Daniel Wiener is the Founder and Board Chair of the Global Infrastructure Basel (GIB) Foundation, which he established in 2010 to mainstream sustainable, resilient and regenerative infrastructure finance. With a career rooted in sustainability spanning four decades, he brings exceptional depth and continuity to his work: he co-founded ecos, a Swiss consultancy and think-tank for sustainable development, which he led for over 30 years, and has been a driving force behind numerous pioneering initiatives in green finance, clean energy, and sustainable architecture. He is a co-founder and long-standing senior advisor to The Gold Standard Foundation, one of the world's most respected voluntary carbon market standards, and a co-founder of BASE, a UNEP-Collaborating Centre based in Basel.

Beyond GIB, Daniel remains actively engaged across a wide range of sustainability-oriented ventures. He chairs CO2 Pipeline Schweiz AG, Switzerland's largest single decarbonisation project, and is a co-founder of the Swiss Future Fund Foundation and a founding member of swisscleantech, fair fashion factory and Basel Strick AG. Earlier in his career, he was a part-time Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), and began his professional life as a journalist and editor, including as co-founder of Die Wochenzeitung. As Founder and Board Chair of GIB since its inception, Daniel brings to the foundation an unmatched combination of long-term vision, entrepreneurial energy, and practical commitment to systemic change.

Other current positions: Chairperson of the Board, CO2 Pipeline Schweiz AG; Founding Member and Co-Founder, fair fashion factory; Co-Founder and Executive Board Member, Basel Strick AG; Member of the Board of Advisors, Locarno Film Festival; Co-Founder and Vice-President, Swiss Future Fund Foundation; Senior Advisor, The Gold Standard Foundation.