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Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2002 |
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Björn Stigson President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
Björn Stigson has served on the board of a variety of international companies. He is also presently a member of advisory councils to, among others, ABB, Unilever, OECD, The World Bank, and the Governments of China and Singapore |
Björn Stigson has had extensive experience in international
business. He began his career as financial analyst with the Swedish Kockums Group. From
1971 to 1982, he worked for ESAB, the international supplier of equipment for welding, in
different positions responsible for finance, operations, and marketing. In 1983, he became
President and CEO of the Fläkt Group, a company listed on the Stockholm stock exchange
and the world leader in environmental control technology. Following the acquisition of
Fläkt by ABB, in 1991 he became Executive Vice President and a member of ABB Asea Brown
Boveri’s Executive Management Group. From 1993/94, he ran his own management
consultancy. On 1 January 1995, he was appointed President of the World Business Council
for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva, which is a coalition of some 150 leading
international corporations. Since the formation of this organization in 1990, Mr Stigson
has been actively involved with the business response to the sustainable development
challenge.