psukhdev | SLOW LIFE Symposium

Pavan Sukhdev is the founder and author of Corporation 2020, a campaign and a book which envisions tomorrow’s corporation, and shows how corporations and society can and should work together to achieve common goals and build a green economy. In this book, Pavan brings to bear his 25 years of financial markets experience as well as his recent work on environmental economics and the green economy.

Pavan was Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative, a major UN project suite to demonstrate that the greening of economies is not a burden on growth but rather a new engine for growing wealth, increasing decent employment, and reducing persistent poverty. This project published its final report in February 2011, Towards a Green Economy, which was widely appreciated by governments in both developed and developing nations.

Pavan was also Study Leader for the groundbreaking “TEEB” study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) commissioned by G8+5 and later hosted by UK. Under his leadership, TEEB sized the global problem of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in economic and human welfare terms, and proposed solutions targeted at policy-makers, administrators, businesses and citizens.

An international banker, Pavan Sukhdev worked with Deutsche Bank for 14 years before taking sabbatical leave to lead “TEEB” and UNEP’s “Green Economy Initiative”. Assignments at Deutsche Bank included being COO for the bank’s global Emerging Markets business (2003-2005), based in London, and as Head of Money Markets for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore (2001-2003).

Pavan chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Ecosystems & Biodiversity, 2009-2011, and was a speaker at Davos in 2010 and 2011. He serves on the Boards of Conservation International and Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNEP.

Environmental Finance selected Pavan as their Personality of the Year for 2010. The Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM) have awarded Pavan their 2011 Medal.

Corporation 2020 launched globally in September 2012 and since then Pavan has been begun campaigning not only to promote the ideals of his book but also his new consulting collaborative GIST Advisory, which is well on its way to becoming a world-class provider of environmental risk and life-cycle assessments as well as “Green Accounting” for governments and corporations.

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