Claude Fussler is an expert on business innovation and issues management in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
He is a director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), where he principally acts as special advisor to the UN Global Compact. He also produced the WBCSD business book Walking the Talk in which prominent business executives demonstrate the opportunities and responsibilities in globalization.
Claude Fussler is also Programme Director of Caring for Climate (C4C), an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact. C4C was launched in 2007 by the UN Global Compact, the United Nations Environment Programme and the WBCSD. The initiative is a voluntary and complementary action platform for Global Compact participants that seek to demonstrate leadership on climate change.
He chairs the Sustainability Council of the EDF Group and is a member of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the Kimberley-Clark Corporation. In 2006, he facilitated the Eminent People Group appointed by the Dutch government to synthesize the discussions and compile an advice to European leaders entitled A will to compete: a competitive, clever and clean Europe.
Claude Fussler studied chemical engineering in Lyon, France and worked for Dow Chemical for over 30 years on a number of international business assignments.
He led the WBCSD’s preparation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2002.
Claude Fussler is a member of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.
[last updated 03-Sep-08]