Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility
David Grayson CBE - Chair of Corporate Responsibility and Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility
David started his working life trying to persuade people to buy a certain brand of washing-up liquid - in marketing management with the multinational Procter and Gamble. For most of his career, however, he has been a social entrepreneur - starting and / or running a number of public-private-community partnerships. He was co-founder / director of Project North East - an innovative British ngo which has now worked in 40 countries. (www.pne.org). He chairs Housing 21 – one of the leading providers of sheltered and extra care housing and care for older people (www.housing21.co.uk)
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Nadine Exter, Doughty Centre Manager
With over a decade of experience in marketing and communications, Nadine also has diverse skills from co-founding a successful retail and e-commerce SME, advising on change management in the public sector, and running learning networks between public and private sectors. More recently Nadine worked in global stakeholder management and CR program implementation. During her MBA at Cranfield University she focused on implementation of CR within organisations at the Doughty Centre is continuing this work.
Kenneth Amaeshi BPhil MSc MBA PhD - Lecturer, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility
Kenneth Amaeshi joined Cranfield in January 2008. Prior to that he had been been a Research Fellow at Warwick Business School for three years and has ten years experience in CR research, discourse and practice. He is also is a Visiting Scholar at Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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Heiko Spitzeck - Lecturer, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility
Heiko Spitzeck is a lecturer at Cranfield University´s Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility in the UK. In 2008 he 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.
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Thea Hughes, Centre Administrator and PA, phone+44 (0)1234 754401, Email: thea.hughes@Cranfield.ac.uk.
Visiting Professors
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. .
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John Elkington
Co-founder of SustainAbility in 1987 and Chair from 1995 to 2005, and is a world authority on business strategies in the areas of corporate responsibility and sustainable development.
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Visiting Fellows
David Logan
David Logan is the co-founder of The Corporate Citizenship Company, a specialist corporate responsibility consultancy that is based in London. David has over 25 years frontline experience in managing corporate responsibility issues for international companies.
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Chris Marsden
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.
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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, Brand PR, Diageo's Corporate Citizenship programme, and for developing Responsible Drinking programmes within Diageo and the local community.
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Associates
Sharon Jackson
15 year career in global commerce with the electronic component sector,operating in both distribution and manufacturing. Senior executive roles across SMEs and globalTNCs. A diverse and varied set of business skills include international business development,implementation of global trading agreements, international business negotiation and conflict resolution.
PhD students
David Ferguson
David has broad experience working on developing and delivering projects and initiatives with the private, public and voluntary sector, spanning nearly twenty years.
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Advisory Council
The Doughty Centre Advisory Council has been established to:
- advise the director of the Doughty Centre and the School of Management on the overall strategy of the Centre and key priorities;
- be ambassadors for the Doughty Centre
- debate key Centre working papers;
- be available to advise on specific Doughty Centre projects as relevant
The Advisory Council is chaired by Cranfield honorary graduate Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, former Chairman of HBOS.
Other members are:
Richard Bowker - CEO of National Express
Nigel Doughty - Co-chairman of Doughty Hanson
John Duggan - Chairman of Gazeley
Baroness Denise Kingsmill CBE - Non-executive director BA
Peter Lacy -Head of Accenture Sustainability Services
Lindsay Levin - Founder/CEO Leaders Quest
John Neill CBE - CEO of Unipart Group
David Pitt-Watson - Chairman of Hermes Equity Ownership Services
Sophia Tickell - Chair of SustainAbility
Sir David Varney - Chairman Chartered Management Institute
Bob Wigley - Chairman of Yell