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Lead- or co-lead the bilateral negotiations on most Swiss Article 6.2. Agreements.Technical lead climate by-law section on international carbon markets.First point of contact for questions on international carbon markets for market participants.

Technical Lead for a series of capacity building programs for Access to Climate Finance, focused on NAMA Facility and Green Climate Fund requirements.Focus on Access to Climate Finance for Clean Cooking Technologiesone of the programs:www.admireproject.org

Thesis Title: Designing Payments for Avoided Deforestation - Theoretical and Experimental Insights for the Case of Cattle Driven Deforestation in Brazil– Implemented experiment on payment design for emission reductions from deforestation on tablets with ~400 cattle ranch stakeholders in Brazil in cooperation with an NGO, Universities and governmental agents.– Developed and method of interactive computer simulation for training and experimental research.– Acquired 250k EUR and lead a work package in an EU-FP7 multi-stakeholder research project and lead a work package with four scientific collaborators in Berlin and Zurich.– Managed survey of ~1’000 households in rural Kenya on charcoal production and use for research on a REDD+ offset project. Supervision of one local survey manager and ten local door-to-door surveyors.– Regularly published on ETH Climate Blog on offsetting related topics for a non-scientific audience (German).– 1/3rd of the PhD thesis covers theoretical aspects of carbon accounting, including additionality, baselines, leakage, permanence, differences between CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gas accounting and between fossil and forest carbon.– Key theoretical topics covered in the PhD:Quantification & accounting for sustainability benefits including carbon and renewables, Contract andauction design for the purchase of sustainability certificates, economics of the poor, behavioral economics.– Supervised three master theses on carbon-related with field work in India, Brazil and Colombia.Links: http://n.ethz.ch/~stim/ (Cattle Ranching Game)http://blogs.ethz.ch/klimablog-archive/author/stim/ (Climate Blog Articles Archive)https://www.ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/zukunftsblog/archiv/2014/02/spielerisch-forschen-experiment-mit-brasilianischen-rinderfarmern.html (Climate Blog Article on Cattle Game)

- Responsibly managed a >2’000’000 EUR carbon offset portfolio for WWF and COOP Switzerland, including feasibility studies, project implementation, validations and verifications.- Managed and developed the world’s first integrated Fair Trade carbon offset project on a flower farm in Kenya for COOP Switzerland from feasibility study to full implementation.- Internal expert for assessment of high-sustainability household-based offset technologies such as efficient cookstoves and solar home systems.- Responsible for sourcing and sales support for land-use and other high-sustainability projects, including risk assessment and contract negotiations. Closed emission reduction purchase agreements covering several 100k tCO2 in total.- Developed co-benefits information gathering system for the entire South Pole project portfolio of >250 carbon offset projects.- Managed projects and feasibility studies in > 10 countries

- SocialCarbon Certification of three projects, including supervision of local coworkers in Indonesia and China, including responsibility for communication with certifiers (TÜV Rheinland und MUTU Indonesia).- Responsible for the science behind the web carbon calculator (internship task).

Working as Assistang on methods and concepts in transdisciplinary research programsANDCurrently working on my masters thesis, topic:"Laboratory public goods games and their policy significance"at the chair for environmental economics