Speakers for the Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit 2008 include:
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Edwin Aalders
DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING ASSOCIATION (IETA) |
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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 Sigma 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
DIRECTOR
BILLERUD AB |
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After finishing studies in Marketing and Economics at the University of Karlstad, Sweden in 1997 Henrik started working for AssiDomän Barrier Coating. Working within Sales and Marketing of extrusion coated products for special applications such as hygiene, protective clothing, different industrial applications and also packaging. Substrates could be plastic films, nonwovens and paper. In 2002 he shifted over to Billerud and started working as Segment Manager within the Packaging board division, paper that goes into the corrugated industry. In 2006 he changed position and became Sales & Marketing Director for Packaging Boards. In this work he tries to develop new ways of doing business with a more holistic view on the packaging solutions and the value chain.
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Dr. Gus Atri
ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS CONTROLLER
NORTHERN FOODS |
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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
GROUP CEO
DUCHY ORIGINALS |
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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
CORPORATE AFFAIRS DIRECTOR
MCCAIN FOODS |
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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
HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES, SUSTAINABILITY & REGULATORY AFFAIRS
MUSGRAVE RETAIL PARTNERS LTD (BUDGENS/LONDIS) |
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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
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 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
HEAD OF EU ECOLABEL, DG ENVIRONMENT
EUROPEAN COMMISSION |
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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
SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER, EUROPE
KIMBERLY CLARK |
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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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David Cockshott
HEAD OF ADVANCED SALES
npower Business |
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David has extensive knowledge of energy markets from both a customer and supplier perspective. He started working within an energy consultancy prior to market privatisation, shaping they way customer were to approach the newly de-regulated markets. Moving onto the supplier side in 1993 with Northern Electric and Gas and subsequently npower, David has taken the lead on a number of strategic roles including the transformation of the large end supply business from a market dominated by fixed price fixed term, to the brave new world of flexible contracts. As the Head of Advanced Sales David has responsibility for all customers taking risk management contracts from npower.
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Bernard Deryckere
MANAGING DIRECTOR
ALPRO SOYA |
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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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Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones
PROFESSOR AGRICULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF WALES |
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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
DIRECTOR, CLIMATE NEUTRAL DEPARTMENT
FIRST CLIMATE |
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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
CEO
MORPHY RICHARDS |
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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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Ian Hall
CEO
CARBON ACTION PARTNERSHIP (CAPP) |
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After graduating in Economics and post-graduate research Ian joined Unilever in the mid Sixties, working on leading Van den Berghs brands, specialising in NDP. Since then Ian has gained in-depth experience of consumer marketing with line management experience in product development, marketing and commercial management, as well as a successful track record in advertising, public relations & issue management consultancy.
While this work has covered a wide range of different business sectors and product fields, Ian is most associated with the bottled water industry, where he has served as Highland Spring’s marketing director, and latterly commercial director. He then became the Spadel Group’s UK general manager and simultaneously general manager of Spadel’s export division.
Ian has always taken an active role in industry affairs, including the BSDA Executive Council, the UNESEM/EBWF Council, and for over ten years as chairman of the Natural Mineral Water Association and its Information Service.
He is currently chief executive of the Carbon Action Partnership (CAPP) having worked with NSF & Zenith International to develop a global industry carbon measurement and labelling scheme for the beverage industry.
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Richard Heathcote
SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
SCOTTISH & NEWCASTLE (BULMERS) |
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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
READER IN WATER MANAGEMENT
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
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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
HEAD OF MARKET DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABILITY
BSI BRITISH STANDARDS |
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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
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION GENERAL MANAGER, FONTERRA MILK SUPPLY
FONTERRA |
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John Hutchings is the Sustainable Production General Manager, Fonterra Milk Supply, Fonterra. John worked previously to this as an advisor on environmental, sustainable development and local government 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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Stephen Johnson
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, SCIENTIFIC ADVISERS MANAGER
BOOTS UK LTD |
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Stephen works as part of a broad strategic team that manager’s Boots corporate social responsibility strategy. As part of this strategy and working with the Carbon Trust Boots were one of the pioneers to trial the Carbon labelling scheme with its Botanics Shampoo and conditioner.
Stephen graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1994 after studying applied chemistry; he joined Boots that year responsible for product quality. Over the past 14 years at Boots Stephen has had several roles covering areas of product quality, design and safety.
Stephen is chair of Boots Chemical Working Group that provides a forward, authoritative view on the use of chemicals in Boots brand products. Stephen has also chaired the British Retail Consortium Product Stewardship Group and Eurocommerce Chemical Working Group that provide retailers and wholesalers input into the EU chemicals strategy.
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Richard Kellett
HEAD OF SOLUTIONS & TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
SAS, UK |
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Richard Kellett is the Head of Solutions & Technology strategy and marketing for SAS in the UK. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, and is responsible for the product lifecycle management of the core SAS solutions and technology spanning all industry verticals.
Kellett has worked for a variety of companies, both client and supplier side including IBM, Sybase and Software AG, with a common theme of extracting business value from the masses of data available to all organisations across their ecosystems.
After years of talking about leveraging operational systems, Kellett believes that companies are finally starting to do it and that fact based decision making will be the difference between success and failure for today’s businesses. Nowhere does this hold truer than in driving sustainable business practices that optimise the triple bottom line – people, profit and planet.
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Colin Macleod
PROJECT MANAGER & TEAM LEADER OF THE FOOD CHAIN PROGRAMME
DEFRA |
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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
MANAGING DIRECTOR
DIPETANE INTERNATIONAL LTD. |
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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
CLIMATE CHANGE MANAGER
MARKS AND SPENCER |
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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
HEAD OF SEAFOOD SUSTAINABILITY
FOODVEST GROUP, (YOUNG’S SEAFOODS) |
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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
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
FIJI WATER |
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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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Sarah Roberts
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND CARBON FOOTPRINT MANAGER
ARUP |
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Sarah is a corporate responsibility expert who assists companies to improve their environmental and social performance in a way that delivers business and societal value. Sarah has advised companies in sectors ranging from food and drink to oil and gas and has covered issues ranging from child labour in supply chains to resource management. As well as assignments with leading multinationals, Sarah has worked with SMEs to find effective ways of managing their sustainability impacts appropriate for their market situation.
Sarah is currently leading Arup’s work on product carbon footprinting and has an in-depth knowledge of emerging standards and trends in this area. Sarah was appointed by the Carbon Trust to lead the development of key aspects of the standards and guidance underpinning their carbon reduction label and has been leading the consultation on the reduction framework and communications guidance.
Sarah has a Chemistry degree from the University of Manchester, a MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College and an MBA from the University of Bath.
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Paul Rowsome
GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER
CARREFOUR |
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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
GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR
IMPERIAL TOBACCO |
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Tom Schalenbourg will be speaking at the Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit 2008.
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Chris Shearlock
ENVIRONMENT MANAGER
THE CO-OPERATIVE GROUP |
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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
AGRICULTURE MANAGER
WAITROSE |
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Duncan Sinclair joined Waitrose in January 2007 as Agriculture Manager covering the the Meat, Poultry Fish and Dairy sectors. He works closely with the Waitrose supply chain across the wide range of livestock producer groups that has been established over the last 20 years and has responsibility for their future development. Prior to joining Waitrose he had spent 17 years at the Meat and Livestock Commission where he was latterly Economics Manager for Beef and Lamb. In 2005, he successfully completed the Leadership Course run by the Institute of Agricultural Management.
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Paul Smith
CARBON FOOTPRINTING AND LABELLING PROJECT LEADER
LRQA |
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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
UK ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER
MCDONALD’S |
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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
HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT
CADBURY SCHWEPPES |
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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
SENIOR ANALYST, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
NEW ZEALAND |
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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
DIRECTOR
WEIR TOTAL SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY |
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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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Rolien C. Wiersinga
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE,
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS |
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Ms Wiersinga has a vigorous interest in creating possibilities for sustainable supply chains, particularly in the agricultural and energy sector. Taking care of the increasing global energy demand by sustainable use of natural resources and without detrimental impact on the climate and food security is of importance to her. Ms. Wiersinga enjoys working in a team, sharing and discussing unpredictable ideas. She is known as an enthusiastic, initiative-taking, creative and positively thinking person.
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John Wild
CSR DIRECTOR
MORPHY RICHARDS |
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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
Bill Bartlett, Corporate Affairs Director, McCain Foods
Jonathon Bayne, Head of Technical Services, Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs, Musgrave Retail Partners Ltd (Budgens/Londis)
Paul Smith, Carbon Footprinting and Labelling Project Leader, LRQA
Sarah Roberts, Corporate Responsibility and Carbon Footprint Manager, ARUP
Benjamin Caspar, Head of EU Ecolabel, DG Environment, European Commission
Dave Challis, Sustainability Manager, Europe, Kimberly Clark
Bernard Deryckere, Managing Director, Alpro Soya
Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones, Professor Agriculture, University of Wales
Phil Green, CEO, Morphy Richards
Katherine Hunter, Head of Market Development, Sustainability, BSI
Richard Heathcote, Sustainability Development Manager, Scottish & Newcastle (Bulmers)
Stephen Johnson, Sustainable Development Manager, Scientific Advisers Manager, Boots UK Ltd
Colin Macleod, Project Manager & Team Leader of the Food Chain Programme, Defra
Carmel McQuaid, Climate Change Manager, Marks and Spencer
Mike Mitchell, Head of Seafood Sustainability, FoodVest Group, (Young’s Seafoods)
Paul Rowsome, Group Environmental Affairs Manager, Carrefour
Tom Schalenbourg, Group Environmental Advisor, Imperial Tobacco
Chris Shearlock, Environment Manager, The Co-operative Group
Duncan Sinclair, Agriculture Manager, Waitrose
Marie-Louise Ter Beek, Environmental Manager, McDonald’s
Dr. Gus Atri, Environmental Affairs Controller, Northern Foods
Ian Walsh, Head of Environment, Cadbury Schweppes
John Wild, CSR Director, Morphy Richards
Edwin Aalders, Director, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
Dr. Tim Hess, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University
Rolien C. Wiersinga, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Henrik Ahlgren, Director, Billerud AB
Stephen Weir, Director, Weir Total Supply Chain Sustainability
Richard Kellett, Head of Solutions & Technology Strategy, SAS, UK
Ian Hall, CEO, Carbon Action Partnership (CAPP)
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