Canice Nolan is the Senior Coordinator for global health at DG Health and Consumers of the European Commission. In this capacity he is also the Team Leader for international affairs in its Public Health Directorate.

From 2004 to 2008 he was First Counselor and Head of the Food Safety, Health, and Consumer Affairs Section at the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington, D.C. Prior to this appointment, Nolan worked for both the DG Research of the European Commission, responsible for program management on Environment, Health, and Chemical Safety, and for the DG Agriculture, where he was responsible initially for pesticides residues legislation. Following the reorganization of the commission in 1999, his work moved to DG Health and Consumer Protection where he was head of the Plant Protection Products Sector - responsible for the management and development of legislation on pesticides evaluation, authorization, and use as well as the setting and monitoring of maximum residue limits for pesticides in food and feed. 

Nolan holds a B.Sc. in zoology and a Ph.D. in heavy metal toxicology from the University College Dublin.

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