Sector Strategy Speakers: Pavan Sukhdev

Pavan Sukhdev | Image Credit: Facebook (@pavansukhdev)

Pavan Sukhdev is a sustainability thought leader, an experienced innovator in practice, and an influential voice amongst corporate leaders, institutional investors and national policymakers concerned about sustainability. OANZ is thrilled to have him as a special guest speaker at the upcoming Sector Strategy Workshop on 14 April 2021.

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A physicist by education, a banker by training, and an environmental economist by passion, Pavan Sukhdev delivered TEEB’s Interim Report (2008) for UNEP whilst still working full time as a Managing Director of Global Markets Division at Deutsche Bank. Later, on secondment to UNEP, he led the path-breaking study TEEB (‘The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity’) as well as UNEP’s landmark report ‘Towards a Green Economy.’ He was Special Adviser for its recent study on the full cost of food systems, “TEEB for Agriculture and Food”. He now supports TEEB as an Advisory Board member.

Pavan was awarded the McCluskey Fellowship (2011) by Yale University, where he taught a graduate course on TEEB and wrote his book “Corporation 2020”. His eponymous campaign “Corporation 2020”, launched at Rio+20 (2012) promotes tomorrow’s corporation as one with positive rather than negative externalities. It presents key policy reforms needed to transform today’s business for tomorrow’s world.

As Founder-CEO of GIST Impact (a leading-edge sustainability metrics, analytics and solutions firm at the intersection of sustainability, technology and big data) Pavan’s focus now is to demonstrate and mainstream the vision and guidance laid out in Corporation 2020, TEEB and the Green Economy Report.

Pavan has served on the boards of several global conservation and research NGO’s – including Conservation International, the Global Reporting Initiative and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. At present, he serves on the board of WWF International, as their President and Chairperson.

Pavan’s work has been recognized through several landmark awards, including the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development (2013), the Blue Planet Prize (2016) and the Tyler Prize (2020).

Additional Information

Founder-CEO, GIST Impact, www.gistimpact.com
President WWF International
Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Environment Programme