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Franz Hochstrasser

Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder, Raise Green
Franz Hochstrasser

Franz Hochstrasser has been working at the intersection of policy, climate change, environmental and social issues for more than a decade. He has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Cofounder of Raise Green since 2018.

Prior to graduating from Yale School of the Environment with a focus on sustainable finance, clean energy and business in 2018, Franz served eight years in the Obama Administration as Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Department of State, working on the team that successfully negotiated the Paris Agreement.