Nick is a Swiss economist/activist (LSE) with the mission to accelerate technological and regulatory innovation that addresses the climate and biodiversity crisis. Since 2008 he runs the Cleantech21 foundation (C21). From 2009 to 2016, Nick acted as president of swisscleantech, Switzerland’s first green business association, shaping the country’s climate and energy policy (SRF, die Zeit). Following the successful spin-out of the association, Nick runs C21’s international projects. This includes the Climate Policy Exchange (CPX), the International Climate Income Alliance (ICIA), the Hack4Climate Innovation program (H4C), and the Climate Ledger Initiative (CLI). In September 2020 Nick was named one of Switzerland’s ‘100 digital shapers’ by Bilanz for the second time.

Nick is a board member of the Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation, an active member of WWF’s Leaders for Nature, and an advisor to UBS’ Clean Energy Infrastructure Switzerland investment funds. He started his career with McKinsey in Germany, and then founded Vietnam’s first software JV in Saigon. He worked in China, Korea, Singapore, Iran, Iraq, and United Arab Emirates as Partner in an advisory firm focused on multi-use real estate and complex infrastructure developments. As his final engagement with the firm, he was in charge of a 3-year mandate with the Government of Abu Dhabi as part of the first development period of the Masdar Project.

Nick walks and runs with his dog Ken, bikes and urban-farms, plays the piano and soccer with friends, swims, and occasionally gets to kitesurf.

Baptiste is an analyst specialised in pluralist economics, law, and international relations. He graduated from the University of Geneva, where he was an active member of the Rethinking Economics network, as well as president of its local chapter. He spent a semester studying at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) and Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

Baptiste is engaged in voluntary work as a scientific advisor for Monnaie Léman, a Swiss local fiat- and cryptocurrency based on a blockchain, where he does socioeconomic research. He is co-president of the humanitarian association Association Maurice Demierre, active in Nicaragua.

Baptiste is also a certified audio engineer, writes music, plays the piano and loves to surf whenever he can.

John has made an international career in event catering and as a wine professional. The choice of the right product and service has always been essential in his approach and the dimensions of sustainability and healthfulness became increasingly important to him. This led to his interest to address the pressing challenges of climate change and the need to actively help support tangible solutions.

He therefore engaged as a volunteer with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, advocating for a Climate Income System at both national (Belgian) and international level. The salient focus on Europe’s ’Green Deal’ brings him into daily contact with stakeholders at different levels.

As part of his postgraduate ‘Energy & Climate’ at the University of Antwerp, he performs an internship at C21.

To recharge, John hikes or mountain bikes through nature.

C21’s first team member and former head of policy, Franziska Barmettler, went on to lead sustainability at IKEA Switzerland. One of the first team members, Tobias Reichmuth, founded the renewable energies and efficiency fund SUSI Partners (investing +1bn CHF in 2019). C21’s former head of research, Christian Zeyer, now acts as swisscleantech’s CEO, and our former senior analyst Martin Novak acts as the association's head of policy. Christina Berger, who acted in different capacities at C21 and swisscleantech, now is a regional director at the EITS (the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative). Former senior analyst Nicolas Fries is a project leader in sustainability at Switzerland’s largest construction company, Implenia. Our former analyst Tobias Sommer is now program manager and focal point World Bank at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (DEZA), while Tobias Fehr-Bosshard is project manager and PHD student at the Competence Center for Social Innovation (CSI-HSG). Yannic Steffan, a former C21 research analyst, now is sustainability manager at Valora. Former project manager Anna Stünzi now is the president of foraus, the Swiss forum for foreign policy, and she researches at PIK. Former research analyst and climate historian Eleonora Rohland is now a professor at the University of Bielefeld. Our best-intern-ever, Anna Nyfeler, is fast becoming a lawyer and currently acts as PhD Candidate at Bucerius Law School.