Walter R. Stahel

Founder-director of the Product-Life Institute (Geneva, 1983), the oldest consultancy in Europe on sustainable strategies and policies. He works on all continents with SMEs, corporate clients, academia and government agencies, to promote the opportunities of a circular industrial economy and a performance economy. MA in architecture from ETH Zurich (1971). Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey. Full member of the Club of Rome.

From 1986 to 2014, he was also Director of risk management research and Deputy Secretary-General of the Geneva Association, a thinktank of the CEOs of the 100 biggest (Re)Insurance Companies worldwide. www.genevaassociation.org