Bruno Oberle | |
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![]() Bruno Oberle | |
Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature | |
In office August 2020 –July 2023 | |
Personal details | |
Born | St. Gallen, Switzerland | 12 October 1955
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Alma mater | ETH Zurich (PhD) |
Occupation | Environmental scientist, environmental protection, environmental management |
Bruno Oberle is a Swiss e nvironmental scientist and economist. He is currently the president of the World Resources Forum.
Oberle was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland on 12 October 1955, and grew up in Locarno and Zürich. He took biology and environmental sciences at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD. [1]
Oberle was Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Chair of the Green Economy and Resource Governance program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and is a former director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment [2] and State Secretary for the Environment. [3] Presently, he is Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. [4]