For the last five years Peter Wiederkehr's main responsibility with the OECD has been to co-ordinate their international project on Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) involving a dozen OECD countries. This work culminated in an international endorsement of EST Guidelines and an international competition for est! best practices. He is responsible for policy analysis in the area of air quality management, industrial pollution, control technologies and costs as well as the assessment of innovative policy approaches such as voluntary environmental agreements by industry.

Before joining the OECD in 1989, Dr. Wiederkehr was Scientific Officer in the Air Pollution Control Division of the Swiss Agency for Environment. He has served as Swiss Delegate to OECD's Air Management Policy Group and the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. In 1981 Dr. Wiederkehr received his Dr.sc.nat. in high-energy physics from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He also holds a M.sc. degree in environmental engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Wiederkehr has volunteered to make a policy and cooperation bridge between the Earth Car Free Day project and the many groups and people who have come together over the years to support the sustainable transport concept at the OECD.

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