Walter R. Stahel

Born 5 June 1946, Swiss Citizen.

Alumni of ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich, where he received his diploma in architecture in 1971;

Founder-director of The Product-Life Institute Geneva, since 1983;

Vice Secretary General and director of risk management research of the Geneva Asso­ciation (International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics), since 1987.

The Product-Life Institute Geneva, founded 1983, is the oldest established consultancy in Europe devoted to developing sustainable strategies and policies; withpartner institutes in Tokyo and Vienna.www.product-life.org ^[1]

The Geneva Association, established 1973, is the world’s leading think-tank on economic and risk issues concerning the insurance sector, financed by its members, the CEOs of the ninety biggest insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide.www.genevaassociation.org ^[2]

HONOURS

In 2012, Stahel received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University from the University of Surrey in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of Sustainability.

In 2005, Stahel was appointed Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the University of Surrey, Guildford. This appointment was renewed in 2008 and again in 2011.

In 1982, with a paper “The Product-Life Factor”, Stahel was one of the laureates of the Mitchell-Prize Competition on sustainable societies in Houston, TX, USA.
http://www.product-life.org/en/major-publications/the-product-life-factor ^[3]

In 1978, together with Peter Perutz, Stahel won a first prize in the competition of the German Future’s Society, Berlin, with a paper on unemployment, occupation and profession.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

The Performance Economy, second edition (2010). Palgrave Macmillan. 

The Limits to Certainty, Facing Risks in the new Service Economy (1989/92, with Orio Giarini) preface by Ilya Prigogine, Foreword by Alexander King. A volume of the Information Series of the Club of Rome.Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht.

Jobs for Tomorrow, Substituting Manpower for Energy (1981, with Geneviève Reday-Mulvey); a 1976 report to the EU Commission Brussels.Vantage Press New York, N.Y.