[2] Pitt-Watson was educated at Bearsden Academy and Aberdeen Grammar School and then at Queen's College, Oxford where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
[citation needed] After short periods of work at 3i and McKinsey Pitt-Watson helped establish and was ultimately managing director of Braxton Associates Limited.
Pitt-Watson was a partner at Deloitte for 12 years advising company boards and international agencies on strategy and competitiveness.
[8] With Davis and Lukomnik, he also wrote The New Capitalists, which describes how structures of corporate governance can help ensure companies work in the interest of the millions of individuals who own their shares.
[9] He also co-authored with Carol Scott Leonard, Privatisation and Transition in Russia in the early 1990s,[10] based on his experience as a strategic adviser to the World Bank.
Pitt-Watson chaired the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative, a unique partnership between the UN and over 200 financial institutions in the run up to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Committee.
It has been influential in raising the debate and achieving a consensus for reform to improve the structures, costs and transparency of pensions in Britain.