Daniel Wild Ph.D

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Dr. Daniel Wild serves as Chief Sustainability Officer at Bank J. Safra Sarasin. He served as Global Head of Environmental, Social, and Governance at Credit Suisse. Dr. Daniel Wild served as Co-Chief Executive Officer at RobecoSAM. He is also a Member of the Executive Committee at RobecoSAM. In his position, he is responsible for innovation, the development of new products, and tailoring client solutions. He is also responsible for the research methodology applied in RobecoSAM's corporate sustainability assessment. Daniel Wild holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) under the supervision of Professor Willi Gujer. Following postdoctoral research studies in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Stanford University (USA) from 1997-1999, he joined the engineering and consulting firm Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. in Zollikon as Head of the Environmental Technology Department and carried out consulting mandates in Switzerland, Eastern Europe, and Asia. From 2004-2006, Daniel worked as Program Manager in the Infrastructure Financing Department at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, where he was in charge of infrastructure investments in Macedonia, Kosovo, Poland, and Vietnam.