Joseph Merz
Associate - behavior
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. Joseph is the lead author on the recent paper, "World scientists' warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot".
