Institution: SYSTEMIQ

Dr. Guido Schmidt-Traub is a Partner at SYSTEMIQ Ltd, an advisory company committed to system change for sustainable development. He is a Trustee of WaterAid UK, Board member of the Friends of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Europe, and a member of the SDSN Leadership Council.

Guido serves as Chair of the International Advisory Group on Ecological Conservation Redlining to China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Chair of the International Advisory Council on Natural Capital, Carbon, and Communities to the Government of Indonesia, member of the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on Nature and the Economy, and Principal of the Food and Land-Use Coalition.

Until 2020, Guido served as founding Executive Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which operates under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. He has advised many governments and corporations, contributed to the design of the SDGs as well as the Paris Agreement, and published numerous reports.

Previously, Guido was CEO of Paris-based CDC Climate Asset Management, Partner at South Pole Carbon Asset Management, and climate change advisor to the Africa Progress Panel. He managed the MDG Support Team at UNDP and served as Associate Director of the UN Millennium Project in New York, which advised countries on achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Earlier Guido worked in IP Investing as Partner at IndexIT Scandinavia and as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Guido holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Wageningen University, an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and a Master’s in physical chemistry from FU Berlin. He resides in Paris.