Lee Ballin

Lee recently joined Deloitte after 16 years at Bloomberg where he was most recently the Head of Business Development for Sustainability at BloombergNEF - a strategic research group that helps companies, investors and governments navigate the shift to a low carbon economy. Before that, he was a founding member of Bloomberg’s Sustainable Business & Finance team, where he worked on integrating sustainability considerations into the company’s operations while co-developing products and services for the Bloomberg Terminal and Bloomberg Media. He established Bloomberg as a convener for impactful, must-attend conversations under the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit and Sustainable Finance Week banners. As a sustainability practitioner, Lee worked with internal departments to reduce Bloomberg’s environmental footprint, was responsible for the company’s sustainability reporting and numerous internal and external corporate sustainability programs, including the collection and analysis of the company's ESG reporting. He has served in multiple roles as a faculty member at New York University, both as an adjunct professor and advisor to the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Lee is a graduate of the Aspen Institute First Mover Fellowship Program and CORO Leadership New York. He sits on the advisory boards of the CECP's Strategic Investor Initiative and the steering committee for WBCSD's Aligning Retirement Assets project. Lee holds a bachelor's degree in business logistics from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.