Tatjana von Steiger to become new President of the Board of Trustees at WWF Switzerland
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Publish date: June 30, 2022
Tatjana von Steiger to become new President of the Board of Trustees at WWF Switzerland
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Publish date: June 30, 2022
Tatjana von Steiger, Head of Global Policy Outreach at the Wyss Academy for Nature, will take over the role in September of 2022 from Kurt Schmid, whose term on the Board of Trustees is coming to an end after nine years. Von Steiger is very excited about her new role and sees it as a great responsibility:
"Climate change, biodiversity loss and growing inequalities require advocates and institutions like the WWF to work toward a transformation of systems, so that they can continue to serve people and nature in the future. In doing so, it is central that WWF Switzerland always critically reflects on its own strategy, and remains agile and adaptive so that it can adequately respond to change and continue to effectively advance its mission."
Tatjana von Steiger leads and coordinates the Wyss Academy's relations with actors in various global bodies, as well as at the interface of science, politics and society. From 2001 to 2020, von Steiger worked at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). For the last three years, she was Deputy Head of the SDC's Global Cooperation Department. Before that, she worked on the development of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Minister and Team Leader for Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs at the Swiss Mission to the UN in New York.