Markus Weber has a German engineering degree in technical environmental protection and a Masters degree in political science. The main focus of his professional work since 1999 has been emission trading. He also works as emission trading manager for   ThyssenKrupp AG /   ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG. He was previously employed as Senior Consultant in “Certificate Markets” with   Ecofys GmbH, worked for   PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance Beratung GmbH as a Senior Consultant in the emissions trading field and with   DIN CERTCO Gesellschaft für Konformitätsbewertung mbH, where as product manager he was responsible for environmental and IT certification. As a publicly certified expert for verification in greenhouse gas emission trading, registered and approved by the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (from 07/2004 until 10/2004) and the   Duesseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry  (from 11/2004 until 10/2008) as well as the   Essen Chamber of Commerce and Industry (from 11/2008), he was involved in the verification of CO2 allocation applications totalling 189.9 million tons under the EU emission trading scheme. This amounts to around 12.9% of the entire German allocation volume over the 2005-2007 commitment period.
 

In addition, he worked as a consultant for various companies and associations in an advisory capacity, substantiating hardship applications to do with the allocation of emissions rights and on issues of fairness and reasonableness in relation to European “Monitoring and Reporting Guidelines” for certain sectors.

Furthermore, he was responsible for the development and design of an EDP-supported registry system for tradeable eco-power certicates, developed a verification system for CO2 emission reductions in line with the  Kyoto protocol for "Verified Emission Reductions" and carried out international verification projects. In this context, he was involved in standardisation projects for the German Standards Authority   Deutsches Institut für Normung  (DIN), and the Association of German Engineers Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) as well as the   „International Organization for Standardization“ (ISO) on the verification of CO2 emissions or emission reductions.on the matter of verifying CO2 emissions or emission reductions.