Founder and Director

Alejandro Litovsky is the founder and director of the Earth Security Initiative, created to advance practical ideas to bring financial markets, industry, government and civil society to collaborate to keep the global economy within ecological limits. He has been awarded the BMW Young Leader Award 2012 by the BMW Foundation in Germany; he is a Board Member of LEAD International, the global institution created in 1992 to advance leadership for sustainable world; and is in the steering committee of two UN-backed global initiatives seeking to integrate the risks of losing biodiversity into the workings of the corporate and financial sectors.

For the last ten years he has held senior positions at business and sustainability think tanks in London. In these roles he promoted innovative private-public partnerships to address ecological and human security challenges in places like Russia, Indonesia, Tanzania, South Africa, India and throughout Latin America. He also created the Biosphere Economy, a project that convened business, investors, and entrepreneurs to cooperate in scaling up market innovations to protect the biosphere, giving way to an ambitious partnership between financial institutions and ecological scientists to include ecological metrics into the rating of government bonds.

In 2004 he was awarded the Hobhouse Memorial Prize by the London School of Economics where he obtained his MSc in Political Sociology. During this period he worked with the Shell International’s Future Scenarios team in London. Prior to that was an investment manager with the AVINA Foundation in Latin America where he helped invest in entrepreneurial solutions to deal with resource limits, governance and human security.