‘Just as humans are not defined by their need to breathe, corporations should not be limited to the drive for profits’ 0SHARES Share Tweet Email WWF International’s new president Pavan Sukhdev has refocused his talents from banking to rescuing Nature — and is encouraging corporations to work to that end. PHOTO: AFP PARIS: A generation ago, the idea of a veteran international banker leading a global organisation charged with saving the planet’s dwindling and besieged wildlife would have seemed far-fetched. For some, it still does. Even Pavan Sukhdev – recently appointed president of World Wildlife Fund International after a quarter century at ANZ Banking and Deutsche Bank, followed by a decade working with the UN – didn’t see it coming. “Today, I realise this is a natural place for me to be,” he told AFP during an interview at the headquarters of WWF France, on the outskirts of Paris. “Ten years ago, I didn’t”. Sukhdev, 57, no longer manages money markets or conjures up derivatives, but he has not turn his back on the business world. Climate ministry, WWF to clean Rawal Lake today Indeed, the Indian-born economist is convinced that it holds the key to saving the environment – and… Read full this story
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