Randall Krantz – Associate Director, Environment Initiatives, World Economic Forum

Randall Krantz is Associate Director of Environment Initiatives at the World Economic Forum’s office in Geneva, currently leading a new multi-stakeholder cross-industry project entitled “Driving Sustainable Consumption”.  Unless businesses can redesign value chains to reduce resource use and decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, their ability to provide consistent shareholder returns is inevitably under threat.  Similarly, it will be necessary to better engage the consumer and to step back from vested interests to take a “systems view” of current challenges in order to come up with new win-win solutions.  By working with businesses all along the value chain, as well as experts and policymakers, this project attempts to break the stalemate around catalyzing action and moving beyond incremental change.  Prior to his current work on sustainability, Randall helped create the Forum’s climate change initiative, which resulted in a set of comprehensive policy recommendations from over 100 CEO’s to G8 leaders, and the current “G20 Task Force on Low Carbon Economic Prosperity”.  Prior to working with the environment teal of the World Economic Forum, Randall was Business Development Manager at an alternative energy startup in London, and a field engineer with General Electric Power Systems.  Randall has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from RPI in NY and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.

Randall Krantz  is participating at the Geneva Forum for Social Change as a panelist for “The Power of One: Individual Choices Affecting Environmental Change”.