Bruno Oberle appointed professor at EPFL Lausanne
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At its meeting of September 23th and 24th, the ETH Board appointed Dr. Bruno Oberle as Adjunct Professor of Green Economy at EPFL. As of January 2016, the present Director of the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) will strengthen the EPFL Institute of Technology & Public Policy with his practical know-how and broad experience in the areas of environmental management and protection of the environment.
With the appointment of Dr. Bruno Oberle (born in 1955) EPFL has succeeded in attracting a leading expert in the fields of Sustainable Resource Management and Green Economy. Environmental and energy management constitute important priorities for the Institute of Technology & Public Policy created in 2013. With his in-depth knowledge in these areas, Bruno Oberle will complement the existing team extremely well.
Bruno Oberle studied biology and environmental sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, then completed additional education in political economy and pedagogy and did a doctorate at the ETH Zurich. For several years he was a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the ETH Zurich.
As founder and CEO of two consulting agencies in the environmental domain (1980-1999), Vice-Director and Director of the former Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (1999-2005) and Director of the Federal Office for the Environment (2006-2015), Dr. Oberle has an impressive track record in technical and strategic questions related to the protection of the environment. In his capacity as Adjunct Professor, he will use this wealth of experience for the benefit of EPFL.