John Elkington

Mr. Elkington is Founder, Director, and Chief Entrepreneur of SustainAbility Ltd, a strategy consultancy and independent think tank specializing in the business risks and market opportunities of corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Mr. Elkington also chairs or serves as a member of committee of several United Kingdom organizations, including Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, The Environment Foundation, Export Credits Guarantees Advisory Council, Business in the Environment, Royal Society of Arts (Advisory Council on Moving towards a Zero Waste Society), Zouk Ventures (Industry Advisory Group), as well as Instituto Ethos, Brazil. He is also a member of the World Wildlife Federation, United Kingdom Council of Ambassadors; the Brains Trust of The Evian Group; and Tomorrow's Global Company Inquiry.
In 2004, BusinessWeek described John as "a dean of the corporate-responsibility movement for three decades." Mr. Elkington is currently active in a broad spectrum of research and client work for companies (including Nike, Shell, Unilever, and Volkswagen), government agencies and civil society organizations. He has been involved in research and consulting for over 30 years. Mr. Elkington is the author or co-author of 40 published reports, thousands of articles, and 16 books, including the # 1 bestselling The Green Consumer Guide (1988) and Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (1997). He was short-listed for Global Book of the Year by Booz Allen & Hamilton and The Financial Times.
Mr. Elkington has a Bachelor's degree with honors in Sociology and Social Psychology from the University of Essex and a Master's of Philosophy in Urban & Regional Planning from University College London.