About this speaker
Matthias leads the work on Climate Interventions as program director on this issue. He has over 12 years of experience in climate change governance and has been pioneering emerging topics including carbon dioxide removal and carbon management with a focus on fair and effective policymaking. He has a Masters Degree in Environmental System Sciences with a focus on Human-Environment Systems and is finalizing a PhD in political science on governance of climate interventions at Utrecht University. Besides ICFG he works at Perspectives Climate Research as Head of a Research Group on Removals and Solar Radiation Modification, where he leads the Co-CREATE project consortium advising the European Commission on SRM research governance.
He has written for academic, broad, and decisionmaker audiences on the issues at stake in decisions and negotiations on the governance and policy of climate technologies – existing and future.
His passion is to play a part – however modest – in improving the human and environmental condition despite drastic threats from accelerating climate impacts and the integrity of work at the science-policy interface.
