Board of Directors

Andrew Binns – Chair of the Board

Andy is the Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Change Logic, a global firm that focuses on the link between a company’s strategic aspirations – what it wants to do – and its approach to strategic execution – how it gets done.  He has 20 years of experience working as both an external and internal consultant.  Andy’s consulting experience was with McKinsey & Co. as a specialist in organization change and communications, working with clients in IT, Finance and Manufacturing sectors. At the IBM Corporation, Andy was an organisation coach and consultant, working with senior business leaders to improve the performance of their organizations. He was given an award by IBM’s Vice-Chairman for his work with IBM’s global ‘emerging business opportunities’ and worked closely with Professor Tushman and Professor O’Reilly on the Strategic Leadership Forum.

Derek Osborn – President of the Board

Derek served 30 years in the Civil Service, the latter 6 years as Director General for Environmental Protection with the Department of the Environment until his retirement in 1996. He represented the United Kingdom and was Chair of the Management Board of the European Environment Agency (1995-1999). He was on the Board of the Environment Agency for England and Wales (1996-98), having been involved with its planning and creation. He has been a non-executive director of Severn Trent PLC, and chair of Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust. He is involved with several environmental organisations including the Institute of International Environmental Development (IIED) where he is vice chair.  He is also a Trustee of the Green Alliance.

Emmanuel Lebaut

Emmanuel is a Transformation Director at BT Group, one of the world’s leading communication services firms. Since he joined BT in 2005, Emmanuel has played a key role in the transformation of BT into a global, customer-focused provider of converged IT and telecommunications services. He led the creation of a new, 13,000-people strong operations unit, and engaged stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to drive the design and implementation of a common operating model. Previously Emmanuel spent seven years as a consultant, progressively specialising in change management and transformation. Emmanuel’s international consulting experience extends to both the private and public sector, notably BNP Paribas, and more latterly, the World Bank where he developed a change management strategy for the Bank’s ICT division. He has also worked extensively in Africa, Eastern and Western Europe as an international consultant for BNP Paribas.

Mehjabeen Price

Mehjabeen is currently the Director of Finance and Operations at South West Screen.  She started her career at First Women Bank in Pakistant in 1995.  During her time there she was awarded a scholarship from the Bank of England to complete an MBA at the University of Exeter in 1999.  Before joining South West Screen, Mehjabeen was a staff member at Stakeholder Forum responsible for the orgnisations’s finance and operations as well as its national policy and programme activities on environmental issues.  She was also the Deputy Director of the UN Association UK.

Paul Jackson

Craig Bennet

Craig is a Deputy Director at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL), and, in this role, is also the Co-Director of the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (CLG).  In 2007 he led the CLG’s work on the Bali Communique which brought together 150 of the world’s largest companies in support of a comprehensive, legally binding UN framework to tackle climate change.  Prior to joining CPSL, Craig was the Head of the Corporates, Trade and Globalisation Campaign at Friends of the Earth. He also sat on the Executive Committee of Friends of the Earth International, the Steering Group of the Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition and was a Board Member of the Trade Justice Movement (TJM).

Rosie Bilton – Company Secretary