Diane Osgood

Diane Osgood, PhD, discovered her shopping superpower while studying wild orangutans in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Watching the tropical forest cut down before her eyes, she realized that if people stopped buying products made from tropical wood, the deforestation would stop. This realization led her to earn a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics and become an authority on sustainable and ethical products.   

Sustainability isn’t just her work. It’s her passion. She’s a nerd with a knack for translating complex issues into plain words.  

For more than 30 years, she has helped Fortune Global 500 companies create products that are better for the planet and all people, integrate sustainability into everything they do, and develop strategies to bring sustainability stretch goals to life. DuPont, Meta, Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Richard Branson’s Virgin businesses are among her clients.   

She is a co-author with Seth Godin and others on the best-selling The Carbon Almanac (Penguin, 2022) and writes occasionally for online journals.