About Christian Holzleitner

Christian Holzleitner is Head of Unit for Land economy and Carbon removals at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action.

He previously served as Head of Unit for Finance for Innovation and Land Use, and as assistant to the Director-General for Climate Action, covering EU and international climate policy. Earlier, at the Directorate-General for Competition, he worked on State aid for services of general economic interest in the postal, transport and health sectors.

Before joining the European Commission, he was a senior manager at KPMG Germany, specialising in international transfer pricing. An economist by training, he holds a PhD from the University of Linz (Austria).