Siddarth Shrikanth is the author of the upcoming book, The Case for Nature, to be published by Penguin and Duckworth in 2023. Siddarth grew up in Chennai, India and studied conservation biology and climate science at Oxford, later joining McKinsey and Company in London where he worked on helping corporates and governments craft sustainability strategies. He was on the founding team of McKinsey’s environmental incubator, McKinsey.org, and led the Rethinking Recycling programme in Indonesia. Siddarth joined the Financial Times as a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong, before spending three years in America pursuing a concurrent MPA/MBA from the Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. During his time as a graduate student, he helped found Working Trees, a natural carbon removal startup, and consulted for the Singapore PM’s office and the World Bank. He is now based in London and works as an investment professional at Just Climate. In his spare time, SIddarth is an avid scuba diver.