Clea Kaske-Kuck

Director
WBCSD

Clea Kaske-Kuck is Director, Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement and Member of the WBCSD Extended Leadership Groups where she leads all WBCSD’s funded and non-funded partnerships.

Clea has been at WBCSD for over five years in diverse leadership roles covering the climate, nature, equity as well as food and agriculture agenda, and is passionate about working with WBCSD’s almost 250 members to advance the sustainability agenda and enhance their competitiveness.

Clea previously worked for over 12 years at Cargill, one of the world’s largest food, agriculture and transportation companies, in multiple roles of growing responsibility in the areas of corporate responsibility, sustainability, policy and communications out of the company’s offices in the US, China, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Clea graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2007 with a two-year master’s in public policy degree as a German government McCloy Scholar, which is administered by the German Merit Foundation. She worked at the World Bank in Washington DC as well as for the US Congress for two years in total after graduating from Stanford University with honors in international relations in 2003.

She also serves as a NED Board Member of Travalyst, a global nonprofit organization aiming to make the tourism industry more sustainable.

Clea grew up in southern rural Greece, raised by German parents, and now lives in Prangins, Switzerland with her husband and two children: Katharina (11) and Anton (9). When not working, she loves to spend time with her family, travel, cook and read.