Bruno Oberle is a Swiss environmental scientist and economist.

Oberle was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland on 12 October 1955, and grew up in Locarno and Zürich.

He took biology and environmental sciences at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD.

[1] Oberle was Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Chair of the Green Economy and Resource Governance program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and is a former director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment[2] and State Secretary for the Environment.

[3] Presently, he is Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.