Team

Jürg is an international expert in climate change mitigation and adaptation. He is Managing Partner and Member of the Board of Directors of the INFRAS research and consultancy group. He has many years of experience in advising utilities, industry, governments, and international financial institutions in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Central and South-East Asia, India, and China on the risks and opportunities of climate change. From 2006 to 2013 he was a member of the UNFCCC CDM Executive Board’s Methodological Panel. Jürg also worked from 2008 to 2009 as Senior Carbon Originator at Swiss Re’s Emissions Desk in London. He holds a master’s degree in physics from ETH Zurich, and a PhD in climate change research.

Owen Hewlett Owen Hewlett is Chief Technical Officer at the Gold Standard Foundation and leads Gold Standard's digitalisation efforts. As CTO, Owen is responsible for the development of all innovations, standards, methodologies and tools. Owen led work on the pioneering 'Gold Standard for the Global Goals', a first-of-its-kind impact standard focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. He was also technical lead on the Climate Ledger Initiative’s 'Next Generation MRV' approaches which combine new technologies with major innovations in the carbon and finance markets and in corporate reporting.

Anik Kohli is Associate Partner at INFRAS, working in the areas of environment, development and energy. She primarily focuses on national and international environment and climate policy as well as sustainable development. For five years, she worked at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) in the International Affairs Division. There, she was responsible for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Before, she had worked, among others, for the Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York (US). She obtained her LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change Law at the University of Edinburgh (GB). At the University of Zurich (CH), she completed her Master of Arts in Political Science, Management and Economics as well as Environmental Sciences.