Joseph Merz

Joseph began his career on a scholarship to train as a pilot. He went on to spend the better part of two decades as the founder and co-founder of a number of commercial organisations across various industries from marketing to pharmaceuticals. Most recently he founded the Merz Institute where he serves as chairman. Merz Institute is a New Zealand based research institute largely focused on addressing ecological overshoot at a behavioural level. Joseph launched the institute's Overshoot Behaviour Lab and is currently forming the complimentary Future Behaviour Lab. He is a Senior Fellow of the Global EverGreening Alliance and also serves on the Executive Committee of the Stable Planet Alliance. Joseph is the lead author on the recent paper, "World scientists' warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot".