Tony Greenham

Tony is Head of Finance and Business at nef, leading the programme of research into reforming the financial sector and aligning the interests of society and business.
 
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1996, he worked in UK Equity Capital Markets first with Barclays Bank and then Credit Suisse where he advised household names such as Sky, GlaxoSmithkline and Debenhams.
He then spent several years in the commercial sector as a director of an internet marketing agency, an art gallery group, an award-winning sustainable food retailer, and a high-street accountancy practice.
 
Immediately prior to joining nef in 2010, Tony was working with the Transition Towns movement, a network of community initiatives implementing local solutions to the challenges of climate change, peak oil and local economic regeneration. He helped set up Transition Training and Consulting, providing strategic sustainability advice to organisations, and is a Trustee of Transition Network.
 
Since 2010 he has advised the government on regional economic regeneration as a member of the Regional Growth Fund Advisory Panel.
 
Tony is a regular media commentator on banking issues, contributing to various BBC programmes including BBC Newsnight, BBC News 24, Radio 5 Live, as well as Sky News, Channel 4 News and AlJazeera English Newshour, and writing for the Daily Mail, the Guardian and Huffington Post.
 
He has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from the London School of Economics.