Jan Haverkamp MSc (1959) is a senior nuclear energy and energy policy expert with Greenpeace Netherlands and the World Information Service on Energy (WISE), and he is co-founder and vice-chair of Nuclear Transparency Watch. He is a Dutch citizen and since 2017 based in Amsterdam after having lived 21 years in the Czech Republic and Poland and worked since 1985 in Central Europe.

His work as developer of environmental organisations in Central Europe and as energy campaigner and nuclear energy specialist brought him into contact with nuclear power and energy policy in all EU countries operating, having operated or having taken moves to operate nuclear power stations, as well as Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Switzerland, Canada, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, and the USA. He also worked for four years as Greenpeace's EU nuclear policy advisor in Brussels, among others during the start of the Fukushima nuclear crisis and the following nuclear stress tests. He was involved in the development and following implementation of the Euratom Nuclear Safety Directive, the Nuclear Waste Directive and the Directive on Basic Radiation Standards. He has a long track record on issues of nuclear transparency, especially the implementation of the Espoo and Aarhus Conventions in the nuclear sector. He participates as an independent civil society expert in the European nuclear waste research project EURAD.

Jan received his level 5B certificate as radiation protection advisor from the Technical University Delft.  He was involved in radiation protection work in Spain, Japan and Ukraine. He teaches at the environmental studies department of the faculty of social sciences of the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is a Dutch citizen, has a bachelors degree in biochemistry from the State University in Leiden, the Netherlands, and a bachelors and masters degree (academic engineer – Ir.) in environmental sciences from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He is married, has a son and a daughter in their twenties and two grandchildren.