Speaker details

Christoph Meili

Christoph Meili, Ph.D., studied Biotechnology at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Business Administration at the University of St.Gallen where he did his Ph.D in Business Administration. He was working for several years as a risk-expert for emerging technologies in the insurance business. Since 2005 he is CEO of The Innovation Society, Ltd (St.Gallen) an international nanotech-consulting company. He is focusing on safety-, risk and regulation issues of nanotechnology. Since 2006 he is advisor of the Swiss Government as a nanotech risk expert. He is in charge of developing the Swiss Nanotechnology Actionplan (Risk-Management of synthetic nanoparticles 2006-2009).