About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Europe 2012
published on 6 November 2012
16 pages
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About the speaker(s)

Blaise Horisberger

 

Blaise Horisberger is a policy advisor at the Federal Office for the Environment. For the last twenty years he has been responsible for the issues of ozone depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases. He has lead the Swiss delegation at several Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and at the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol. His main focus is on development and implementation of regulations at domestic and international levels.

Blaise Horisberger obtained his degree in biology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1981. After a few years dedicated to biochemical research in the biotechnology department of LONZA, Switzerland, he complemented his studies by a postgraduate certificate in environmental science at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland and by courses in environmental law and public administration at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration.