Carsten Huttche

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About Carsten Huttche

Carsten is an experienced environmental specialist with 25 years professional experience. He has been working in Singapore since 1994, and has been based here since. He currently works closely with Singapore’s government agencies, providing specialist biodiversity and environmental design advice on applied Bio‐Engineering solutions for ABC Watershed Projects. He has worked on a number of similar projects in South and South East Asia, China, Africa, Middle East, and the Pacific Region and has been responsible for leading, managing, and coordinating multi‐disciplinary environmental, ecological and water resources projects.His environmental management experience includes undertaking water quality assessments, contaminant source studies, biodiversity and land-use assessments, and environmental risk/impact assessments and pollution control studies. He has also acquired an expertise in Climate Change Adaptation Assessment. In Indonesia and Timor Leste, he has pioneered together with other specialists the development of a GIS based model for the mapping of environmental sensitive areas for policy decision­making and land‐use planning.He has a Masters Degree in Biology (major Tropical Ecology) from the Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin), one of Germany’s leading universities.Carsten is the Founder and Director of four environmental businesses in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia: Environmental Professionals (Enviro Pro), 1998, environmental design and consultancy; Enviro Pro Green Innovations (EPGI)(S) Pte Ltd, 2009, green infrastructure design and implementation; P.T. Enviro Pro Indonesia, 2007, environmental consultancy and capacity building and Enviro Pro Green Innovations (M) Sdn Bhd (2012), green infrastructure design and implementation.Carsten held a Senior Adjunct Lecturer position at Singapore National University (NUS), School for Design and Environment, from 2008 – 2010. He conducted numerous teaching and speaking assignments.