Biography:
Xavier Koenig has over 15 years of experience across the engineering, sustainability, and project management, sectors. He holds an MSc in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), and is currently a PhD candidate in Natural Capital Accounting at Universite des Mascareignes (Mauritius). Having evolved primarily in the private sector in Australia and Mauritius, his work has centered on corporate assets, projects and sustainability strategies, including stakeholder engagement, carbon accounting, and conservation management. Now turning towards the land use - biodiversity nexus, his research addresses governance, remote sensing, geospatial data analysis and valuation of ecosystem services, aimed at informing policy and decision making at both national and subnational levels for nature-positive development.
Title : Improved ecosystem condition but reduced services? Modelling corporate land use effects on a watershed in Mauritius
Title : The island nation as system and scale to examine the One Health concept: The case of Mauritius