Peter S. Knight

Peter S. Knight is a Partner at Cyan Capital Partners, a Fund dedicated to helping new Fund managers and asset owners in the field of sustainable investing. Prior to that, Peter was a Founding Partner at Generation Investment Management, where he helped build, with his partners Al Gore and David Blood, a leading global sustainable investing firm with assets under management now exceeding $30 billion. Prior to his retirement from the firm in 2018, Mr. Knight held leadership positions within Generation IM, notably developing and overseeing the firm’s U.S. business.

Prior to Generation, Mr. Knight was a Managing Director of Met West Financial, an LA-based asset management company. Mr. Knight started his career at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. From 1977 to 1989, he served as the Chief of Staff to Representative and later Senator Al Gore. He served as the General Counsel of Medicis Pharmaceutical and then started his law practice in where he represented the International Olympic Committee, the US Olympic Committee, and numerous Fortune 500 Companies. Mr. Knight has also served in senior positions on four Presidential campaigns including serving as the Campaign Manager for President Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign.

Mr. Knight has extensive board experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. He served on a number of public company Boards including Medicis, Par Pharmaceutical, Entremed (Casi), Healthworld, Whitman Education, Comsat, and the Schroder Mutual Fund Board complex. Mr. Knight currently serves on the Fund Boards of Generation Investment Management and on the Board of Gratitude Railroad. His philanthropic efforts include serving as Chair of the Climate Museum and the Board of Emergent, a nonprofit intermediary to help stop deforestation in tropical forest nations.

He received a BA from Cornell University and a JD from Georgetown Law School.