Dr. André Wehrli works as Switzerland’s Regional Water Advisor in Central Asia since the beginning of August 2017. Before that, he worked with the Global Programme on Climate Change & Environment of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, where he was responsible for several global and regional activities on climate mitigation and adaptation, with a particular focus on climate services, mountains and Southern Africa. Apart from that, he was a member of the official Swiss delegation to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Switzerland’s lead negotiator on climate change adaptation incl. loss and damage.
Prior to joining SDC, he worked for several years as scientific expert for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, where he was responsible for the management of protection forests/natural hazards in Switzerland. From 2009-2011, he was seconded as a national expert to the European Environment Agency EEA to help EEA scoping their activities in climate change adaptation.

He holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and a Diploma in Biology (MSc) from Zurich University, and is fluent in English, German, French and Dutch.