Wolfgang Kröger has been full professor of Safety Technology at the ETH Zurich since 1990 and director of the Laboratory of Safety Analysis simultaneously. Before being elected Founding Rector of International Risk Governance Council in 2003, he headed research in nuclear energy and safety at the Paul Scherrer Institut. After his retirement early 2011 he became the executive director of the newly established ETH Risk Center. He has both Swiss and German citizenship and lives in Kilchberg, Zürich.
Kröger is a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Science and heads the topical platform “Autonomous Mobility”; he has been awarded “Distinguished Affiliate Professor” by the Technical University of Munich in 2012., and "Senior Fellow" of IASS Potsdam and is elected member of the project on Future Energy Systems of three German academies.