PwC Partner and PwC’s Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader; World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Leads PwC’s global strategy and partnerships on innovation and emerging technologies, including on agendas such as Responsible Technology, Tech Ethics and Policy, and Tech for Good. Celine also leads the Network’s global work on sustainability including climate change, SDGs, and impact investment, sustainable finance, international development and business with purpose. Advises government, industry, tech and investor clients across North America, Europe and emerging and developing economies on innovation and emerging tech strategy and transformation, sustainability, and innovation finance and impact investment. Member of the T20 Digital Economy Taskforce, and has acted as adviser to the G20, World Economic Forum, UN, New Climate Economy, and numerous governments on climate change, ecosystems, Fourth Industrial Revolution and the digital economy. Vice Chair of Board, We Mean Business Coalition. 2016-2020, Member, World Economic Forum Global Future Councils; Member of the Advisory Board, Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute at London School of Economics. PhD in Computer Modelling and Earth Sciences, Columbia University, New York, and NASA Fellow.
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