(https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-luc-chotte-770b6055/).

In 1996 in took over his family farm. It is some sandy poor soil prone to drought in summer and water logging in winter. Implementing those techniques in those tough conditions as not been easy but help him to understand even more about soil, fertility, cover-crops and eco-system management. This experience enriched is expertise while keeping him always very particle.

Always a forerunner, in 1999 he launched the specialist magazine “TCS” which served as a link and furthered technical exchanges between the pioneers in the field.  Today it accounts  more than 4500 subscribers mainly in France. He also supported the creation of the association BASE (Biodiversity, Agriculture, Soil and Environment) and he has been for 15 years the Chairman of this active network of innovative farmers (1200 members today).

Today, thanks not only to his technical skills but also particle expertise, he has become one of the specialists in this new agriculture: he plays an active role in France and throughout the world with producers, technicians and decision-makers in the agricultural sector.

Before that he was part of the team who prepared and conducted the negotiations on the 7^th EU Environment Action Programme. In the same DG he worked on strategic planning and policy coordination, on resource efficiency, and on an environmental programme for small and medium-sized enterprises. Before joining the European Commission he worked in the European Parliament and for a European NGO. 

He holds a degree in Business Administration and Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and before coming to Brussels he had experiences in New York at the United Nations and at the Italian Cultural Institute.