Dame Veronica Anne Courtice, DBE, LVO, DL, born June 1952 in Johannesburg,^[1][2] known as Polly Courtice, has an MA from the University of Cambridge (1973) and is also a graduate of the University of Cape Town (1978). She is a Fellow of Churchill College and an Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

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She was Founder Director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership^[3] at the University of Cambridge until April 2021. She was the Founder Director of The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme, and Academic Director of Cambridge University's Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership.

She is a Deputy Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire, a member of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate, and a Trustee of Cambridge Past, Present and Future. She is a Non-Executive Director of Anglian Water Services Ltd, a Non-Executive Director of BSI (the British Standards Institute) and a Member of the Supervisory Board of Mercedes Benz Group AG. She is a member of the judging panel for the Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development and a Sustainability Advisor to Terra Firma Capital Management Ltd.

• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to sustainability leadership.^[4]
• Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 2008 Birthday Honours
• Honorary Doctorate, UIS - Arctic University of Norway
• Recipient of the 2015 Stanford Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability
• Lifetime Achievement Award at Ethical Corporation's annual Responsible Business Awards in 2016 ^{[citation needed]}
• Business Green’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 ^{[citation needed]}