Ø  Jan Kees Vis, Director Sustainable Agriculture, Unilever

Ø  Ian Bowles, Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Premier Foods

Ø  Rozanne Davis, Sustainable Agriculture and Ingredients, Innocent Drinks

Ø  Annette Hansen, Head of Sustainability, Danisco

Ø  Carlo Galli, Water Resources, Technical & Strategic Adviser, Nestle

Ø  Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry, WWF

Ø  Louise Nicholls, Head of Ethical Sourcing, Marks and Spencer

Ø  Mercedes Tallo, Director, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rainforest Alliance

Ø  Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder, Futerra

Ø  Paul Harrold, Operations Manager, Kelly’s of Cornwall

Ø  Dexter Galvin, Head of CDP Supply Chain, Carbon Disclosure Project

Ø  Martin Chilcott, CEO, 2Degrees

Ø  Barrie Bain, Director of Fertiliser Intelligence, Fertecon

Ø  Carmel Giblin, General Manager, Sedex

Ø  Nicolas Viart, Head of Sustainability, Bonsucro

Ø  Sarah Roberts, Executive Director, Ethical Tea Partnership

Ø  Abigail Bunker, Acting Head of Agriculture Policy, RSPB

Ø  Ruth Mathews, Executive Director, Water Footprint Network

Ø  Michael Gidney, Deputy Executive Director, Fairtrade Foundation

Ø  Han De Groot, Executive Director, UTZ Certified

Ø  John Scott-Kerr, Sustainability and Bio Energy, Bidwells

Ø  Lindsay Harris, Deputy Director for Food and Materials Security and Food Standards, Defra

 

Rozanne Davis, Sustainable Agriculture and Ingredients, Innocent Drinks 

Rozanne initially qualified as a chemical engineer, and after working in engineering for a few years, hung up her hard hat and safety shoes and returned to university to study horticulture. After managing the sourcing of fresh citrus for export from the Mpumalanga region of South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique, Rozanne moved across to the UK to manage melon and citrus procurement for Capespan. For the past 5 years Rozanne has worked for innocent drinks as Technical Manager for the fruit ingredients innocent sources for their drinks. Rozanne is responsible with the ingredients team for ensuring innocent ingredients for every bottle taste great, are risk managed, and are sourced in a sustainable way.

Annette Hansen, Head of Sustainability, Danisco/DuPont

Annette is the Director of Sustainability for the Danisco/DuPont Nutrition and Health business. She is leading the business’ sustainability efforts and responsible for enhancing sustainability into the business strategies, operations and culture, and promoting continual improvements in sustainability. She also serves as a business liaison and spokesperson for government, customers, external groups and industry organisations on issues concerning sustainability. Before the acquisition by DuPont in May 2011, she was also leading the development of Danisco’s sustainability report, which in 2010 resulted in an award winning report.

Carlo Galli, Water Resources, Technical and Strategic Advisor, Nestle

Carlo C.Galli is the Technical and Strategic Advisor on Water Resources at Nestlé Head Office in Vevey, Switzerland.

He is responsible for the adoption/improvement of sustainable water resources management practices in Nestle Direct Operations (460 factories) and  in the agriculture raw material supply chain, developing corporate strategy and projects aimed to minimize the threat on long term water availability, ensure good relationships with local stakeholders and deploy locally initiatives aligned with the Nestle “Creating Shared Value” framework. Main competences and skills are in water resources exploration, management and protection.

He is Chair of Working Group Water & Agriculture at  the “Sustainable Agriculture Initiative” (SAI) and Member of International Standard Development Committee (ISDC) within the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS).

Ruth Mathews, Executive Director, Water Footprint Network

Ruth Matthews is the Executive director of the Water Footprint Network, a non-profit organization committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and efficient water use through development of shared standards on water footprint accounting and guidelines for the reduction of water footprints and their impacts.  Prior to joining the Water Footprint Network, she was the Programme Manager for WWF in Vietnam where she was responsible for WWF’s conservation activities including species conservation, sustainable production, protected area management, freshwater conservation and climate change.  She also provided strategic leadership mentoring to the WWF’s Climate and Energy Team in Beijing, China.  In the USA, Ms. Mathews founded River Matters, an organization to provide services that support ecologically sustainable water management (ESWM). Prior to that she worked for The Nature Conservancy where she led the application of ESWM by working collaboratively with water managers, scientists, water users, and other conservationists to protect and restore river flows in a variety of settings.  Ms. Mathews holds a Masters of Science in Water Resource Management, has published articles in leading scientific journals and presented extensively on ecologically sustainable water management.

Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business & Industry, WWF

As Head of Business and Industry for 7 years, Dax manages WWF-UK’s business engagement strategy while identifying opportunities for converging business and environmental interests. Dax also works with colleagues across WWF’s network in its international endeavours with business and industry.

He has been heavily involved in providing guidance for corporate sustainability strategies within a number of key business sectors including energy, finance, food and beverages, ICT, retail, travel, and media.

Before joining WWF, Dax worked in the private sector for ten years as a consultant in public relations, ICT, travel and personal finance industries and at various companies including American Express.

Dax holds a Masters in Sustainable Development, which looked at the social and environmental impacts of world economic policies, disasters and development, participatory development, land management and NGO-business interactions.

Mercedes Talló, Director of Sustainable Value Chains, Rainforest Alliance

Mercedes leads the Sustainable Agriculture division’s market development programme worldwide working with companies and their supply chains to increase demand for sustainably produced goods. The Rainforest Alliance has seen a dramatic and sustained expansion in demand for certified goods in recent years; companies such as Kraft, Mars, Unilever, Tata Global Beverages, Chiquita, Dole, Nestle, McDonalds, Costa, Caribou and thousands of others currently source products from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms.

Mercedes has a wealth of experience in the food and retail sector, drawn from working for companies including ASDA/Wal-Mart and Diageo. An entrepreneur at heart, she also co-founded and managed Organic Food Brokers Ltd., a London based supplier of organic foods to UK retailers and wholesalers.

Mercedes has an MBA from the London Business School, an MSc in Food Science from the University of Reading in the UK and a Technical Engineering degree in Agriculture from the University of Barcelona.

Dexter Galvin, Head of CDP Supply Chain, Carbon Disclosure Project

Dexter joined CDP Supply Chain as an Account Manager for Europe in 2008 and was later appointed Director of CDP Supply Chain in EMEA and Asia. Dexter’s supply chain experience is extensive having worked in air-charter solutions for major automotive and aerospace manufacturers such as Toyota, Audi, Bosch and Honeywell. Dedicated to harmonising carbon calculation methodologies in the logistics industry, Dexter is a contributor to the Consignment Carbon Working Group hosted by the World Economic Forum. He also works closely with the GHG Protocol Scope 3 group to encourage the wide adoption of the new Scope 3 company standard.

Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder, Futerra Sustainability Communications

Ed Gillespie is Director and Co-Founder of Futerra Sustainability Communications. Futerra is one of the few UK communications consultancies – if not the only one – to specialise solely in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. It offers the full range of communications services from internal engagement, PR and strategy, to design, digital, web, advertising and brand development. Ed has driven the creative direction of Futerra’s work since its foundation, and has worked with a wide range of clients, ranging from E.ON, Barclays Bank, Eurostar, BT, to Defra, UNEP and the BBC

He holds Masters degrees in both Marine Biology and Sustainable Development, and his interesting career history has brought him from working as a marine biologist in Australia, New Caledonia and Orkney, to environmental issues for Transport for London, to, in the last 10 years, communications professional.

Aside from writing regularly for the Guardian, Ed is a highly sought after public speaker. You can see his recent TEDx talk in Stockholm here and Ed speaking on Youtube here. In 2007/8 Ed travelled around the world without flying. You can read about his journey at www.lowcarbontravel.com (he’s currently working on the book!). He was also recently appointed as a London Sustainable Development Commissioner and is a Director of the carbon emissions campaigning organisation Sandbag.

Martin Chilcott, CEO, 2Degrees

Martin Chilcott is founder and CEO of 2degrees. He has been a serial entrepreneur all his working life, first in consumer technology marketing (CTS Marketing), then the Internet and e-business (Clarity IBD, Proxicom Inc, and Dimension Data plc), and then education (Place Group ( http://www.place-group.com )).

His real passion though has always been about how he could apply his entrepreneurial experience to tackling climate change and other environmental challenges. Hence, two years ago he set up Meltwater Ventures to incubate green businesses. Besides 2degrees, Meltwater is incubating 3 other businesses: Golow, The Zero Carbon Company and Simply Green.

John Scott-Kerr, Head of Agribusiness Renewable Energy, Bidwells LLP

After a busy number of years in the British Army and completing an MBA at Imperial College, John has spent the last 5 years working on renewable energy projects within agriculture.  He has worked in Eastern Europe, South Africa and for the past 2 years in the UK on a wide range of projects.  He specialises mainly in Anaerobic Digestion and other ways to obtain energy from Biomass.  He supports food producers, land owners and investors to realise their renewable energy goals.  In the past year he has been involved in the food vs. fuel debate and is a firm believer that they must be mutually supporting if we are to live in a sustainable society.