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Martin Hostettler

Hostettler is managing partner of Cycad Inc. in Switzerland. He has professional expertise in environmental engineering with focuses on gravel pits, quarries, and landfills. Hostettler also worked as a consultant in forest policy with Tensor Consulting Inc. He is currently the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Swiss Forestry Journal and lectures about forest property rights at TU Dresden. Hostettler attended the 2004 KCI-Enviropreneur Institute at PERC.

Martin Hostettler, a forest economist and engineer, lives in Switzerland. He earned a M.S. in Forest Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 2004, Martin joined PERC as an enviropreneur fellow working on the project “Forests Against Avalanches: Paying Protection, Not Costs.”

He worked as a consultant in forest policy with Tensor Consulting Inc. before becoming the managing partner of Cycad Inc. He is currently the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Swiss Forestry Journal and lectures about forest property rights at TU Dresden, Germany. Hostettler is a member of the Friedrich August von Hayek Society in Germany, the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, and the Swiss Forestry Society.

Hostettler has spent time away from his home in Switzerland traveling and working abroad in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, Spain, and the United States.

In his role as an Enviropreneur-in-Residence alum and board member, Martin provides practical insight to how PERC can continually build on more than thirty years of success solving environmental problems with market solutions.

– See more at: https://www.perc.org/articles/board-profile-1#sthash.cyhSAt8C.dpuf

Martin Hostettler, a forest economist and engineer, lives in Switzerland. He earned a M.S. in Forest Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 2004, Martin joined PERC as an enviropreneur fellow working on the project “Forests Against Avalanches: Paying Protection, Not Costs.”

He worked as a consultant in forest policy with Tensor Consulting Inc. before becoming the managing partner of Cycad Inc. He is currently the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Swiss Forestry Journal and lectures about forest property rights at TU Dresden, Germany. Hostettler is a member of the Friedrich August von Hayek Society in Germany, the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, and the Swiss Forestry Society.

Hostettler has spent time away from his home in Switzerland traveling and working abroad in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, Spain, and the United States.

In his role as an Enviropreneur-in-Residence alum and board member, Martin provides practical insight to how PERC can continually build on more than thirty years of success solving environmental problems with market solutions.

– See more at: https://www.perc.org/articles/board-profile-1#sthash.cyhSAt8C.dpuf