Dr. Bert Metz  has vast experience in the field of climate change policy. He served as the coordinator of climate policy at the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment and chief negotiator for the Netherlands and the European Union in the international climate change negotiations from 1992 to 1998.

He was elected co-chairman of the Working Group on Mitigation of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (1997–2002) and was re-elected to serve as co-chairman of the Mitigation Working Group for the Fourth Assessment Report (2002–2008), during which period the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize .

At the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency from 1998 to 2005, he led the group on climate change and global sustainability. He has published a large series of national and international policy analyses on climate change and sustainability (see publications page ).

After retiring from the Dutch government, he served as advisor to the European Climate Foundation , was a member of various advisory panels and was teaching as a visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. The European Association for Environmental and Resource Economists awarded him the 2009 European Practitioner Achievement Award for application of environmental economics.