Oliver Schelske

Dr. Oliver Schelske
Director Swiss Re Institute - Natural Assets and ESG Researc
Group Underwriting
Swiss Re Institute
Swiss Re
Mythenquai 50/60
CH-8022 Zürich
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 43 285 21 21
Phone2: +41 (0) 43 285 21 21
Fax: +41 (0) 43 282 68 01
E-mail: oliver_schelske(at)swissre.com
URL Institution: www.swissre.com
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
1) IPBES expert commissioned by the Swiss Government for the scoping of the business and biodiversity report
2) UN SIF Sustainable Insurance Forum expert for report on nature-related risks to financial markets
3) UN GEO Brief expert reviewer for brief on financial services
4) Member of FOEN / BAFU project stakeholder group on creating a multi-dimensional biodiversity index system (international project, Swiss chapter)
5) Informal group UN PSI Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance reflecting nature, group chair (2020)
6) UN WCMC ENCORE testing group member
7) TNFD Swiss Re co-delegate
8) Swiss Re spokesperson for biodiversity and ecosystem services
9) Head HR, Board member church Herrliberg (publicly elected for 2018-2022)


Key Publications of Oliver Schelske (up to ten) :
1) Biodiversity and ecosystem services: A business case for re/insurance, Zurich 2020, corresponding and lead author (https://www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:a7fe3dca-c4d6-403b-961c-9fab1b2f0455/swiss-re-institute-expertise-publication-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services.pdf); selected by The Worldbank among the most important Sustainability & ESG catalysts since 1997; essential findings re-printed by UN SIF and Canadian Government
2) Biodiversity and the benefits for human health, Zurich 2021 (https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-dialogues/climate-and-natural-catastrophe-risk/expertise-publication-biodiversity-benefits-for-human-health.html)
3) Achieving the SDGs with biodiversity, 2021 co-author (https://scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/d67fa591-6ef6-5e16-a770-f2347cb250f7-Achieving_the_SDGs_with_Biodiversity)
4) Insuring Natural Ecosystems as an Innovative Conservation Funding Mechanism: A Case Study on Coral Reefs (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61278-8_19) 2021
5) Mind the risk - cities at risk from natural disasters (project lead and corresponding author) https://www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:1609aced-968f-4faf-beeb-96e6a2969d79/Swiss_Re_Mind_the_risk.pdf
6) Conserving our common heritage - the role of spatial finance in Natural World Heritage protection https://www.unepfi.org/psi/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Conserving-our-common-heritage.pdf 2020
7) Integrating biodiversity into intergovernmental fiscal transfers, initiating and co-author, 2002 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1439179104700961, with I Seidl and T Koellner
8) Entrepreneurship in biodiversity conservation and regional development DOI:10.1080/0898562032000058914Corpus ID: 39517195 with I Seidl M Jenny J Joshi
9) Kompensation als Instrument zum Erhalt von Arten- und Landschaftsvielfalt: ökonomische Grundlagen und Fallbeispiele. with I Seidl 2000, ZfU Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht



Expertise of Oliver Schelske:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering
	Research Interface / Management
Topic Biosphere	Plants
	Animals
	Biodiversity
Topic Integrated Systems	Carbon Cycle
	Economic Cycle
	Life Cycle
Topic Ecosystems	Ecosystems
Topic Economy/ResourceUse	Economy / Resource Use
Topic Politics/Law	Politics / Law
Topic Society	Society
Topic Health	Health
Topic Sustainability	Sustainability
Spatial Scale	Spatial Scale
Methods	Data Analysis
	Literature Study
	Modeling
	Policy Analysis and Formation
	Applied Research / Technology
	Integrated Assessment
GeoForum Environmental-Technology	Spatial Planning

Specialties of Oliver Schelske:
Sustainability research, biodiversity and ecosystem service, urban and regional economics, spatial finance

Last update: 11/20/21
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