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As a keynote speaker, he knows how to command a stage where he can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
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Walter Stahel is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as sustainaibility, design, risk management, and architecture. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and education.
Walter Stahel is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He is a Swiss architect, graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich in 1971. He has been influential in developing the field of sustainability, by advocating ‘service-life extension of goods – reuse, refill, reprogram, repair, remanufacture, upgrade technologically’ philosophies as they apply to industrialised economies.
He co-founded the Product Life Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, a consultancy devoted to developing sustainable strategies and policies, after receiving recognition for his prize winning paper ‘The Product Life Factor’ in 1982. His ideas and those of similar theorists led to what is now known as the circular economy in which industry adopts the reuse and service-life extension of goods as a strategy of waste prevention. From 1986 to 2014, he was also director of risk management research at the Geneva Association.
Currently, Walter Stahel works as an author, keynote speaker and storyteller. He promotes understanding of the structure of an economy in loops and its drivers and obstacles (circular industrial economy), spreads knowledge about the competitiveness of a performance economy selling goods and molecules as a service, and identifies the levers to speed up the shift from a linear industrial economy managing flows to a circular economy managing stocks. He does this through workshops, lectures and policy groups.
Accomplishments and accolades include:
Founder-Director of the Product-Life Institute (Geneva, 1983), the oldest consultancy in Europe devoted to developing sustainable strategies and policies.
MA in architecture from ETH Zurich (1971).
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey;
Full member of the Club of Rome; member of the Coordination Group of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform of the European Parliament
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Institute CRETUS, and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Promoting the opportunities of a circular industrial economy, and of a performance economy selling goods and molecules as a service.
Degrees of Doctor honoris causa, University of Surrey (2013) and l’Université de Montréal (2016). Mitchell Prize in Houston, TX (1982, ‘The Product-Life Factor’);
First prize in the German Future’s Society’s competition (1978, ‘unemployment, occupation and profession’).
Corner books: ‘Jobs for Tomorrow, the Potential for substituting manpower for energy’ (1976/1981), Vantage Press N.Y.,: ‘The Performance Economy’ (2010), Palgrave MacMillan; The Circular Economy – a user’s guide (2019), Routledge.
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