Our News
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ACTIS signs MoU with UNEP in Nairobi
ACTIS recently signed a new MoU with UNEP in Nairobi in order to design and host YES courses in Africa. YES courses were previously hosted with UNEP in 2005 and 2007, and this new agreement will allow for additional courses to be hosted from 2012 onwards. Both partners look forward [...]
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YES Students Participate in the World Resources Forum
ACTIS was invited to bring a delegation of YES participants to the third annual World Resources Forum in Davos in September. A total of 35 participants from 22 different countries represented the YES course at the conference, and contributed to the conference by running parallel sessions, speaking in the wrap [...]
The Team
ACTIS operates under the leadership of the Director, Dr. Roger Baud, along with a team of professionals who are brought according to the needs of each particular program.
Dr Roger Baud
Executive Director
Dr. Roger Baud has a PhD. in Social Psychology and Journalism from the University of Zürich (1973). He began his career as a high school teacher and psychology assistant at University of Zurich, where he conducted social research in the public sector. Dr. Baud has also been the director of various tourism enterprises and an environmental NGO and has acted as an environmental tourism consultant leading research projects with the Swiss National Science Foundation. Roger Baud took on the job of Executive Director of the Alliance for Global Sustainability at ETH Zurich in 1998 and remained Director of ETHsustainability until his retirement in 2009. In early 2009 Dr Baud created ACTIS to continue and expand the YES program.
Contact: roger.baud@actis-education.ch
An expert team of course organisers, faculty and facilitators are brought together on a course by course basis. In this manner ACTIS ensures that the best possible team for the particular content focus leads each course. An overview of the faculty and course organizer is available to download here.