Mathis Wackernagel

He is founder and CEO of the Global Footprint Network, and he has sponsored Earth Overshoot Day since 2006.

He is a co-author of Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on Earth (1996, with UBC Professor William Rees and Phil Testemale), Sharing Nature’s Interest (2001, with Nicky Chambers and Craig Simmons), and The Winners and Losers in Global Competition: Why Eco-Efficiency Reinforces Competitiveness. He also co-authored a Study of 44 Nations (2003, with Andreas Sturm).

For contributing to sustainability metrics, he has received many awards such as the Herman Daly Award for Ecological Economics (2005), Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2007), Blue Planet Prize (2012), and Prix Nature Swisscanto (2013).