Jeremy Leggett

Jeremy Leggett is a British social entrepreneur, writer, and winner of the 2025 Blue Planet Prize. He founded and was a board director of Solarcentury from 1997 to 2020, an international solar solutions company, and founded and was chair of SolarAid, a charity funded with 5% of Solarcentury's annual profits that helps solar-lighting entrepreneurs get started in Africa (2006–2020). SolarAid owns a retail brand SunnyMoney that was for a time Africa's top-seller of solar lighting, having sold well over a million solar lights, all profits recycled to the cause of eradicating the kerosene lantern from Africa. He founded and is CEO of Highlands Rewilding, a pioneering nature-recovery company, since 2020.