Bernhard Frey works as a manager for environment and climate at the United Nations Global Compact Office and the secretariat of Caring for Climate, an initiative of the UN Secretary-General, where he supports business engagement with the UN climate and sustainable development agendas and oversees the team’s work on adaptation and reporting. Prior to that he supported civil society engagement with UN sustainable development processes as a sustainability manager and the focal point for ‘Rio+20’ of the UN Non-governmental Liaison Service. Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Frey worked for several years with GIZ as an advisor on environmental policy to the German Ministry for Development and Economic Cooperation and to the Ministry for the Environment of Mali. He was also project assistant at the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union (EESC) in Brussels and at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB). Mr. Frey speaks fluently German, Spanish, English, French and Catalan and holds a Master’s degree in political science, as well as certificates of German, Spanish, French and American universities.