Claude Fussler is an expert on business innovation and issues management with a focus on sustainable development, climate change and corporate social responsibility. He was an inaugural member of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation.
He was a director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), acting as special advisor to the UN Global Compact. He led the WBCSD’s preparation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2002 and 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 is a member of the Advisory Board of Demeter2, a large European investment fund in clean technologies. He chairs the Sustainability Panel of the EDF Group and is a member of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the Kimberley-Clark Corporation and of the CSR Council of Alcatel Lucent. He was also vice-chairman of the Stockholm Environment Institute. 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 is Vice-President of Forestour, a network of private forest owners in Provence, France, committed to the social function and sustainable management of forest ecosystems.
Claude Fussler was a member of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation from its inception in 2003 until 2009, and a member of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2006.
[last update: 10-August-2011]