Heidrun Fammler founded and developed the Baltic Environmental Forum as an organisation – first in the Baltic States in 1995 and later in Hamburg from 2003 onwards. She lived in Riga for 20 years, where she supported the implementation of European environmental policy in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Since returning to Hamburg in 2015, she has continued coordinating and implementing a wide range of projects from there. Many of her projects are international, and the Baltic Sea region remains particularly close to her heart, as does the “BEF Group” team of more than 50 employees, who contribute significantly to environmental protection across the region.

Environmental protection has occupied me for 35 years now – first as a volunteer in the Hamburg environmental movement, then full-time. I am particularly interested in the strategic development of environmental policy. I often ask myself why it is so difficult to implement environmental policy – it is obviously necessary and also wanted by the population. How can we achieve more environmentally friendly behaviour? With the Baltic Environmental Forum I want to find answers to this question and motivate people to participate in shaping a more sustainable world. Interdisciplinary work and intercultural communication are very important to me.