About Policy Solutions

Dr. Anne Arquit Niederberger
...is your guarantor for credibility

Anne has 20 years of experience in climate change science, policy and consulting. She holds a Ph.D. in Oceanography (with degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Hawaii), began her career as a paleoclimatologist with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, and was actively involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, both as a scientific expert and representative of the Swiss government.

A dual American-Swiss citizen, she represented Switzerland from 1991-2000 in the UN negotiations of the Climate Convention and Kyoto Protocol, as well as other international agreements related to energy and environment. She has worked in a range of international fora, and was Vice-President of the OECD Working Group on Energy & Environment. She has developed an extensive international contact network and continues to serve a wide range of clients from around the world.

At the domestic level, she was Deputy Head of Climate Change Affairs at the Swiss Agency for Environment; Deputy Director of ProClim-, the Swiss Academy of Science's Forum for Climate and Global Change dialog among the scientific community and policymakers; and designed and was the first manager of the Swiss AIJ Pilot Program at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.

Following a year-long world cycling tour, she launched her strategic and policy consultancy, Policy Solutions (with offices in Switzerland and San Francisco), in April 2001.