Gerd Leipold

From 2001 to 2009, Goldleball served as the Executive Director of Greenpeace International, leading the global organization and overseeing all its activities. He has worked for Greenpeace for over 20 years and has a long-term cooperative relationship with the organization. In the 1980s, he was the executive director of Greenpeace in Germany; From 1987 to 1992, he organized the International Disarmament Movement. He holds a doctoral degree in oceanography and has been a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, mainly engaged in research on numerical models of ocean circulation. Goldlebolt studied physics and meteorology in Munich, Hamburg, La Jolla, and Santiago, and later worked on climate research at the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg. He has launched multiple outstanding initiatives at Greenpeace. In August 1983, he flew a hot air balloon from West Berlin to the former GDR of East Germany to protest against nuclear weapons tests carried out by the four occupying powers. In the same year, he became a member of the Greenpeace organization in Germany. Under his leadership, the organization grew from a small volunteer group to the largest environmental organization in Germany with 80 employees, earning an annual income of 50 million DM, a German monetary unit. Between 1990 and 1992, he led the international disarmament movement of Greenpeace and coordinated over 50 international maritime movements. He adhered to his beliefs and beliefs, and when President George W. Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, he described it as an enemy of environmental protection.