Primary Job Title Chief Sustainability Officer & Senior Managing Director Primary Organization Haveli Investments
Location United States, North America Gender Male Also Known As Dr Lucas Joppa
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Lucas Joppa is the Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Managing Director of Haveli Investments, Professor Adjunct of Yale University, and an Associate Editor in Chief (EcoSphere) at the Ecological Society of America.
Prior to that, Lucas was Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Scientist, where he served as the company’s focal point at the
intersection of science, technology, and environmental sustainability. A key component of his role at Microsoft includes leading the AI for Earth program, a significant investment in deploying Microsoft’s AI technologies for environmental solutions in the areas of climate, water, agriculture, and biodiversity conservation.
He is an internationally recognized environmental scientist and serves as a strategic advisor to many non-profit, government, and corporate institutions nationally and internationally.
A former Peace Corps volunteer, Lucas holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Duke University, an honorary fellowship at the Zoological Society of London, and is a recipient of the Society for Conservation Biology’s Early Career Award.
