Peter Boyd

Peter Boyd is a Lecturer at Yale School of the Environment (YSE), Resident Fellow at the Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY). He is Lecturer for Perspectives on Environmental Leadership, International Organizations & Conferences, and Sustainable Business Capstone Consulting Clinic. Peter also guest-lectures on a variety of leadership topics; helps social and environmental start-ups in the early stages of growth; and advises Yale on various leadership and environmental initiatives.
 
Outside Yale he is Founder & CEO of Time4Good and for over twenty years, he has worked on, led, and advised high-growth organizations on purpose-driven leadership, strategy, marketing, climate change solutions and entrepreneurial opportunity. He volunteers on the UN High Level Champions' campaign Race To Zero, co-chairing the Expert Peer Review Group for largest umbrella movement of non-state actors targeting Net-Zero in line with the Paris Agreement.
 
Prior to Time4Good, Peter advised The B Team on their ‘Net-Zero by 2050’ initiative in the lead up to COP21 in Paris; was Launch Director and COO of Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room; and served as Chair of The Energy Efficiency Deployment Office for the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change. The Charity & Government experience followed ten jobs in twelve years at the Virgin Group (including CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa), and his first job with McKinsey & Co. 
 
He is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland; educated at University of Oxford, and now enjoys family life with his wife and three children in Westport, CT USA – serving on the board of Sustainable Westport. He has completed over twenty marathons, including the African ultra-marathons, Marathon Des Sables (at age 30 and 50) and The Comrades (both the ‘up run’ and ‘down run’).