SAM / SPG Sustainability Leadership Award
Winners of the Second Award (2002)
Dr. Michael Otto and Jose Maria Figueres Olsen
Dr. Michael Otto
Dr. Michael Otto, one of the two joint-winners of this year's Sustainability Award, is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the globally active trading and service enterprise, Otto in Hamburg. In his role with the company, Michael Otto has established high standards with regard to corporate responsibility, as well as social and ecological matters. For Michael Otto, it was the Club of Rome as well as the 1972 book “Limits to Growth” that were the catalysts behind his moves towards sustainability for the firm. The first concrete measures in the field of ecology were taken way back in the 1980s.
Self nominations will not be considered.
