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: <info@monitoring.eu.com> Born 1946. 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 Pro Specie Rara and managed it until 1995. 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 Pro Specie Rara 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 SAVE Head Office in Konstanz and he is active as permanent representative of SAVE Foundation with the international organisations in Geneva (both in a volunteer position).
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