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Change of Director at the KAN Secretariat

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2025-06-16

Dr Monika Maintz will become the new Head of the KAN Secretariat on 1 July 2025. She holds a doctorate in biology and a master’s degree in marketing and finance. Dr Maintz has extensive professional experience as a managing director in industry and in a number of non-profit environmental and nature conservation organizations. She spent 17 years of her professional life in England.

Dr Maintz succeeds Angela Janowitz, who is leaving KAN after 30 years to take up new challenges. Ms Janowitz joined the KAN Secretariat as a technical officer shortly after its foundation. Assuming the posts of Deputy Head in 2008 and Head of the Secretariat in 2022, she was instrumental in the progressive expansion of the Secretariat, which now has 25 employees, and in KAN’s technical work.