Hermann Ott is founder and Managing Director of the Germany Office for ClientEarth, an international environmental law organization, and a professor at the University of Sustainable Development in Eberswalde. Previously, he directed the Wuppertal Institute Climate Policy Division and founded its Berlin Office. From 2009 to 2013, he was a Member of the Bundestag and served as the Greens’ speaker on climate policy. He has served on the boards of Greenpeace Germany and the German Environment Foundation, and is currently on the Executive Committee of the German League for Nature, Animal and Environment Protection.