Global Managing Director - LandsThe Nature Conservancy
Justin Adams has 20 years' experience in the private sector, driving innovation and sustainability in energy and agriculture. He is now Global Managing Director for Lands at The Nature Conservancy where he is working on finding new ways to balance competing priorities for land including food security, sustainable energy production and sustainable livelihoods.
Before joining The Nature Conservancy, Justin worked as a Senior Advisor to the World Bank where he helped design and raise $300 million for the BioCarbon Fund's Initiative for Sustainable Forested Landscapes. Previously, Justin was a senior executive at BP for 10 years where he helped to build its $8 billion renewables division, Alternative Energy. As Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, he created and led BP's corporate venture arm - BP Ventures - managing an investment portfolio of $150 million across 30 entrepreneurial companies. Justin is a Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford and is also completing a role as Chairman of Mendel Plant Sciences.