After graduating from Harvard, Troy became a Wall Street consultant and later built up global network of industry associations dedicated to better environmental performance.

He conceived and developed the world's first computerized information system for called bonds (municipal bonds are a $2 trillion market in the US and probably the single largest financial market world-wide). As vice president of the Fiduciary Data Company in New York, he designed and programmed the called bonds electric information service, marketed the service, initiated the licensing process, hired and trained personnel, and built and managed a new division of the Fiduciary Communication Company as intra-preneur.

Subsequently, Troy  acted as Network Advisor for Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewußtes Management (B.A.U.M.) in Hamburg, where he co-ordinated the establishment of TREE UK. Troy was a founding member of the International Standard Organization Strategic Advisory Group on the Environment (ISO/IEC SAGE). As a recognized international expert in Environment Management, he made decisive contributions to develop the ISO 14000 standards for Environmental Management over several years of active participation in ISO work, which made standards more usable for developing countries and small and medium sized enterprises (SME's).

On ISO / TC 207, the Technical Committee on Environmental Management, and he drafted key elements of ISO 14020, the international standard for "Basic Principles for all Environmental Labeling." He also participated actively in Environmental Labelling and Environmental Auditing Sub-Committees of INEM, where he defended interests of small and medium sized enterprises and developing countries.

Troy is a member of the Board of ECO-Conseil, the first organization in Francophone countries to train eco-counsellors ("Umweltberater"), and he is the co-founder of the International Network for Environmental Management (INEM), a world-wide federation of national non-profit Environmental Management Networks and Cleaner Production Centres. As the Executive Director, he built up INEM from three countries in 1991 to over thirty countries in 1997 to become the most progressive international "Green Business Network."

At INEM, Troy also developed the concept of Industry 21, the implementation by industry of Agenda 21 of the UN World Summit on Environment and Development, and he developed specific projects to implement Industry 21, like:

• the Global Environmental Management Surveys
• International Industry Conferences for Sustainable Development
• the Industrial Agenda 21 Campaign
• Environmental Management for Central & Eastern Europe
• ECO-BALTIC: Environmental Management in the Baltic Sea Region
   

Troy also conceived the campaign:

Industrial Agenda 21 Campaign

This campaign calls on individual companies to set and publish concrete, verifiable environmental performance targets as called for in the Tokyo Appeal, which was released at the 2nd International Industry Conference for Sustainable Development. These targets would be contained in a publicly available Industrial Agenda 21 of the company. The ultimate goal is to expand company Industrial Agendas 21 to the sectoral and national levels, culminating in the development of a Global Industrial Agenda 21. All companies are invited to join the Industrial Agenda 21 Campaign.

Troy drafted the so-called Tokyo Appeal which was held at a conference organized by UN University. Read more about THE TOKYO APPEAL: Towards an Industrial Agenda for Sustainable Development under 'Writings '.

In addition, Troy has been a consultant on environmental and industry matters to UNEP, UNIDO, UNDP, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Chinese government (Ministry of Foreign Trade), and has served as expert as well as a speaker for the OECD , the World Bank, the National Roundtable for the Environment and the Economy, US Agency for International Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, UNDP, the International Finance Corporation (a private-sector arm of the World Bank), and Gorbachev's Green Cross.

At the Rio Earth Summit Troy Davis organized the largest industry conference: the International Industry Conference for Sustainable Development. For several years, Troy represented world industry on the NGO/Major Groups Steering Committee for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.

Currently, Troy is the President and CEO of the World Citizen Foundation. He is the author of Appel pour une Démocratie Mondiale (Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 1998), which has also been translated into Spanish: A favor de une Democracia Mundial (Edicion Bellaterra, Barcelona, 1999). (The book has been translated into English and German, and is awaiting publication. A copy of these versions in rich text format (rtf) is available on request).

He is also a member of the Board of WFM-Germany and the Executive Board of the Millennium People's Assembly Network. Troy is the Co-ordinator of the launch of Global Coalition World Democracy 2010 as well as Initiator and Convenor of the topic "Citizenship & Governance" of the Millennium NGO Forum, and a member of the Steering Committee. In addition, Troy sits on the Federal Board of the Union of European Federalists .

Troy Davis employs coalition-building and win-win strategies. He believes that we will only succeed in creating a global democracy by using adequate language to reach millions of people, especially young professionals and youth, and that world citizenship is an underused concept.

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