Bastien Girod

Nationalrat Bastien Girod
Bastien Girod 2019
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
Personal details
Born	(1980-12-21) 21 December 1980 (age 43)
Nationality	Swiss
Political party	Green Party of Switzerland
Children	2
Residence	Zürich
Alma mater	ETH Zurich, University of Zurich
Occupation	politician
Profession	researcher and advisor
Committees	environment, spatial planning and energy committee
Website	bastiengirod.ch (in German)

Bastien Girod (born 21 December 1980) is a Swiss politician, sustainability researcher, corporate and industry advisor.

Politician

Since 2007, Bastien Girod (Green Party) has been an elected member of the Swiss national council, where he serves on the environment, spatial planning and energy committee.^[1]

Scientific career

Girod is lecturer (Privatdozent) at the ETH Zurich on Sustainability and Technology.^[2] He also holds an Executive MBA from the University of Zurich,^[3] conducted a PhD at ETH Zurich with the title „Integration of Rebound Effects into Life-Cycle Assessment“.^[4]

Business activities

Since 2018 Bastien Girod works at South Pole Group as corporate sustainability advisor and head of the DACH business development unit.^[5] In the same year he took over the presidency of the industry association for Swiss waste revalorization plants (VBSA), which is committed to a sustainable Swiss waste system.^[6]

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bastien Girod.

1. ^ "Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy Committees ESPEC". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
2. ^ "Dr. Bastien Girod". www.sustec.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
3. ^ "Universität Zürich: Executive MBA" (PDF).
4. ^ Girod, Bastien (2009). Integration of rebound effects into LCA: analysis of the environmental impact of product-consumption interactions (Doctoral thesis). ETH Zurich. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005955688.
5. ^ "Bastien Girod wechselt zur Zürcher Klima-Firma South Pole". South Pole. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
6. ^ "Bastien Girod als Präsident des VBSA gewählt" (PDF). vbsa.ch. 2018-05-17.