Bjorn Stigson has been President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development since 1995. An expert on the challenges of sustainable development, his background in international business has enabled him to lead the WBCSD over the past decade as it has established itself as the world’s leading organisation focused on business and sustainable development... read more

Sustainable Development and its possibilities, challenges and demands, has been on the agenda of the international business community for the past two decades. Since 1995, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development - a 200-member coalition of major businesses - has taken the lead in putting the business case for sustainable development.

This month’s Comment Visions talks to the Council’s President, Bjorn Stigson. Formerly a business executive in his native Sweden, Bjorn has spent the last decade based in Geneva bringing CEO’s of some of the world’s leading companies together to formulate and advocate the business response to the challenges of sustainable development.

With the WBCSD at the forefront of the myriad debates over sustainable development and the ways in which business, government and civil society must operate to meet the sustainability needs of the international community, this interview offers a fascinating insight into the work being undertaken by in every continent by companies committed to the WBCSD’s objectives.

Monday: 05:15, 07:45, 15:45
Tuesday: 22:45*, 03:15
Wednesday: 11:15, 14:15, 18:45
Thursday: 05:15, 15:15, 17:45, 19:45
Friday: 11:45, 17:15, 04:15
Saturday: 09:15, 15:45, 18:45
Sunday: 09:15, 13:45, 23:15
*Starts Tuesday 22:45, all times CET.