GCN Associate
LLOYD TIMBERLAKE

Climate Change
Ecosystem Services/
Resource Management
Corporate Social Responsibility/
Communications
Governance
Doing Business Everywhere
Sustainble Development

Lloyd Timberlake has focused on business and sustainable development since he began working with Swiss entrepreneur Stephan Schmidheiny to establish the predecessor to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in 1991. Before that he was a journalist, and has reported from more than 65 countries, mainly on environment and development issues.

His articles have appeared in most of the world’s newspapers. He has served as science editor for Reuters News Agency, director of external affairs at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, chairman of the board of the Alqueria Plantation in Mallorca, Spain, and director of communications and of the North America office of the WBCSD.

Lloyd Timberlake has written prize-winning books under his own name (Africa in Crisis, Only One Earth, When the Bough Breaks) and books for organizations such as the Brundtland Commission, the WBCSD, and the UN Environment Programme. He has been a visiting academic fellow at Imperial College, London, and at New York University Law School. After graduating from Yale University, he taught literature and chicken farming to members of Southern African revolutionary parties and served as honorary commandant of the Tanzanian Mounted Police Force. 

He now lives in Washington DC and kayaks in the Chesapeake Bay. 

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