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:
The World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Oceans Governance
The World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Biodiversity Loss
The Forests Dialogue (hosted by Yale School of Forestry) Executive Team and Steering Committee
Chris has worked in over 30 countries in his 23 year career in conservation and sustainable finance. His clients span investment banks, development banks and some of the world’s largest commercial lenders to the land use sectors. Chris’ previous global role within PwC and secondment to WWF to help conceive and design the Landscape Finance Lab gave him a broad international base of finance sector and conservation-minded networks.
Prior to working with PwC, Chris led the financial services analyst team at Core Ratings Ltd, a sister company to Fitch Ratings. In this role he was responsible for analysing financial institutions’ exposure to sustainability risks in emerging markets, project finance funding flows for key infrastructure projects and equity holdings in high impact industry sectors. Chris has passed Level 1 of the Chartered Financial Analyst exam.
Outside of his day-to-day work, Chris is a mountain guide for Wilderness Scotland.
