Lucas Bretschger is Full Professor of Economics/Resource Economics at ETH Zurich and President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). His main research interests are the theory and policy of natural resources and the environment, growth, trade, climate, public sector and regional economies.
He is also a Research Associate of the University of Oxford and holds the title of Professor at the University of Zurich; he is a consultant to the Swiss government on climate issues and a member of the Swiss delegation at international climate negotiations. He has served on many platforms such as the German Board of Environmental and Resource Economics, the Energy Science Center, the Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, and the Alliance for Global Sustainability.

Lucas Bretschger graduated from the University of Zurich and was awarded his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1988. After working in the private sector and visiting Princeton University he became a Professor of Economics at the University of Greifswald before joining ETH Zurich in 2003. He was one of the founders and the first full-term Head of a new department for economists where natural resources are a central research topic. He created the Center of Economics Research CER-ETH and built up a resource economics group, where the career development of the staff is a strategic target. In 2004, he founded the now well-established SURED Conference on Monte Verità, which every two years brings together experts on sustainable resource use and economic dynamics.