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Speakers

Speakers for the Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit 2008 include:

bullet Edwin Aalders - International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
bullet Henrik Ahlgren - Billerud AB
bullet Dr. Gus Atri - Northern Foods
bullet Andrew Baker - Duchy Originals
bullet Bill Bartlett - McCain Foods
bullet Jonathon Bayne - Musgrave Retail Partners Ltd (Budgens/Londis)
bullet Rachel Bradley - B&Q
bullet Benjamin Caspar - DG Environment, European Commission
bullet Dave Challis - Kimberly Clark
bullet Dr. Myrtille Danse - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
bullet Bernard Deryckere - Alpro Soya
bullet Michael Dunsire - GlaxoSmithKline Nutritional Healthcare
bullet Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones - University of Wales
bullet Jochen Gassner - First Climate
bullet Phil Green - Morphy Richards
bullet Richard Heathcote - Scottish & Newcastle (Bulmers)
bullet Dr Tim Hess - Cranfield University
bullet Katherine Hunter - BSI British Standards
bullet John Hutchings - Fonterra
bullet Andrew Jenkins - Boots
bullet Colin Macleod - Defra
bullet Drew McDowell - Dipetane International Ltd.
bullet Carmel McQuaid - Marks and Spencer
bullet Mike Mitchell - FoodVest Group, (Young’s Seafoods)
bullet Thomas Mooney - FIJI Water
bullet Paul Rowsome - Carrefour
bullet Tom Schalenbourg - Imperial Tobacco
bullet Chris Shearlock - The Co-operative Group
bullet Duncan Sinclair - Waitrose
bullet Paul Smith - LRQA
bullet Marie-Louise Ter Beek - McDonald’s
bullet Ian Walsh - Cadbury Schweppes
bullet Alison Watson - Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand
bullet Stephen Weir - ProActive
bullet John Wild - Morphy Richards


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Edwin Aalders - Conference Speaker   Edwin Aalders

DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING ASSOCIATION (IETA)
     
Since 2004 Mr Aalders has held the position of Director of the International Emission Trading Association and since November 2007 the Acting CEO of the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association. As Director of the International Emission Trading Association (IETA) Mr Aalders was responsible for the UNFCCC process such as the CDM & JI as well as the voluntary market. Mr Aalders is an elected member of JI Accreditation Panel and on the roster of experts for the Methodology & Accreditation Panel Expert of the CDM.

Edwin Aalders has an engineering degree in Tropical Forestry from the LIAC, the Netherlands and a Masters Degree in Forestry from the University of Oxford. He has over 15 years of experience as an assessor in Environmental Auditing (ISO 14 000), Organic Farming and SQF 2000 systems and as a Lead Assessor in Forest Management Certification, ISO 9000 and Climate Change Programmes.

In March 2007 he became partner of Probus Capital as Technical Director responsible for the development and design of Probus Sigma a new and objective method to index companies level of sustainability. From 1998 to 2004 Mr Aalders was the Cooperate Global Business Development Manager of SGS for the Marine Stewardship Council, Organic, EUREPGAP and Carbon Offset Verification Service as well as the Operational Manager in the SGS the Netherlands for the Forest Stewardship Council Programme. As SGS Global Business Development Manager, Mr Aalders was actively involved in the development of the above mentioned programmes and those of individual client specific certification programmes in Wise Management of Natural Resources. Mr Aalders worked throughout the developing and developed countries and in particular Latin America, Africa and Australasia.

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Henrik Ahlgren - Conference Speaker   Henrik Ahlgren

DIRECTOR
BILLERUD AB
     
Henrik Ahlgren will be speaking at the Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit 2008.

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Dr. Gus Atri - Conference Speaker   Dr. Gus Atri

ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS CONTROLLER
NORTHERN FOODS
     
Gus Atri is a chemist by training. After working in Humberside County Analyst Laboratory as a Senior Chemist for nearly 10 years, he joined northern Foods in 1986 and have held a number of roles in the Group Technical Services and currently employed as Environmental Affairs Controller. His role is to help develop a range of environmental policies for Northern Foods.

He is currently chairman of DEFRA Food Industry Sustainability Strategy Waste Champions Group and the past chairman of the UK Food and Drink Federation Waste Topic Group. He was also a member of a group that developed East Midlands Regional Waste Strategy and chaired Nottingham Energy Partnership Business Task Group charged to develop means of reducing carbon emissions in the city of Nottingham.

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Andrew Baker - Conference Speaker   Andrew Baker

GROUP CEO
DUCHY ORIGINALS
     
Andrew Baker is Group CEO of Duchy Originals, the company specialising in organic and natural foods that was established by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1990. Since joining Duchy Originals in September last year, Andrew has put sustainability at the core of Duchy Originals long-term growth plans. Prior to Duchy Originals, Andrew worked for Cadbury Schweppes Plc, where he was latterly Managing Director for Africa, Middle East and Turkey, with responsibility for nine businesses across 40 countries.

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Bill Bartlett - Conference Speaker   Bill Bartlett

CORPORATE AFFAIRS DIRECTOR
MCCAIN FOODS
     
Bill Bartlett was appointed McCain Corporate Affairs Director in July 2006. As part of his role Bartlett heads up the McCain Corporate Social Responsibility programme, and is responsible for co-ordinating the company’s progressive journey towards an ever more sustainable business model. The CSR programme examines the businesses relationship and impact on the environment, marketplace, workplace and the community.

Prior to this Corporate Affairs role, Bartlett was sales director of McCain Food Service for seven years and has been with the company for 19 years. Bartlett joined in 1989 as a territory manager and looked after a region in the Midlands. Bartlett soon progressed to regional manager and national account manager and in 1996 was seconded to central Europe. Bartlett returned in 1998 to run the sales function in Food Service before taking up his current role.

During his time at McCain, Bartlett has embraced the need to change and adapt quickly and bring innovative solutions to its business processes.

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Jonathon Bayne - Conference Speaker   Jonathon Bayne

HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES, SUSTAINABILITY & REGULATORY AFFAIRS
MUSGRAVE RETAIL PARTNERS LTD (BUDGENS/LONDIS)
     
Jonathon Bayne is a qualified Food Technologist and manages the total function of the Technical Services Department within Musgrave Retail Partners (GB) Limited. His principal responsibilities include the management of the safety; quality and legality of all Budgens and Londis own label products, as well as the development of appropriate technical policies.

His role also brings him into direct contact with both, Local Government and Central Government Departments (Food Standards Agency, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs & Department of Health) & Non-Governmental Organisation’s

Prior to joining Musgrave Retail Partners, Jonathon was Senior Food Technologist with Asda.

Externally he is Chairman of the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Rachel Bradley - Conference Speaker   Rachel Bradley

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MANAGER
B&Q
     
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 is now focusing on the company’s commitment to One Planet Living and how B&Q can enable customers to achieve one planet living in their homes and gardens. She has been with B&Q for nearly 3 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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Benjamin Caspar - Conference Speaker   Benjamin Caspar

HEAD OF EU ECOLABEL, DG ENVIRONMENT
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
     
Ben Caspar graduated in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Edinburgh University and has since worked for the Scottish Executive on both Public Understanding of Science and then on to Marine Conservation policy. He continued working in this field for the European Commission in the Directorate General for Fisheries from 2002 and later moved to DG Environment where he heads the EU Ecolabel.

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Dave Challis - Conference Speaker   Dave Challis

SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER, EUROPE
KIMBERLY CLARK
     
Dave is the Sustainability Manager for Kimberly-Clark Europe. Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 150 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people--nearly a quarter of the world's population--trust K-C's brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene and well being. With brands such as Kleenex®, Andrex®, Huggies®, Pull-Ups®, Kotex® and Depend®. Kimberly-Clark holds the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in more than 80 countries. Dave’s principal responsibilities encompass Kimberly-Clark’s European activity in responsible sourcing, carbon management, forestry, stakeholder dialogue and environmental sustainability. He has been at K-C for five years and holds an MA in Biological Sciences from Oxford University.

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Dr. Myrtille Danse - Conference Speaker   Dr. Myrtille Danse

HEAD OF MARKETS & NETWORKS DIVISION, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS
     
Myrtille Danse is the Head of the Market & Networks Division of the Plant Research Group of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute in The Hague, The Netherlands. Myrtille has a MSc BA with emphasis on Strategic Management. During the last 15 years she has been working in Latin Amerika, Africa, Asia and The Netherlands on sustainable chain development projects, mainly within the food production and processing sector. Her research interests are on innovative governance structures aimed at the sustainable development of international agro-chains. Some of the research programs she is currently involved in as a senior researcher are; the development of a calculation methodology for CO2 labeling of horticultural products, the sustainable sourcing and marketing of fresh products by the retail sector both in Europe as well as Asia, a multi-stakeholder initiative for the development of a Code of Practice to stimulate the sustainable development of the Ethiopian floriculture sector.

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Bernard Deryckere - Conference Speaker   Bernard Deryckere

MANAGING DIRECTOR
ALPRO SOYA
     
Bernard Deryckere has been Managing Director at Alpro Soya since 2001 and is also a Member of the Group Executive Committee of the Vandemoortele Group. Previously he held several important positions within Unilever, including CEO of Unilever Bestfoods in Scandinavia, General Manager of Unilever Bakery Companies in Benelux & France, European Category Director for the European Business Group of Lipton Ready to Drink Beverages and Marketing Director for Unilever, Portugal. Bernard began his career as Product Manager for Henkel Belgium, following a Masters in Applied Economics. In his free time, Bernard enjoys sailing, playing golf and is also President of European Natural Soy Foods Manufacturers Association (ENSA), Vice President of Sojaxa (French Soy Food Association) and a Member of Board of Directors BABM (Belgilux Association of Branded Products Manufacturers).

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Michael Dunsire - Conference Speaker   Michael Dunsire

SOURCING DIRECTOR
GLAXOSMITHKLINE NUTRITIONAL HEALTHCARE
     
Michael Dunsire is Sourcing Director for GlaxoSmithKline Nutritional Healthcare. He sources raw materials globally for well-loved brands Ribena, Lucozade and Horlicks. The environment and sustainability are key to a number of sourcing strategies Michael is involved in, especially fruit production, where GSK has worked with farmers and growers for the last 70 years. Michael is involved throughout the whole supply chain from plant breeding, for new varieties to withstand the changes to the environment, through to processing, which also incorporates trials in Asia and Australasia, where corporate social responsibility is taken very seriously.

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Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones - Conference Speaker   Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones

PROFESSOR AGRICULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF WALES
     
Gareth was brought up on a farm in North Wales. He studied biology at Manchester University for his first degree. This was followed by completing a PhD in ecology at Imperial College, London. After completing his PhD he did some work for British Sugar on decision support systems, followed by a year with a commercial computer company. In 1990 he became Senior Bioeconomist in the SAC, Edinburgh and progressed to become head of the Rural Resource Management Dept in SAC in 1995. In 1998 he took the Chair in Agriculture and Land Use at the University of Wales, Bangor. His research interests are broad and include sustainable food systems, impact of climate change on agriculture and land use, economics of conservation and farmer decision making. He is also actively involved in agricultural development in Wales. Gareth was a member of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides between 2000 and 2005, and is currently on the Scientific Advisory Panel for Natural England and the 2020 vision group of the Welsh Assembly.

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Jochen Gassner - Conference Speaker   Jochen Gassner

DIRECTOR, CLIMATE NEUTRAL DEPARTMENT
FIRST CLIMATE
     
Jochen Gassner is Director of the Climate Neutral department at First Climate. His responsibilities encompass the development of international and national VER markets, the design of climate neutral products and services, and the consulting of private and public sector clients.

Before joining First Climate, he worked as Group Environmental Manager at Borealis and as Environmental Consultant for a number of industry sectors. Jochen has several years of experience in environmental and sustainability consulting as well as corporate sustainability management at industry level. He studied environmental engineering at the Leoben University of Mining and Metallurgy, Austria and holds a PhD in sustainability research from Graz University of Technology, Austria.

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Phil Green - Conference Speaker   Phil Green

CEO
MORPHY RICHARDS
     
Phil Green has over 20 years experience in the small domestic appliances industry. In that time he has met and mastered many business challenges. He now believes that climate change and sustainability are probably the biggest tests for both businesses and consumers. Consumers demand products that make domestic tasks easier and more energy efficient. Businesses demand increased growth and sustained profitability. Harmonising both is critical. With that in mind, Phil has set a direction and course for Morphy Richards that puts climate change and sustainability on par with consumer satisfaction.

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Richard Heathcote - Conference Speaker   Richard Heathcote

SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
SCOTTISH & NEWCASTLE (BULMERS)
     
Richard Heathcote graduated in Zoology & Biochemistry from Hull and then gained an MSc in Freshwater Hydrobiology from Cardiff. Richard has previously worked for Bass Brewers, Smiths Crisps and Thames Water in a variety of IT related roles before joining Bulmers in 1988 as an IT Project Manager. In 1997 Richard left IT and moved into a line management role as Production Planning Manager for Bulmers, and after two years moved into a change management/business development role, focussing on supply chain design, before taking up his current post of Sustainable Development Manager in 2001. In this role Richard looks after all aspects of sustainable development for Bulmers and increasingly S&N, ranging from issues of community investment and responsible drinking through to renewable energy, water recycling and alternative uses of by-products. Richard also works closely with the Bulmer Foundation (www.bulmerfoundation.org.uk) on Herefordshire related work, with colleagues across the S&N group on wider corporate responsibility matters, and chairs the National Association of Cidermakers sustainable development committee.

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Dr Tim Hess - Conference Speaker   Dr Tim Hess

READER IN WATER MANAGEMENT
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
     
Dr Tim Hess is Reader in Water Management in the School of Applied Sciences at Cranfield University. His research has focused on the measurement and quantification of water balances as applied to wetlands, rainfed- and irrigated agriculture in both temperate and semi-arid environments. He was an Executive Council member of the UK Irrigation Association for over 10 years and has been responsible for delivering training courses in irrigation management both in the UK and with irrigated sugar estates in Africa

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Katherine Hunter - Conference Speaker   Katherine Hunter

HEAD OF MARKET DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABILITY
BSI BRITISH STANDARDS
     
Katherine has worked for BSI British Standards since January 2006. She is responsible for developing standards in the areas of environment, energy and sustainability. As the National Standards Body (NSB) for the UK, BSI British Standards represents the UK’s standardization interests in Europe and internationally.

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John Hutchings - Conference Speaker   John Hutchings

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION GENERAL MANAGER, FONTERRA MILK SUPPLY
FONTERRA
     
John Hutchings is the Sustainable Production General Manager, Fonterra Milk Supply, Fonterra. John worked previously to this as an advisor on environmental and economic policy in the New Zealand Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. John will present Fonterra's work under the NZ strategy to develop a methodology for carbon footprinting for dairy products and share with you the key drivers for this work. This work aims to measure Fonterra’s carbon emissions across its complete supply chain for its major products and identify areas that require targeted programmes for reduction. It complements other sustainability initiatives that are being incorporated in all aspects of Fonterra's business.

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Andrew Jenkins - Conference Speaker   Andrew Jenkins

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - PRODUCT
BOOTS
     
After graduating in Environmental Science in 1977, Andrew has worked in product and packaging design management and development for several major manufacturing and retailing organisations including the Storehouse Group. He joined The Boots Group plc. in 1994. As a member of the Quality & CSR Support team Andrew's role is to advise product marketing and development groups on sustainable development issues. His work includes advising the development of the company Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and the introduction of compliance systems and sustainable product design strategies covering the wide portfolio of Boots products. Andrew represents the company on several trade association committees and was Boots representative in the development of the Sigma guidelines for integrating sustainable development into business. This has now continued with work on the EU Roundtable on Sustainable Development standards and representation on the Bsi committee responsible for BS8900 Guidance for Managing Sustainable Development. His work also includes developing external partnerships in the area of sustainable development with trade associations, academic institutions and organisations such as Forum for the Future.

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Colin Macleod - Conference Speaker   Colin Macleod

PROJECT MANAGER & TEAM LEADER OF THE FOOD CHAIN PROGRAMME
DEFRA
     
Worked for Defra for over 7 years, previously working in the agri-business sector, in UK and Central Europe. Currently a Team leader in the Food Chain Programme in Defra, responsible for carbon footprinting and other sustainability issues of food, international engagement, and building an evidence base, to reduce the impacts of food produced and consumed in the UK

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Drew McDowell - Conference Speaker   Drew McDowell

MANAGING DIRECTOR
DIPETANE INTERNATIONAL LTD.
     
Drew spent 10 years with the 3M company before 22 years with Dipetane International in R&D, production and marketing - providing a mature technology to oil companies, transport, heating and industrial fuel applications in 20 countries world-wide.

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Carmel McQuaid - Conference Speaker   Carmel McQuaid

CLIMATE CHANGE MANAGER
MARKS AND SPENCER
     
Carmel McQuaid is climate change manager for Marks and Spencer. A particular focus of her work is on reducing emissions through product supply chains.

Prior to M&S she worked as a consultant for PA Consulting, focusing on sustainability in chemicals and consumer products. This included a wide variety of work from developing sustainability strategies for businesses to commercialisation of low carbon technology and product carbon foot printing.

Prior to consulting, Carmel worked for ICI in Germany and the UK in production and supply chain roles. Her background is in chemical engineering.

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Mike Mitchell - Conference Speaker   Mike Mitchell

HEAD OF SEAFOOD SUSTAINABILITY
FOODVEST GROUP, (YOUNG’S SEAFOODS)
     
Mike Mitchell first got involved with seafood when he joined Ross Foods in 1981 and since this time has become specialised in the field of seafood technical standards. More recently, Mike has been involved in developing management tools for the Young’s and Findus businesses to help put their responsible seafood sourcing approaches into practice. He was a key author of Young’s/Findus ‘Ten Principles of Responsible Fish Procurement’ and also of the audit mechanism which enables those principles to be put into practice. He accepted the newly created position as Head of Seafood Sustainability for the FoodVest Group during 2007.

Mike serves on a number of advisory bodies for the fish industry including several working groups for the Seafish Industry Authority; the Organic Food Federation Aquaculture Standards Committee, the Food & Drink Federation Whitefish Committee and also for the group advising AIPCE (the EU Fish Processors Association) on illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing.

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Thomas Mooney - Conference Speaker   Thomas Mooney

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
FIJI WATER
     
Thomas Mooney is Senior Vice President for Sustainable Growth at FIJI Water, one of the leading premium bottled water companies in the world. Mr. Mooney oversees the company’s sustainability program that encompasses making FIJI Water the first “carbon negative” product in the bottled water industry, saving the largest rainforest in Fiji through a partnership with Conservation International and the people of Fiji, reducing the amount of packaging in FIJI Water products by 20% over the next three years, and advocating for an expansion of curbside and consumer incentive programs to boost recycling rates across the entire beverage industry.

Prior to this position Mr. Mooney served as FIJI Water’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and later as Vice President of International Operations. Before joining FIJI Water, Mr. Mooney held a number of leadership positions with Procter & Gamble, Kellogg, and Booz Allen Hamilton in the United States and in Latin America.

Mr. Mooney holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering, with Honors, from Purdue University. He later earned a Master in Business Administration degree, with High Distinction, from the Harvard Business School where he co-founded the Harvard Sustainable Development Society.

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Paul Rowsome - Conference Speaker   Paul Rowsome

GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER
CARREFOUR
     
Mr Rowsome is Environmental Manager for the Carrefour Group, a position he acquired in 2002. The Carrefour Group is the leading retailer in Europe and 2nd worldwide. In his role Mr Rowsome is responsible for Group sustainability reporting, environmental project management in the fields of merchandise, logistics, supply chain and store activities as well as communication to socially responsible investors and rating agencies on the Group’s performance.

Prior to this Mr Rowsome was Environmenal Affairs Manager with Philips Consumer Communications. Mr Rowsome worked on product and packaging eco-design, competitor benchmarking and management of health issues related to mobile telephony.

Mr Rowsome obtained his Bachelor of Honours Degree in Geography from Leeds University in 1997.

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Tom Schalenbourg - Conference Speaker   Tom Schalenbourg

GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR
IMPERIAL TOBACCO
     
Tom Schalenbourg will be speaking at the Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit 2008.

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Chris Shearlock - Conference Speaker   Chris Shearlock

ENVIRONMENT MANAGER
THE CO-OPERATIVE GROUP
     
Chris Shearlock works as Environment Manager for The Co-operative Group, one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives. The Group operates significant food retail, insurance, banking funeral, pharmacy, travel and farming businesses. Chris’s key priority areas are climate change, waste and biodiversity. Prior to joining the Co-operative Group Chris worked as Head of Renewable Energy at Envirolink Northwest, and Policy and Research Manager at Sustainability Northwest. He holds a degree in Environmental Management and a Masters in Strategic Marketing, both from Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Duncan Sinclair - Conference Speaker   Duncan Sinclair

AGRICULTURE MANAGER
WAITROSE
     
Duncan Sinclair will be speaking at the Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit 2008.

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Paul Smith - Conference Speaker   Paul Smith

CARBON FOOTPRINTING AND LABELLING PROJECT LEADER
LRQA
     
Paul Smith is the Carbon Footprinting and Labelling Project Leader for LRQA. He is a Chartered Environmentalist, Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment and registered Principal Environmental Auditor.

Formerly, as EMS Assessment Manager, he maintained the LRQA UK environmental product accreditations and managed a multi-disciplinary team of systems assessors undertaking assessment and verification against the Acorn Scheme, ISO14001, EMAS, CER, CSR and GHG ETS, across a full scope of sectors.

His extensive environmental management experience and credentials have been gained from a career spanning more than thirty years in regulatory, industrial and consulting sectors. He now brings this authoritative knowledge to the field of Carbon Footprinting and Labelling where he continues to apply his practical skills in the development and interpretation of standards, and in assessment and verification of LRQA clients.

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Marie-Louise Ter Beek - Conference Speaker   Marie-Louise Ter Beek

UK ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER
MCDONALD’S
     
Marie-Louise ter Beek is the UK Environment Manager for McDonalds. She leads the environment department at McDonalds to minimise the impact of waste, energy, water and packaging by its 57,000 staff and 1200 restaurants in the UK. Marie-Louise previously worked for London Remade, an organisation working in the area of recycling and creating environmental solutions. Her role as project manager was in green procurement specialising in sustainable construction, and waste minimisation advising on projects such as Barts and the London hospital. Prior to that Marie-Louise worked as a environmental consultant in her home of Australia on biodiversity research, land degradation and regeneration through direct seeding operations. Originally graduating with a Environmental Horticulture degree, she grew up working in her family hydroponic lettuce business, which gave her a firm grounding of private sector business for her role in the food industry at McDonalds.

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Ian Walsh - Conference Speaker   Ian Walsh

HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT
CADBURY SCHWEPPES
     
Ian joined Cadbury in the summer of 1996 as an ambitious young graduate chemical engineer. Thrust straight into the world of production management he quickly discovered the scale of the Cadbury Bournville operation when for his first appointment he was asked to manage a production line employing over 200 people per shift making and packing easter eggs. following a successful spell in manufacturing Ian moved to take up a role in the UK corporate engineering team working across the manufacturing sites on a range of projects including amongst other things energy conservation, production optimisation and commissioning an effluent plant. Ian's next change of role saw him take up position as manager of the research and development facility at Bournville followed by a move into project management where he worked on a number of capital projects. Having achieved chartered engineer status Ian's last engineering role was as a senior process development engineer exploring alternative technologies for a variety of business processes until in 2002 he moved to become Environment manager for the Cadbury UK & Ireland business. In 2004 Ian was appointed to the position of Environment manager for the Europe Middle East and Africa region responsible for raising levels of Environmental performance and capabilities across the region which kept him busy until November 2007 when he was appointed to his current role as global Head of Environment at Cadbury Schweppes and asked to lead the Purple Goes Green sustainability programme.

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Alison Watson - Conference Speaker   Alison Watson

SENIOR ANALYST, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
NEW ZEALAND
     
Alison is a senior analyst at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and leads the development and implementation of the New Zealand strategy on carbon footprinting for the land-based primary sectors. Her background is in international environmental law and chemistry.The NZ Government are working in partnership with the NZ primary sector to develop internationally recognised, robust and transparent carbon footprint methodologies. Methodologies are first being developed at a sector specific level. The first tranche of projects, covering around 65% of NZ's primary exports are carbon footprint methodologies for kiwifruit, wine, dairy products, forestry products, and lamb. This presentation will outline the background to the work being undertaken, current progress and a discussion on the importance of this work to New Zealand both in responding to climate change but also in providing a platform to look more widely at other sustainability issues. The presentation will also discuss the need for transparency at an international level in verifying carbon footprints and some of the practical difficulties that need to be considered in developing carbon footprint methodologies.

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Stephen Weir - Conference Speaker   Stephen Weir

DIRECTOR
PROACTIVE
     
Stephen is a creative and dynamic Supply Chain professional with wide ranging business experience and a passion for excellence. Board level management roles, strategic and operational blue chip consulting experience and in depth experience of hands on Supply Chain management including significant change process implementations. He has over 20 years experience of business management includes working with a wide variety of multinational organisations. Exploring and realising change to deliver significant value in terms of customer service improvement, market share development and bottom line financial benefits. Stephen's experience includes: Tate and Lyle - ship management and chartering; British Oxygen - Development of the BOC Interbrand and Transhield Logistics Operations businesses across Europe; Price Waterhouse - 6 years of management consultancy in Procurement and Supply Chain division - delivering projects with multinational organisations worldwide; Excel Logistics - Development work on international supply chain solutions and Transport Development Group - Divisional Director developing new business and creative solutions for companies within the FMCG sector. Since 1997, Stephen has overseen the expansion of ProActive as a thriving consultancy organisation and the development of new service offerings. The range of expertise spans industries from Extraction through manufacturing to government sector, high tech and pharmaceuticals. Project experience from Strategic Design through to hands on implementation.

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John Wild - Conference Speaker   John Wild

CSR DIRECTOR
MORPHY RICHARDS
     
John Wild leads the Carbon Trust’s Product Footprint Labelling Project at Morphy Richards. John’s career in engineering, strategic development and business change has been in several industry sectors and countries – ranging from steel and oil production to manufacturing and consultancy. He has worked in Australia, the Middle East and Europe. One common denominator in his work has always been the reduction of excessive consumption and the minimisation of waste. At Morphy Richards, John has now added the ‘advancement of sustainability’.

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Andrew Baker, CEO, Duchy Originals divider Bill Bartlett, Corporate Affairs Director, McCain Foods divider Jonathon Bayne, Head of Technical Services, Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs, Musgrave Retail Partners Ltd (Budgens/Londis) divider Michael Dunsire, Sourcing Director, GlaxoSmithKline Nutritional Healthcare divider Paul Smith, Carbon Footprinting and Labelling Project Leader, LRQA divider Dr Kerry Mashford, Head of Sustainable Manufacturing, ARUP divider Benjamin Caspar, Head of EU Ecolabel, DG Environment, European Commission divider Dave Challis, Sustainability Manager, Europe, Kimberly Clark divider Bernard Deryckere, Managing Director, Alpro Soya divider Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones, Professor Agriculture, University of Wales divider Phil Green, CEO, Morphy Richards divider Katherine Hunter, Head of Market Development, Sustainability, BSI divider Richard Heathcote, Sustainability Development Manager, Scottish & Newcastle (Bulmers) divider Andrew Jenkins, Sustainable Development Manager – Product, Boots divider Colin Macleod, Project Manager & Team Leader of the Food Chain Programme, Defra divider Carmel McQuaid, Climate Change Manager, Marks and Spencer divider Mike Mitchell, Head of Seafood Sustainability, FoodVest Group, (Young’s Seafoods) divider Paul Rowsome, Group Environmental Affairs Manager, Carrefour divider Tom Schalenbourg, Group Environmental Advisor, Imperial Tobacco divider Chris Shearlock, Environment Manager, The Co-operative Group divider Duncan Sinclair, Agriculture Manager, Waitrose divider Marie-Louise Ter Beek, Environmental Manager, McDonald’s divider Dr. Gus Atri, Environmental Affairs Controller, Northern Foods divider Ian Walsh, Head of Environment, Cadbury Schweppes divider John Wild, CSR Director, Morphy Richards divider Dr. Myrtille Danse, Head of Markets & Networks Division, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Wageningen University, The Netherlands divider Edwin Aalders, Director, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) divider Dr. Tim Hess, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University divider Henrik Ahlgren, Director, Billerud AB divider Stephen Weir, Director, ProActive

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