Pavan Sukhdev

Pavan is a scientist by education, an international banker by training, and an environmental economist by passion. He previously led (2008-2011) the United Nations’ Green Economy Initiative and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study.

As Founder and CEO of GIST Impact, a leader in sustainability data and analytics which works across the domains of sustainability, machine learning and artificial intelligence to discover a business’s full value contribution to the world, Pavan works with leading corporations and investors worldwide, harnessing the power of impact economics and technology to discover a business’s full value contribution to the world.

Pavan was awarded the McCluskey Fellowship (2011) by Yale University, where he taught a graduate course on TEEB and wrote his book “Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow’s World.” He is a former President and Chair of WWF International (2018-2021) and has served on the boards of Conservation International , the Global Reporting Initiative and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His work on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity and on corporate sustainability metrics has been recognised through several awards, including the Blue Planet Prize (2016), the Tyler Prize (2020) and most recently, the EAERE European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics (2024).