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Climate change and increased resource scarcity will likely be among the most disruptive forces in business since the Industrial Revolution, says Carter Roberts, president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). During the von Gugelberg memorial lecture on the environment hosted by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Roberts describes how a new era of global threats is changing the work of the world’s largest conservation organization.
What started as a mission to save animals has transformed into a broader mandate to address the economics, science, and politics of conservation around the world. Roberts shares how the WWF is partnering with Wal-Mart, Google, Coca-Cola, Ikea, and others to work with government institutions and indigenous communities to address environmental challenges and sustainable growth needs.
Carter Roberts is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, which he joined as chief conservation officer in 2004. Before coming to WWF, Roberts established new programs in Latin America for The Nature Conservancy, led strategic planning efforts that charted the organization’s aggressive growth strategy of the past decade, and led their Massachusetts Chapter as state director. He also held marketing and management positions at a number of multinational companies including Procter and Gamble, Dun and Bradstreet, and Gillette, where he led teams in designing products and bringing them to market around the world. He received an MBA from Harvard University and is a graduate of Princeton University.
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