Member Event: The UN’s New Sustainable Development Agenda… and You

Rob will have just stepped off the plane from New York, having attended the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Summit along with 150 world leaders. 

His talk will highlight how this launch pad for new global sustainability goals and the new political environment will impact on local business leaders. 

Rob has been Chief Executive at SustainAbility in London since April 2012 and has over 20 years’ experience working with the sustainability agenda in business. He is actively involved with a range of clients, working regularly with business leaders and board members across sectors including finance and banking, FMCG, retail and energy, leading a variety of stakeholder engagement assignments bringing together leaders from business and civil society including Nestlé’s international stakeholder convenings and RBS stakeholder dialogues. 

Rob was previously Chief Executive of Fairtrade International, the global umbrella organisation for Fairtrade.  He travelled extensively experiencing the realities of smallholder farms in countries such Brazil, Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and India. A trustee of the Centre for Global Equality, Rob lives in Cambridge UK and, when not at home, can be found either out on his road bike or in a scull on the river Cam.

This event is the first of the Autumn Series of OPEN’s Business Leaders Forum with the next taking place on Monday 16th October with General the Lord Dannatt.