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Meet Senior Decision Makers From The Following Industry Sectors:
Retail
Food & Drink
Consumer Products
Textiles
Electronics
With the Following Job Titles:
- Director of Sustainable Development
- Health, Safety & Environment Directors
- Corporate Affairs Directors
- Director/Head of Sustainability
- Director/Head of CSR
- Supply Chain Manager/Director
- Procurement Directors
- Technical Directors
- Head of Environmental/Corporate Affairs
- Head of R&D
- Head of Natural Resources
Plus:
- Logistics & Transportation
- Packaging & Suppliers
- Supply Chain Solutions
- Logistics/Distribution Systems
- Data Modeling/Analysis Solutions
- Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- Environment Consultancy
- National Government Organizations
- Sustainability Communications
- Environmental Building Design
- Traceability Technology
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We are pleased to announce our speakers for LCA Sustainable Supply Chain Europe 2010.
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Ivan Baxter
Head of Regulatory Affairs
Nestle |
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Ivan Baxter graduated from Queens University of Belfast with a Ph D in Chemistry in 1985. After joining Nestlé in 1985, has held various technical positions within the organisation. Ivan is currently Head of Regulatory Affairs for Nestlé UK.
As well as representing Nestlé views on Environmental issues, specialist areas of interest are:
- Food Legislation
- Environmental Legislation
- Water Use and Energy Conservation
- Packaging, Packaging Waste and Recycling
- Pollution and Pollution Control
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Gunilla Blomquist
Deputy Director
Swedish Ministry of the Environment |
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Deputy Director at the Swedish Ministry of the Environment in Stockholm. Responsible for national and international work on Sustainable Consumption and Production. Involved in EU work and CSD, cooperation with the Russian Federation and India. Chair of the Marrakech Task Force on Sustainble Lifestyles.
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Rachel Bradley
Social Responsibility Manager
B&Q |
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Rachel and her team are responsible for providing expertise to the business to support adherence to and development of the company’s social responsibility policy and strategy. Her specific focus on vendor environmental management and performance, ethical trading and specific product policies such as timber, chemicals and climate change ensure that B&Q can offer customers ethically sourced and sustainable solutions to home improvement. She also focuses on the company’s commitment to One Planet Living and how B&Q can enable customers to achieve one planet homes.
She has been with B&Q for nearly 5 years. Prior to joining B&Q Rachel worked in the paper industry for M-real at their office paper-recycling mill in Kent where her work focused on product development and environmental management.
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Sylvain Chevassus
Bureau of Sustainable Consumption and Production
French Ministry of Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Sea |
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After several years working in various Brussels-based organisations based in Brussels,; such as the European Environmental Bureau and the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, Sylvain Chevassus has been working since 2008 on sustainable consumption and production policy at the French Sustainable Development Ministry. His main task is to establish links between EU and National policy.
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Liz Cross
Head of Policy & Strategy on CSR for Procurement
BT |
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Liz joined BT in 1980, working in different procurement roles including strategic sourcing, marketing communications, IT and global networks.
More recently Liz is responsible for sustainability in procurement across BT, working with global buying teams and Corporate Social Responsibility specialists. She leads on procurement strategy and policy on labour standards, climate change, environmental management and supplier diversity.
Liz worked on the Government Task Force on Sustainable Procurement, representing BT on the Suppliers Working Group.
She also represented BT on the Global e Sustainability Initiative- Supply Chain working group who developed the e-tasc supplier assessment system.
Liz represents BT on the MSD UK Board.
Liz has a degree in chemistry and is a member of CIPS the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
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Jack Cunningham
Head of Climate Change & Environment
Sainsbury’s |
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Jack Cunningham, Environmental Affairs Manager joined Sainsbury’s in September 2009 from ITV where he was Head of Corporate Responsibility. Jack is a sustainability professional with over 5 years as a climate change, energy and corporate responsibility consultant. His role at Sainsbury’s is co-ordinate joint strategy on a number of sustainability issues, helping to ensure the business is aligned and consistent and he supports the business with immediate threats and opportunities. Jack also contributes to external facing roles such as media enquiries and stakeholder engagements.
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Trevor Davis
Consumer Products Strategy Consultant and Global SME in New Product Development & Introduction
IBM |
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Trevor is IBM’s expert on the best practices for developing consumer products and launching them successfully. With over 20 years of international business experience, Trevor has worked with a variety of leading clients on multi-year transformational programmes in R&D, Marketing and Supply Chain. Clients have included Unilever, Nestle, Reckitt Benckiser and Mars where Trevor has helped executive teams and senior managers formulate and execute strategies for improving new product development and introduction in areas such as open innovation, modular design, insight and product lifecycle management (PLM).
Prior to consultancy he worked in the automotive and aerospace industries on projects such as saving the world one day of oil production by making cars lighter, and improving reliability for the Space Shuttle. As a leading private sector researcher into creativity and innovation, Trevor has been widely quoted in the press, publications and the media.
Read an interview with Trevor at http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues/1003/from-farm-to-fork-1003.cfm
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Jack De Bokx
Senior Director EH&S
Johnson & Johnson |
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Jack started his career at Johnson and Johnson in the cardiovascular business unit as Worldwide Unit Manager Environmental Affairs in 2000. In 2004 he moved to the orthopaedic business unit as EHS Manager for Europe – and became Worldwide Director EHS in 2006. In 2008 he joined the Corporate Johnson and Johnson Environmental, Health and Safety organization as Senior Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. As such, Jack is responsible for the deployment of the corporate EHS strategies in the region and represents Johnson and Johnson in various trade associations. He is also engaged in various LCA and Environmental Product Information Scheme projects in the region
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Anabel Drese
CSR Manager for Europe
Timberland |
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Anabel is Corporate Social Responsibility European Senior Manager and she is responsible for partnering with the business units to build and develop the European Social Enterprise strategy inclusive of ethic of service, environmental vision, corporate values and values communication efforts. In collaboration with Marketing, provides effective direction of senior management via editorial opportunities and civic engagement activities as a means to progress European’s Social Enterprise agenda. She also audits factories in Europe to ensure they comply with Timberland’s Code of Conduct.
Prior to this role, Anabel was Finance Controller of Timberland Spain for 8 years. Before joining Timberland she spent 3 years in Mexico in a Spanish chemistry company after finishing her degree in Economics and a master in International Cooperation.
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Pierre-Louis Frouein
Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
Alcatel-Lucent |
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Pierre-Louis Frouein manages Corporate Social Responsibility aspects in Alcatel-Lucent Procurement global organisation. He has previously been in charge of several environmental projects within the group, contributed in several industry and standardization associations, and held different positions in procurement and commercial areas of Alcatel-Lucent consumer branch.
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Oliver Greenfield
Head of Sustainable Business and Economics
WWF-UK |
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Oliver leads the work of WWF-UK’s Sustainable Business and Economics.
The Unit works to catalyse economic, finance and business change in order that society prospers within ecological limits.
The Unit achieves this by working with all the stakeholders that govern economics and market systems, including legislators, financiers and companies, so that business can be helped to work for a sustainable future. Specifically, he leads work on One Planet Economy, One Planet Finance, and One Planet Business. He also leads the change agenda for WWF’s business work and partnerships.
Before joining WWF, Oliver gained ten years’ experience of managing change in industry and the public sector, as an associate for Booz Allen and Hamilton and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service. He has worked internationally in many industry sectors and to achieve objectives including corporate value, social development and environmental protection.
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Simon Houghton-Dodd
Head of Quality & Sustainability
Tate & Lyle |
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Simon Houghton-Dodd graduated from Southampton University in 1981 with a degree in Physiology & Biochemistry and has worked for Tate & Lyle for 11 years. He is currently Head of Quality & Sustainability for Tate & Lyle Sugars, responsible for all technical, environment & sustainability issues across the business as well as working with his colleagues in other divisions to set Group minimum standards. During his time at Tate & Lyle his involvement in CSR issues has increased year on year with 2007/2008 being particularly active. In this period he has rewritten the group’s environment mission statement and policy completed the first assessment of the group’s carbon footprint, both of which have just been published in the group annual report. He has worked with URS & The Carbon Trust to validate the footprint of our retail sugars.
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Douglas Johnston
Director Climate Change and Sustainability Services
Ernst & Young LLP |
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Doug is a Director of Ernst & Young’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services team in the UK with responsibilities for project delivery, business development and business planning. He has almost 20 years’ experience in the area of social and environmental risk, working with some of the world’s largest organisations covering both advice on managing sustainability risks and opportunities, establishing improvement programmes and auditing performance. He represents Ernst & Young on emerging thinking on sustainability reporting and auditing practices and has spoken at several conferences on leading practice in sustainability auditing and the business context of sustainability.
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Henry King
Science and Technology Leader: Sustainability
Unilever |
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Dr. Henry King is the Science and Technology Leader for Sustainability in SEAC for Unilever. He has a background in environmental sciences and leads the development of life cycle management across all functions within Unilever including the supply chain, marketing and product development. Henry is Unilever’s corporate issue manager for climate change.
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Carmel Mcquaid
Climate Change Manager
Marks & Spencer |
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Carmel McQuaid is climate change manager for Marks and Spencer. Her role involves engaging with external stakeholders, determining policy for the business on climate related issues and practical involvement in plans to reduce emissions right across the value chain. A particular focus is on reducing emissions in product supply chains.
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Pavel Misiga
Head of Environment and Industry Unit
EU Commission |
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A graduate of Comenius University, London School of Economics and Princeton University, Pavel Misiga worked as an environmental consultant, activist and government official in his home country Slovakia. He served as advisor to the State Secretary for environment and later he represented Slovakia in the EU accession negotiations dealing with issues related to the environment. Since 2003 he has worked for the European Commission, first at Directorate-General for Regional Policy where he was responsible for the implementation of environmental projects financed by the Cohesion Fund. Since 2006 he has been the head of Environment and Industry unit at Directorate-General for Environment where he is currently in charge of the implementation of the Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan.
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Marcus Norton
Head of Water Disclosure
Carbon Disclosure Project |
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Marcus Norton joined the Carbon Disclosure Project in 2009 to launch and head up CDP Water Disclosure, a programme that will help institutional investors better understand the business risks and opportunities associated with water scarcity and other water-related issues by increasing the availability of high quality business information on this critical issue.
Marcus’ background is in corporate law (with Allen & Overy) and in government with the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs where he wrote environmental laws and advised ministers and officials on matters of EC and public law.
He holds an MA from the University of St Andrews, an LL.M from University College London and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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Sara Pax
Founder and Managing Director
Blue Horse Associates |
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Sara Pax is the founder and managing director of sustainability metrics provider Blue Horse Associates and is the creator of Carbonostics (cost+carbon+nutrition), a simplified lifecycle screening tool dedicated to the food industry. During her 10-year professional journey in sustainability, Pax has worked in fair trade development, retail, and certification.
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Mats Pellbäck-Sharp
Head of Sustainability
Sony Ericsson |
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Currently Head of Corporate Sustainability at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. Started working with mobile phones and environment when he joined Ericsson in 1997 as Environmental Manager in the Mobile Phones business unit.
He is project leader for the Swedish branch of industry-wide system for collection and recycling of mobile phones – “retur-telefoni” – which was rolled out in 1997 and set up to prepare for the upcoming EU regulation.
He wrote the first electronics industry supplier code of conduct and introduced new requirements to reduce the energy used by the charger when connected to the grid but not charging the product (so-called no-load power consumption).
He introduced the first phone free from BFR (brominted flame retardants) in 2002.
Over the years, he has been representing the company in various industry associations and programs such as the UNEP Basel Convention MPPI (Mobil Phone Partnership Initiative), securing compliance and that the company was well prepared for WEEE and RoHS regulations.
He launched the GreenHeartTM brand in 2009 as a way to communicate environmental performance of the complete portfolio as well as the company sustainability aspirations and achievements.
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Inder Poonaji
Corporate Head of Safety, Health and Environment Sustainability
Nestle |
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Inder Poonaji is the Corporate Head of Safety, Health and Environment Sustainability for Nestle UK&I. A position he has held since 2009. From 2007 - 2008, Inder was Global ISO Manager for Nestle Waters implementing Environment and Safety Management (ISO 14001 & OSHAS 18001) systems in over 100 facilities worldwide.
He is currently involved in various Industry and Environment committees, the most recent of which he was the Chair of the Environment Agency/Food and Drink Manufacturing Industry Liaison Group producing the "Food & Drink Manufacturing Industry Environmental Management Toolkit’.
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Liazzat Rabbiosi
Programme Officer, SCP Branch
UNEPDTIE |
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Liazzat Rabbiosi is a programme officer with the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch of UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics. She is responsible for the implementation of the 4-year EC funded project ‘Enabling developing countries to seize eco-labelling opportunities – Capacity building and technical assistance’. The project has the objective of enhancing the environmental efficiency of export products from six target countries through helping SMEs in those countries to get their products certified with the European eco-label.
Before joining DTIE, she worked in conservation and sustainable use of natural resources - particularly water and water-related ecosystems - with UNEP’s Dams and Development Project on organizing multistakeholder dialogues around environmental and social issues of the large water infrastructure; with a consultancy firm where she participated in environmental and social impact assessment of oil and gas industry, and with a multilateral environmental agreement such as Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
She holds a MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Master in Environmental Studies from Strathclyde University in Scotland.
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Dominique Roche
Infrastructure & Transmission Standardisation Manager - Orange
France Télécom Group |
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Dominique Roche graduated from National Institute of Telecommunications. After several years in building accommodations he has been in charge of Automatic Handling Equipments Centre, first in French Postal Operator and after in SOFREPOST Company for Saudi postal complex centres.
In Jordan he was in charge for building and environment works of Jordanian Telecom Operator as Senior Consultant of SOFRECOM Company.
Then he has been Manager of Regional Network department and Data Processing department in Bordeaux.
He has made various punctual missions abroad during his period at France Télécom Group in Indonesia, South America and Africa.
Since 2000 till now he manages the Network Standardisation in France Télécom. Pioneer of the first French Guide on Communication Network Installation he co-chairs the worldwide actor GeSI-EE IOCG (Global e-Sustainability Initiative – Energy Efficiency Inter-Operators Collaboration Group) and chairs some Standardisation groups within European Standardisation Organisations: ETSI/ATTM (Access, Terminals & Transmission and Multiplexing), CENELEC TC 215 (Installation of Communication Equipments & Networks).
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Peter Saling
Head of Eco-Efficiency Analysis
BASF |
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Dr. Peter Saling, from Hildesheim, Germany, studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen within the groups of Prof. Schoellkopf and Prof. Tietze. After the PhD Thesis in 1993, he joined BASF in 1993. He worked in the research department for dyestuffs and was specialist for toxicological question of dyestuffs. In 1997 he changed within BASF to the division of environment, safety and energy. He started there with the development of the eco-efficiency analysis together with the German Consultant Roland Berger and Partners. He is senior scientist and was involved in the process of implementation of more than 60 studies of eco-efficiency. He was project leader for the development and integration of social aspects into the sustainability analysis named SEEBALANCE. Since 2007, Dr. Saling is the Head of Eco-Efficiency Analysis within Product Safety Regulations, Toxicology and Ecology of BASF.
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Sandy Smith
Director
Sustain |
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Sandy has over 11 year’s knowledge of developing carbon footprinting and LCA solutions for a variety of applications and sector areas. This has been developed from his PhD in the area of Life Cycle Assessment of Civil Engineering projects and an extensive client list including Marks and Spencer, Co-operative, Balfour Beatty, WRAP, LINPAC Plastics, Allied Bakeries and Aggregate Industries to name a few. In addition, Sandy teaches Carbon footprinting and LCA at the University of Bath. Sandy also led Sustain’s involvement in the development of the PAS 2050 specification and sits on the UK technical steering group for ISO 14067.
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Alex Smith
Founder and Director
Alara Wholefoods |
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Alex Smith is the founder and director of Alara Wholefoods who have been a certified organic manufacturer since 1988, and are now the UK’s largest manufacturer of organic muesli, having also pioneered Gluten-Free and Fair Trade muesli. Alara are fully committed to environmental sustainability; the company is the first Zero Waste food manufacturer In the UK, runs entirely on renewable energy, and uses the newest and most innovative biodegradable packaging for its products.
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Markus Stutz
EMEA Environmental Affairs Manager
Dell |
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Markus Stutz is the EMEA Environmental Affairs Manager for Dell. He is responsible for product related environmental legislation and market requirements (green public procurement as well as ecolabels), he acts as the interface to the European industry association, leads the global issue on PCF (product carbon footprint) and is the leading expert for environmental standardization. He chairs the working group on Ecodesign for BITKOM, the German ICT association.
Before joining Dell in November 2005 he was a Senior Engineer and Environmental Group Leader with the International & Environmental Technology Group of Motorola. His work covered topics such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Design for Environment (DfE), Environmentally Preferred Products, and Sustainability.
Markus has an MSc degree in Environmental Sciences from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. During his studies he has worked for Philips and EXACT Switzerland on environmental assessment of electronic components.
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Ariane Thomas
Corporate Environment Director
L’Oreal |
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Ariane Thomas is Corporate Environment Director for L’Oréal. Ariane is a biologist engineer from Paris University and has previously worked for 18 years at different levels within L’Oréal Corporate, such as supply chain and purchasing. She was notably in charge of the logistic distribution for L’Oréal luxury products for the Eastern Europe and Middle East region and she recently has been leading the implementation and deployment of the Ethical Sourcing Program in the global supply chain for 3 years.
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Roberto Vega
Director of Sustainability
Dole |
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Financial background with a Master in International Business and a specialization in Sustainable Development. 7 year in the Banking Industry in Costa Rica, joined Dole in 1998.
Experience within Dole:
Dole Costa Rica: Financial Analyst, Farm Controller, Financial Analysis Manager
Dole Latin America: Strategic Business Manager, Organic & Exotic Program Controller
Dole Food Company (worldwide): Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
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Coordinate Dole’s Carbon Footprint Project
Develop strategies and projects to assess and reduce Dole’s Environmental Footprint.
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An Vermeulen
Head of Public Affairs
Coca-Cola Enterprises |
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As Head of Public Affairs for Coca-Cola Enterprises, An Vermeulen is passionate about finding the best spot between society's needs and business growth. An, is responsible for stakeholder relations and issue management and is particularly focused on sustainability and the environment. Since joining CCE 10 years ago, An has been dedicated to identifying emerging trends and embedding sustainability into the company's leadership strategy and business processes. An, holds master's degrees in Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Food Management, European Political and Social Integration, and Corporate Communications.
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Alison Ward
Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Cadbury |
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Alison oversees the corporate responsibility agenda for the company leading on key programmes including: investing in cocoa sustainability through the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership and Cadbury Dairy Milk Fairtrade; the company’s environmental commitments called Purple Goes Green and Community Investment.
Alison is responsible for reporting on Cadbury’s sustainability commitments and has published Cadbury’s 2007/2008 report on line at www.dearcadbury.com
Most recently Alison has been working with the Fairtrade Foundation to extent Cadbury’s commitment to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Alison joined Cadbury from a UK trade association and has extensive experience on corporate and brand reputation management having worked for many years for communications consultancy Hill & Knowlton on UK and international food strategies.
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Frances Way
Head of Supply Chain
Carbon Disclosure Project |
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Frances joined Carbon Disclosure Project in December 2007 to manage and expand the Supply Chain Project. In 2009 the Supply Chain team worked with 44 multinational companies, requesting climate change information from over 1,400 suppliers. Before joining CDP, Frances spent eight years in the finance sector, primarily in Dresdner Kleinwort’s Global Equities Division where she was responsible for communications between the European research and sales teams. Frances has an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College.
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Jack De Bokx
Senior Director EH&S
Johnson & Johnson
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Henry King
Science and Technology Leader: Sustainability
Unilever
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Peter Saling
Head of Eco-Efficiency Analysis
BASF
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An Vermeulen
Head of Public Affairs
Coca-Cola Enterprises
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Ivan Baxter
Head of Regulatory Affairs
Nestle
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Inder Poonaji
Corporate Head of Safety, Health and Environment Sustainability
Nestle
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Mats Pellbäck-Sharp
Head of Sustainability
Sony Ericsson
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Liz Cross
Head of Policy & Strategy on CSR for Procurement
BT
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Ariane Thomas
Corporate Environment Director
L’Oreal
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Carmel Mcquaid
Climate Change Manager
Marks & Spencer
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Jack Cunningham
Head of Climate Change & Environment
Sainsbury’s
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Rachel Bradley
Social Responsibility Manager
B&Q
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Alison Ward
Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Cadbury
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Anabel Drese
CSR Manager for Europe
Timberland
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Roberto Vega
Director of Sustainability
Dole
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Simon Houghton-Dodd
Head of Quality & Sustainability
Tate & Lyle
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Alex Smith
Founder and Director
Alara Wholefoods
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Pavel Misiga
Head of Environment and Industry Unit
EU Commission
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Sylvain Chevassus
Bureau of Sustainable Consumption and Production
French Ministry of Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Sea
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Gunilla Blomquist
Deputy Director
Swedish Ministry of the Environment
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Liazzat Rabbiosi
Programme Officer, SCP Branch
UNEPDTIE
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Frances Way
Head of Supply Chain
Carbon Disclosure Project
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Marcus Norton
Head of Water Disclosure
Carbon Disclosure Project
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Sara Pax
Founder and Managing Director
Blue Horse Associates
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Dominique Roche
Infrastructure & Transmission Standardisation Manager - Orange
France Télécom Group
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Oliver Greenfield
Head of Sustainable Business and Economics
WWF-UK
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Pierre-Louis Frouein
Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
Alcatel-Lucent
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Sandy Smith
Director
Sustain
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Markus Stutz
EMEA Environmental Affairs Manager
Dell
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Trevor Davis
Consumer Products Strategy Consultant and Global SME in New Product Development & Introduction
IBM
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Douglas Johnston
Director Climate Change and Sustainability Services
Ernst & Young LLP
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