David Blood

Sustainable investing leader

David Blood is a founding and senior partner of Generation Investment Management, which focuses on long-term, environmentally and socially conscious projects.

Why you should listen

David Blood founded Generation Investment Management alongside former US Vice President Al Gore and others in 2004. The firm has played a pioneering role in the development of sustainable and environmental, social and governance (ESG). Prior to this work, Blood spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, including a few years as CEO of asset management.

Blood sits on the boards of several nonprofits, including as chairman of Just Climate and Social Finance UK, co-chair of the World Resources Institute and a board member of On the Edge Conservation.

David Blood’s TED talk

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Nili Gilbert and David Blood

A playbook for financing climate solutions

Posted Dec 2023

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Live from TED Countdown Summit 2023

Dilemmas: Notes from Session 3 of TED Countdown Summit 2023

July 12, 2023

Session 3 of TED Countdown Summit 2023 tackled some of the knottier issues related to climate change — from the massive amount of money needed to finance the global green transition, to the struggle for energy access in developing nations and the ecosystem effects of fast fashion — and offered glimpses of the world-changing solutions […]