Future of the Environment
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James Pennington is an Associate Director at Deloitte where he leads the firm’s circular economy practice. He previously worked at the World Economic Forum where he was manager of the circular economy initiative and led the build-out of the Forum’s environmental work in China. He holds degrees from the University of Leeds and Cambridge.
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