Examples of international experience: - Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers) - Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes) - Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources) - Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK Scientific education: - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry), - University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics), - University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry), - Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology). Professional career: - Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975), - Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982), - Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987), - Director general of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensorf and Professor for Forest Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zürich (1987-1996), - Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005) - From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Director of ECHO-Power, consulting for environmental, ecological, statistical and managerial challenges Consultant for In-Finitude, Activities: - project management - project evaluation - moderation of workshops and seminars - animation of training courses - design and analysis of experiments and surveys - analysis of data - reporting the state of scientific knowledge Domains: - sustainable management of biological resources, including forest resources - criteria and indincators for sustainable development - landscape approach - ecosystem approach - conservation of biodiversity - restoration of degraded ecological systems - statistical methods, including sampling techniques