David Pitt-Watson

David Pitt-Watson is a Scottish business and social entrepreneur and author. He is an Executive Fellow at London Business School, and has been active in various initiatives to promote responsible investment including co-chairing the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, and leading the Royal Society of Arts Tomorrow's Investor Project. He is an independnent non-execuitve at KPMG, Treasurer of Oxfam, a member of the board of NESTA, and of Aviva's Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. He is recognised globally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the field of responsible investment and business practice.

Born in 1956 in Aberdeen, Scotland, he is the son of the Reverend Professor Ian Pitt-Watson (deceased 1995) and Helen Pitt-Watson (deceased 1989). He has two sisters, Margaret and Rosemary.

Pitt-Watson was educated at Bearsden Academy and Aberdeen Grammar School and then at Queen's College, Oxford where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He went on to win a scholarship from the Rotary Foundation to Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he graduated with an MA and MBA in 1980.

After short periods of work at 3i and McKinsey Pitt-Watson helped establish and was ultimately managing director of Braxton Associates Limited. He worked there for 17 years during which time it was bought by Deloitte and became Deloitte Consulting. Pitt-Watson was a partner at Deloitte for 12 years advising company boards and international agencies on strategy and competitiveness.

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