Pavan Sukhdev

Pavan Sukhdev is the founder of 'Corporation 2020' ( www.corp2020.com ) a movement that promotes corporate transformation as the central driver of transition towards a 'green economy' that will deliver the "Sustainable Development Goals". It maps a rapid pathway to a new model for corporate behaviour, driven by regulatory & policy changes, technology advances, and societal awakening to the reality of planetary boundaries and dangerous imminent tipping-points. Pavan wrote the book 'Corporation 2020' at Yale University, where he had been awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship. Pavan is also founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a consulting firm that helps governments and corporations measure, value and manage their impacts on natural, human and social capital -and other related ideas from 'Corporation 2020'

Earlier, from 2008 to early 2011, Pavan was Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative, and lead author of their report “Towards a Green Economy”, as well as Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned project on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). Pavan was appointed to lead TEEB by the EU Commission and Germany, and delivered its “Interim Report” while still working full time at Deutsche Bank in 2008. He then took a sabbatical from Deutsche Bank to lead TEEB and the Green Economy Initiative for UN Environment from 2008 to 2011. Pavan is now a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Environment, a role in which he promotes TEEB implementation and Green Economy transitions to various governments. 

Pavan's work on sustainability metrics, ecosystem service valuation, and green economy has been acknowledged by several international awards, including the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development (2013), the Bernhard Grzimek Prize for Biodiversity (2015), and the Blue Planet Prize (2016). 

Since January 2018, Pavan serves as President and Chair of the Board of WWF International.