About Pavan Sukhdev

Pavan Sukhdev is Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative and also Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned report on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (“TEEB”), a project he was appointed to lead in 2008 by the EU Commission and Germany whilst still working full time at Deutsche Bank. A career banker, Pavan Sukhdev is on a sabbatical from Deutsche Bank for two and a half years to lead these environmental projects. He is also on the Board of Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets Centre Mumbai (“GMC Mumbai”), a company he founded and then chaired. Pavan pursues long-standing interests in environmental economics and in nature conservation through his work with the Green Indian States Trust (GIST) and other NGO’s. Pavan chairs of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Agenda Council” on Biodiversity, and was a speaker at Davos 2010.