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  Leo Johnson

  Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change Team

  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  

  Leo is a Partner of PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change team, and Co-Founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, advisors since 2004 to over 50 international financial institutions around the risks and opportunities of sustainability, and now a part of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Group. In 2004, he was awarded the IFC Corporate Award for his work on Equator Principles, an industry standard for environmental and social due diligence. In 2006, Leo worked with the Financial Times and IFC to establish the Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards, serving as a Judge for the inaugural awards. Leo is Sustainability Adviser and Judge for the Prix Pictet—a Prize for Photography around sustainability issues for which Kofi Annan is the Honorary President. He is on the Advisory Board of Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI). Leo is the author of IFC’s best practice publication Beyond Risk: Sustainability and the Emerging Markets Financial Sector and has commented on sustainability and written guest columns for CNBC, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal and is the author of The Future of Finance: Sustainable Banking and the Banco Real Model. Leo has an MBA from INSEAD, 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.

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