Cornis van der Lugt: Senior Research Fellow
Cornis van der Lugt is a Geneva-based consultant with twenty
years experience in the environmental field at international level.
His current focus areas are business strategy, reporting and value
chain management. He continues to do research on the green economy
and green business.
From 2000 - 2010, Cornis was based in Paris at the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), responsible for business
partnerships and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in
collaboration with the UN Global Compact and Global Reporting
Initiative. He was among others nominated expert in the ISO 26000
process to develop an international standard on social
responsibility. His work at the UN included co-developing guidance
for managers and analytical reports on emerging good practices with
partners such as SustainAbility, Standard & Poors, KPMG, World
Resources Institute, AccountAbility and the USB.
Before moving to Geneva, he was Coordinator of UNEP's Resource
Efficiency Sub-programme. Prior to UNEP, he served as multilateral
diplomat in the South African Government and, among others,
participated in climate negotiations of the Kyoto process during
the 1990s.
Cornis holds a PhD in International Relations (EU environmental
regulation - universities of Stellenbosch, Freiburg, Leiden) and an
Executive MBA from the French business school Haute Ecole de
Commerce (HEC, Paris). His languages are English, Afrikaans,
German, Dutch and French. He was born in Port Elizabeth, South
Africa, in 1967.