Board of Directors
		SAVE Foundation
back to directors listing		Hans-Peter Grunenfelder, MSc (executive vice chairman SAVE) Monitoring Institute for Rare Breeds and Seeds in Europe Schneebergstr. 17 CH-9000 St.Gallen / Switzerland E-mail: <hape.grunenfelder@gmx.net> Born 1946. Ethnozoographer and graduated engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a dissertation on rural development. Former honorable functionary of WWF-Switzerland, he has been concerned with the issue of agrobiodiversity since the end of the 1970s. In 1982, he founded the Swiss Foundation ProSpecieRara and managed it until 1995. For that he got 1987 the Binding Acknowledgment Prize of the Principality of Liechtenstein. After the fall of the iron curtain he established 1991 an office in Prague to co-ordinate rescue actions for endangered breeds and seeds in Central and Eastern Europe. This was one of the leading events to the later establishment of SAVE, where Grunenfelder was a main actor. In 1994 he directed the SAVE-Preparation Office in St.Gallen, which was transformed into the SAVE Project Office in 1996. In 1995 he received the Chorafas-Prize from the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (100'000 CHF = Euro 65'000, together with Prof. Jakobsson of Iceland) for his outstanding work for the in-situ-conservation of rare breeds and seeds. With the formidable amount of this prize he started the "Monitoring Institute for Rare Breeds and Seeds in Europe", one of his main occupations now. He is still member of the Board of Directors of ProSpecieRara and since 2000 also of DAGENE (Danubian Alliance for Gen-Conservation). He chaired SAVE Foundation for 1997-1999. As executive vice chairman he leads and supports the activities of SAVE Foundation and the European SAVE Network and he is active as permanent representative of SAVE with the international organisations in Vienna (both in a volunteer position).
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