Program director
Email: petrh AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +420 603 154 349
After graduating from the Technical University, Petr started working as a project designer in the energy industry. Since 1991 he has worked for various NGOs (Children of the Earth, Greenpeace) on energy and nuclear issues. In 1995 he founded the Centre for Transport and Energy (CDE), Czech Republic that become one of Bankwatch members. He was working on wide range of campaigns related mainly to climate, energy and extractive industries and the policies of international financial institutions.
He has been working with Bankwatch since 1996 and has become its campaigns director in 2014.
More from Petr Hlobil
EBRD: Everything is peachy, just trust us!
February 17, 2023 | Read more
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) appears keen to finance a major new pipeline to import fossil gas from Greece to North Macedonia, which would lock the country into increased fossil gas use for decades. Yet when the rationale for this is questioned, the EBRD fails to provide relevant data to justify its claims.
In Estonia, taming the IT tiger
September 26, 2019 | Read more
In parallel to the UN Climate Summit, Bankwatch sends our experts on Just Transition to Estonia to share with locals the experience from coal mining countries that have started to develop action plans for regions that would need to go through re-development due to coal phase-out.
Shuakhevi Compliance Review
December 12, 2018 | Read more
In view of the considerable public resources invested in the Shuakhevi HPP project and in view of the negative impacts on local people’s safety and livelihoods, as well on local resources needed for sustainable development of the Adjara region and Geor
The European Investment Bank is set to decide on the billion dollar Nenskra dam project during its board meeting today.
The EBRD and Societe Generale are now sponsoring a mass-scale construction project across Albania. Over 300 hydropower plants in various stages of development are posing real threats to the mountainous country’s nature and people. They should avoid repeating Ever Hoxha’s concrete folly.
