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Food/Beverages:
- Agronomist
- Director of Agronomical Development
- Agricultural Researcher
- Head of Quality & Sustainability
Heavy Industry and Mining:
- Global head of HSE
- Environmental Director
Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals:
- Head of Global Citizenship
- Director Environment
- Safety
- Security
Chemicals Companies:
- Sustainability Center Director
- Head of Security, Safety, Environment
- Head of CSR
- Communications Director
- Head of Corporate Affairs
- Climate Change
- Environmental Risk Manager
- Technology Directors
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- National Government Organisations
- Water engineering and technology firms
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- Bio fuels manufacturers
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We are pleased to announce our speakers for Corporate Water Scarcity Risk Management.
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Tom Berry
Head of Sustainability, Europe
Kimberly Clark |
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Tom has been providing advice to companies on strategy and sustainability for the past 10 years.
He now drives sustainability in Europe as part of the Kimberly Clark Global Sustainability team. He works with the business and brands to identify where sustainability can provide competitive advantage, and helps to ensure the company is taking the right steps to prosper in a resource constrained world. This can be as simple as making the business case for better packaging, or as complicated as identifying how the company and brands can best support more sustainable global water use.
Before Kimberly Clark, Tom was Sustainability Manager at Innocent, helping them to meet their mission to ‘make food good – delicious, healthy and sustainable’. And prior to joining the corporate world, he worked at Forum for the Future (in the UK) and The Institute for Sustainable Futures (in Australia) – both sustainable development charities that providing strategic advice on sustainable development in business. He led Forums’ advisory work with the retail sector, working with companies such as PepsiCo, John Lewis and Unilever. He co-authored ‘Retail Futures: scenarios for retail and sustainable development’ developed with Tesco and Unilever to inform long-term strategy and risk management.
Before seeing the light (and converting to sustainability) Tom also spent 3 years as a business strategy consultant at Gemini Consulting – a management consultancy based in London.
He has a first class BA in Geography from Cambridge University.
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Robert Collins
Programme Manager, Water And Agriculture
European Environment Agency (EEA) |
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Robert Collins is a project manager in the Water group at the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark where his work focuses on the pressures impacting upon both the quantity and quality of freshwater across Europe. This includes associated policy and legislation and measures with which to achieve a more sustainable management of Europe’s water resources. He has previously held senior scientist roles at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the U.K.
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Anthony Cox
Environment Directorate
OECD |
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Anthony Cox will be speaking at the conference.
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Robin Farrington
Water Policy Advisor, Freshwater Programme
WWF |
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Robin Farrington will be speaking at the conference.
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Ashley Fleming
Sustainability Manager Europe, Global Supply
Diageo |
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Ashley studied at Strathclyde University Business School and has a BA (hons) and Masters of Research (Risk and Reliability) from the Management Science department. Ashley joined Diageo in 2005 and has had a focus on Governance during her time with the company . Initially Ashley was a site risk manager in Diageo's consolidation warehouse in Hurlford, Scotland , then spent six months as the risk manager for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore. She has also been a production site team leader and was briefly the risk manager for the International Beer Region and spent some time on several African Sites. Ashley started her current role as Europe Supply Sustainability Manager last year and support s over 50 sites across Scotland, Ireland and Italy in achieving their environmental sustainability targets. Ashley is based at Diageo's Technical Centre Europe in Menstrie, Scotland.
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Jim Hanna
Director Of Environmental Affairs
Starbucks Coffee Company |
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Jim Hanna joined Starbucks Coffee Company in November 2005, lending his expertise to the company’s initiatives to minimize its environmental footprint through green building, energy conservation, international procurement, waste minimization and collaboration with partner corporations and NGOs. Prior to Starbucks, he served as Director of Environmental Affairs for Xanterra Parks & Resorts at Yellowstone National Park. In the position, Jim oversaw Xanterra’s many progressive environmental initiatives in its operations as the primary concessionaire in the park, including an ISO 14001-certified Environmental Management System. Before escaping to Yellowstone, he worked as Director of Operations for Teris Environmental in Los Angeles, managing the company’s seven regional offices in North America. A native of Olympia, Washington, Jim earned a BS in Environmental Sciences from Washington State University and is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED-accredited professional.
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Sebastien Humbert
Scientific Director
Quantis |
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Sebastien has a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His academic research focused on regionalization of life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), the consideration of supply chains in LCA, as well as the development of characterization factors for water footprinting, for impacts on human health from air pollutants and on ecosystems caused by water use.
He taught introduction to environmental engineering to incoming students at the University of California, Berkeley for several years. He gives regularly classes to upper level education or for internal training in companies on how to perform, interpret and use LCAs. He is regularly co-chairing sessions related to LCA in scientific conferences.
He is co-author of several scientific papers1 and is a reviewer for International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Science of the Total Environment, and Environmental Science and Technology.
He is the convener of the ISO working group writing standard for water footprint of products, companies and communities. Within the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative he is the scientific manager of the task force on human health impacts caused by particles and of the sub-task force reviewing the different methods addressing water in LCA. He is involved in the development of Ecoinvent as Subject Editor for the different LCIA methods as well as member of the Indicators Monitoring Committee.
While working for two years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, in Industrial Ecology & Life Cycle Systems Lab from Prof Jolliet, he performed and managed several LCAs as well as participating to the development of the LCIA method IMPACT 2002+2. He is now responsible for the development of its updated version, IMPACT 2010+, considering regionalization as well as impacts caused by water use. He has eight years of experience in LCA.
He is co-founder of the company Quantis (formerly Ecointesys-life cycle systems) and Praxis Energia SA.
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Andrew Jenkins
Sustainable Development Manager – Products
Alliance Boots |
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After graduating in Environmental Science in 1977, Andrew worked in product and packaging design management and development for several major manufacturing and retailing organisations including the Storehouse Group.
He joined The Boots UK Ltd. 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 innovative holistic sustainable product design & development 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.
Developing a methodology for identifying the impact of products across the range of sustainability indicators is a major focus of his current work. Recent achievements include pioneering studies on product carbon footprinting with the Carbon Trust, involvement with the Green Alliance “Designing Out Waste” project, and a Major Commendation in the 2007 Business Commitment to the Environment Awards
He is also responsible for 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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Alan Jenkins
Director, Water Programme
Centre For Ecology and Hydrology |
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Alan Jenkins is the Water Science Director at the NERC Centre at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and an Honorary Professor in hydrochemical modelling in the Department of Geography, University College London. His background is in water quality modelling with particular focus on the impact of diffuse pollutants on headwater streams. He is the chair of the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology and recently completed a term of office on the Bureau of the UNESCO International Hydrology Programme.
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Willie K. Johnson
Associate Director – Global Product Supply Sustainability
Procter & Gamble |
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Willie is from New Orleans, LA and holds a BS Mechanical Engineering from Tuskegee University. He has been employed at the Procter & Gamble Company since 1986. Since then, he has held a variety of engineering, operations and strategic planning assignments. In his assignments he worked in several business areas and in many different locations globally.
Willie is currently P&G’s Global Product Supply Engineering Sustainability Leader. He is responsible for accelerating and enabling the delivery of key elements of P&G's PS Sustainability strategy.
Most recently, Willie was the Family Care Business Unit Engineering Associate Director. In that organization, Willie held several roles including Charmin Technical Organization Leader, New Capacity Leader, and Process Technology Owner. He was responsible for leading new site projects, developing and launching new products, and development new technologies. He has managed a portfolio of projects that exceeds $600 million dollars.
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Ronan Le Fanic
Corporate Hydrogeologist
Nestlé Waters |
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Ronan Le Fanic is in charge of the Water Resources activities at Nestlé Waters Head-Office. He works to continuously ensure that water sources used in Nestlé Waters operations are managed for sustainability. This covers the fields of water quantity, water quality, regulatory compliance, water security respecting the local communities and the environment.
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Sylvain Lhôte
EU and Sustainability Affairs Director
Borealis group |
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Sylvain Lhôte leads Borealis’ EU and Sustainability Affairs management and drives the company’s corporate citizenship strategy with its Water for the World programme.
Before joining Borealis, Sylvain Lhôte directed the European public affairs and environment practices of Fleishman-Hillard Europe, worked in national and European parliamentary cabinets and as adviser for the President of the Environment Protection Agency (ADEME) in France.
He studied political sciences, international law and business administration in Strasbourg and Paris and is post-graduated in European administration from the College of Europe in Bruges.
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Robert Lillywhite
Research Scientist, Warwick University & Lead On Water Footprint Project, DEFRA
Warwick HRI (DEFRA Project) |
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Robert Lillywhite will be speaking at the conference.
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Yves Loerincik
CEO
Quantis |
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Yves Loerincik has been the Executive Director of Quantis (formerly Ecointesys – Life Cycle Systems),
Switzerland, since its creation in 2005.
Dr. Loerincik completed his Ph.D. at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 20061. While completing his Ph.D., he worked part-time with the Swiss Bureau of Research on Recycling and Sustainability and on project for France Telecom, using Input-Output and hybrid Life Cycle Assessment to assess the environmental impact of infrastructure and e-services. During his time at EPFL he managed the organization of the 11th SETAC Case Studies Symposium, was in the scientific board of the EnviroInfo 2005 conference and organized a workshop at the World Summit on the Information Society in 2003 in Geneva. In addition, he is the coordinator of the scientific committee of the Swiss Discussion Forum on LCA, organizing three events every year. He has also participated in working groups under the World Resource’s Institute’s Greenhouse Gas initiative and has attended ISO meetings regarding standardization of LCA and carbon footprint. Since 2006 he is the CEO of the company.
Quantis (formerly Ecointesys – Life Cycle Systems), managing a team of 20 people working on Life Cycle Assessment and carbon footprint projects. He managed many Life Cycle Assessment studies and research projects during the time he spent at the Swiss Institute of Technology and since the creation of the company Quantis.
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Marty Matlock
Area Director University of Arkansas
The Sustainability Consortium |
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Dr. Marty Matlock is a professor of ecological engineering and director of Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability at the University of Arkansas. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist with the Ecological Society of America, and a Registered Professional Engineer (Texas). Matlock's research area is design and management of ecosystem services, with a focus on water resources. He serves as an Environmental Protection Commissioner for the Cherokee Nation, is a technical advisor on five international corporate sustainability committees, and is the chair of the Technical Committee for the ANSI SCS001 Standard for Sustainable Agriculture.
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Lise Melvin
Executive Director
Better Cotton Initiative |
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Lise Melvin will be speaking at the conference.
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Shirley Morgan-Knott
Sustainability and SRI Analyst
UBS Limited |
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Shirley Morgan-Knott will be speaking at the conference.
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Laila Petrie
Supplier Exchange Manager
Marks & Spencer |
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Laila is Supplier Exchange Manager at Marks & Spencer, a fashion, food and home wares retailer with more than 600 stores operating in the UK and 30 countries worldwide.
Laila works within the Sustainability department, and is responsible for environmental policy and communications across the M&S supply chain.
Laila specialises in creating assessment tools that can be used to benchmark supplier practices, whilst building capacity within the supply chain. Recently, Laila has spearheaded an innovative method of data collection and risk assessment for wood sourcing, in collaboration with environmental NGO Rainforest Alliance.
Laila also runs the M&S ‘Supplier Exchange’ website, a resource available exclusively to M&S supplier organisations. The site has 1000 members and provides a hub for all communications. It provides in-depth analysis on environmental topics, policy guidelines, and discussion forums.
Laila is responsible for supplier events throughout the year, including annual ethical and environmental conferences with 300+ suppliers. She manages several supplier working groups, producing materials to further understanding of environmental issues across the supply chain.
Laila has a BA in Philosophy from UCL, and an MA in Global Ethics from Kings College.
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Heather Rippman
Head of Considered Water Programme
Nike |
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Heather Rippman will be speaking at the conference.
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Joe Rozza
Global Water Resource Sustainability Manager
The Coca-Cola Company |
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Joe Rozza will be speaking at the conference.
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Christine Schneider
Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA |
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Christine Schneider is a senior manager in Henkel's CSR/Sustainability Management team. She holds a diploma in Environmental Technologies from theTechnical University Berlin and is an expert in wastewater treatment and purifying technologies. Since 1995 she has been involved in a variety of environmental management and sustainability projects. She started her career in the aluminium industry, followed by six years as an environmental Lead Auditor to ISO 14001 and environmental verifier according to EMAS at KPMG.
At Henkel Christine has made significant contributions to developing the company's sustainability agenda and reporting. Now she is responsible for CSR ratings, rankings & enquiries and represents her company within the German Network of the Global Compact. Additionally she participates in the workstream of sustainable consumption at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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Dave Shenton
National Energy Manager
Lafarge Cement |
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Dave has been with Lafarge Cement UK for over 20 years, starting as a mechanical apprentice at Cauldon Works in Staffordshire. Since then, Dave has taken a number of plant and central roles focused on the environment and Health and Safety. In January 2008, Dave was appointed as National Environment Manager for Lafarge Cement in the UK. Following his appointment Dave has been seconded to the British Cement Association (BCA) to look at industry-wide issues and represented UK organisations at European environmental cement industry standards meetings. Supporting Lafarge on a global basis conducting auditing and training of Environment manager in the EU and Africa.
In this role, Dave have also played a major part in supporting Lafarge Cement UK in becoming a leading environmental company – not just in the cement sector, but also across all industry. This was recognised with Lafarge Cement’s Award for Excellence, which was presented to us by Former Vice President Mr. Al Gore on behalf of Business in the Community. In 2007, Lafarge’s open commitment in public reporting was recognised with the large enterprise award for EMAS (eco management audit scheme) in the EU. And in July 2008 the Environment Agency chief executive, Dr Paul Leinster awarded Lafarge with two prestigious national awards from the public body responsible for the environment, the Environment Agency, for its commitment to save and recycle water at its Cauldon Works in the Staffordshire Moorlands which Dave played a major part in achieving this.
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Ola Svending
Manager, Environmental Affairs
Stora Enso |
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Ola has worked in Stora Enso since 1997, mainly with LCA related issues. He holds a MSc in Environmental Engineering and a Lic Eng in Environmental Systems Analysis.
Today Ola is active in:
* Various industry organizations, including CEPI , ACE (e.g. in the SCP Food Round Table) and EUROPEN
* board member of Returkartong (managing carton recycling in Sweden)
* steering group member of Swedish Miljöpack (helping companies comply with environmental packaging requirements)
, while also managing daily Environmental Affairs issues within Stora Enso Packaging.
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John Temple
R&D Sustainability Director
Unilever |
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John Temple is the R&D Sustainability Director for Unilever and is involved in their measurement of greenhouse gases, water, waste and sustainable sourcing. A chemist by training, John has worked for Unilever for 17 years in roles spanning "blue-sky" science to final factory implementation. In the last two years he has been involved in the creation of company-wide environment measurement systems with a particular focus on water.
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Andy Turner
Water Resources Policy Manager
Environment Agency |
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Andy Turner will be speaking at the conference.
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Peter von Lany
Technical Lead Strategic Water Management Directorate
Halcrow |
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Peter is Technical Lead in the Strategic Water Management Directorate in Halcrow. He is an expert in strategic planning to deal with risk and uncertainty, including the implications of climate change. Peter has led and advised multidisciplinary project teams in the water sector. He has wide international experience and is a visiting lecturer at the universities of Oxford and Plymouth.
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Andy Wales
Head of Sustainable Development
SABMiller |
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Andy Wales is Group Head of Sustainable Development for SABMiller plc, one of the world’s largest brewers. In this capacity he leads the group's approach to a diverse range of environmental and social issues including climate change, water management, enterprise development, human rights, HIV/Aids and corporate social investment.
Previously Andy held Corporate Responsibility Director roles at the environmental services group Severn Trent, and textiles firm Interface, Inc.
He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, a masters degree in Sustainable Development Strategy from Middlesex University and a BA in English and International Development from Sussex University.
He is Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and of Forum for the Future. His favourite beers include Peroni, Royal Challenge (India) and Miller Chill.
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Ian Walsh
Global Head of Environment
Cadbury |
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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 and asked to lead the Purple Goes Green sustainability programme.
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Matthew Wenban-Smith
Co-Secretary
Alliance For Water Stewardship |
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Matthew Wenban-Smith has worked for the last 15 years on the development and use of social and environmental standards as sustainability tools. He led the establishment of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) accreditation programme in 1994 and was appointed the first Head of the FSC Policy and Standards Unit in 2001. In 2006 he founded OneWorldStandards Ltd, providing technical and strategic advice to a wide range of standards, certification and labelling programs including the Rainforest Alliance, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and the Carbon Trust. He has been a Director of the Water Stewardship Initiative (WSI) Pty with primary responsibility for standards development since 2008. He has been closely involved in the design and development of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) since its inception, and became Co-Secretary of the Alliance last year.
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Joe Rozza
Global Water Resource Sustainability Manager
The Coca-Cola Company
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Heather Rippman
Head of Considered Water Programme
Nike
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Laila Petrie
Supplier Exchange Manager
Marks & Spencer
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Ashley Fleming
Sustainability Manager Europe, Global Supply
Diageo
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Andy Wales
Head of Sustainable Development
SABMiller
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Willie K. Johnson
Associate Director – Global Product Supply Sustainability
Procter & Gamble
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John Temple
R&D Sustainability Director
Unilever
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Sylvain Lhôte
EU and Sustainability Affairs Director
Borealis group
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Dave Shenton
National Energy Manager
Lafarge Cement
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Ian Walsh
Global Head of Environment
Cadbury
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Tom Berry
Head of Sustainability, Europe
Kimberly Clark
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Andy Turner
Water Resources Policy Manager
Environment Agency
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Robin Farrington
Water Policy Advisor, Freshwater Programme
WWF
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Marty Matlock
Area Director University of Arkansas
The Sustainability Consortium
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Anthony Cox
Environment Directorate
OECD
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Lise Melvin
Executive Director
Better Cotton Initiative
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Ola Svending
Manager, Environmental Affairs
Stora Enso
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Jim Hanna
Director Of Environmental Affairs
Starbucks Coffee Company
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Robert Collins
Programme Manager, Water And Agriculture
European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Matthew Wenban-Smith
Co-Secretary
Alliance For Water Stewardship
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Alan Jenkins
Director, Water Programme
Centre For Ecology and Hydrology
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Robert Lillywhite
Research Scientist, Warwick University & Lead On Water Footprint Project, DEFRA
Warwick HRI (DEFRA Project)
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Andrew Jenkins
Sustainable Development Manager – Products
Alliance Boots
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Christine Schneider
Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
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Ronan Le Fanic
Corporate Hydrogeologist
Nestlé Waters
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Sebastien Humbert
Scientific Director
Quantis
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Yves Loerincik
CEO
Quantis
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Shirley Morgan-Knott
Sustainability and SRI Analyst
UBS Limited
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Peter von Lany
Technical Lead Strategic Water Management Directorate
Halcrow
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