The Czech Environmental Information Agency (CENIA) has undergone a restructuring at the turn of 2023 and 2024 with the aim of building a powerful data base and a highly professional service agency that focuses on the priorities set by its founder, the Ministry of the Environment. As part of the restructuring, a public tender for the position of Director of CENIA was also conducted. Based on the concept presented, the Minister of the Environment appointed Jiří Valta as the new Director. Ing. Valta was inaugurated on 17 June 2024 by the Director of the Minister’s Cabinet Department, Marcel Ladka.
Jiří Valta was born in 1978 in Prague and graduated from the Czech University of Agriculture, Regional and Environmental Administration at the Faculty of Environment. His working career is closely linked to the Czech Environmental Information Agency, which he joined in 2003 in the form of the Czech Ecological Institute. He worked for many years in the field of integrated pollution prevention and control in the waste management sector and subsequently headed the Waste Management Unit, which specialises in the collection and evaluation of data on waste and circular economy. From 2017 to 2018 he worked as a project manager at AVE CZ waste management, s.r.o. In recent years, he has also been involved in CENIA research projects, such as the Centre for Environmental Research on Waste, Circular Economy and Environmental Security (CEVOOH), Development of methodologies for reporting greenhouse gas emissions and sinks and their projections, including projections of emissions of traditional pollutants (MEMORESP), and for 10 years he has been a member of the consortium operating the European Topic Centre on Waste and Green Economy and the European Topic Centre on Circular Economy of the European Environment Agency, respectively. In his spare time he enjoys cycling, photography and playing the guitar. He is divorced and has two children.
