Staff

Robert
Watt

+46 8 674 7546

Role: Head of Communications

Centre: Stockholm

Rob is SEI's head of communications, with responsibility for SEI’s global communications, both internal and external.

From September 2004 until April 2008, Rob was environment attaché at the United Kingdom Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels (the UK’s embassy to the institutions of the European Union). '

As the UK negotiator on EU environment policies, he led teams in multiple simultaneous negotiations covering topics from climate change to bathing water. He represented the UK in formal meetings, to the European Parliament and with the media, NGOs and other stakeholders. In the second half of 2005, as part of the UK Presidency of the Council of Ministers, he chaired the environment working group.

Before moving to Brussels, Rob worked as an EU policy advisor in the Cabinet Office (the Prime Minister’s department).

Rob holds undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of London. His mother tongue is English and he speaks French and Swedish fluently.