John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable
development. In 2004, BusinessWeek described him as “a dean of the corporate responsibility
movement for three decades.” SustainAbility is based in London, Zurich, Washington,
DC and San Francisco, with clients including Ford, Microsoft, Nike, Shell, Swiss
Re and Unilever.
John has authored or co-authored 16 books, including 1988’s million-selling
Green Consumer Guide and Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line
of 21st Century Business (1997), and has written or co-written
some 40 published reports. Current project: a book on social entrepreneurs with
Pamela Hartigan of the Schwab Foundation (www.schwabfound.org).
Affiliations
John chairs The Environment Foundation, the Social and Environmental Committee of
the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA), and the Advisory
Council of the Export Credit Guarantees Department (ECGD).
He also sits on advisory boards for the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre,
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, a new Clean Tech Fund being developed by Zouk
Ventures, and the Royal Society of Arts.
Website
www.sustainability.com/about/profile.asp?id=7
www.johnelkington.com
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John Elkington
Topic: How can we make oil and gas supplies last longer, as the search for other fuels continues?
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