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I
am a writer, broadcaster and teacher on corporate citizenship,
sustainability and accountability. I have pioneered teaching corporate
responsibility and sustainability in universities in the UK, Japan,
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and been involved in publishing
some ten books in this area and producing films for BBC TV. I
have been a Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Global
Compact, and have worked for UNEP, the ILO and UNDP and many global
corporations, including Shell, BP, Pfizer and ABB and a number
of INGOs. I have been an adviser to the governments of the UK,
Norway and Canada on CSR strategy. I was Founding-Editor of the
Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and am now the
General Editor, and Founding-Chair of envolve.co.uk as well as
Director of the Corporate Citizenship Unit at Warwick University
Business School.
Prior to working
on corporate responsibility and sustainability issues I was based
at Bradford University's Department of Peace Studies where I published
books on defence decision making in the UK and Japan and gained
a Masters degree and a Doctorate. Before my time at Bradford University
I taught in, directed and established language schools in Sweden,
Japan and Australia.
I currently
serve on various committees and boards advising on sustainability,
education and change and am Visiting Professor at the Universities
of Nottingham and Bath, England, and Stellenbosch, South Africa.
I am on the UK's Sustainable Development Commission Panel, Chair
of the Strategic Advisory Board to the Department of Civil Engineering
at the
University of Bristol and a member of the European Council on
Corporate Citizenship for the US Conference Board.
I am a frequent
presenter and facilitator at conferences. In the last few years
my corporate clients have included the United Nations, the UK
Foreign Office, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ABB,
Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, American Express, BBC, the Royal
Mail, the King's Fund, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants,
Institute for Public Sector Management, Novo Nordisk, NovoZimes,
the Eden Project, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP, The
Natural Step, the European Commission and BT.
A partial
list of my presentations includes INSEAD (France), Judge Institute,
University of Cambridge UK), Institute for Environmental Management
(UK), UN Global Compact Learning Forum (Brazil), Deakin CCRU (Australia),
Centre for Business & Government, Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University (USA), UTS, AICC & AISEA (Australia), National
Business
Initiative (South Africa), University of KwaZulu-Natal (South
Africa), Sustainable Business Network (New Zealand), Liverpool
University (UK), Nijmegen University (Netherlands), European Academy
for Business in Society (Rotterdam), Charities Aid Foundation
(UK), Chatham House - Royal Institute for International Affairs
(UK), RSA (UK), International Association for
Business & Society (Rotterdam), The Open University (UK) and
the State of the World Forum (Ireland). In 1998/9 I was the European
Director of the New York-based Council on Economic Priorities
(now SAI), and from 2000-2003 I was a Board Member of AccountAbility
(ISEA).
Current Appointments
& Projects (March 2006)
General Editor,
Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Greenleaf Publishing www.greenleaf-publishing.com/jcc
Founding Editor (2000-1), General Editor (2007-8).
'Security,
Peace & Corporate Behaviour' (working title) Special Edition
of
the Journal of Corporate Citizenship (January 2007) in partnership
with UN
Global Compact Office, New York, co-edited with Sandra Waddock,
Carroll
School of Management at Boston College, US, and Georg Kell, Executive
Director of the UN Global Compact.
'The Coming
Social & Ecological 'Great Transformation': The Contribution
From Government, Business & Civil Society' (working title)
conference (venue tba, January 2008) and commissioned papers for
a book (June 2008) in partnership with UN Global Compact Office,
New York, co-edited with Sandra Waddock, Carroll School of Management
at Boston College, US, and Georg Kell, Executive Director of the
UN Global Compact.
Consultant
and advisor to business, government and ngos on sustainability.
Global governance and corporate responsibility issues.
Member, UK
Sustainable Development Panel, Sustainable Development Commission,
DEFRA, UK Government www.sd-commission.org.uk
Visiting Professor,
Institute for International Policy Analysis & International
Centre for the Environment, University of Bath, UK www.bath.ac.uk/ifipa
(2001 - ). I have been teaching at this university since 1992
on sustainability, environmental management and corporate
responsibility and sustainable communities. I also supervise postgraduate
students on a regular basis.
Visiting Professor,
International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University
of Nottingham, UK www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/iccsr (2001 -
). I have taught at this university since 2001 on corporate responsibility
and run sessions on complexity and corporate behaviour at their
annual conferences.
Professor
Extraordinary, Sustainability Institute, University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa www.sustainabilityinstitute.net (2004 - 2007). I
have taught at this university since its inception in 2001. The
Sustainability Institute and it's MPhil in Sustainable Development
are exemplary models for the future.
Senior Research
Fellow, Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin University,
Australia. www.deakin.edu.au/arts/ccr
Chair, Strategic
Advisory Board, Department of Civil Engineering, University of
Bristol, UK
(2004 - ). My role is to act as an independent chair and to bring
issues of business ethics, sustainability and systems thinking
to the fore in the department's research and teaching programmes.
I have taught in this department and in the University of Bristol
on environmental
management, sustainability and corporate responsibility since
1992.
Trustee &
Board Member, Envolve Partnerships for Sustainability / Envolve
Enterprises, www.envolve.co.uk , Founding Chair (1992-6) and P/T
Strategic Director, (2005-6). Based in Bath, Envolve, a registered
charity, is 12 years old in 2006 and is testimony to the role
that non-government community-based organisations can play in
developing sustainable communities.
Member, European
Council on Corporate Citizenship, US Conference Board
(2000 - ).
My role on this business-led body is to provide analysis and bring
ideas from other sectors.
Advisor to
Tim Smit and the UK's Eden Project (2003 - ). I have provided
ideas at regular meetings, led by Tim Smit and Richard Sandbrook,
on how this leading example of education for sustainable development
might develop.
I have appeared
on BBC Radio 4's the Moral Maze , BBC World Service, BBC TV and
BA's in-flight listening. I have written for the Guardian, The
Observer, Resurgence, New Statesman and many journals, magazines
and newspapers around the world.
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