The management board of the Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. (DUH) has appointed Sascha Müller-Kraenner—one of the founders and a partner of Ecologic Institute, Berlin and Vice-Chairman of the Ecologic Institute in Washington DC—as chief executive of the nature, environment, and consumer organization. The trained biologist has led the association since January 2015 together with Jürgen Resch who has held the position since 1986.

Until the end of the year, Müller-Kraenner worked at one of the world's largest environmental organizations: The Nature Conservancy (TNC). At DUH, he takes responsibility for energy and climate protection, nature conservation and municipal environmental protection. Sascha Müller-Kraenner has been dealing with environmental policy for more than 20 years. He was working for Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR) (the umbrella organization of German nature conservation and environmental protection organizations) and served as the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Director for Europe and North America, as well as head of the Foundation's program on foreign and security policy. From 1998 until 2002 he served as Director of the Foundation's office in Washington, DC. Since 2007, Sascha Müller-Kraenner has held the positions of Senior Policy Adviser and the European representative of TNC.

(Source: Deutsche Umwelthilfe)