John Willis has joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as Senior Director, Corporate Performance and Accountability, according to a LinkedIn post that he published. Willis joins from independent think tank Tracker Group, where he was most recently Director of Research for Planet Tracker, which is focused on nature-based research. Tracker Group also has a climate-based research arm called Carbon Tracker. The Tracker Group recently announced a more streamlined management structure to better exploit synergies between its two research streams. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a CEO-led organisation of over 225 international companies. News of Willis’ departure comes a day after a former Tracker Group employee, Maeve O’Connor, announced that she was joining workplace pension scheme Nest as Responsible Investment Manager for Climate and Nature. O’Connor was previously Oil, Gas and Mining Analyst at Carbon Tracker. “After three cracking years researching climate investment risk at Carbon Tracker, I’m excited to start putting theory into practice,” she said.
