John Elkington

Author @ Fast Company Press

About

Co-founder of Environmental Data Services (ENDS, 1978-1983), John Elkington Associates/Countercurrent, 1983-present), SustainAbility (1987-2008) and Volans Ventures (2008-present). For Volans, see https://volans.com. For a more personal take on all this, see http://www.johnelkington.com. Author or co-author of 20 books, most recently Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism (Fast Company, 2020). Visiting Professor at Cranfield University School of Management, Imperial College and UCL. Has served on 80+ boards and advisory boards.

Country

United Kingdom

City

London

Industry

Think Tanks

Skill

Sustainable Business, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Sustainability Reporting, Stakeholder Engagement, Public Speaking, Sustainability Consulting, Climate Change, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Awareness, Carbon, Biodiversity, Capacity Building

Experience

Founder, former Executive Chairman, now Board Member and Chief Pollinator

Volans

2008 - Present · 18 yrs

Somerset House, The Strand, London WC2R 1LA, UK

See https://volans.com and https://johnelkington.com

Visiting Professor

University College London (UCL) Energy Institute

2012 - Present · 14 yrs

London

Visiting Professor

Imperial College London

2012 - Present · 14 yrs

Visiting Professor

Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University

2010 - Present · 16 yrs

Cranfield

Author

Fast Company Press

2020-4 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

Austin TX

Author of 'Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism,' Fast Company Press, 2020

Author

Earthscan

2011 - Present · 15 yrs

Author

Harvard Business School Press

2008 - Present · 18 yrs

Cambridge, MA

Co-authored 'The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World' with Pamela Hartigan

Member of Council of Ambassadors

WWF-UK

2010 - 2016 · 6 yrs

Honorary Chairman, Co-Founder, Past Chairman (1995-2005), past NED until 2014, and shareholder

ERM

1987 - 2008-4 · 21 yrs

UK and USA

See www.sustainability.com and www.johnelkington.com

Founder, Editor, Managing Director

Environmental Data Services (ENDS)

1978-4 - 1983-4 · 5 yrs 1 mo

London, UK

Founding Editor, the Managing Director

Founding Editor, ENDS Report, then Managing Director

Environmental Data Services (ENDS)

1978 - 1983 · 5 yrs

I co-founded ENDS with David Layton and Max Nicholson in 1978, serving as Editor of The ENDS Report until Marek Mayer took over. I was then Managing Director, until my work on the UK response to the World Conservation Strategy gave me the platform to go independent.