Dr Katie Leach joined Lloyds Banking Group in May 2023 as Head of Nature. Katie previously worked at responsible investment NGO ShareAction and prior to that 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. She is also a Coordinating Lead Author on the ongoing IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment. Katie has a PhD in Biological Sciences from Queen’s University Belfast and an MSci in Zoology from the University of Nottingham.