Carsten has worked on environmental and sustainability topics throughout the Asia-Pacific Region (APAC) for 30 years.
He holds a Master of Science in Biology (Tropical Ecology) from the Freie Universität of Berlin (FU Berlin) in Germany. He has worked with numerous safeguards systems, providing environmental safeguards and climate change adaptation consultancy inputs in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Carsten held the position as Senior Adjunct Lecturer at Singapore National University (NUS) from 2008-2012. He conducted numerous teaching and speaking assignments and has authored several publications on regional environmental issues. Carsten has taught Sustainable Urban Drainage Solutions at the Institution of Engineers, Singapore, (IES) until 2024. For his lectures, he has focused on the construction of sustainable drainage systems, which his company designed and built in Singapore and Malaysia.
Most recently, Carsten has been working on Biodiversity Accounting Metrics using new models to predict biodiversity impacts and mitigation targets such as Zero Biodiversity Net Loss and/or Biodiversity Net Gains in post-development scenarios.