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Mike Coupe
Group Commercial Director, Member of Board of Directors
Sainsbury’sPresentation Title: Opening keynote interview on resource scarcity with a retail focus View Bio |
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Luis Neves
Climate Change and Sustainability Officer, Executive VP & the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI),
Deutsche Telekom GroupPresentation Title: Keynote speech on sustainable supply chain strategy View Bio |
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Mark Foscoe
Head of Logistics Europe
Mitsubishi Electric Presentation Title: Q&A Interview: Head of Logistics View Bio |
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| Mark Foscoe is a 30-year logistics veteran. He started his career in 3rd party logistics and has run transport and warehouse operations handling a wide variety of goods. For the last 10 years he has worked for Mitsubishi Electric, whose diverse business units market air-conditioning, heating, projectors, display screens, PLCs and a host of other products. With a team of Country Logistics Managers, he is responsible for all inbound operations, warehousing and customer deliveries across Europe. His recent projects include setting up a central European warehouse for two of the business units, re-locating two country warehouses and introducing management systems to oversee the company’s logistics service providers. Mark still harbours dreams of being an astronaut when he grows up. |
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Mike Barry
Head - Sustainable Business
Marks & SpencerPresentation Title: Internal: Making the case to the board View Bio |
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Christine Diamente
Head of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
Alcatel-Lucent Presentation Title: Regaining trust through a strong, on-going sustainability communication strategy View Bio |
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Christine Diamente is Head of Sustainability, Corporate Messaging and Brand at Alcatel-Lucent. In the Sustainability function, she leads the company’s overall sustainability strategy, targets and global reporting. Since assuming this role in early 2011, Christine was tasked with recalibrating the company’s sustainability strategy as a business imperative. Today, for two years in a row, Alcatel-Lucent has been ranked No 1 in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and is Supersector leader for its strategy and performance in the technology sector. More on www.alcatel-lucent.com/sustainability.
Prior to this role, Christine served for two years as Director of Corporate Relations, where she built and led Alcatel-Lucent's Strategic Partner activities with the World Economic Forum (WEF). Her tasks included being Sherpa to the CEO, management leaders and managing end-to-end customer and media relations for all activities including the Annual Meeting at Davos.
Before that, for almost ten years, Christine was Director European Affairs where she led Alcatel-Lucent's corporate representation with European institutions at the highest levels including playing a leadership role in relevant European associations and leading task forces with EU institutions. She was also a member of Alcatel-Lucent's integration team in Public Affairs, elected Board Member of European Internet Foundation including co-chair of the Programming Committee (2004-2008), elected Vice Chair of Digital Europe Policy Group (2004-2008), a member of the European Commission Task Force on Innovation, Sherpa to CEO and CTO in Brussels Round Table, and a Member of European Ideas Network.
Christine started her career in 1996 with Newbridge Networks in Canada. She graduated with a Master's in the History of Technology and International Relations and a B.A. in History and International Politics from the University of Ottawa. She also completed the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD Business School in France. She speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish fluently. |
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Katja Sbikowski
Head of Sustainable Procurement
NovartisPresentation Title: Internal: Engaging Procurement/Buyers functions View Bio |
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Anne-Sophie Nicolau-Guillaumet
Director Supply Chain Organisation
L'OrealPresentation Title: External: Effective partnership with NGOs View Bio |
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Marc Michelsen
Head of Sustainability & Communications,
AkzoNobelPresentation Title: Regaining trust through a strong, on-going sustainability communication strategy View Bio |
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Dale Turner
Director of Procurement & Supply Chain
SkanskaPresentation Title:
Sustainable supply chains as a business opportunity – cross industry collaboration
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Alberto Andreu Pinillos
Global Managing Director of Public Affairs
TelefonicaPresentation Title: Internal: Engaging Middle Management across the company View Bio |
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Dexter Galvin
Head of Supply Chain
CDPPresentation Title: Using data to drive quantifiable action and to catalyse the change in your supply chain View Bio |
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Aleix Busquets
CSR & Supply Chain Manager
InditexPresentation Title: External: Engaging supplier factories View Bio |
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Subathra Vaidhiyanathan
Ethical Trade & Environment Manager
New LookPresentation Title: External: Engaging supplier factories View Bio |
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Richard Anstead
Head - Product Management
Fair trade FoundationPresentation Title: Benchmarking and partnering with third party certification to go beyond minimum compliance and build sustainable supply chains View Bio |
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Liz Cross
Governance & Sustainability in Procurement,
BTPresentation Title: Brand collaboration on R&D: Cost effective product development with embedded social and environmental standards View Bio |
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Susan Curtis
Medicines Director at Neal's Yard Remedies
Neal's Yard RemediesPresentation Title: Sustainable sourcing of wild ingredients – establish long term partnerships with suppliers and communities whom you source from View Bio |
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Mercedes Tallo Mampel
Director - Sustainable Value Chains, Worldwide
Rainforest Alliance Presentation Title: Commodity supply chains: Cotton, Soy, Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea View Bio |
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| Mercedes Talló, Director of Sustainable Value Chains at Rainforest Alliance leads the market development team for the Agriculture division. In this role, she manages the global portfolio of 3000+ companies sourcing products from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms.
Mercedes has a wealth of experience in food and retail, previously working in the private sector with companies such as Walmart and Diageo. As an avid entrepreneur, she co-founded Organic Food Brokers Ltd, an importer of organic foods into the UK, which saw her transition into the world of sustainable sourcing.
Mercedes has an MBA from the London Business School, an MSc in Food Science from the University of Reading in the UK and a degree in Agriculture from the University of Barcelona. |
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Pierre-Louis Frouein
Corporate social responsibility in Purchasing Manager
Alcatel-LucentPresentation Title: Capacity building: In your company, in your suppliers, in your value chain/communities View Bio |
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Chris Harrop
Group Marketing Director & Director of Sustainability/ UN Global Compact UK Network, Chairman/ Ethical Trading Initiative, Non Exec Director
MarshallsPresentation Title: Training supplier managers in better, smarter business to drive Human Rights standards throughout your supply chain View Bio |
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Erinch Sahan
Private Sector Policy Advisor
OxfamPresentation Title: How to engage with activist campaign groups: learn about the costs and benefits of deep engagement and how you can shape the campaign agenda View Bio |
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