Who Delivers the Masters?

Polly Courtice LVO, is Director of CPSL. She is also Co-Director of The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme and The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change.

Polly is a member of the University's Board of Executive and Professional Development and Academic Director of CPSL's Masters in Sustainability Leadership. She is a Director of Jupiter Green Investment Trust and chairs Anglian Water’s Advisory Group on Climate Change and Economic Growth. In 2007 she was appointed by Al Gore to run his Climate Project in the UK, helping leaders deepen their understanding of climate change and explore appropriate action. In 2008 Polly was made a Lieutenant of the Victorian Order (LVO) announced in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Read about a day in the life of Polly.

polly.courtice@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Before embarking on an academic career Theo spent 15 years working in industry and as a consultant in the fields of environmental management and sustainable development. From 2003 to 2006 he took a career break to undertake research towards a PhD at Cambridge, which involved an investigation into the 'Sustainability Assessment' of mining projects. After another short stint working in industry, Theo returned to Cambridge’s Engineering Department in 2008 as a Senior Research Associate. In this role he oversaw the establishment of an industry-funded research programme into energy efficiency in the built environment, and supervised research by Masters and PhD students. At CPSL Theo's primary responsibility is acting as the Programme Director for the Masters of Studies in Sustainability Leadership.

theo.hacking@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Alex joined CPSL in January 2008 and during this time has worked on a variety of programmes. Most recently she has worked on the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business, the Next Economy Project and the Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership. She is responsible for the quality and accreditation processes at CPSL. Alex sits on a number of University of Cambridge Committees. She has previously worked as a Records Manager at Girton College, Cambridge and at the Royal Household as a Records Assistant. Alex holds a BA (Hons) degree in History from Durham University and an MA in Archives & Records Management from the University of Liverpool.

alexandra.brunner@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Charlotte Lawes joined CPSL in July 2011 to work as a Project Coordinator on Accredited Programmes. She has just completed an undergraduate degree in PPS (Politics, Psychology and Sociology) at Cambridge, where her final year dissertation focused on climate change discourses in the UK. She also took papers in Security and Development and Gender, Kinship and Care. As an Officer on the Executive Committee of the Cambridge University Students' Union's Women's Campaign, Charlotte organised events with International Justice Mission UK and the Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development (FORWARD) on sex trafficking and female genital mutilation, respectively. She also facilitated campaigns on sexual health, student outreach and combating violence against women, particularly in universities. During her summers she has previously worked as an intern at Maplecroft, a global risks analysis firm in Bath, where most recently she researched and assessed the climate change innovativeness of global businesses.

charlotte.lawes@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

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.

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.

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.

Jenny is Director of Western Australian consultancy firm Integral Sustainability, which provides consultancy and training services to Government and industry on the integration of sustainability concepts into planning and decision-making processes. In 2007 she was awarded her PhD from Murdoch University for her research into the evolution of processes for the sustainability assessment of complex and strategic projects. This work contributed directly to the development of the Western Australian Government’s State Sustainability Strategy. As an active member of the International Association for Impact Assessment, she is internationally recognised for her work in sustainability assessment. Jenny has worked with clients ranging from local governments through to public infrastructure providers, major resource development companies and government agencies to develop context-specific sustainability frameworks and assessment processes to embed sustainability into project planning, strategy development and decision-making at all levels.

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.

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.

Claire is a Senior Lecturer, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University. She specialises in materials engineering and industrial sustainability, teaching a wide range of topics to undergraduate and postgraduate courses within the University. Current research includes investigation of the sustainable use of materials resources, promoting new approaches to recycling and re-use, and industrial symbiosis. She is active in helping companies to engage with sustainable issues and to find ways of improving their eco-efficiency.

Mike was part of the small team that developed the company's groundbreaking Plan A, a 100-point, 5-year plan to address a wide range of environmental and social issues. He helps provide the vision and the energy to effect change and ensure a leading but efficient approach to sustainability across the company. He deals with issues as diverse as sustainable fish sourcing, chemicals in products, labour standards in factories, animal welfare, food miles, privacy and data protection, genetic modification, fair trade, wood sourcing, community investment, cotton sourcing and climate change. His working life is broadly divided into three parts: listening to and prioritising stakeholder expectations of Marks & Spencer, integrating them into corporate strategy and working with shops, business units and suppliers to deliver more sustainable products and wider business activity. Prior to joining Marks & Spencer in 2000, he worked as an environment manager in the engineering sector and as an environmental consultant. He is a chemistry graduate from Sheffield University.

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.

Emma directs and teaches on Cambridge University Library’s Research Skills Programme, which supports and expands the information skills of students, researchers, and academics across the University of Cambridge. Emma holds a PhD in literary theory and a Masters in information and library management from Northumbria University. Her area of greatest professional interest is user behaviour, needs and expectations.

Sherry is a non-executive director at Cambridge University Press (Finance Board) and New Energy Finance Limited. Her interests include investing in and advising companies and charities. Sherry is on the Advisory Boards of Linkedin.com and Zoopla.com. She is also a vice chair of the Prince's Trust Business Technology Leadership Group and chair of its East of England Advisory Board, a member of Cambridge University Council (Finance Board) and on the Harvard Business School European Advisory Council. In her most recent executive post, Sherry was founder, CEO and Chairman of Interactive Investor International (plc), a software company serving the financial services industry. Prior to this, she had executive roles with Accenture, Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, the LEK Partnership and ISI Emerging Markets Ltd. Sherry has an MBA from Harvard, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA from the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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.

Danny is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world. His recent books include (in 2010), Injustice: why social inequalities persist. He is a member of the World Health Organization's Scientific Resource Group on Health Equity Analysis and Research.

Sean began his career with the United States Forest Service before moving into the private sector, where he spent over 10 years working as a consultant to timber companies, power utilities and government agencies. The consulting business was sold in 1995 to Duke Engineering and Services (a subsidiary of Duke Power), where Sean continued to help lead the company's growth in renewable power developments and relicensing. In 2000, Sean became Executive Director of Alternative Energy Investment Group where he was responsible for the screening, research and development of privately funded renewable power projects. In 2004, Sean became an Executive of Green Island Energy, a Canadian power company focused on biomass- and waste-to-energy developments. Sean also served as an advisor to the administrator of the Federal Government of Canada’s Environmental Choice Program (Ecologo) for international renewable power certification. Throughout his career, Sean has represented his employers at various political assemblies including the World Summit, United Nations Development Programme and State of the World Forum.

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.

Nick is a Partner at Signal Point Partners. This organisation advises and invests in companies in emerging markets that use mobile phones to deliver basic services. Prior to joining Signal Point, Nick was most recently the Head of Global Payments at Vodafone. Nick started M-PESA, the world's largest mobile money transfer service (with more than 7 million users in Kenya), and ran a business unit with a multi-million euro P&L deploying M-PESA in multiple markets. Earlier, he set up an innovation fund within Vodafone to target opportunities in mobile services. Prior to joining Vodafone in 2001, Nick worked at BP, where he headed the climate change programme for two years. He holds a PhD In Applied Science, and has an MBA with distinction from London Business School.

Felicia undertakes scientific research on the factors which create well-being at different life stages, and the personal, economic and societal benefits of well-being. She was the lead expert on well-being for the UK Government’s Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing (published October 2008), headed the consortium which developed measures of well-being for the European Social Survey across 23 countries, and is currently advisor to the Department of Health on their new public mental health and well-being strategy. Among the practical applications of her work are a collaboration with Engineering Design Centre to develop guidelines for the inclusive design of products and services, the use of mindfulness training to enhance the well-being of adolescents in schools, and a collaboration with Norfolk City and County Councils to create communities with high levels of personal, social and environmental flourishing. Her publications include the seminal book The Science of Well-being (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Nigel recently joined the Department of Geography as Director of Conservation Leadership. His post was endowed to develop a world-class programme of learning and leadership in conservation, working with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, comprising six university departments and eight conservation organisations based in or around Cambridge. Nigel has long worked to build capacity in conservation through interdisciplinary research and teaching that embraces both natural and social sciences, with a focus on large mammals that conflict with human interests. He has undertaken extensive periods of fieldwork in the sub-Antarctic and in Africa.

Social entrepreneur Jeremy is founder and chairman of Solarcentury, currently the UK's fastest growing private energy company, and SolarAid, one of Africa's fastest-growing poverty-alleviation charities, set up with Solarcentury profits. He is also a founding director of the world's first private equity investment fund for renewables, run by Bank Sarasin (New Energies Invest AG, 2000–present), convenor of the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES, 2007–present), and Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute (1997–present). A regular advocate for renewables in the international media, including as a CNN Principal Voice, he has been described by the Observer as "Britain’s most respected green energy boss". He is author of The Carbon War (2000), an account of the climate negotiations in the 1990s; Half Gone (2005), an account of the interaction between peak oil and climate change; and The Solar Century (2009), a vision of solar in the cleantech revolution.

José is Executive Vice President of Operations - Globe at Nestlé SA. He is responsible for Procurement, Production, Supply Chain, Health & Safety, Environment, Quality Management and Engineering. He serves as a Member of Management Board at GS1 and also serves as a Member of Executive Board of Nestlé SA. He was Head of Japan at Nestlé SA until February 2007. José served as Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé Japan Group, Managing Director of Nestlé Malaysia Bhd and Head of Region Malaysia/Singapore. He served as Executive Director of Operations in Oceania in charge of Technical Division, Supply Chain Operations and Export and Technical Director of Nestlé Australia. He held various executive positions at Nestlé in Vevey including Factory Manager of Pet Food Division, France, Engineering Manager, Japan; Factory Engineer of Coffee Division, USA; Project Manager of Coffee Division, Spain and joined Nestlé in Switzerland as a Project Engineer in 1979. He is a Member of the Executive Board Global Commerce Initiative and Vice-Chairman of the Board of GS1. José studied an Advanced Management Programme at IMD Lausanne, Switzerland and holds a Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Catherine is an international lawyer with particular interests in climate change, good governance and the rule of law. A member of the English and Australian Bars, she holds the established post in international environmental law at the University of Cambridge. Formerly a Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, She has been employed by Allen & Overy, the United Nations, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, at which she worked on major environmental issues throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia. She studied at Oxford, the Inns of Court School of Law, Tokyo, Sydney and the Australian National University, at which she was a Commonwealth Scholar. Catherine is currently writing on the relationship between international law, climate change and deforestation. She also advises governments and corporations on matters of international environmental law, publishes widely and contributes to the BBC's 'One Planet'.

Angus is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Assessment in the School of Environmental Science at Murdoch University, Australia and Extraordinary Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences and Management in the School of Environmental Sciences and Development at North West University, South Africa. Angus has over 20 years experience in environmental impact assessment (EIA). He served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) from 2005–2008 and was Chair of the Organising Committee for IAIA08, the 28th annual conference of IAIA: The Art and Science of Impact Assessment. Angus's research focuses on evaluating the outcomes of all forms of impact assessment and its contribution to sustainability. He has collaborated with many impact assessment practitioners worldwide and published more than 40 international refereed journal articles across the spectrum of EIA, strategic and sustainability assessment.

Ken is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff Business School and Director of the ESRC funded BRASS Research Centre based at Cardiff, which specialises in research into business sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Prior to this he worked in marketing, information systems and strategic planning for an American paper multinational and a UK electronics company. His research interests focus on the impact of sustainability concerns on marketing and corporate strategy making; social marketing for sustainable lifestyles; social enterprise and education for sustainable development. He has published three books and numerous book chapters on these topics, and has published in journals including California Management Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Management, Public Policy and Marketing, and European Management Journal.

Jonathon Porritt is the Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, one of the UK's leading sustainable development charities with 70 staff and over 100 partner organisations, including some of the world's leading companies. He is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. He was Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2000 to 2009, and is Co-Director of The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme. In addition he is a Non-Executive Director of Wessex Water, and of Willmott Dixon Holdings, and a Trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth (1984–90); co-chair of the Green Party (1980–83) of which he is still a member; chairman of UNED-UK (1993–96); chairman of Sustainability South West(1999–2001); a Trustee of WWF UK (1991–2005), and on the Board of the SW Regional Development Agency (1999–2008).

Jon is Social and Community Development Manager with Anglo American. In this role he has responsibility for the development and delivery of Anglo’s policies, standards, strategies and guidance documents relating to its social performance. This work has included development of the Anglo Social Way, the company’s social performance standards, and the Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT), which provides guidance to operations on the conduct of community relations. Other responsibilities include advice to business units and operations on social performance issues, the development and delivery of training programmes and representing Anglo’s position on social performance issues to various industry and other organisations. Before joining Anglo in 2007, Jon was a Partner with the consulting firm ERM, where he worked for 12 years and headed the company’s economics practice.

Emily is a fellow of mathematics at Darwin College at the University of Cambridge and is a Natural Environment Research Council research fellow based at the British Antarctic Survey, where she is Head of the Open Oceans research group at the British Antarctic Survey. She is a climate science expert who has worked in France (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) and in the US (MIT). Her research group studies the polar oceans and their impacts on global climate and sea level rise. Her personal research interests concern atmosphere and ocean dynamics and she is currently focusing her efforts on understanding the circulation of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and the ways in which it is responding to and influencing climate change. Emily lectures on climate science in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She is actively engaged with communicating climate science to policymakers and stakeholders. Emily is the editor of a recent book entitled Survival, which considers many of the challenges to human survival, now and in the past, including the threat to human societies posed by climate change.

Fionnuala is responsible for public affairs, issue management, communications, and corporate responsibility & sustainability for the company's European territories in north-west Europe. She has been with the company since 2007. She was Director of Corporate Affairs, EU for Kraft Foods between 2003 and 2007, managing corporate affairs for the 27 European countries and for brands including Toblerone, Kenco, Cote D'Or, Carte Noire, Jacobs, Philadelphia, Ritz, Milka, Terry's and Dairylea. She managed a team of 50 professionals and led work to make mainstream coffee sustainable: today all Kenco coffee is independently certified as being sustainably produced.

From 1999–2003, Fionnuala was Director of Corporate Communications at Siemens plc, the electronics conglomerate and from 1996–1999 Deputy Head of Corporate Communications at London Electricity plc where she managed two take-overs and management changes. She spent 1991–1994 as Director of External Affairs and PR at the Advertising Association and 1994–1996 at the Institute of Public Relations managing its public relations. She started her career in the advertising agency world, working for Saatchi & Saatchi and McCann-Erickson where she once spent a month on secondment to its prestige client, Coca-Cola.

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.