Cranfield School of Management

David Grayson CBE
Chair of Corporate Responsibility and Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility

David started his working life at Procter and Gamble persuading consumers to buy a certain brand of washing up liquid. As a social entrepreneur with more than 30 years experience of working with business, business schools, and public agencies around the world, David has both set up and run a number of public-private-community partnerships...

Andrew Kakabadse

Professor of International Management Development, Doughty Centre, Cranfield University’s School of Management. Recognised as a world authority on leadership and governance, Andrew has held and also holds visiting appointments at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Université Panthéon Assas, Paris, France; Center for Creative Leadership and Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, USA; University of Ulster, Ireland; the Windsor Leadership Trust, England; Institute of Management Economics and Strategic Research, Kazakhstan; Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia. He has consulted and lectured in every region of the work. His latest books include, Leading the Board; Rice Wine with the Minister; Leading Smart Transformation; Bilderberg People.

Nadine Exter
Doughty Centre Manager

With over a decade of experience in marketing, stakeholder engagement, and communications, Nadine has co-founded a successful SME, advised on change management in the public sector, and ran learning networks between public and private sectors. In 2008 she completed her MBA at Cranfield, where she focused on how to enable organisations to be responsible.

Mattia Anesa, Research Assistant

Before joining the centre Mattia completed an MSc in International Environmental Studies with a focus on Corporate Responsibility at the Norwegian University of Life Science. Following his passion for CR, he has built his international experience through an internship at the UN Global Compact, researching and auditing in Madagascar and volunteering for the Centre of Sustainability Leadership in Australia. Mattia also has over eight years of consulting experience across Europe in the event management industry.

Thea Hughes
Centre Administrator and PA

Phone +44 (0)1234 754410 +44 (0)1234 754410 , Email: thea.hughes@cranfield.ac.uk.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Sharon Jackson
Research and executive education

Sharon has had a 15-year career within global commerce in the electronic component sector, operating in both distribution and manufacturing. Sharon has held senior executive roles across SMEs and global TNCs. A diverse and varied set of business skills include international business development, implementation of global trading agreements

Melody McLaren
Research and marketing/social media management

Melody McLaren is a writer and consultant with over 25 years of experience in public relations, sales promotion, web development and corporate responsibility campaigning in the US and Europe. She worked as a specialist consultant with marketing firms in the Netherlands and the UK before joining Business in the Community in 1990, where she worked in diverse communications and knowledge management roles. She also spent four years as a client services/project director in a Silicon Valley web consultancy. Following a stint as interim Managing Director of corporate social responsibility consultancy the SMART Company, she founded McLaren (UK) in 2006.

Hayley Warren
Research and writing

Hayley joined the Centre in 2011 after completing intern positions in London and New York in CR research and communications. Hayley took her MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2010. Hayley has experience working in the public sector and human resources.

Gilbert Lenssen

For 25 years Gilbert Lenssen pursued an international business career in Belgium, UK, USA, Germany, Spain and India in Human Resource Management, Corporate Affairs, Operations Management, Marketing Management and General Management.

John Elkington

Co-founder of SustainAbility in 1987 and Chair from 1995 to 2005, John is a world authority on business strategies in the areas of corporate responsibility and sustainable development.

Kenneth Amaeshi

Kenneth Amaeshi worked at the Centre between January 2008 and July 2010, when he left to take a promotion at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to working at the Centre he had been a Research Fellow at Warwick Business School for three years and has ten years experience in corporate responsibility research, discourse and practice. He is also is a Visiting Scholar at Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Edward Bickham

Edward Bickham recently left FTSE top 20 Anglo American plc, where as External Relations Director he led groundbreaking work with governments and NGOs on international sustainable development projects. Previous to this he ran a consultancy business and was a senior advisor in three UK government departments.

Gib Bulloch

Gib is the Founder and Executive Director of Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a ring-fenced not-for-profit consulting group within Accenture, whose clients include many of the major international NGOs and development agencies. ADP's main focus is bringing affordable business and technology expertise to the international development sector and promoting private sector engagement in sustainable development. In 2007, ADP was awarded the Management Consulting Association (MCA)’s Corporate Social Responsibility Award and in 2008, Gib was named as the Sunday Times sponsored Management Consultant of the Year in the Best Partner/Director category. Gib has lived and worked extensively in developing countries and is a regular speaker on the role of business in development, corporate social entrepreneurship and cross-sectoral partnerships.

Mandy Cormack

Mandy Cormack is an Advisor / Practitioner in international CSR practice and a Non-Executive Trust Director. She guides companies and organizations on the practical dimensions of corporate responsibility and sustainability as an integral part of their operations. Assignments have included: International CR Advisor, at TNT NV; Interim Director CSR, at Laing O’Rourke PLC and CSR Strategy Consultant to Imperial College, London and the Greater London Authority. Formerly, Vice President Corporate Responsibility / Head of Corporate Relations, London for Unilever, Mandy was the senior management team member responsible for developing the company’s approach to CSR, including groundbreaking work with the not-for-profit sector. She initiated the development of programmes that integrated the company’s CSR commitment into all aspects of operations from supply chain management, to corporate brand positioning, and leadership communications. Mandy is a Non-Executive Director of the grant-making Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. She has sponsored projects exploring corporate responsibility in the news media, in particular working with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, and is currently engaged in efforts to reform political party funding, contributing to the enquiry led by the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Experienced in working at Board level, both in the corporate and not-for profit sectors, Mandy’s interests lie in bridging the gap between them. She brings to her roles a keen grasp of strategic priorities and commitment to achieving team buy-in to delivering positive results for both business and society.

Ronald Endley Ainsbury

Ron runs his private consulting company Jacaranda focussing on sustainable business strategy and is developing a discussion forum. During seven years as Director of Corporate Relations for Diageo Australasia, he had responsibility for Government, Industry, and Public Affairs, Corporate and Employee Communications, Diageo's Corporate Citizenship programme.

Sara Holmes

Sara completed her doctorate on firm-charity partnerships at Cranfield in 2010 and has been working with the Centre on publishing some of their research. She has a background in communication, having eight years experience as a broadcast journalist and television producer prior to joining KPMG as a media industry consultant in 1998, where she project managed a wide range of strategic, financial and process engagements for private and public sector media clients. Sara’s research has given her a rich understanding of the current academic trends in corporate responsibility, particularly with regard to community engagement and cross-sector partnering.

David Logan

David Logan is the co-founder of The Corporate Citizenship Company, a specialist corporate responsibility consultancy based in London. David has over 25 year’s frontline experience in managing corporate responsibility issues for international companies.

Chris Marsden OBE

Chris Marsden has been keenly involved in Business and Human Rights since he became Chair of the Business Group of Amnesty UK in 2001. He is currently chairing a Steering Group exploring the need for an international Institute for Business and Human Rights.

David Slattery

After some years as a secondary school teacher, David entered the Civil Service where he had a variety of technical/policy, operational and managerial roles in the Inland Revenue department. His research interest is on the impact of economic regulation on the market structure of the UK retail pensions industry, in which David completed a PhD at Cranfield School of Management.

Heiko Spitzeck

Heiko worked at the Centre between 2008 and July 2010, when he left to move to Brazil, a professor at Fundacao Dom Cabral. In 2008 Heiko Spitzeck obtained his PhD in Business Ethics at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. During 2006-2007 he held visiting scholar positions at the University of California at Berkley and Fordham University in New York.

Ros Tennyson

Ros worked in community development work for 17 years and in 1987 became Chief Executive of a charitable trust dedicated to exploring the added value of complementary medicine and counselling as a core part of primary health care provision. From 1992 she worked for the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, developing its pioneering partnership work ever since. In 1996 Ros co-founded Trigonos - a social business in North Wales that seeks to integrate social, economic and environmental solutions by providing opportunities for personal and professional development to a range of individuals and groups

Gerry Wade

Gerry Wade is founder and Director of Probus BNW, a consultancy specialising in reputation and public policy issues, corporate responsibility, stakeholder engagement and executive recruitment. Previously he spent twenty-five years with IBM, devoting most of his career to developing and managing the Corporation’s approach to public affairs and public policy, mainly in the UK.