Jean-Louis is the co-founder and CEO of Future. He oversees Future’s overall strategy, forges partnerships, and develops financial tools paying people to reduce carbon. Jean-Louis brings his experience as an entrepreneur to Future. As the Founding Principal and Managing Director of the BlackIvy Group, he was responsible for the company’s growth strategy and development of new businesses. Anchored in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania, BlackIvy delivers life's essentials to consumers in Africa While still in high school, he built one of Europe’s largest and most enduring social movements. A trained economist, Jean-Louis has written on market inefficiencies for the Financial Times, New York Times, and Harvard Business Review, including ‘Now is the Time to Invest in Africa’, co-written with Sir Paul Collier. He received his MSc from Oxford University, where he was awarded the George Webb Medley Prize in Economics.