Our Contributors

Paul is Lloyds Banking Group's Community Investment and Sustainable Development Director. Having spent the first part of his career in structured finance, in 2007 Paul developed the business case for establishing a sustainable development team in Lloyds Banking Group's Corporate Markets Division (Wholesale). He also developed intiaitives to enable colleagues to engage in community-based initiatives. In 2011, he took on a Group-wide role leading the team developing and implementing Lloyds Banking Group's community investment and sustainable development strategy, working with customers, NGOs, charities, the government, investors and suppliers.

Paul is a graduate of Harvard Business School, the WWF One Planet Leaders Programme, and CPSL's masters-level Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business. He is member of the The Prince of Wales's UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change and the Small Business Consortium, and a trustee of two environmental charities, Global Action Plan and Leapfrog. He is also a member of Business in the Community's Environment Leadership team and the Green Deal Network’s Steering Group, and has recently stepped down from UNEP's Finance Initiative Steering Committee. He is a regular contributor to CPSL programmes, as well as other events such Henley Business School's Advanced Management Programme.

Edgar is holder of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, directs the African Centre for Cities and is Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town. He has served as a Faculty Member of the Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme at several seminars worldwide. In earlier roles he served as Special Advisor to the Premier of the Western Cape Provincial Government and directed a number of urban policy think tanks before his stint in government. He is a founder member of Isandla Institute, serves on the Boards of the Sustainability Institute and the Cape Town Partnership; and is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Gauteng City-region Observatory and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He regularly provides advisory services to international development agencies such as: UN-Habitat, African Development Bank, DBSA, National Planning Commission, OECD urban division and UNEP. Edgar holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, The Netherlands) and BA-Honours from the University of the Western Cape.

Martin is a consultant in organisational and leadership development; a designer and facilitator of innovation and change processes; and an inspirational trainer and coach.

He works with leaders in business, government and civil society in many parts of the world, via the Presencing Institute, a global awareness-based action research community for profound societal innovation and change, the National University of Singapore, and the Commonwealth Business School. He has conducted leadership training programmes for the cabinets and senior executives of the governments of South Africa, Namibia, Rwanda, Liberia and Zambia.

Martin has worked as Special Consultant to the President of Zambia and adviser to Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative, and since 2010 has designed and facilitated sustainability efforts within the tuna industry in the Coral Triangle. He has also worked with the BBC, PWC, McKinsey, the World Bank, the United Nations, Barclays Bank, Swiss Re, and DFID.

He is the author of Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela (2006), It’s How We End That Matters: Leadership Lessons from an African President (2009), and On the Wings of Others: How to Access Life’s Greatest Opportunities (forthcoming).

Matt Arnold is a Principal and leader of Sustainable Business Solutions at PwC in the US. His team helps clients achieve business success from their sustainability investments, with a focus on revenue growth cost reduction and risk mitigation in industrial, financial, airline, food and consumer product companies.

Matt was a co-founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, which helps financial services companies to develop sustainability strategy and manage environmental and social risk. He was Chief Operating Officer at the World Resources Institute, a sustainable development think tank, and has also held positions in marketing with IBM, in investment banking with Merrill Lynch, and in business development with Santa Fe Trading, Hong Kong. In 1990, Matt founded the Management Institute for Environment and Business, a pioneer in helping companies and business schools recognise environmental challenges as business opportunities.

Matt is a member of the Board of Directors of Forest Trends, a market-maker for ecosystem services, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. He holds an AB degree in Psychology from Harvard College, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.