Who Delivers the Programme?

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

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).

Aris joined CPSL in May 2011 to work with the Executive Programmes team. His primary responsibility is acting as the Programme Development Director for The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme and the Climate Leadership Programme. Prior to joining CPSL he was a Senior Principal at the NGO think-tank, AccountAbility, where he worked with the private sector and international institutions on sustainability strategies and initiatives. Aris started his career as a news editor and correspondent in Greece and later joined a small brokerage firm before eventually moving to the UK to work for a health charity. He is a trained economist and journalist and holds an MSc in international money and banking from the University of Birmingham.

aris.vrettos@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Peter Willis is Director of the South African office of CPSL, which was established in 2002 to design and run executive seminars in the region. In this role he organises and chairs the Cape Town seminar of The Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme. He is also involved in designing sustainability learning programmes for multinational corporations in and outside Africa. From 1999 to 2002 Peter was Executive Director of The Natural Step in South Africa, an international NGO consulting to businesses and local authorities on sustainability strategy. Prior to that he was Programme Manager at the Environmental Monitoring Group in Cape Town, focusing on setting up dialogues between legislators, industry and affected communities, particularly in the mining sector. Peter has a degree in Modern History from Oxford and in Education from London University. During the 1980s and early 1990's he ran a number of businesses in the UK. He moved to Cape Town with his South African-born wife in 1993.

peter.willis@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Jeremy is Director of CPSL's Australian office. He is responsible for the Australian senior executives' seminar of The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme. He also works with companies and non-governmental organisations designing and delivering sustainability learning programmes. Jeremy joined CPSL in 2005 and worked from the Cambridge office on a number of projects, including the relationship between the finance sector, corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He was also responsible for developing and launching the Business and Poverty Leadership Programme. Prior to joining CPSL Jeremy managed a global team providing information to investors on corporate responsibility and risk. He is also a specialist on labour markets and public policy and has worked in a number of emerging markets, especially South Africa. There he was a trade union leader and civil society activist and, post-apartheid, was responsible for guiding through labour market reforms as well as advising the Presidency on public policy and public service reform. As well as his work with CPSL, Jeremy advises and conducts research on corporate responsibility for a range of clients including Transparency International and the OECD. Jeremy has degrees from the University of Cape Town and London University. He moved to Australia in 2007.

jeremy.baskin@cpsl.cam.ac.uk