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Sir Andrew Steer
Founding CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund | Former CEO of the World Resources Institute | Distinguished Professor at Georgetown & LSE | Global Climate & Sustainability Leader
Sir Andrew Steer is one of the world's foremost leaders on climate and sustainable development. As founding CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, he directed the largest philanthropy for climate and nature, and previously led the World Resources Institute and held senior roles at the World Bank and in UK government. Knighted in 2024 and named by Forbes among the world's top climate leaders, he offers a rare, insider's vision for a sustainable future.
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Sir Andrew Steer biography
Sustainability speaker Sir Andrew Steer is one of the world’s most influential voices on climate change, sustainable development, and the economics of a greener future. An economist by training and a practitioner at the highest levels of global institutions, he has spent his career proving that environmental progress and economic prosperity are not opposing forces but can, and must, go hand in hand. Few people have shaped the global response to climate and nature as directly, or from as many vantage points, as he has.
Steer served as the founding president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, the ten-billion-dollar philanthropy, the largest of its kind, dedicated to fighting climate change and protecting nature, where he oversaw transformational investments in decarbonization, food and agriculture, nature protection, and green finance. Before that, he led the World Resources Institute for nearly a decade, growing it into the world’s foremost think-and-do tank on sustainable development, and he served as the World Bank’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and as Director General of the UK’s Department for International Development.
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A globally recognized economist who holds a PhD from Cambridge, Steer has advised governments, corporations, and financial institutions, including HSBC, Bank of America, and IKEA, on green finance and decarbonization. In 2024 he was knighted for his contribution as one of the world’s best-known leaders in sustainable development economics, and named by Forbes among the 50 most impactful climate leaders. Today he is Distinguished Professor of Practice in Economics and Sustainability at Georgetown University and the London School of Economics, and Chair of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, building on the work he led at the World Resources Institute and beyond.
As a speaker, Sir Andrew Steer is authoritative, optimistic, and deeply practical, translating the world’s most complex environmental and economic challenges into clear, actionable insight. He speaks on the climate and nature crisis and the opportunities it creates, green finance and the economics of the transition, corporate sustainability and decarbonization, and how business and government can build a prosperous future within planetary boundaries. Audiences leave with a clear-eyed yet hopeful understanding of one of the defining challenges of our time, and of the practical paths forward.
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Drawing on his experience leading the world's largest climate and nature philanthropy, Sir Andrew Steer offers audiences an authoritative, clear-eyed assessment of where the planet stands, and why he remains fundamentally optimistic. He explains the science and the stakes without alarmism, and reveals the extraordinary economic opportunities emerging from the transition to a low-carbon, nature-positive world. A galvanizing keynote that reframes climate action as one of the greatest growth and innovation stories of our time.
Trained as an economist and a veteran adviser to banks, corporations, and governments, Steer is one of the world's leading authorities on how capital can drive, or block, the climate transition. He explores green finance, carbon markets, sustainable investment, and the trillions in capital that must be mobilized, and shows leaders how to align profitability with decarbonization. Essential insight for financial institutions, investors, and any organization navigating the economics of sustainability.
Having advised some of the world's largest companies, Steer knows what real corporate sustainability looks like, and what merely performative efforts look like. In this keynote he helps business leaders cut through the complexity: how to set credible net-zero strategies, decarbonize operations and supply chains, turn sustainability into competitive advantage, and lead through shifting regulation and expectations. A pragmatic, board-level view of the defining business challenge of the decade.
Steer's life's work rests on a powerful idea: that economic progress and environmental sustainability are not in conflict, but that lasting prosperity must be pursued within the planet's natural limits. In this big-picture keynote, he brings together economics, development, and environmental science to sketch a hopeful, achievable vision of a world that is both prosperous and sustainable, and the choices leaders in business and government must make to get there.
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Why Sir Andrew Steer?
Booking Sir Andrew Steer brings audiences one of the world's most authoritative and inspiring voices on climate, sustainability, and green economics, someone who has operated at the very top of global institutions, from the Bezos Earth Fund and the World Resources Institute to the World Bank and the UK government. He combines the rigor of a trained economist with the practical wisdom of a leader who has directed billions of dollars toward real-world climate solutions, and he delivers it with clarity and genuine optimism. Audiences leave both better informed and more hopeful, with a concrete sense of the opportunities ahead. He is ideal for events on sustainability, climate, economics, finance, and corporate strategy. To bring Sir Andrew Steer to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Sir Andrew Steer?
Sir Andrew Steer is a British economist and one of the world's foremost leaders in climate action and sustainable development. He served as the founding president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, a ten-billion-dollar philanthropy dedicated to climate and nature, from 2021 to 2025, and before that as president and CEO of the World Resources Institute for nearly a decade. Earlier in his career he was the World Bank's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Director General of the UK's Department for International Development. Knighted in 2024 for his contribution to sustainable development economics and named by Forbes among the 50 most impactful climate leaders, he is now Distinguished Professor of Practice in Economics and Sustainability at Georgetown University and the London School of Economics, and Chair of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
What was the Bezos Earth Fund, and what did Andrew Steer do there?
The Bezos Earth Fund is a ten-billion-dollar philanthropic commitment from Jeff Bezos, the largest fund of its kind, dedicated to fighting climate change and protecting nature this decade. As its founding president and CEO from 2021 to 2025, Sir Andrew Steer built and led the organization and set its strategy, directing grants toward systems change across nature protection, food and agriculture, industrial and energy decarbonization, financial reform, and the use of AI and big data for climate. Under his leadership, the fund committed billions in grants and helped launch major initiatives, including the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, a multi-billion-dollar facility to accelerate the shift to clean energy in developing countries.
What topics does sustainability speaker Sir Andrew Steer cover?
Sir Andrew Steer speaks on the climate and nature crisis and its opportunities, green finance and the economics of the transition, corporate sustainability and decarbonization, and building prosperity within planetary boundaries. His keynotes suit events on sustainability, climate, economics, finance, and business strategy. To book Sir Andrew Steer as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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