Marco Keiner

Marco Keiner (* 13. April 1963 in Überlingen, Germany) is Director, Environment, Housing and Land Management Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

Career

After completing his studies in geography at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Nice, and post-graduate studies in spatial planning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, he worked as spatial planner in the cantonal administrations of Zurich and St. Gallen. He then worked as development aid worker in Mali and Benin where he drafted his PhD thesis on sustainability-oriented land use planning in the Sahel zone. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1999 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. From 2000 to 2007, Keiner was senior research assistant at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at ETH Zurich and senior lecturer for Geography at the University of Innsbruck, where he obtained his habilitation in 2005. In 2007, he became Chief, Urban Environment Section at UN-HABITAT in Nairobi. From 2008-2010, he was Director, Environment, Housing and Land Management Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in Geneva. In 2009 he was quoted as supporting environment stabilization in potential conflict zones, saying ""In a sense, this is war prevention. When environmental quality worsens in a region, tensions can occur, which can lead to conflict.".[1] Since 2011, Marco Keiner is Director, Environment Division at UNECE.

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