John Elkington is a thought-leader, strategist, and a serial entrepreneur.  He works with large corporations, particularly at C-Suite level as well as finance and investment community, industry bodies, media, academia, government and entrepreneurs across the globe.

Described by Business Week as "a dean of the corporate responsibility movement for three decades", he originated the term, Triple Bottom Line. In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth: after Al Gore, Barack Obama and Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, alongside Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank.

The author of nineteen books, his latest is The Breakthrough Challenge: 10 Ways to Connect Today’s Profits with Tomorrow’s Bottom Line.

He is also a Visiting Professor at the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at the Cranfield School of Management and sits on an A-Z of strategic advisory boards, including Nestlé’s.