Mary Jean Van Vliet-Bürer

Dr. Bürer has a doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen. Since 1998, Dr. Bürer has worked in the field of sustainability with a focus on climate and energy issues at the intersection of technology, policy, and economics. She started her career with a focus on emissions trading (working for UNEP, UNCTAD and IETA), and then became a Transportation Policy Analyst at NRDC where she helped ensure the passing of vehicle CO2 standards in California. She later obtained her PhD in Economics in 2008 from the University of St. Gallen and worked in the area of sustainable finance when she joined the Investor Network for Climate Risk (INCR). In 2009 she became Scientific Officer for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Currently Dr. Bürer serves as Senior Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Business Development at the School of Management and Engineering Vaud, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HEIG-VD, HES-SO). When she first joined GGKP she was a Senior Research Fellow at EPFL. She now focuses her research at HEIG-VD on the energy transition, new business models in smart grid and e-mobility innovation ecosystems, and is developing an index for measuring the preparedness of countries for an energy transition called the Energy Transition Preparedness Index.