Lucas Joppa

Lucas Joppa is accelerating action to combat environmental and sustainability issues. Former Chief Environmental Officer and Environmental Scientist for Microsoft, Lucas is now the Senior Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at Haveli Investments. In 2021, he was made a Professor Adjunct at Yale University, where Lucas educates the next generation of sustainability champions. Also booked as a sustainability speaker, Lucas has previously spoken on topics such as being carbon negative, environmental and computer science.

Lucas joined Microsoft in 2010 as a Computer Ecologist, where he led research efforts at the intersection of environmental and computer science. In 2017, he became Chief Environmental Scientist where he founded and led Microsoft’s AI for Earth Programme. He then took on the esteemed role of Chief Environmental Officer where he was responsible for Microsoft’s environmental sustainability vision and the creation of their industry leading commitments to be carbon negative, water positive and zero waste.

In 2022, Lucas left Microsoft and joined Haveli Investments as the Senior Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer, where he oversees the company’s sustainability and AI strategy including their ambition to be Net Zero. Lucas is also the Professor Adjunct at Yale University where he educates the next generation of sustainability champions. His role as Carbon Removal Advisor for Varaha, and his position as an Advisory Board Member for the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, is further testament to his dedication to sharing his expertise. The recipient of the 2016 USERN Prize and the 2014 Distinguished Service Award and Early Career Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, Lucas was also listed in Forbes 2021 40 under 40.

With experience across environmental science and data science, Lucas is now becoming a popular choice as a speaker on sustainability, renowned for his passion and commitment to advancing sustainability and technology. Having previously spoken for GLOBAL 2020 and the Virtual London Tech Week, Lucas Joppa is a seasoned speaker and a fantastic choice to bring understanding to the often complex subject of sustainability.