Bruno Oberle

Bruno Oberle is a Swiss environmental scientist and economist. He is currently the president of the World Resources Forum.

Biography

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.
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 Federal [Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications|Swiss Federal Office for the Environment] and State Secretary for the Environment. He was Director General of the International [Union for Conservation of Nature].