Green growth? New Triodos UK chief plans to shake up banking sector with a 'new kind of leadership'

Madeleine Cuff
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Bevis Watts became managing director of Triodos UK in April, and has big plans to usher in a new era of fair finance

Before April this year you would have been most likely to find Dr Bevis Watts wading through a marshy stream to check on a family of otters, or chatting to schoolchildren about the butterflies they could...

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