Katie Leach joined Lloyds Banking Group in May 2023 as Head of Nature. Katie previously worked at responsible investment NGO ShareAction, where she developed and led a new programme of work with investors and banks to raise the profile of biodiversity loss and drive the policies needed to shift this trend. Prior to this, she worked for 6 years at UNEP-WCMC as Senior Programme Officer, Business and Biodiversity, leading a portfolio of work to embed nature within corporate and financial decision making. This included leading the development of the ENCORE tool and pioneering work on corporate biodiversity measurement. Katie has a PhD in Biological Sciences from Queen’s University Belfast and an MSci in Zoology from the University of Nottingham.