A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
David Craig
Co-Chair, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
David Craig is Co-Chair of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). He has 30 years of experience in financial markets data and technology and sustainable markets. David was the former founder and CEO of Refinitiv, one of the largest data and technology platform providers to financial markets. He was previously founder and CEO of the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business and head of strategy at Thomson Reuters and Reuters plc. He spent 8 years as a partner at McKinsey focusing on technology and financial services clients.
David is an Executive Fellow at London Business School Strategy and Entrepreneurship faculty. He is co-chair of the India UK Financial Partnership for TheCityUK, member of the City of London Competitiveness Advisory Board, member of the MAS ITAP (Monetary Authority of Singapore International Advisory Panel) and advisory Board of the SMI (Sustainable Markets Initiative). He is also the founder of Natural Capital Technologies, providing news, information and insights for investing in technologies harnessing natural capital to drive sustainability.
