Dr. Philippe Saner

– Project leader on a mandate for the UNCCD on the analysis of financial flows together with Dr. Matthias Haeni – Coordinator and lecturer for a course on "Introduction to advanced statistics" for WSL/SLF with a special focus on scientific reasoning

I coordinate the daily business of the research group of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmid, Dean of the Faculty of Science at University of Zürich. As a co-project leader of the Life Science Zurich Graduate School I am responsible for the online database DissGo (Dissertation Go) to ensure inter-connected knowledge and improved administrative workflow for the PhD process of University of Zürich and ETH Zürich.

I am a co-referee at the Bachelor level and guest lecturer in the Master module Corporate Social Responsibility and in the eMBA program of the University of Applied Science Chur organized by Prof. Dr. Ivan Nikitin.

As a scientific consultant to the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD I was mandated to analyse and present the data on financial flows and Rio Markers in two technical reports to the Convention to Combat Desertification and their latest conference with all member parties (CRIC 2015). In May 2015 I was also offered the opportunity to present our latest findings to the OECD at the headquarter in Paris, France at the meeting of the DAC (Development Assistance Committee) members.

The consulting company specializes in the development of new business models. I was responsible for their online presence and the development of an own blog on the topics of “Sustainable Business Processes“ and “Environmental Intelligence“. As a project leader on “Special Tasks“ I supported the management in the realization of running mandates.

Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics in Logged Forests of Malaysian Borneo