{"id":649,"date":"2019-09-26T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/?page_id=649"},"modified":"2023-01-24T23:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T21:30:33","slug":"simon-briner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/simon-briner\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Briner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Personal Scientific Assistant of the Director General, Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I have studied at ETH Z\u00fcrich, where I wrote my thesis on agricultural economics. In my research, I modelled farms and farming structures in three mountainous regions of Switzerland. The model evaluated the impact of changes in climate and agricultural policy on the provision of different agro-ecosystem services in these regions. To set up the models applied in my thesis, I had to collect sound knowledge of agricultural production systems and how they relate to and are steered by agricultural policy. What I did during my PhD has some links with what I did as a job afterwards. In the Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), I worked as a personal advisor to the director general. In this position, I was responsible for preparing information in the form of notes or presentations as well as for projects that mostly have a link to the future development of agricultural policy. For these tasks, the knowledge I had gained during the PhD \u2013 links between economic decision making, working of natural systems und policy \u2013 was very helpful because it makes it easier to understand what the impact of policy decision could be. This is where I see the most important interface between knowledge and policy: the provision of information that builds the base for sound decisions. If such information is provided in a way that is understandable for non-experts, it \u2013 in my opinion \u2013 can have a positive impact for policy development and give a positive reputation for science. Currently, I am running my own farm in Winterthur. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Personal Scientific Assistant of the Director General, Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) I have studied at ETH Z\u00fcrich, where I wrote my thesis on agricultural economics. In my research, I modelled farms and farming structures in three mountainous regions of Switzerland. The model evaluated the impact of changes in climate and agricultural policy on the … Continue reading Simon Briner<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45042,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}