Viviane Hoffmann is Deputy Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture in the European Commission, since 2018.
From 2014 to 2018, she worked as Director in the Commission's Directorate-General for Communication.
She previously was Deputy Head of Cabinet of former Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding (Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship). She was also Mrs Reding's Deputy Head of Cabinet during her mandates as European Commissioner for Information Society and Media (2004-2010) and for Education and Culture (1999-2004).
In 1997-1999, Viviane Hoffmann worked as assistant to the Director-General for Health and Consumer Protection in the European Commission. In 1996-1997, she was an assistant to the Secretary-General of the European Commission, after having worked in the Commission's Secretariat-General since 1988.
Viviane Hoffmann studied political science and international relations at the "Université Libre de Bruxelles".
Viviane Hoffmann speaks Luxembourgish, French, German and English.
Parallel sessions: Physical Activity Policy for a Better Health
Wanda Wendel-Vos, Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (born 1972)
Wanda is senior researcher in the field of Sport, Physical Activity and Health and has been working in the field of public health for over 20 years. Her PhD thesis was entitled ‘Public Health Aspects of Physical Activity’. Many of her projects have a multi-disciplinary character, connecting the field of health with other fields such as transport, environment, education and sport. Her main areas of work are determinants of physical activity, monitoring of sport and physical activity, physical activity promotion, epidemiology of physical activity and physical activity assessment. Within her institute she is the program coordinator for sport and physical activity. For the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport she coordinates a broad set of key indicators describing sport and physical activity.
She represents the Netherlands at the EU-level as HEPA Focal Point and is the current vice chair of the WHO HEPA Europe Network.
Parallel sessions: Physical Activity Policy for a Better Health
Annegret Korff is Head of Task Force Euro 2024 in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, Germany
Lawyer since 2006 at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, she had different functions in policy areas of Migration and Security, as well as spokesperson and French Ministry of Interior.
Since 2019 is Head of Unit of Major Sporting Events.
Parallel sessions: Physical Activity Policy for a Better Health