Peter Lacy

Peter Lacy leads Accenture’s Sustainability Services business in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Latin America which he has built since joining the organisation in 2007. Peter is a senior executive partner based in London and is also a member of Accenture’s Global Markets and Strategy Practice leadership teams.

He has worked for over a decade with the CEOs and top management of a range of Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, European Union and public sector organizations on sustainability and climate change strategy and execution.

Peter has been a member of stakeholder panels and advised boards for companies such as GSK, BP, Coca-Cola, Exxon, Vodafone, Unilever, GE and Motorola and government bodies like the UN, the EU Commission and the UK government.

He is currently a supervisory board member of the European Academy of Business in Society, a board member of Nottingham University Business School, a board member of Cranfield School of Management Doughty Centre, an advisory board member of Ethical Corporation and an editorial advisory board member of the Corporate Governance Journal. He has previously been a board member of AccountAbility, a member of the Department of Trade and Industry steering committee on CSR, a member of the European Commission’s CSR Stakeholder Platform, as well as directing several multi-million euro European Union 6^th Research Framework projects on sustainability.

Before Accenture, Peter worked for McKinsey and Co, Andersen Consulting and the European Academy of Business in Society, where he was founding executive director of a partnership set up by Shell, Unilever, J&J, IBM and Microsoft with INSEAD, LBS, IMD and the EU Commission to develop research and executive education for top current and future leaders on sustainability.

Peter has twice led the world’s largest CEO study on sustainability for the United Nations at McKinsey & Co in 2007 and Accenture in 2010. In 2010, he received the Corporate Governance journal ‘outstanding paper of the year award’ for an article on sustainability, talent and organisation. Peter writes, blogs and speaks around the world on sustainability and climate change and is quoted regularly in the FT, Business Week, Fast Company, The Times, CNN, CNBC, Guardian etc.

Peter is an alumnus of the INSEAD Executive Programme; the University of Cambridge BEP; and the University of Nottingham, where he won the Elizabeth and David Marsden ‘University Prize’ for outstanding achievement and the highest first class degree.

In 2010 Peter was voted as an outstanding ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum, and asked to chair the organisation’s Taskforce on New Sustainable Business Models.

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