Axel Michaelowa has a PhD in Economics and has worked on international climate policy instruments and the UNFCCC process since 1994.
He is senior founding partner of Perspectives, and part-time researcher at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Zurich. Axel consults private, governmental and public institutions on international carbon markets and the design of domestic climate policy instruments and has written more than 400 research articles and studies on these topics.
Axel is a member of the roster of experts of the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body. Between 2006 and 2013, he served on the CDM Registration and Issuance Team of the CDM Executive Board; he was member of the board of the Climate Cent Foundation between 2005 and 2009.
Axel has done capacity building on carbon markets and carbon pricing in over 40 developing countries, ranging from Algeria to Yemen. He worked on 10 approved baseline methodologies and three approved standardized baselines under the CDM. In South East Asia and South Asia, Axel has been working intensively since the late 1990s on capacity building for the CDM, design of nationally appropriate mitigation actions, Article 6 piloting and linking of international carbon markets with Just Energy Transition Partnerships.