
Peter Boyd
Peter Boyd is Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment and Resident Fellow at Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment. Outside Yale he is Founder & CEO of Time4Good, helping Leaders and their teams build purpose-driven paths to maximum impact. He also serves as an Advisor to REDD.plus and Chairs ‘Sustainable Westport’ in his Connecticut hometown. He is former COO of Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room; former Chair of The Energy Efficiency Deployment Office for the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change; and former Project Lead for The B Team’s ‘Net-Zero by 2050’ initiative, focused on business encouragement of an ambitious Paris Agreement at COP21. His academic, non-profit & government experience followed ten jobs in twelve years at the Virgin Group (including CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa), and his first job with McKinsey & Co.
[He co-wrote a short op-ed on ‘Net-Zero’ here: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/achieve-net-zero-lets-agree-one-definit... longer paper here: https://bit.ly/CBEYNetZero]