Books written by Pavan sukhdev

Pavan Sukhdev Pavan Sukhdev is Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a specialist consulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and human capital. He is a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, where he was awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship and wrote his book ?Corporation 2020?. Earlier, he was Special Adviser and Head of UNEP?s Green Economy Initiative, and lead author of their report ?Towards a Green Economy?. He was also 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? whilst still working full time at Deutsche Bank in 2008. A career banker, Pavan then took a sabbatical from the Bank to lead TEEB & the Green Economy Initiative for UNEP. UNEP appointed Pavan a ?UNEP Goodwill Ambassador? in 2012. Pavan was a speaker at the World Economic Forum meetings at Davos in 2010 and 2011. He serves on the boards of Conservation International and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Endorsement by UNEP head Achim Steiner : ?Much has recently been written about how a new wave of ?green? corporations is just around the corner, an endogenously transformed phalanx of knights in shining armour just waiting to rescue us. Pavan Sukhdev says ?not so?, but he also shows with consummate skill & clarity what exogenous changes can be made, to re-engineer the 'social contract' between society and corporations in the 21st Century.? Endorsement by film celebrity Edward Norton : "The ideas and assertions in this book blow well past 'insightful' and edge toward 'revolutionary' insofar as they expose major fallacies in our most basic assumptions about what we call our 'economy'.? It's an equally important exposure for corporate leaders and leaders of the movement for environmental sustainability, because both need to move beyond the 'infancy phase' in terms of truly understanding and acknowledging the value of natural resources.? A seriously inspiring and, ultimately, very hopeful piece of work." Indian origin author who is running a very visible and high profile campaign called Corporation 2020. The book is very accessibly written and it tackles corporate greed among other things. It provides workable solutions to effect change in corporate behaviour. In this age of Anna Hazare activism this book is very topical.