Christoph Frei

Since 2009

Secretary General , World Energy Council (WEC).

Since 2006

Titulary Professor , Advisor to the President of EPFL and EPFL's Energy Center on energy issues. Expertise: International energy & environment policy and strategy.

2001-2009

Senior Director , Energy Industries & Strategy at the World Economic Forum (WEF); Member of the Forum's Executive Council.

2002-2003

Lecturer , postgraduate course on "Energy Systems in an Economywide Framework", for the Master of Science in Energy Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).

2001-2003

European Master in Applied Ethics , Ethics Centre, University of Zurich; specialisation in multi-stakeholder theory.

2000-2001

Research fellow at the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology – co-lecturing "Socio-economic aspects of Energy Systems".

1996-2000

Dr ès Sciences , PhD thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen (PSI). Domain: Modelling the links between Energy Policy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Welfare.

1997-2000

Master (DES) in Econometrics at the University of Geneva.

1995-1997

Master of Science in Energy Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL); specialisation in Energy Economics and Management.

1995-2001

Research fellow at the Laboratory of Energy Systems of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).

1989-1995

Dipl. El.-Ing. , graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zürich (ETHZ) (4th year in Lausanne); training/diploma thesis at the Institute of Microtechnique, University of Neuchâtel (UNINE) (solar cells research).