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Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Competitiveness, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Stephen Timms was appointed Minister for Competitiveness in June 2007 at the newly formed Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform. Prior to this he served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, following his role as Minister for Pensions Reform in the Department for Work and Pensions. Other previous Ministerial positions include Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Minister for e-Commerce and Competitiveness and Minister of State for Energy, e-Commerce and Postal Services in the Department for Trade and Industry; Minister of State for School Standards; and Minister of State and Parliamentary Under Secretary in the then Department for Social Security.

Stephen entered Parliament in 1994 as MP for Newham North East, and has been MP for East Ham since 1997. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Andrew Smith from May 1997 to March 1998, and to Mo Mowlam from March to July 1998.

Stephen was born in 1955. He was educated at Farnborough Grammar School and read mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has lived in the East London Borough of Newham since 1979 and married Hui-Leng in July 1986. Before entering Parliament, Stephen worked in the telecommunications industry for 15 years, first for Logica and then for Ovum. He was elected to Newham Council in 1984 and served as Leader of the Council from 1990 to 1994.

Rowland Hill, Sustainable Development Manager, Marks & Spencer

Rowland joined Marks & Spencer as a store management trainee in 1982. Until the end of 1991, he held a series of commercial management positions in stores across the country, often specialising in the project management of store development programmes.

All that changed in 1992 when he joined a Head Office based project to improve the efficiencies of supply chain packaging and logistics. This lead to a major career change, becoming Environmental Affairs Manager at the end of 1997 and subsequently Sustainable Development/ Corporate Social Responsibility manager in 2000. At the same time Rowland helped to build Marks & Spencer's capabilities in these areas.

Over the few years he has worked with a small team to develop a stakeholder informed Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy for Marks & Spencer supported by a clear system of governance and risk management.

Rowland is Chair of the British Retail Consortiums’ (BRC) Environmental Policy Advisory and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 

Richard Ellis, Group Head Of Corporate Social Responsibility, Alliance Boots

Richard has spent the past 25 years working for a range of Companies on all aspects of the CSR agenda.

The early part of his career was spent in Banking before becoming involved in CSR after the inner city riots of the early 1980s.  After this involvement he held CSR related positions at HSBC, TSB, British Aerospace and ran his own CSR consultancy for five years.

In 2003 he joined Boots and became responsible for all the company’s CSR activities. Following the merger between Boots and Alliance UniChem and the subsequent private equity buy out he was appointed into his current role.

Dr Christopher Mark Brown, Head of Ethical and Sustainable Sourcing, ASDA Stores Ltd

Graduated from University of Wales. Held appointments with UK Government and Meat and Livestock Commission, Marks and Spencer plc. Joined ASDA as Agricultural Development Manager. Appointed to present role in 2006. Member of the Institute of Grocery Distribution Carbon Footprinting Group, DEFRA Dairy Roadmap Taskforce. Leading ASDA supply strategy on sustainability issues especially greenhouse gas and supply chain impacts.

Richard Barrington, Head of Public Policy, Sun Microsystems UK

Richard Barrington is head of Public Policy for Sun UK and Ireland. He represents Sun on the UK's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change; the DTI's Information Age Partnership; is a board member of PITCOM, the UK Parliamentary IT Committee and has just been asked to join the UK Government's 'Business Task force on Sustainable Consumption and Production'. Richard has also recently accepted a position on the CBI Environmental Affairs Committee and will be active in setting the organisations strategy on environmental and sustainability issues. He is also an active alumni of the Business and the Environment programme and is an independent trustee of eduserv.

Prior to joining Sun, Richard spend three years seconded to the Office of the E-Envoy, part of the Cabinet Office, as it's director for industry.

Richard has substantial media experience and has recently provided comment on the UK Government's budget announcement with regard to sustainable computing. Richard has also spoken recently at the Westminster eForum as well as Sun Microsystems' Forum for the Future event and SunLIVE 06.

Richard's area of expertise is Sun's sustainable computing strategy and the political issues surrounding this topic.

Jat Sahota, Head Of Corporate Responsibility & Public Affairs, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd

Jat Sahota is the Head of Corporate Responsibility for Sainsburys Supermarkets, the UK’s no.2 food retailer. Sainsburys has 5 corporate responsibility principles that guide and govern every aspect of how the Sainsburys business operates. These principles are ' Best for Food and Health', 'Sourcing with Integrity', 'Respect for our Environment', 'Making a Positive Difference to our Community' and being ' A Great Place to Work'. Prior to joining Sainsburys Jat held senior marketing and commercial roles at Heinz UK and Safeway Plc.

Nick Monger-Godfrey, Head Of Corporate Social Responsibility, Waitrose and John Lewis

Nick is responsible for directing the development and implementation of the company's business strategy in three principle areas - environmental protection, ethical sourcing and trading, and community investment. He has worked with the Partnership for 11 years, firstly as a management consultant, then as a Partner, formally joining the business in 2002.  Nick holds a BSc in Geography and Geology and an MSc in Environmental Law. Before joining the Partnership Nick was a management consultant with Professional Services Firm Ernst & Young and before that Environmental Resources Management. Nick is also a Non Executive Director of Thames Valley Renewable Energy Association, a Non Executive and Founder Director of Sedex (Social Ethical Data Exchange), Director and Vice Chairman of Bracknell Forest Partnership, a member of Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, a Member of IGD Committee on Climate Change, a Member of BSI Standards Committee on Carbon Measurement and a Trustee of the John Lewis Foundation. In October 2007, Nick was named one of the Top 100 corporate communicators in the UK by Corporate Comms Magazine.

Trevor Dahl, Head Of CSR, Woolworths plc

As well as co-ordinating CSR within Woolworths, Trevor Dahl manages Woolworths Kids First, the registered charity for children in the UK that was set up alongside Woolworths plc in 1999. He is responsible to the trustees for the launch, day-to–day running and development of the charity.

During 2004, the charity launched Playground Partnerships, a curriculum-based programme that enables UK primary and special school pupils to apply for grants to improve their playground facilities; over £1.8 million has been awarded to date.

As a result, Woolworths was awarded the Retail Week Corporate Responsibility Award and the Hollis Sponsorship Award for Education Sponsorship.  In addition, Woolworths are also Business in the Community ‘Big Tick Award’ holders.

 

Ben Bengougam, Group Director Of Human Resources and Chairman Of CSR Committee, DSG International plc

Ben Bengougam was appointed in April 2006 to the position of Group Director of Human Resources at DSGi plc. His responsibilities include the development and execution of the Group’s people strategies through the leadership of a talented, diverse and increasingly international multi-branded team of HR business partners. The most critically important part of his role is the management of talent development for the Group to enable its growth.

Previously, Ben had spent 11 years with Forte International Hotels in various operational and human resource management roles.

He then held successive positions as HR Director at Utell International, Executive Vice President HR at Resolutions Inc based in Phoenix Arizona and Executive VP HR at Pegasus Systems Inc based in Dallas Texas.

Ben has worked around the world and lived in France, Italy, North Africa, the UK and the US.

He is a BSC engineering science graduate and subsequently obtained a Master's Degree in Human Resources Development.

Bruce Dixon, Health, Safety And Environment Manager, Lloydspharmacy

Bruce Dixon is Health, Safety & Environment Manager with Lloydspharmacy.  He joined Lloydspharmacy in 2000 and has extensive experience of environmental management and CSR gained within retail, warehousing & distribution and public sector organisations.

 

 

 

Jan Buckingham, Director Of Global Values, The Body Shop

Qualifications

BSc in Biological Science (ecology), University of East Anglia
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries
Member of the Institute of Directors

1998 – 2005

Allied Domecq PLC - Group Director Social and Environment Policy

The key tasks of Jan’s latest position in Allied Domecq were: -  

Current Position: The Body Shop International - Director of Global Values

Paul Monaghan, Head Of Ethics And Sustainable Development, Co-operative Group

The Co-operative Group, Co-operative Bank and Co-operative Insurance (CIS) have recently completed a 'merger' of their ethical and environmental functions, and in 2006 Paul was appointed as the Head of Ethics. He leads a team of sixteen and has responsibility for ecological sustainability, ethical finance, sustainability reporting and sound sourcing (goods not for re-sale).

Paul joined The Co-operative Bank in 1994 and established the bank's Ecology Unit. Initiatives have included significant improvements in the organisation’s ecological impact, new banking products (such as a range of carbon-offset mortgages) and the development of safeguards to ensure that customer monies are not invested in companies or projects that conflict with the bank’s ecological mission statement. In 2002, the bank received a Queen’s Award for ‘Sustainable Development’.

Late in 1997, he established a Sustainability Reporting Team. The bank’s first Sustainability Report was commended as the best social and stakeholder report in both the UK and Europe. The bank’s reports have since gone on to win many other reporting awards, culminating in a ranking as world number one as part of the 2002 UNEP Global Reporters biennial benchmarking initiative.

In 2003, following the combination of CIS and The Co-operative Bank under Co-operative Financial Services was appointed Head of Sustainable Development. Key outputs included: production of CFS’ first Sustainability Report (June 2004, rated as world’s best by UNEP November 2004); development and implementation of a CFS Sustainable Procurement and Supplier Policy (January 2004); certification of entire business and products to ISO14001 (January 2005); development of a new Ethical Engagements Policy for CIS (June 2005) and a range of renewable energy projects (including the UK’s largest ever application of PV and micro-wind (2006).

Paul is an elected Council member of Accountability, and co-chair’s their Technical Committee, which recently produced the world’s first Sustainability Assurance standard, AA1000as. He recently co-chaired the SPI-Finance Reporting Committee, a project that has released (2003) GRI’s first sector supplement (social indicators for the financial services sector). He is also a member of WWF-UK’s Programme Committee, the Building Research Establishment’s Sustainability Board and a Director of Sustainability North West.

He is a supporter of Wigan Athletic; a largely unfashionable club who informed commentators (i.e., Wiganers) believe will soon emerge as one of the giants of World football.

Gene Cleckley, Internal Communications And Community Affairs Manager, QVC UK

Gene’s 18-year career encompasses PR, merchandising and marketing communications roles in both the US and UK.  In 2001, Gene became Internal Communication & Community Affairs Manager at QVC – the UK’s largest TV shopping channel. 

Since then, Gene and his cross-site team have successfully fostered a CSR strategy focused on QVC’s leadership role within the local community and supporting specific local-based charities.  QVC has been recognised for its role as a good corporate citizen over the years, including being shortlisted for Best Crime Prevention/Community Safety Scheme.

Gene has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia, where he majored in Foreign Affairs, and a Master of Science degree from Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management at New York's New School University.  He is also a recipient of a Wandsworth Business Award for Individual Contribution for QVC’s local charity efforts.

Gillian Lipton, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Monsoon Accessorize

Gillian has spent the past 15 years in the retail sector.  She has worked on numerous and varied projects with a number of retailers including Aquascutum, Wallis, and Habitat before becoming a brand manager at Etam.  During her spare time she volunteered for CSV (Community Service Volunteers) and this experience proved invaluable when becoming Marketing and Project Manager for Shelter Trading in 2002.  As well as managing the redesign and roll-out of a new shop concept, Gillian was also responsible for many third-party CSR initiatives. 

As a result of these activities, Gillian developed her knowledge of Corporate Responsibility and she has taken this interest back into the commercial arena in her current role as Corporate Responsibility and Charity Manager for Monsoon Accessorize.  Gillian is involved in all areas of CR including ethical trading, reducing the company’s carbon footprint, encouraging staff to ‘think green,’ ‘eco products’ and the Monsoon Accessorize Trust.

Dr Alan Knight OBE, Sustainable Development Commissioner, UK Government And Sustainable Development Director, Wyevale Garden Centres

Alan Knight has 15 years experience of understanding the impact and opportunities CSR and sustainable development provide to global retail.
He works with top level management and policy makers involved in the global retail and consumer products arena to help then develop the confidence, tools and inspiration to embed Sustainable Development within their product range and brand.  He is the founder of “Single Planet Living” Limited, a company that offers coaching and presentations on SD in retailing and commerce.

He is currently the Independent Sustainable Development Advisor to the Virgin Group, Wyevale Garden Centres, Fortnum and Mason and Furniture Village.  For almost 3 years he was Head of SD for SABMiller is the world’s second largest brewery. 

From 1990 to 2000 he served as Head of Sustainable Development at B&Q, the UK's market leader in home improvement and part of the Kingfisher Group.  Alan also works with Government.  He co-chaired the UK Government's Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption; he serves on the UK Sustainable Development Commission and was for 6 years chair of the Government's Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment (ACCPE).  He chaired DEFRA’s Food Industry Ethical Trading Champions Group and DTI’s Retail Innovation and Sustainability group. He sits on the technical advisory panel for Duchy Originals, is a Fellow of WWF UK and serves on the International board of the Forest Stewardship Council. He is former director of the Tropical Forest Trust.

He was awarded the OBE in June 1998 and in 2005 received a life long award from the US based Rainforest Alliance for his contribution to findings solutions to rainforest destruction caused by timber industry.

Paul Pritchard, Head Of Corporate Social Responsibility, Royal and SunAlliance

Dr Paul Pritchard heads corporate responsibility in the strategy function of Royal and SunAlliance Insurance plc. This involves accountability for environment, community and workplace issues including reporting and product development. He initially worked at the DTI followed by a range of roles in environmental consultancy before joining Royal & SunAlliance as an environmental specialist in 1997. Following a period working in the Group Corporate Centre on issues ranging from reporting to capital modelling he joined the UK business in 2006 to oversee issues including carbon neutrality. He is an environmental risk specialist who is a registered Principal Environmental Auditor, Chartered Environmentalist and a Chartered Chemist. His principal publications are:
Environmental Risk Management (2000) and Managing Environmental Risks and Liabilities, (1994)

Burak, Cakmak, Senior Manager, Social Responsibility, Gap Inc

Burak Cakmak joined Gap Inc. Social Responsibility department in July 2000 in San Francisco. He is responsible for managing company’s CSR efforts for Europe.  In the past, he has worked on training initiatives for internal auditors, internal and external CSR reporting efforts as well as driving and participating in initiatives that support the company’s ongoing commitment to ethical sourcing. More recently, he has focused on sustainable design and other environmental initiatives with an emphasis on integrating social responsibility into different business functions in Europe. He has been with the company over 7 years.

Burak received a Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations and his MBA with a concentration on International Business prior to joining Gap Inc.

Hilary Jones, Ethics Director, Lush

During Hilary’s 13 years with Lush Cosmetics she has helped lay the foundations of the company’s sound ethical policies. While a passionate environmental and animal protection campaigner in her spare time, Hilary’s full-time work at Lush involves her heading up initiatives to green Lush’s manufacturing base, ban animal testing from the cosmetics industry, and coordinating Lush’s in-house campaigns team.

Simon Constantine, Head Of Creative Buying, Lush

Simon Constantine officially started his career in perfumery at Lush in the autumn of 1991.   With his own background in art and design where he at one time saw his career path, Simon loves where he now finds himself.   It was a natural progression for a man who was literally brought up on fragrance and beauty products as the son of two of Lush’s co-founders, husband and wife team, Mark and Mo Constantine.    Simon still has a memory of sitting beneath his dad’s desk at the family home as his parents and colleagues created their offbeat fresh handmade cosmetics and luxury beauty potions.    That said, Simon is busy carving his own name with pride in the company!

Simon’s role at Lush is running the fragrance department where he, himself, now creates his own scents used in some of Lush’s many fresh handmade cosmetics, ranging from skin care, bath products and the many hair care shampoos and conditioners.    Often working alongside his dad, both Mr. Constantines happily admit to being extremely competitive and some of their most enjoyable moments are when Simon improves on some of his dad’s work.    “I love the challenge of creating new fragrances and being involved right at the heart of it.   Sadly, it seems to me that the industry seems lacklustre and a lot of the creativity is stifled by marketing campaigns.  It sounds arrogant since I am so new to it, but I think that potentially there is great scope for a “revolution” in perfume and the industry that drives it and Lush, with is policy of simpler production, quality of ingredients and innovation encourages this.  I feel I’m in the right place at the right time!”

Simon is also responsible for buying and sourcing the high quality ingredients and raw materials, which involves travel to all corners of the globe. 

Simon’s other hobbies include music, art and design.

Jenny Dawkins, Head Of Corporate Responsibility Research, Ipsos MORI

Jenny Dawkins is a Research Director and Head of Corporate Responsibility Research at Ipsos MORI.  Jenny has extensive experience in stakeholder opinion research on the topics of corporate responsibility and the environment, and is a regular speaker and writer on related subjects.  Jenny has worked with a wide range of corporate and not-for-profit clients, including Tesco, Marks & Spencer, the Co-operative Group, Vodafone, BAT, Business in the Community and Amnesty International.  Jenny has a background in both consumer and local government research and graduated from Durham University with a first class degree in English Literature.

John Blackwell, CEO, JBA

John Blackwell is one of the world’s foremost thought-leaders on effective sustainable business.  He’s the author of over 30 books and articles on management challenges such as corporate responsibility, effective workplaces, and the changing nature of work itself.

John is a visiting fellow at four universities including Carnegie Mellon and Durham, and a director of research at Henley Management College.

Professionally, John is Chief Executive of the management consultancy JBA and founded the not-for-profit lobby foundation MWM together with Noel Edmonds.

JBA have advised many retail firms on their sustainable workplace vision and practices, including; Allied Domecq, Home Retail Group, DSGi, M&S, P&G, Unilever, et al.

Elizabeth Shepherd, Partner, Retail Sector, Eversheds LLP

Elizabeth Shepherd is a partner in the regulatory group of Eversheds. She specialises in non-contentious environment, health and safety law, and advises on the full range of environmental issues facing retailers today, including waste issues, carbon reduction and sustainability. Elizabeth is also an expert in assessing and negotiating environmental risk in the context of business transactions.

Retail clients to whom Eversheds provide regulatory advice include Asda, Phones 4 U, Comet Group plc, Richer Sounds and QVC

Dr Sally Uren, Director, Business Program, Forum for the Future

Sally’s interest is in helpingthe business community realise the opportunity agenda presented by sustainable development. Sally is particularly interested in assisting the retail, construction; transport and financial services sector tackle sustainability. She is very keen to demonstrate the competitive advantages of leadership on this agenda for business.

Sally joined Forum's Business Programme in 2002. Since then she's been working with business partners across all sectors get to grips with sustainability, has overseen and contributed to a wide range of research projects - all designed to unlock the links between sustainable development and successful business – and has presented at both national and international conferences.

She has been appointed by HRH Prince of Wales as an advisor to Duchy Originals. She is also an independent advisor to The Carbon Neutral Company, acts as the independent chair for Land Rover’s carbon offset scheme and is a member of the Carbon Trust’s Technical Advisory Group, established to advise on carbon measurement and labelling. Sally is a judge on numerous sustainability awards, including the Network Rail and IGD foods industry awards. Sally co-authored Forum’s ground-breaking publication Leader Business, which sets out what Forum for the Future thinks constitutes best practice in embedding sustainability into business.

Prior to joining the Forum, Sally founded and directed the Sustainability Group at private consultancy Casella Stanger (now owned by Bureau Veritas).

Sally has a PhD in environmental science from Imperial College.  Sally also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the rainforests of Borneo.

Rob Holdway, Environmental Design Advisor (Eco Design), Envirowise

Rob Holdway trained and practiced as an industrial designer before moving into environmental management consultancy. He is co-founder and Director of Giraffe specialising in innovation management and sustainable product and packaging design.

Rob has a B.A. (Hons) Industrial Design, M.A. from Brunel University and spent 4 years as a Research Fellow (Dept. Industrial Design Engineering) at the Royal College of Art/Imperial College working on the Good Design Practice Programme with Cambridge University. As a designer Rob won 2 RSA SONY Design Awards and his work gained a DTI SMART Award for Innovation.

Rob has worked with over 250 companies on cleaner design, including advice on WEEE, RoHS, (Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances) EUP (Energy Using Products Directive) and Packaging eco-design. Between 2004 and 2007 Rob presented to over 4000 companies on eco-design. With a large number of corporate clients, Rob has demonstrated his change and innovation management techniques to manage the introduction of cleaner design thinking at a strategic and operational level.

Rob is one of eight advisors representing the UK Government (DTI/DEFRA) Envirowise programme advising British business on the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive and eco-packaging design. He is also a Technical Advisor to the DTI WRAP – Waste & Resources Action Programme.

Media: Rob is the Channel 4 eco-expert on the DUMPED programme. You can view his weekly bloggs at http://www.channel4.com/lifestyle/green/chat-win/rob-holdway-blog.html. Rob has written widely on sustainable-design and has appeared on BBC 10 O’Clock News, BBC Radio 4 (Costing the Earth, Shop Talk, You & Yours), BBC Radio 5 Live (Whittaker Show), BBC Radio 4 You and Yours, BBC News, BBC News 24, Sky News and Russian TV Channel One (150 Million viewers). Rob has also been quoted in The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Telegraph (Business) and TIME Magazine (European edition). He has also written 10 academic papers on design, innovation and the environment, Blueprint Magazine and The RSA Journal.  Rob has been a Fellow of the RSA www.rsa.org.uk for 14 years.

Terry Robins, Environmental Design Advisor (Structural Design), Envirowise

Terry is former head of packaging technology at Sainsbury’s – one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains. Terry specialises in packaging design advice with over 30 years experience and is also a world renowned expert on biodegradable materials. He recently chaired the committee that wrote the British Retail Consortium/Institute of Packaging (IoP) Technical Standard and currently chairs the Technical Advisory Committee that oversees the BRC/IoP Technical Standard. He recently retired from his position of Chief Operating Officer of Stanelco plc (which followed his assistance with the invention and development of a system of welding packaging using Radio Frequency power source).

Terry is currently working with Giraffe on a number of projects on packaging design projects and bio-degradables both in packaging and product design and is currently a Board Director of the Institute of Packaging.

James Dorrell, Environmental Design Advisor (Environmental Science Design), Envirowise

James has worked for 9 years within the business environmental sector, 5 years of which he specialised in the implementation of Producer Responsibility with large organisations. He graduated with an Environmental degree from the University of Sussex in 1997. Before joining Giraffe as a Senior Consultant he worked specifically with the retail sector and has an excellent understanding of recycling and packaging issues relating to this sector. He account managed blue chip clients worth over £40 million in client fees across a range of sectors, giving him a constructive view of the packaging and product supply chain. Since joining Giraffe James has completed successful projects for major blue chips and SMEs, pinpointing opportunities to reduce costs and carbon footprint in packaging and product design. He is currently working at senior level within Virgin Atlantic looking at resource efficiency and environmental performance. In addition, he is overseeing the introduction of a carbon efficient packaging plan at Toyota, working at director level. He recently completed a project with Early Learning Centre which pinpointed opportunities to improve resource efficiency, introduce product and packaging families and establish clear environmental credentials through the re-design of products and packaging.

Professor Jeremy Moon FRSA, Director International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School

Jeremy Moon is presently Professor of CSR and Director of ICCSR. His previous appointments include Hallsworth Visiting Professor, Department of Government University of Manchester (2000 - 2001); Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Western Australia.

He has also served as a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA and a By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University.  Jeremy is on the Editorial Board of the CSR and Environmental Management and the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and is chair of International Advisory Board, Institute of Citizenship & Globalisation, Deakin University. He has been a member of the judging panel of the Business in the Community Social Impact National Award.

Jeremy was identified as an ‘exceptional scholar’ and received the ‘Faculty Pioneers’ award in the European category of the Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2005 awards given by the US-based Aspen Institute.

His current research Interests include: Corporate Community Investment, Government and CSR; CSR in Europe; CSR and globalization; and theorising corporate citizenship.

Subhash Rustagi, Executive Vice President, Corporate Environment Health & Safety, ITC Limited

Subhash Rustagi, Executive Vice President, Corporate Environment Health & Safety, ITC Limited, is a Mechanical Engineer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering.

Mr. Rustagi joined ITC in 1983 after 11 years in Bhabha Atomic Research Center & approx. 3 years in Shriram Fertilizer & Chemicals plant at Kota.

From 1997 to 2000, he was seconded to British American Tobacco in the

United Kingdom, where he headed ‘Africa, Middle East, South & Central Asia engineering’, providing engineering support for projects & Manufacturing Strategy Development to all BAT manufacturing sites in the region.

Since his return from the UK in October 2000, he heads Corporate Environment, Occupational Health & Safety in ITC and is responsible for reporting and coordinating ‘Sustainability’ initiatives in the company.

Simon Drury Business Partnerships Director, Envirowise


Simon Drury is the Business Partnerships Director for the Envirowise Project. This is a role he has held since 2006. Simon is responsible to the development and delivery of the Envirowise Large Business engagement strategy. He project managers a number of projects with large businesses and is a spokesperson for the wider Envirowise Project.

Simon has specialist skills in all aspects of corporate environmental management, to include corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, resource efficiency, waste management, and environmental management systems.

Prior to this Simon was the UK Environmental Manager for the Center Parcs Ltd (a UK Sustainable tourism destination). A post he held for seven years. Within this role Simon is responsible for all aspects of the four UK village’s Environmental, Energy, sustainability and CSR strategies, including the company’s ISO14001 certification.

Simon went to college as a mature student and gained his BSc Honour from Leeds University in 1997, he is an Associate Member of IEMA, Founder Chair of the EMRA’s Promoting Sustainable Development Group, which works to drive forward the sustainable development and climate charge agenda with five counties. He is a member of the Regional Energy Group.

He sits on his regional CBI’s Environment Committee. Simon is committed to showing businesses that the environmental consideration makes good business sense.

Simon is married to Susan and has two teenage daughters, Abbie and Megan. In his spare time Simon is a keen naturalist, he enjoys sailing and fly-fishing, something’s, which he does not do as much as he would like.