Roberts links science, field, and policy programs with an ambitious initiative to work with markets and businesses to lighten their impact on the planet.

He has worked with communities and heads of state in North America, Africa, Latin America, and Asia and has built partnerships with some of the world’s largest corporations, including Walmart, Cargill, and Mars, to set new industry standards for resource efficiency.

Roberts earned his MBA from Harvard Business School following a BA from Princeton University and subsequently held marketing management positions for Procter & Gamble and Gillette. He went on to lead international conservation and science programs for fifteen years at The Nature Conservancy before coming to WWF in 2004.

Roberts serves on the Boards of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy at Duke University, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, and the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and most recently served on the International Finance Corporation’s Advisory Panel on Sustainability and Business, as well as the Advisory Board of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative chaired by the Secretary-General of the UN.

Roberts lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Jackie Prince Roberts, and their three children.