Baris Karapinar leads the ESG & Sustainability practice of Protiviti Switzerland. He offers 20 years of academic and policy consultancy experience in sustainable development. He has worked for several UN agencies, including the UN Development Programme, UN Industrial Development Organization, and the Climate Finance unit of the UN Environment Programme. He served in the advisory panel of the UNCCD Land Neutrality Fund. He was a Lead-Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an internationally accepted authority on climate change. IPCC was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.