Barbara Dubach

Executive director, Managing Director & Founder - Innovate 4 Nature & engageability

Barbara has been passionate about sustainability for more than 30 years and has gained longstanding, international experience and expertise in the industry, public and non-profit sector.
As an entrepreneur and initiator, she enables engagement and acceleration for profit and non-profit organization with engageability – a center of excellence creating value for all stakeholders and the common good.
She sits on the board of several organizations including Holzheizkraftwerk Aubrugg, Pusch, Swiss Peace, Swisscleantech, and the council for sustainable investments at the Alternative Bank Switzerland.
Her business experience includes many years as Senior Vice President responsible for sustainable development coordination at LafargeHolcim (former Holcim) in various countries in the world, a secondment to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) as Director Communication and Advocacy as well as working as environmental economist for the Federal Office of Environment in Switzerland.
Barbara holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Zurich and a PhD from the University of St. Gallen on ‘Managing environmental communication in multinational companies’.