Vice President of Programmes, World Cocoa Foundation
A senior leader with over twenty years of experience in sustainability, agribusiness, supply chain issues, energy and climate, and public and regulatory affairs, Koegler has led and supported teams in leading non-profit organizations, the financial and the corporate sector. In his last position as Senior Director at Conservation International (CI), a global environmental organisation that combines fieldwork with innovations in science, policy and finance, Koegler led the organisation’s corporate and the financial sector engagements in Europe where his teams of policy engagement and public and private sector fundraising experts promoted corporate and financial sector partnerships for investments in climate change, large-scale nature protection and Nature Based Solutions projects around the globe.
A graduate of the University of Natural Resources-BOKU, Vienna, Austria with an MSc in Agricultural Engineering, Koegler also holds an MBA in International Food and Agribusiness from the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK and Utah State University, Logan, USA.