Thomas Bergen

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Thomas Bergen is the Founder of HOPE NOW, which brings entrepreneurs from around the globe together to discuss how they can contribute to solving the climate change problem. Additionally, he is Co-Founder and CEO of getAbstract since 1998, a multinational company providing compressed business knowledge to managers and corporations worldwide. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Bergen was Managing Director at Migros Bank, and since 2002, he has been a Member of the Board of Trustees and Advisory Council of Einsiedeln Monastery. From 2007 to 2014, he was a member of the Executive Board and President of the Swiss Management Society, and he has been a Member of Swisscontact's Board of Trustees since 2016. In 2020, Mr. Bergen founded the non-profit and non-partisan foundation Hope Now, promoting carbon fees that directly yield carbon dividends to citizens.