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Leader, Global Climate Initiative, WWF International

Kim Carstensen is Leader of WWF International’s global climate work since April 2008. He is leading the organisation’s efforts towards the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in 2009 and beyond.

Between 1996 and 2008 Kim Carstensen was CEO of WWF Denmark. He is a cultural sociologist by training and has been working for WWF on a number of issues related to global environment and development policy, and to environment and development projects in developing countries.

Kim Carstensen represented WWF Denmark on the official Danish delegation to the Rio Conference in 1992 and to a number of meetings in the follow-up to Rio. He led WWF International’s preparation process for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.

Kim Carstensen has been leading many WWF decision-making bodies over the years. Latest he has chaired WWF International’s Conservation Committee between 2006 and 2008, the period during which it defined WWFs new Global Programme Framework. During the same period, he was a member of the organisation’s highest decision-making body, the Network Executive Team.

Kim Carstensen is deputy chairman of the Board of the Danish Official Development Assistance, Danida, and is thereby engaged in broad discussion of social and economic development issues in all sectors.