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W. Robert de Jongh
Managing Director | Sustainability Strategy and Transformation
Robert is a Managing Director in Deloitte Consulting's Sustainability Strategy and Transformation Practice, and leads the firm’s efforts on decarbonization, decarbonization finance, and social sustainability efforts, with a particular focus on consumer and financial services industries alongside public sector innovation. For the past 10 years at Deloitte, Robert has advised clients across the public and private sector on a wide range of enterprise-wide, value(s)-driven strategic, digital and sustainability transformations. As an experienced executive, entrepreneur, and transformation and innovation strategist, Robert helps c-suite clients overcome fundamental business challenges by realigning and focusing their organization’s capabilities to drive new forms of business value alongside social value to create organizational resilience. Throughout his career, Robert has also driven innovative finance solutions, supporting clients from the public and private sectors to leverage and deploy different forms of capital and finance mechanisms to drive social and environmental innovation alongside commercial returns. Prior to Deloitte, Robert enjoyed a 20+ year career in crisis management and strategic communications, international development and development finance, international environmental conservation and natural resource management, impact investing and entrepreneurship in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.