Bastien Girod

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Bastien Girod
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the National Council (Switzerland)
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 December 2007
Succeeded byMeret Schneider
ConstituencyCanton of Zurich
Personal details
Born
Bastien Girod

(1980-12-21) 21 December 1980 (age 43)
Geneva, Switzerland
Political partyGreen Party of Switzerland
Spouse
Ellen Tkatch
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(m. 2012; sep. 2023)​
Children2
ResidenceZürich-West
Alma materETH Zurich, University of Zurich
OccupationResearcher, lecturer, politician
Committeesenvironment, spatial planning and energy committee
WebsiteOfficial website
Parliament website

Bastien Girod (French: [bas.tjɛ̃ ʒi.ʁo]; born 21 December 1980) is a Swiss sustainability researcher, corporate and industry advisor and politician who serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Green Party since 2007.[1][2] In August 2024, Girod announced to step back from office, and designated Meret Schneider as his successor.[3]

Early life and education

Girod was born 21 December 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland. He has one sister as well as a half-brother and half-sister from his fathers previous marriages. Additionally his family took-in three foster children.[4] He was raised in Biel/Bienne. His family was well situated with his father being a physician and his mother a social worker.[5]

He received a private Waldorf education and then at the German-speaking high school in Biel/Bienne. Ultimately, Girod studied environmental science at ETH Zurich as well as at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He had later completed an Executive MBA at the University of Zürich.

Career

Girod is lecturer (Privatdozent) at the ETH Zurich on Sustainability and Technology.[6] He also holds an Executive MBA from the University of Zurich,[7] conducted a PhD at ETH Zurich with the title „Integration of Rebound Effects into Life-Cycle Assessment“.[8]

Since 2018 Bastien Girod works at South Pole Group as corporate sustainability advisor and head of the DACH business development unit.[9] In the same year he took over the presidency of the industry association for Swiss waste revalorization plants (VBSA), which is committed to a sustainable Swiss waste system.[10]

Politics

Since 2007, Bastien Girod (Green Party) has been an elected member of the Swiss national council, where he serves on the environment, spatial planning and energy committee.[11]

Personal life

In 2012, Girod married Ellen Tkatch (born 1984), a native of Ukraine, a communications executive and former Miss Zurich 2005.[12] They have two daughers, Ari Girod (born 2014) and Lin (born 2017).[13] They legally separated in 2023.[14]

Girod resides in Zürich West.[15]

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References

  1. ^ "Votez pour moi. Bastien Girod: «La Suisse est moins ambitieuse que l'UE» - Le Temps" (in French). 2007-10-19. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  2. ^ "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  3. ^ "Bastien Girod tritt als Nationalrat zurück – Meret Schneider rückt nach". watson.ch (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  4. ^ Isler, Thomas (2015-07-25). "Theoretiker des Glücks". NZZ am Sonntag (in Swiss High German). ISSN 1660-0851. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  5. ^ Isler, Thomas (2015-07-25). "Theoretiker des Glücks". NZZ am Sonntag (in Swiss High German). ISSN 1660-0851. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  6. ^ "Dr. Bastien Girod". www.sustec.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
  7. ^ "Universität Zürich: Executive MBA" (PDF).
  8. ^ Girod, Bastien (2009). Integration of rebound effects into LCA: analysis of the environmental impact of product-consumption interactions (Doctoral thesis). ETH Zurich. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005955688.
  9. ^ "Bastien Girod wechselt zur Zürcher Klima-Firma South Pole". South Pole. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  10. ^ "Bastien Girod als Präsident des VBSA gewählt" (PDF). vbsa.ch. 2018-05-17.
  11. ^ "Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy Committees ESPEC". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  12. ^ "Was macht eigentlich...? - Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich". www.tagblattzuerich.ch. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  13. ^ "Bastien Girod: Der Nationalrat und seine Familie ganz privat". Schweizer Illustrierte (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  14. ^ Redaktion. "Bastien Girod: Grünen-Nationalrat und Ehefrau trennen sich". Nau (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  15. ^ Keller, Christoph (2023-06-09). "Der Optimist". Republik (in German).
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