Career
He is a non-executive director of CV Starr Underwriting Agents. He is a non-executive chairman of Investcorp Europe. He is the first President of the Global Strategy Forum, a trustee of the Kew Foundation and a patron of Stockholm University.
He is chairing the Food, Energy and Water security program at RUSI. He has also served on the boards of Image (2006 - 2013) and the British Paralympics Association, the sports advisory board of Shimon Peres Peace Centre, the advisory board of the World Peace Foundation and he was non-executive chairman of Starr Managing Agents.
Johan Eliasch served in the British Government, as the Special Representative of the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Deforestation and Clean Energy from 2007 to 2010. He covered Shadow Foreign Relations (2003–2006) as part of the Shadow Foreign Office team
In 2006 he and Michael Ancram set up Global Strategy Forum, a foreign affairs think tank based in London. He remains President.
He was Chairman of the Young Conservatives party in Djursholm, Sweden (1979–1982).
In 2005, Johan Eliasch created the Rainforest Trust and purchased for preservation purposes a 400,000-acre (1,600 km2) rainforest area in the heart of the Amazon rainforest near the Madeira River. In 2006, he co-founded Cool Earth, a charity he co-chairs, which sponsors local non-governmental organization"s to conserve endangered rainforest and has over 120,000 registered members. In 2007 he was commissioned by Her Majesty Government to undertake an independent review on the role of international finance mechanisms to preserve the global forests in tacking climate change, "The Eliasch Review", which was launched by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street in October 2008.
The Eliasch Review has served as a guideline for REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) as part of the international climate change convention.
