Peter Bakker

Peter Bakker, President and CEO, WBCSD

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Mr. Bakker is a distinguished business leader who, until June 2011, was the CEO of TNT NV, the Netherlands-based holding company of TNT Express and Royal TNT Post. Under his leadership TNT rose to the forefront of Corporate Responsibility via a ground-breaking partnership with the UN World Food Program and ambitious CO2 reduction targets from its Planet Me initiative, holding multiple-year top-ranking positions in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

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Mr. Bakker is the recipient of Clinton Global Citizen Award (2009); SAM Sustainability Leadership Award (2010); and has been an Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme since 2011. In addition he is the Chairman of War Child Netherlands.

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Ambassador Against Hunger UN World Food Programme

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Chairman War Child, Netherlands

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Co-Chair Redefining the Role of Business for Sustainable Development, SDSN UN

Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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Vice-Chairman International Integrated Reporting Council