Bruno Oberle

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

Bruno Oberle
Bruno Oberle
Born	(1955-10-12) 12 October 1955 (age 69) St. Gallen, Switzerland
Nationality	Switzerland
Alma mater	ETH Zurich (PhD)
Occupations	environmental scientist environmental protection environmental management
Years active	1970–present

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.^[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]