Christian Häuselmann is an innovation-driven Swiss economist and serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience shaping the Cleantech and circular economy landscape. After pioneering the first Swiss e-bike in the early 1990s and winning the Vigier Young Entrepreneur Award for bringing the FLYER electric bike to market, he went on to work across start-ups, global organizations, and policy arenas to accelerate sustainable transformation.
He is the founder of SHIFT Switzerland, a platform that has been catalyzing circular economy ecosystems since 2012 through high-impact business matchmaking and annual SHIFT events. Christian also launched 2291 – 1000 Years Switzerland, an ambitious initiative designed to foster long-term thinking across generations and regions and to inspire a deeper cultural imagination for Switzerland’s future.
Earlier, he co-founded Café Europe AG, a NewsTech agency publishing punkt4 and Swisstrade, and he founded swisscleantech, which he developed into one of Switzerland’s leading sustainable business and policy networks.
Christian holds an MS in Business Administration from the University of Berne and today lives in San Diego, where he continues to build bridges between innovation, sustainability, and long-range cultural vision.
