Bernardo Delogu is a former Head of the Risk Assessment Unit at the Health Directorate-General of the European Commission, currently retired after completing a 37 year career at the European Commission where he gained extensive knowledge and experience of European policies in the areas of health, the environment, risk assessment, the internal market and research. As a European Commission high official he has been in charge of developing, negotiating and implementing EU policies and regulation, notably in the former Directorate-General Health and Consumers as Advisor for Research and Science, Head of the Risk Assessment Unit, Head of the Products and Service Safety Unit, and previously as Head of Sector and Policy Officer in the Environment, Industry and Energy departments of the Commission. Trained as a nuclear engineer, Bernardo started his career as a nuclear safety analyst in industry. He is now devoting part of his time to independent research on science and policy analysis.