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Swiss-born sustainability advocate (born 1962)

Mathis Wackernagel is a Swiss-born sustainability advocate.

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He is President of Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability think tank with offices in Oakland, California, and Geneva, Switzerland. The think-tank is a non-profit that focuses on developing and promoting metrics for sustainability.

After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he completed his Ph.D.

in community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 1994. There, in his doctoral dissertation under Professor William Rees, he worked with Rees in creating the ecological footprint concept and developed the accounting methodology for it.^[1] He has worked on sustainability issues for organizations in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia and Australia.

Wackernagel previously served as the director of the Sustainability Program at mathis wackernagel biography channel1 TYHOH