Name:		Bjorn Stigson (President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WBCSD)                        (Professor at School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg)
Company: Address:		World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)	Tel.: +41 22 839 31 00 E-mail:info@wbcsd.org

Short Profile of the Person:
Björn Stigson has extensive experience in international business. He began his career as a financial analyst with the Swedish Kockums Group. From 1971-82 he held various positions in finance, operations and marketing with ESAB, the international supplier of equipment for welding. In 1983-91 he was 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. In 1995 he was appointed President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a coalition of some 200 leading international corporations.

Since April 2010 he is visiting professor holding the Assan Gabrielson chair in Applied Corporate Management at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Björn Stigson has served on the board of a variety of international companies and organizations. He is presently a member of the following boards/advisory councils: Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation; China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development; Energy Business Council of the International Energy Agency (IEA); America’s Climate Choices Initiative of the US Congress; the Veolia Sustainable Development Advisory Committee and the Siemens Sustainability Advisory Board.