Liz Logan and Matthew Arnold are both partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the area of U.S. Sustainability and Climate Change. Liz is an assurance partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers with over 20 years of experience consulting with both public and private companies on accounting, auditing, and compliance matters. Matthew Arnold is a principal at the global advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in the area of climate change and sustainability.
Currently based in Houston, Liz primarily serves the energy and utility industries, with a focus on carbon related challenges. She is part of a core team developing PwC's response to the reporting and disclosure challenges associated with emerging regulation facing companies in these industries. As advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, Liz leads the U.S. team in issuing the 2009 US S&P 500 report. Liz is a CPA and CISA, and represents PwC on the Environmental Policy Advisory Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership.
Matthew was a director and co-founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, which helps financial services companies to develop sustainability strategy, manage environmental and social risk and to identify environmentally superior investment opportunities. His clients include commercial and investment banks, insurers, real estate companies, industrial products and development banks. Sustainable Finance was acquired by PwC in December 2008.
Prior to Sustainable Finance, Matthew was chief operating officer at the World Resources Institute, a sustainable development think tank, where he was responsible for 140 employees, a $20 million budget and a $45 million endowment.
In 1990, he founded the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) to help business schools and corporations integrate environmental issues into business strategy. In 1996, MEB merged with the World Resources Institute. Prior to 1990 he held positions in marketing with IBM, in investment banking with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and in business development with Santa Fe Trading, Hong Kong.
He is a member of the board of directors of Forest Trends, a market maker for ecosystem services, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, and a faculty member of the Prince of Wales Cambridge University Business Environment Program.
He holds an AB degree in Psychobiology from Harvard College, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.