Full Biography:
Peter Lacy
Global Managing Director
Accenture – Strategy - Sustainability
Peter Lacy is a trusted strategic advisor to top executives and leadership teams
around the world on strategy and sustainability. He has worked for 15+ years with
CEOs and top management of leading global companies, the United Nations,
European Union and national governments helping them solve complex strategy
and sustainability problems.
He has advised companies such as M&S, Diageo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Vodafone,
GSK, Xstrata, Exxon-Mobil, Lloyds TSB, BP, GE, Baosteel, Dow, and Motorola and
the UN, EU, UK, Singapore and Chinese governments. He has also advised cities
including Mayors of London, Amsterdam, Shanghai etc.
Peter’s career has spanned strategy consulting and sustainability with Accenture, McKinsey & Co,
Andersen Consulting and the Academy of Business in Society, where he was founding chief executive
of a partnership for Unilever, Shell, J&J, IBM and Microsoft with INSEAD, London Business School,
IMD and the EU on research and executive education in Brussels.
Peter leads our Sustainability & Strategy practices globally as well as Accenture’s partnerships with the
World Economic Forum and United Nations Global Compact. Peter writes and speaks on strategy and
sustainability regularly and has appeared in the last 12 months in publications such as the Financial
Times, Business Week, Caixin, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, The Times, The Guardian, The
Economist, Independent and CNBC.
He leads Accenture’s recruiting at London Business School and is a board member of Nottingham
University Business School, Cranfield School of Management Doughty Centre, Aerofarms and an
editorial advisory board member of the Corporate Governance Journal amongst other non-exec roles.
He has previously served on advisory boards for the UK Minister for Trade & Industry and the
European Commission.
He has three times led the world’s largest study on CEO attitudes to sustainability for the United
Nations - conducted every 3 years - in 2007, 2010, 2013, and was a founding signatory and organiser of
the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education for Ban Ki-Moon.
Peter is a visiting business fellow at Oxford University. He is an alumnus of the INSEAD International
Executive Programme; Harvard Kennedy School’s Future Leaders Programme; the University of
Cambridge Business and Environment Programme; Oxford University’s Business Economics
Programme; and the University of Nottingham.
In 2010 Peter was voted a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is lead advisor to
WEF’s Digital Transformation of Industries project, chairs its Circular Economy YGL Taskforce and sits
on its Meta-Council for Circular Economy and Global Agenda Council for the Future of Real Estate.
Peter’s new book ‘Waste to Wealth – Creating Advantage in a Circular Economy’ is co-authored with Jakob
Rutqvist and published by Palgrave-Macmillan (released August, 2015).
Peter is British and lives in the UK with his wife Lucy and two sons, Jack and Sam.