Zoltán Massay-Kosubek
Portfolio Manager – EU Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD)
Zoltán is a Hungarian-qualified lawyer with over 20 years of experience working on air quality, public health and climate change. Zoltán has strong commitments to reduce inequalities and protect the public interest. He has solid experience in the field of climate philanthropy in Europe. He has been involved in many European-level policy and advocacy campaigns, has had global diplomacy engagement preparing the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, and had direct experience implementing EU legislation at the national level.
Prior to joining Clean Air Fund, he worked for the European Climate Foundation (ECF), where he was promoting climate governance frameworks at European and national levels to contribute to national and public ownership of the climate neutrality transformation. He also held roles at the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), a Brussels-based umbrella NGO, where he led the CleanAir4Health campaign. He also worked for the Ministry of Health of Hungary, where he was a member of the EU Presidency team. He started his career in the justice field, where he worked for the European Court of Justice as a lawyer linguist as well as in national law courts.
Why Zoltán works for Clean Air Fund:
Clean Air Fund focuses on the root causes of interconnected global crises as harmful emissions fuel health risks, the climate catastrophe and biodiversity loss. The idea that my work can contribute to improving air quality, which can reduce inequalities, respect our planetary boundaries and promote innovative solutions is extremely rewarding for me.