Attila Kovacs, PhD in Economics (University of Economics, Budapest), MSc in Chemical Engineering (Institute of Technology, Leningrad). Member of the Executive Board of European Biogas Association between 2009 and 2019. Secretary General of the European Renewable Gas Registry (ERGaR) between September 2016 and December 2020. Board Member of the Hungarian Biogas Association since 2015. Managing Director of First Hungarian Biogas and Solar Ltd – an engineering and consulting company in Budapest; formerly Managing Director of E-A Energy Consulting GmbH, Vienna. He has 37 years of experience in international oil and gas industries and he has been working in the field of biogas since 2004, promoting biogas technology in Hungary and other Central – East European countries. He has published several articles on the subject and has been a speaker on numerous international renewable energy conferences.

Actual function: Professor Emeritus at the Department of Biotechnology of the University of Szeged.

Professional experience: Graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Szeged in 1971. His main affiliation was at the Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1971 and 1996. He became a full professor at the Department of Biotechnology, University of Szeged in 1996. Between 1996 and 2012 he served as department chair. He was also the Dean of Biosciences at this University for 12 years, currently Professor Emeritus. Altogether he spent 4.5 years as visiting scientist in the USA (University of California at Berkeley and University of Georgia) and 1.5 years in France (CEA-CENG Grenoble). He participated in several EU FP5-FP7 and H2020 projects in the field of biogas biotechnology. He has published more than 300 publications in various scientific journals and is a co-author of 8 patents.

Membership: In 2004 he was elected as President of the newly established Hungarian Biogas Association, re-elected in 2008 and 2012. Stepped down in 2018 from HBA presidency, currently serves as a member of the Board. Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Biogas Association.