIVA Denmark and with Arhus University, Denmark and Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment at Gothenburg University, Sweden as partners, and 2) deputy manager of the European Topic Centre on Biodiversity and Ecosystems 2023-2026 (ETC BE).