Chrisoula Nikolarou is Head of Department of Costing and Pricing of Water Services, Directorate for the Planning and Management of Water Services,  of the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy. She studied Agricultural Engineering in Agricultural University of Athens and holds an Ms in Agricultural & Biological Engineering from Cornell University, USA.

She has over twenty years’ experience in protection and management of water resources on the implementation of water policy and she has serve as national focal point for the Nitrates Directive and WAREG.

For the last ten years is the Head of department of Costing and Pricing of Water Service working mainly on the formulation and  implementation of policy framework for water pricing and costing. She has participated in the development of all three cycles  of the River Basin Management Plans and she haw been  a member of the Committee for the development of the National Strategic Plan for the Drinking Water, of the National Monitoring of Surface and Ground Water committee and of a numerus committees for drafting national legislation and implementation of national and EU water policy.