Bruno Oberle is a Swiss biologist and environmental scientist. On 13 July 2020 he was appointed Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Biography Oberle was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland on 12 October 1955, and grew up in Locarno and Zürich. He took biology and environmental sciences at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD. Oberle was Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Chair of the Green Economy and Resource Governance program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and is a former Director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment and State Secretary for the Environment. Presently, he is Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. References 1955 births Living people Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Environmental scientists People associated with the International Union for Conservation of Nature People from the canton of St. Gallen Swiss civil servants