Renat Heuberger

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Renat Heuberger
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Renat Heuberger (2014)
Born
Renat Heuberger

(1976-12-18) 18 December 1976 (age 48)
Occupation(s)CEO, Terra Impact Ventures

Renat Heuberger (born 18 December 1976) is a Serial Entrepreneur, Impact Investor and Board Member, active in climate and nature tech since 1999. He is co-founder of CEO of Terra Impact Ventures, a strategy advisor and company builder. He is Chairman of MPower, elected Innovation Council at InnoSuisse and serves on numerous boards. Prior to Terra, he was co-founder and CEO of South Pole. He has been engaged as a social entrepreneur in the fields of sustainability, climate change and renewable energies since 1999.

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Before founding South Pole, Heuberger co-founded and acted as the CEO of the myclimate foundation. [1] [2] [3]

Heuberger holds a Master's in Environmental Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and completed the Social Entrepreneur Programme, ISEP, at INSEAD and Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).

Professional life

After working for development organisation Swisscontact in Indonesia, Heuberger co-founded the World Student Community on Sustainable Development, [4] as well as platform for interdisciplinary projects Seed Sustainability. [5] In 2002, he founded [6] the Swiss myclimate foundation, a non-profit climate protection organisation that was inspired by a successful initiative to compensate the greenhouse emissions of flights of attendees at the annual meeting of the Alliance for Global Sustainability [7] in Costa Rica. Heuberger acted as my-climate's CEO until 2006. Heuberger then co-founded South Pole and led the company to one of the largest global climate platforms with over 1000 employees on 6 continents.

He has supported the UNFCCC process regularly chairing and presenting at official side events on topics such as "Sustainable CDM - Best Practice" at CoP 11/MoP 1 of the UNFCCC in Montreal [8] and "What has carbon trade taught us about ecological markets?" at CoP 16/MoP 6 of the UNFCCC Cancun Summit. [9] Heuberger presented his Shifting Fortunes insight at the 2013 WEF in Davos. [10]

Awards and recognition

Heuberger was elected Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. He was a finalist of the 2022 EY Entrepreneur of the Year award [11] , won a YPO Global Impact Award in 2023 [12] and was named runner-up in Illuminem's Most-Read Thought Leaders in Carbon.


Positions of trust

Heuberger was elected Swiss Social Entrepreneur 2011 by the World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation, along with Christoph Sutter, [13] and received the sustainability award in 2013 by the Zurich Cantonal Bank (ZKB). [14] In 2014, Heuberger was elected as Member of the Global Agenda Council on Climate Change of the World Economic Forum.

Heuberger currently serves as a board member of Climate-KIC, Europe's largest public-private innovation partnership on climate change and is a member of the Innovation Council of [15] InnoSuisse] the Swiss Innovation Agency. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Impact Hub Zurich, [16] a platform for social entrepreneurship, and a member of the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum.

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  4. World Student Community for Sustainable Development | WSCSD
  5. "ETH Seed Sustainability". Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  6. Renat Heuberger | World Economic Forum - Renat Heuberger
  7. ETH – AGS – Welcome
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  9. IISD RS @ Cancún Climate Change Conference - Side Events, 29 November - 10 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico
  10. Shifting Fortunes: Towards a New Climate Framework? | World Economic Forum - Shifting Fortunes: Towards a New Climate Framework?
  11. "EY Entrepreneur of the Year™ – Hall of Fame".
  12. "2023 YPO Global Impact Award: Creating a World of Impact".
  13. Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger awarded as Swiss Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2011 | World Economic Forum - Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger awarded as Swiss Soci... Archived 2013-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
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  15. "Innosuisse is the Swiss Innovation Agency".
  16. "The HUB Zürich |" . Retrieved 6 January 2024.