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About Otto Simonett
Otto Simonett
Board Member
Phone: +41 22 917 8342

Creative thinking and leadership

I am the director and co-founder of Zoï Environment Network in Geneva, Switzerland. Zoï’s mission is making complex scientific and environmental issues understandable to decision-makers in politics, business and the media. I am a geographer by training with a PhD from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, with 30 years of working experience in the science – policy interface with UN organisations, GRID-Arendal and Zoï Environment Network. Geographical focus of my work is Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and the mountain regions of the world. I am is broadly acknowledged as a creative thinker and a manager with a unique ability to motivate people.

What I Bring

Through founding and managing Zoï Environment Network, a fully project-funded non-profit organisation, I have managerial and organisational skills potentially useful for GRID-Arendal. Having worked for GRID-Arendal from 1993 to 2008 I bring unique hands-on experience in the field of environmental information for policy making and the United Nations, and, for whatever it is worth, institutional memory. 

In My Own Words

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Jeg snakker passli bra Norsk.   

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