London, England, United Kingdom
Chartered sustainability leader with 15+ years’ experience delivering corporate decarbonisation strategies, ESG reporting, and regulatory compliance across global organisations. Proven track record of delivering measurable impacts and influencing corporate strategy across sectors. Experienced in embedding sustainability into business strategy, enhancing brand trust, and influencing executive-level decision-making. Outside of work, I'm a dog-lover, runner, very-amateur footballer, and cyclist.
Driving the development and implementation of a global value chain due diligence strategy as part of the Group’s regulatory readiness programme. - Leading the overhaul of supplier onboarding and end-to-end lifecycle management to align with emerging CSDDD requirements, ensuring regulatory readiness across the Group’s global value chain. - Strengthening environmental and human rights risk assessments to prioritise the most material and severe risks, enabling proportionate mitigation plans and timely escalation as necessary - Partnering with multiple business divisions and functions to embed ownership of value chain risks, clarify accountability, and integrate due diligence responsibilities into business-as-usual operations. - Designing and delivering targeted training for procurement, legal, and risk teams to build organisational capability in value chain due diligence and regulatory compliance. - Establishing governance frameworks, including escalation and remediation procedures, to support consistent issue management and regulatory defensibility. - Leading the preparation of statutory disclosures, including Australian, Canadian, and UK Modern Slavery Statements, aligned with Transparency in Supply Chains guidance.
Regional lead for Bloomberg's Global Sustainability Office, developing and implementing Bloomberg's organisational sustainability strategy, with regional oversight for c.60 sites (offices, data centre and distribution centres) across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. - Subject matter expert providing inter-departmental strategy and guidance in support of Bloomberg's public ESG commitments. Supporting teams including; Global Real Estate, Capital and Design, Infrastructure and Engineering, Networks, Supply-Chain and Logistics, Procurement, Facilities Management, Global Travel, Events and Hospitality to identify, manage and reduce operational impacts. - Driving organisational strategy by mandatory reporting frameworks (CSRD, ISSB, GHG Protocol, SBTI, GRI and UNGC), KPI reporting and the associated information management and controls. - Contributing to regulatory horizon scanning in collaboration with Bloomberg's Legal and Public Policy teams; responsible for ensuring readiness for forthcoming strategic and technical ESG regulations. - Preparing content and presenting to a variety of stakeholders across all levels of the business, including senior executives and the Management Committee. - Leading Bloomberg's 2024/5 CSRD-compliant double materiality assessment, implementing a responsible procurement framework, supporting net-zero transition planning (including successful PPA negotiation), integrating climate-related risks into the enterprise risk management framework, and revising and implementing the business's sustainable operating guidelines. - Delivering tactical sustainability projects, including asset decarbonisation strategies, environmental assessments, employee engagement activities, and well-being initiatives. - Co-author of Bloomberg's Impact Report.
Head of Sustainability for international urban design practice. Responsible for delivering design and operational sustainability consultancy to a range of client organisations, as well as developing and implementing BDP's corporate sustainability strategy. Managed a team of 13 specialist consultants and reported directly to the CEO and CFO. - Delivered analyses of net-zero-carbon, life-cycle assessment, environmental assessment (BREEAM, LEED, WELL, Ska, etc,), circular economy, health and wellbeing and green infrastructure across all stages of the building lifecycle. - Authored Sustainability Strategies for major building projects, including: the Restoration and Renewal Programme (UK Houses of Parliament refurbishment), AstraZeneca's major scientific laboratory in Cambridge, five new major NHS hospitals as part of the New Hospitals Programme, PWC's More London development, Google's Healthy Materials review for KGX1, and the Enterprise Centre for the University of East Anglia. - Competitive work winning/bidding, project management, resourcing, and monthly financial reporting. - Developed and drove BDP's organisational sustainability strategy, environmental and energy management systems for the global practice, certified to ISO 14001 and 50001 via regular internal and external audit activities and associated performance management. - Enhanced the organisation's sustainability strategy via industry research and engagement, training programmes, and policy, process and procedure development. - Led BDP's corporate Social Value strategy and R&D strategy. - Personnel management, including recruitment, appraisals and BDP's apprenticeships programmes.
Environmentally focused built-environment design consultancy.
Environmentally focused built-environment design consultancy.
Support role for Senior Consultants, providing quantitative and qualitative baseline to inform strategy development. Obtained effective consultation and communication techniques developed during extensive fieldwork for Economic Development Strategy for the LB Merton and London Street Markets evaluation Furthered my ability to understand and analyse quantitative and qualitative information during Economic Impact Assessments to feed into development strategies through tools such as GIS. Exposure to bid writing, tendering processes and commercial operation Office administration and organisation, through diary management and stakeholder liaison.
Developed an understanding of effective communication within a multi-disciplinary team of planners, engineers and contractors Obtained meticulous organisation through the co-ordination of Community Transport services to provide assisted mobility for those in need. Coordination of multiple stakeholders to assess infrastructure damage Maintenance and monitoring of accounts payable and receivable for transport services Ensuring attention to detail for the national Traveline database and local bus service information, including time-tabling.