Leo Johnson is a Partner in PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change team, and Co-Founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, sustainability advisers to over 50 leading banks and corporates, and now a part of the PwC group. Leo’s specialisation is making business sense of sustainability, identifying environmental and social megatrends and the risks and opportunities they create for business leaders.

He is a Visiting Business Fellow of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford, and presents “Down to Business” , the BBC World series focused on scaling up inclusive businesses, from Green Gold in the Colombian jungle to biogas from prison waste in Kenya. He blogs for the Huffington Post and has commented and written guest columns for the BBC, CNN, CNBC, the Financial Times, Evening Standard and Wall Street Journal.

Leo Johnson is a Judge for the Financial Times Boldness in Business Awards. In 2006, Leo Johnson worked with the Financial Times and IFC to establish the Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards, which he has hosted since 2006 and for which he acts as Technical Advisor.  Leo Johnson is Sustainability Adviser and Judge for the Prix Pictet—a Prize for Photography around sustainability issues for which Kofi Annan is the Honorary President.

Leo is the author of IFC’s best practice publication: Beyond Risk: Sustainability and the Emerging Markets Financial Sector. He is the author of The Future of Finance: Sustainable Banking and the Banco Real Model,  published in INSEAD collection of essays on best practice in sustainability.

Leo has an MBA from INSEAD. He holds an M.Sc. in Resource and Environmental Economics from University College London, where he was Dow Scholar, and a B.A. from New College, Oxford, where he was Stephens Scholar.