Chris Knight
Director & Co-Founder
Chris has played an instrumental role in the allocation of several hundred million dollars in public and private investments to sustainable land use and conservation programmes. He has also indirectly influenced several billion dollars of private investment through the provision of advisory support on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues for debt and equity providers globally.
Chris was the founder of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC’s) forestry and sustainable land use team and has been a leading voice on sustainable land use and ecosystem economics, and representative on government, NGO and industry advisory panels including. He served on two World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils (Oceans Governance and Biodiversity Loss), and was an executive team member of Yale’s The Forests Dialogue for several years.
Chris has worked in over 30 countries in his 25 year career in conservation and sustainable finance. His clients span venture capital, private equity and institutional lenders and investors to the land use sectors. His previous global roles within PwC and secondments to various WWF offices (where he helped conceive the Landscape Finance Lab) gave him a broad international base of finance sector and conservation-minded networks. Within the UK, Chris leads our work in the UK nature finance markets, our engagements with farmers, landowners, local authorities and charities.
Prior to working with PwC, Chris led the financial services analyst team at Core Ratings Ltd, a sister company to Fitch Ratings.
Chris is an environmental scientist by training, passed Level 1 of the Chartered Financial Analyst exam, and outside of his day-to-day work, is a mountain guide for Wilderness Scotland.
