Senior Associates

Fiona was Director of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion at the World Health Organisation and has five years’ experience as Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director General in the UK Government, responsible for Health Improvement and Health Inequalities. She is currently on secondment to PwC. She is a high profile public health leader with a track record of reframing thinking and developing innovative policy at the heart of government. She is able to apply thinking from other sectors and countries, to find strategic fit between diverse interests and to come up with practical solutions based on a clear vision. She is an experienced international advisor, board member, public health director, lecturer, consultant, trustee and clinician. Fiona has experience leading programmes on health and sustainability, and has published on the subject, including as co-editor of “The Health Practitioners Guide to Climate Change”. She is an International Advisor to the Royal College of Physicians and a visiting Professor at University College London, Brunel University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Terry is the Director, Global Government & Business Innovation Services for WSP Energy & Environment in Australia. Previously, Terry was an executive with the Victorian Environment Protection Authority in Australia. Terry has led the development of world-first regulatory reforms which turn the environment from a cost to a profit driver for regulated businesses. These include the world's first corporate environmental licences, mandatory payback-based resource efficiency regulations and statutory sustainability covenants with companies from sectors as diverse as pension funds, property developers, universities and manufacturers.

Charles has part-time roles as Visiting Professor in graduate teaching in change for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge, and as Sustainable Development Director for MWH's UK Operations.

He has extensive water and environmental engineering experience in 16 countries from Europe to Asia. Since 1997 he has worked to introduce sustainable development concepts and strategies into engineering and business; particularly focusing recently on climate change mitigation and adaptation. His particular interest is in facilitating effective innovation and change management' in organisations moving to a more sustainable and carbon neutral approach, particularly in the water sector.

Enos is a South African entrepreneur and investment banker who is founder and CEO of the Freetel Group of Companies. Freetel focuses on fund management, portfolio investments and investment and transaction advice to a select number of sovereign and international clients. Enos has advised in some of the seminal transactions in South Africa, including the then ground breaking partial privatisation of Telkom SA. He has served as chairman of the South African National Electricity Regulator and Chairman of the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Unit of the SA Government. He was country head for Credit Suisse First Boston (a global investment bank) and later, head of Africa for HSBC Corporate and Investment Bank, after which he established Freetel. He has developed policies in ICT and drafted national laws in telecommunications and municipal finance and BEE. He is admitted to the New York law bar, and he is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa. Enos is a member of the Board of MMC Norilsk Nickel and the Chairman of the company's budget committee, and is on the Board of Supergroup.

Jeremy Baskin is Principal Research Fellow: Education for Sustainable Development at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. This is an unusual role, one of only a handful of such roles worldwide. He is responsible for advancing the inclusion of knowledge and insight about sustainability within the curriculum, both within and across faculties. Prior to that he worked for CPSL in a range of capacities, including as Australia Director, designing and developing leadership programmes. He is also teaches on sustainability and corporate responsibility into the the MBA and other programmes at the Melbourne Business School, and is a non-executive Director of the non-profit Centre for Sustainability Leadership in Melbourne.

Originally from South Africa, Jeremy worked for 20 years in the trade union and anti-apartheid movement. In 1996 he became a public servant, and was responsible for reforming various aspects of the labour market dispensation, before becoming an advisor to the Mandela presidency on a range of cross-sectoral development policy issues.

Jeremy has published widely on labour market and social policy, on climate justice, and on corporate responsibility. He is mainly interested in 'empty-belly environmentalism' and the connection between sustainability and development. He has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institut in Germany, and has received a number of awards for writing.

Craig is Director of Policy and Campaigns for Friends of the Earth. He is the organisation's lead campaigner and policy strategist, representing the charity with Government and other key lobbying contacts and leading its tactical response to the changing political and policy context.

From 2007 to 2010, Craig was Deputy Director at CPSL and, in this role, was Director of The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (CLG). During this time, he built the CLG into a leading progressive business voice in the international climate debate, primarily through its series of hard-hitting, punchy statements in support of a strong, effective and equitable global climate deal.

Jeb, Founding Partner of The Next Practice, is a strategist and innovation expert in the fields of business and development, serving major corporations, local governments, and non-profit organisations worldwide. In addition to using a tested, disciplined innovation process developed with leading business thinker Professor C.K. Prahalad, he focuses on innovation in market analytics, product development, and business modelling to increase local responsiveness and customization as a source of competitive advantage and global problem-solving. With professional experience in 28 countries, Jeb has been a pioneer of new practice domains including urban sustainability and climate change mitigation, ‘base of the pyramid’ (BOP) business development for large low-income market segments, place-based development and social enterprise.

Until December 2008, Elizabeth Buchanan was Private Secretary to TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. She had worked for The Prince of Wales since 1998 and before that she worked with Tim Bell at Bell Pottinger Communications. She was previously a Special Adviser in the Department of Transport working for two Cabinet Ministers.

Elizabeth is now a special adviser to Waitrose and to the Bell Pottinger Group, and remains a consultant to The Prince of Wales. She also co-manages the family’s organic livestock farm in East Sussex.

Elizabeth is the East Sussex Council Member for the Royal Agricultural Society of England; she sits on the BBC’s Rural Affairs Advisory Committee, the Mutton Renaissance Steering Committee and the Experts Panel of Natural England. She is a trustee of The Prince’s Countryside Fund, of The Horse Trust and the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. She is a member of the Goldsmiths Company.

Tom is currently a Visiting Professor at Imperial College and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is also the Founder Director of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism and Chairman, Editorial Advisory Board, ENDS. Tom previously was Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto plc and a Senior Advisor to the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change.

He was a member of the Council of English Nature, the statutory advisor to the British Government on biodiversity from 1999–2005. During 2002 he served as an advisor to the Central Policy Group in the Deputy Prime Minister's Office. He was Special Adviser to three Secretaries of State for the Environment from 1991–7 after serving as Director of the Green Alliance from 1982–91.

Richard Burrett spent over 25 years working in international banking. After an initial period with NatWest, he joined AMRO Bank in 1988, where he gained wide experience of working on structured and project financing in the energy and infrastructure sectors, becoming Managing Director and Global Head of Project Finance in 2001. In this role he was instrumental in the development of the Equator Principles, creating a market recognised standard for the management of environmental and social risk within project financing. He started to work directly on ABN AMRO's award-winning sustainability agenda in 2004, becoming Global Head of Sustainability before leaving the Bank in May 2008. He is a Partner at Earth Capital Partners LLP, a sustainability-focused investment group, and a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. He is a Board Member of Forest Renewables, developing the renewable energy potential of Scotland's national forest estate, and also a Board Member of Forest Trends, a Washington-based organisation promoting market-based approaches to forest conservation. He is Co-Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative and leads their Biodiversity and Ecosystems workstream. He holds a BA in German and a MBA from Durham University and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Richard Calland has for the past fifteen years been working in the field of democracy and governance in South Africa and the region. He is currently Director of the Economic Governance programme at Idasa – Africa's leading democracy Institute. He is also Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town, where he teaches constitutional and human rights law, and heads a new Democratic Governance & Rights Unit. He specializes in the law and practice of the right to access to information and whistleblowing protection; administrative justice and public ethics; and in constitutional design. Until recently, he was part-time Executive Director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC), a law centre based in Cape Town that specializes in the 'right to know', and which Calland founded in 2000.

Professor Calland has in recent years served as an expert consultant to the Carter Center, the foundation led by former US President Jimmy Carter, advising on various transparency projects in Bolivia, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Peru and Mali, and to CoST – the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative – and provides regular strategic advice on politics and governance to a range of local and international corporates. In South Africa. He is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge University's Programme for Sustainability Leadership and co-director of the new International School for Transparency. Before coming to South Africa in 1994, Calland practiced law at the London Bar. He holds an LLM from the University of Cape Town, a Diploma in World Politics from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) Law from the University of Durham.

Catherine is a Director of Agulhas: Applied Knowledge, a consultancy company specialising in sustainability with a particular focus on climate change, fragile states and governance. As an experienced policy analyst, economist and evaluator with over 24 years' experience, she occupies a unique position in the space intersecting the public and private sectors and civil society, working in sustainability via a range of means including developing standards and products, policy development and analysis, problem analysis, impact assessment, promoting learning and behaviour change.

Catherine leads on work in climate change, having been a member of the core team producing the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change in 2006. Since then she has led teams delivering change across the board in policy, programming, product and standard development with a focus on improving climate resilience. She works with companies, third sector, multilateral development banks and donors on issues including promoting climate smart behaviour, climate resilience in the supply chain, food security, benchmarking competitors, product development, behaviour change and green growth.

Ken is currently Director of Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation, a not-for-profit multi-stakeholder think-tank that conducts research on and works with projects to strengthen institutional arrangements that deliver water and sanitation in poor communities. Much of this work is around determining how incentives and risks can be more effectively understood by different partners.

Prior to this, Ken worked as a consultant with the Department for International Development's Business Partnership Unit and The Prince of Wales's Business Leaders Forum to design a project incorporating a public-private-civil society approach to address health and safety standards in the shoe industry in Vietnam. This work capitalised on seven years in Southeast Asia working as a volunteer in rural Thailand, an environment and training officer with USAID/Bangkok on urban environmental management in Thai secondary cities, and then with different international NGOs (including the British-based ActionAid) in both the north and south of Vietnam.

Ken holds a Master’s degree in International Development from the American University in Washington, D.C. and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, also in Washington, D.C. Ken is a Senior Associate of CPSL and has spoken and acted as faculty on a number of programmes.

Aimée Christensen is CEO of Christensen Global Strategies, advising those addressing the global challenges of climate change, ecosystem degradation, and resource scarcity, including the Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, Ogilvy, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Swiss Re, The Elders, UN Development Program, US Department of Energy, Virgin Unite, and Wolfensohn + Co. Aimée has two decades' experience in policy, law, advocacy, and philanthropy including with Google.org, World Bank, Baker & McKenzie, and the US Department of Energy where she drafted the first bilateral and regional climate change accords. Aimée serves on the Boards of the American Council on Renewable Energy, the Clean Economy Network, and ecoAmerica.

Aimée is a Contributor to energyNOW! on ABC and Bloomberg, and she addressed energy issues at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She is the 2011 Hillary Institute for International Leadership Laureate for exceptional leadership on Climate Change Solutions and a 2010 Aspen Institute Catto Fellow. She attended Smith College (BA) and Stanford Law School (JD).

Until March 2011, Will was Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), which was the independent advisory body for the UK Governments. His current roles include Senior Associate of CPSL, Chairman of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), a non-profit company bringing together private sector and NGO member organisations to pursue the Millennium Development goal for water and sanitation in the poorest parts of the world, and is Sustainability Advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers UK. He sits on the Board of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and a Member of the Corporate Responsibility Advisory Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). He has spent twenty years or so working with a range of relief and development NGOs (Save the Children, OXFAM, and Opportunity Trust) initially involved in large scale humanitarian responses in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia. He was involved in the establishment of Comic Relief, and was responsible for setting up its grants programme for Africa as Grants Director. As well as involvement in the production of Comic Relief's and radio documentaries, he spent time as a producer and presenter for the BBC World Service for Africa. He was CEO of CARE International UK between 1996 and 2004 and Special Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) until 2010.

Oliver is the Head of Corporate Responsibility at Radley Yeldar, where he leads the company’s work in the areas of corporate responsibility communications and reporting. He is on the faculty of CPSL's Masters in Sustainability Leadership and Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business.

Oliver has 15 years experience as a professional consultant working for Arthur D. Little, Monitor, SustainAbility and Enviros, helping to integrate sustainable development within large organisations. He has extensive expertise in corporate sustainability strategy, the business case for corporate sustainability, stakeholder engagement, reporting, implementation and facilitation.

Peet is Programme Manager: Sustainable Growth at TIPS (Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies), a government-aligned economic think-tank. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria. After working in energy R&D (coal combustion) at the national utility Eskom, he joined the global environmental NGO WWF as Trade & Investment Advisor for South Africa. He was elected in 2009 as chair of the South African green industries association, the Environmental Goods and Services Forum. His areas of expertise lie in networked infrastructure (including energy, transport and ICT) and the economics of sustainability.

Richard Fairburn joined the Unilever Group in 1979 and occupied various sales, marketing and general management positions within Unilever's Agribusiness Division in UK and East Africa.

From 1997 to 2001 he was Senior Plantations Manager, responsible for strategy and business development for tea estates in East Africa and oil palm plantations in South East Asia. During this period he was a member of Unilever’s Global Sustainable Agriculture Steering Group with specific responsibility for plantation crops. In September 2001, Richard was appointed Managing Director of Unilever Tea East Africa (UTEA), Unilever's tea growing and manufacturing company based in Kenya and Tanzania. UTEA is one of the most sustainable farming operations in the world and was the first company to achieve Rainforest Alliance certification for sustainable tea production.

Richard now works as an independent consultant, advising Unilever, CPSL and other organisations on agribusiness and sustainability.

Tommy is the founder and Regional Director of the Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA), with country programmes in Sierra Leone and Liberia since 1996 and 1997 respectively. Since 1992, he has travelled extensively in West Africa, studying the nature, extent, and causes of environmental problems in the sub-region. For four years (2003-2007) he was a member of the UN Panel of Experts on Liberia, monitoring the socio-economic and humanitarian impacts of timber and diamond sanctions on Liberia, while also assessing the environmental consequences of unregulated natural resources extraction in Sierra Leone and Liberia, after civil conflicts.

Since 2006, Mr Garnett has served as the West Africa Chair of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. EFA hosts the secretariat of the Green Actors of West Africa Network which Mr Garnett was instrumental in creating, and is its current coordinator.

Emma is Head of Socially Responsible Investment and Governance and Director, Jupiter Asset Management. Emma joined Jupiter in 1994 and has overall responsibility for the management and development of Jupiter's SRI business. She is also responsible for building Jupiter's corporate governance and engagement services for institutional clients and Jupiter's UK retail funds.

Emma is an independent non executive member of the Environment Agency Board. She is also a director of Triodos Renewables Plc.

Tony is an independent sustainability and environment adviser, including as a special adviser to sustainability initiatives launched by The Prince of Wales and through work as a Senior Associate with CPSL. He speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainability, contributes to the work of several advisory panels, including with the Science Museum, and helps several companies with their environmental strategies. He is Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Green magazine supplement and writes a green column for the Sunday Times Home section.

Tony began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International. From 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth. He was the organisation's executive director from 2003–2008 and also the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000–2008.

Alan founded Single Planet Living in 2006 after a career of sustainable development roles within businesses. Alan has over 20 years’ experience of working with global and national companies and governments on sustainability. He has worked with companies as diverse as B&Q, Kingfisher, SABMiller, Coca Cola, the Virgin Group, Body Shop, Unilever, the Alberta Oil Sands Industry and has served on several Government advisory groups. In March 2012 he joined Business and the Community as the Sustainability Director. He chairs the UK Task Force on Sustainable Growing media which is creating a road map for the UK gardening and horticulture industry to only use sustainable growing materials. He is also a panelist on the UK Independent Panel on Forestry and in the early 1990s he helped to create the Forest Stewardship Council. He is a founder of the Global Association of Corporate Sustainability Officers (GACSO). For nine years he was a commissioner with the Sustainable Development Commission and he introduced the concept of 'choice editing' into the product policy debate. He is a visiting professor at the Exeter University Business School and a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. He was awarded the OBE in June 1998 and in 2005 the US-based Rainforest Alliance presented him with a lifelong award for his contribution towards finding solutions to forest loss by the timber trade.

Melissa is Professor of Politics at Princeton University, following 15 years of teaching political thought in the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge. Her primary expertise is in ancient Greek political thought and its modern significance. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Professor Lane has extensive experience in speaking about ethics, philosophy and history to executives and leaders in the public and private sectors, and has appeared on a number of television and radio broadcasts, including BBC Radio 4: Analysis, In Our Time, and Today; Channel 4: Millennium Minds; and programmes on BBC Radio.

Gareth Llewellyn is currently Executive Director for Safety and Sustainable Development at Network Rail. Gareth was previously responsible for leading Anglo American's strategy on safety, health and environmental issues, together with matters of sustainable development including human rights. He was also a non-executive director of the Government's Renewable Fuels Agency and the Chair of Trustees at the not-for-profit body CLAIRE, which works with government and industry to bring back contaminated land into economic use. Prior to joining Anglo American, Gareth was a Non-Executive Director at Biffa plc, one of the leading waste management companies where he chaired the Board's SHE Committee. He was also Global Director of Corporate Responsibility for National Grid plc, a director of both the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy and The Corporate Responsibility Group, and a non-executive director of National Grid Property. Before joining National Grid, Gare th was the Head of Risk for the UK's Environment Agency. He has also been the UK's representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency dealing with the environmental and safety aspects of the long-term disposal of radioactive waste, and was a founder member of the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights. In 2005 Gareth became the first person from industry to be invited to address the United Nations General Assembly on the role of business in upholding human rights.

Adriana is the Advisor to the Board of Government of the National Statistical and Geographical Information Office in Mexico. She is a specialist in environmental policy with solid experience in the design and implementation of positive environmental practices and policy at the crossroads of government, business, and academics.

Trained as an economist, she has contributed to political and legislative change, as well as infrastructure development, in Mexico, in areas such as waste management, climate change, air quality, environmental regulation and the environmental performance of local governments.

Gavin Neath was born in Tanzania and was educated at Manchester University, Warwick Business School and Stanford University. He joined Unilever in 1977, working in France between 1985 and 1990, Belgium from 1990 to 1994 and in South Africa from 1994 to 1998. Between 1998 and 2003 Gavin was Chairman of Unilever Foods and subsequently became Chairman of Unilever UK.

Gavin has now moved to the corporate head office to take on the role of SVP of Sustainability - responsible for Unilever’s Sustainability programmes around the world. In this capacity he developed and wrote the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. This is a 10 year strategy which seeks to decouple Unilever’s business growth from its environmental and social impacts. The strategy is unusual in the corporate world for the extent of its ambition and the precision of the targets to which the company is committing itself.

In addition to his work within Unilever, Gavin is a former President of the Food and Drink Federation, a member of the Governing Body of ICC in the UK, a member of the Marks and Spencer “world’s most sustainable retailer” advisory board and a member of the Development Board of the Royal Court Theatre.

In 2007 he was awarded the CBE for services to the U.K. Food industry.

Jane Nelson is the Founder Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She serves as a Senior Adviser at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), where she worked as a director for over 15 years. During 2001 she worked with the United Nations Global Compact in the office of the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, preparing a report for the UN General Assembly on cooperation between the United Nations and the private sector, which supported one of the first General Assembly resolutions on such cooperation. She was a Vice President at Citibank and responsible for marketing for the bank's Worldwide Securities Services business in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East and in 1988 was awarded one of the Financial Institutions Group’s global ‘All-Star’ Awards.

Stephen is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Technologies at the Open University. At the University of Cambridge, Stephen is a Fellow of the Judge Business School where he teaches a range of environment-related courses, including Climate Leadership to the MBAs. He is a contributor to the Cambridge International Science Summer School. Originally a physicist, Stephen is an enthusiastic teacher, researcher, consultant and facilitator with nearly 20 years' professional experience as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London (including a period with Shell International Petroleum Company); as an analyst at the International Energy Agency within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris; and as a official with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany.

Stephen is a regular contributor to BBC radio programmes on environmental issues. He presented the BBC-produced video 'Shanghai Boom' on the energy options for China and was part of the Open University's team of academic consultants advising on the BBC's Climate Chaos season of programmes. As a consultant, he regularly helps facilitate senior management teams in problem identification and creative ideas generation around environmental and health care issues.

Edgar is holder of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, directs the African Centre for Cities and is Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town. He has served as a Faculty Member of the Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme at several seminars worldwide. In earlier roles he served as Special Advisor to the Premier of the Western Cape Provincial Government and directed a number of urban policy think tanks before his stint in government. He is a founder member of Isandla Institute, serves on the Boards of the Sustainability Institute and the Cape Town Partnership; and is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Gauteng City-region Observatory and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He regularly provides advisory services to international development agencies such as: UN-Habitat, African Development Bank, DBSA, National Planning Commission, OECD urban division and UNEP. Edgar holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, The Netherlands) and BA-Honours from the University of the Western Cape.

Chris has had a long and successful career with Unilever, largely in the marketing function and then in general management in Ice Cream and Frozen Foods. He has worked in the UK, Trinidad, Brazil, France and the Netherlands Head Office where he held Ice Cream strategy roles at the regional and global level. He was Business Director, responsible for the Frozen Foods business in Birds Eye Walls prior to moving to Unilever's UK head office where he helped to develop the Sustainability aspect of Unilever's Corporate strategy and the programme to embed Sustainability into the business, particular the Marketing function.

As a Senior Associate of CPSL, Chris has invaluable experience of putting sustainable development into practice in a multi-national business. Chris has been a member of the core faculty at The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme Southern African Seminar, is a facilitator on the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business and a contributor to a number of tailor-made CPSL programmes.

Martin Porter is Managing Director of The Centre, the Brussels-based think-do tank which he co-founded in 2003. His activities there involve advising on and facilitating communication between the private and sectors in the EU, especially on issues involving business and the environment, notably the low carbon economy and climate change. Martin has worked in Brussels since 1996 as an analyst and advisor on European public affairs for European Advisory Services, Adamson Associates, BSMG and Weber Shandwick. He graduated in 1990 from the University of Bath, UK, with First Class Joint Honours in Modern Languages and European Studies. Martin was awarded a Doctorate from the same University in 1995 for a thesis examining the influence of public affairs activities of interest groups on environmental and internal market issues.

Chris is Professor of Climate Science at University College London. From 2007 until December 2010, he was Director of the Science Museum in London. This follows a decade as Director of the British Antarctic Survey, and four years as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Prior to that, Chris spent an extended period as Professor of Remote Sensing Science at University College London. Throughout his career he has been active in the international leadership of science, for example as President of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, which coordinates the research activities of 34 nations in the Antarctic, and as Chair of the planning group for the International Polar Year 2007–2009. He has a first degree in Physics from Oxford, a MSc in Radioastronomy from Manchester University, a PhD in X-ray astronomy from University College London.

Stefan (BA LLB) resides in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a qualified lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and trainer. He is currently CEO and founding director of SouthSouthNorth Group, which has played a leading role in climate change issues since 1999. In addition he facilitates various large projects, notably the South African Cabinet Mandated Long Term Mitigation Scenario Planning Project (LTMS). Stefan has assisted in the establishment of Designated National Authorities (DNA’s) in South Africa, Ghana, Namibia and Mozambique. He has led the facilitation of projects within the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s Sustainable Communities Program, applying development facilitation technologies which he has developed over the last 15 years. Stefan is a director of Energy Transformation cc which develops climate change projects for the private sector.

David is an independent advisor on the social and environmental impacts of business. David joined BP in 1979 as a research geophysicist. In his 27 years with BP he held positions as an exploration and production geophysicist, Head of Basin Modelling, Head of Geoscience Training, Exploration Manager for BP China, a commercial analyst, a strategic planner, and a political adviser. In 1998 he was appointed Director, Policy Unit, and Chief of Staff for the global Government and Public Affairs function, and the BP Group Policy Adviser on Development Issues.

Since leaving BP in 2006, David has been working with companies, NGOs and academics on social and environmental issues at policy and individual project level. He is Chairman of the Azerbaijan Social Review Commission.

Campaign Strategy Ltd is a communications consultancy working for public sector and NGO and private sector clients. Chris Rose is a Director of Campaign Strategy Ltd, a communications consultancy working for public sector and NGO and private sector clients. These have included the Home Office, Cabinet Office, DEFRA, National Trust, UNICEF, Amnesty International, RSPB, Shell, BP, Calor, Unilever, Natural England, the Environment Agency, Soil Association, Local Authorities, Imperial College, Oak Foundation, JMG Foundation, Beyond Green and Greenpeace International. He helped found the London Wildlife Trust, British Association of Nature Conservationists, the Fairyland Trust and Media Natura, is an adviser to Global cool and a Board Member of 1010, and has run campaigns for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF International and others. He trained and published as a research ecologist and has written several books including ‘Conservation or Crisis’ (Penguin) with Charlie Pye-Smith, ‘The Dirty Man of Europe’ (Simon and Schuster) and ‘How To Win Campaigns’ (Earthscan). He has also published a book on motivational values called ‘What Makes People Tick: The Three Hidden Worlds of Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers’. Chris works closely with Cultural Dynamics Strategy and marketing on the application of Values Modes to communications, and publishes the free Campaign Strategy.

Sarah has an extensive background in consumer research and advertising prior to joining Nike where she has spent the last 15 years in a variety of roles. Originally recruited in 1993 to establish a consumer insights department in Nike’s European headquarters she moved into an environmental role and in 1995 relocated to World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon as Global Director of the Environmental Action Team. From 1995 to 2000 she led the company’s early efforts to integrate sustainability into the business, from operations through to product design and manufacturing.

Sarah was then appointed Director of Sustainable Development, focusing on stakeholder engagement and corporate responsibility reporting, followed by a new role of Director of Horizons within the Corporate Responsibility team. The Horizons function has responsibility for 'looking long' and identifying future trends, opportunities and issues at the intersection of business and sustainability. For the past 10 years she has lead Nike’s efforts around climate change and is also now focused on developing Nike’s climate change advocacy strategy.

James has a career background in mergers and acquisitions, finance, and corporate strategy, with a focus on the evaluation and management of commercial opportunities and risks of environment and sustainability issues.

James is currently a Partner at the sustainable infrastructure asset manager, Earth Capital Partners LLP (ECP), with responsibility for ECP's sustainable investment strategy. Prior to ECP, he was Head of Sustainable Business at Standard Chartered plc, where he had group-wide responsibility for a commercial strategy covering new products and revenue lines (including the launch of a US$10bn clean energy finance business), risk management, operating efficiencies, and key stakeholder relations. Previously, James was Head of KPMG's Sustainability Consulting Practice and Environment M&A Advisory business. James began his career as an environmental engineer.

James is a Non-Executive Board member of Gold Standard and a member of the BBC's independent Sustainability Advisory Board; he sits on the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance (UKSIF) Leadership Committee, and is a CPSL faculty member.

Paul is Group Community Investment and Sustainable Development Director at Lloyds Banking Group. He has worked mainly in structured finance in the project finance, property, transportation and utility sectors where his previous roles included Managing Director of the Bank’s global transportation finance businesses. He now focuses on the business impacts of sustainable development including climate change and his responsibilities involve working directly with the Bank’s corporate customers and supporting the relationship management and business development teams. He is an active member of the UK Corporate Leaders Group in Climate Change, the Business in the Community Environment Leadership team and the Green Deal Network. In addition, he sits on the Bank’s Corporate Responsibility Steering Group and the Environment Steering Group. He is also a Trustee of the environmental charity Global Action Plan.

Andrew’s role as CEO of the Wildlands Conservation Trust is built on 20 years of environmental experience, ranging from wetland ecology to community based conservation. His primary leadership focus has been on forming partnerships between South Africa’s Government, Business and NGO communities, aimed at restoring and conserving our natural heritage through people based approaches. Under his leadership, Wildlands has grown to become one of South Africa’s leading environmental NGOs and a recognised leader in the Climate Change related field of Community Ecosystem Based Adaptation.

Wayne is Founder and CEO of the CSR International and Visiting Professor in Corporate Social Responsibility at Manheim University (Germany). He is the author/editor of six books on sustainability, including the recent Landmarks for Sustainability: Events and Initiatives That Changed Our World, researched and written for CPSL.

Before getting his PhD in Corporate Social Responsibility (Nottingham University, UK), Wayne was Director of Sustainability Services for KPMG and Strategy Analyst for Cap Gemini in South Africa.

Penny has been a sustainable development consultant, facilitator and trainer since 1996, working with clients from the corporate, public and voluntary sectors. Clients have included First Choice Holidays, ABTA, Interface, Carillion Building, DEFRA and ICI. A Chartered Environmentalist and experienced facilitator, she is interested in how people combine their intellectual appreciation of environmental problems, with their day-to-day perception of the status quo and the difficulty of change - which of these views of the world are used to inform decisions about personal and work-related choices, and in what circumstances. Prior to developing her independent practice, she worked at Friends of the Earth for eight years, including as Local Campaigns Director.