Professor Richard Lamming, Director of the University of Exeter Business School
Experts discuss sustainable supply chain issues
In a lecture entitled ‘Planet Earth is in your Supply Chain’, two highly respected experts will be sharing their experience and knowledge of how to use innovation and sustainable practices in the supply chain in front of members of the Business Leaders Forum.
The lecture takes place on Wednesday 10 June at 5.45pm
Professor Richard Lamming, Director of the University of Exeter Business School, specialises in strategic supply, with a personal focus on environmentally sound supply chains and innovative inter-organisational relationships.
Professor Alan Knight (OBE), founded Single Planet Living and has nearly 20 years experience of working with global and national organisations. He advises at board level on global sustainable development issues which affect business, society and individuals.
Together they will explore how supply chain innovation might address the problem that, for the last 20 years, mankind has been taking more out of the Earth than it can provide. This is a business issue - everything we use comes from the Earth or its atmosphere. Can industrial customers and their materials suppliers employ supply chain innovation to reverse the race which continues to create excessive demand on our sole supplier?
Richard worked in the engineering and automotive industries and in management consultancy before taking up Professorial positions at Management Schools in Bath and Southampton, and now in Exeter. Richard will lead the Business School through a major growth and development phase over the next three years. It is already firmly placed in the top six in the UK.
Alan works with clients as diverse as Coca-Cola, Virgin Group, Prudential and Body Shop and serves on the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission, is a member of the Faculty of the Cambridge University Programme for Industry, is a fellow of WWF UK, a former director of the Tropical Forest Trust and a current director of the Forest Stewardship Council. He was awarded the OBE in June 1998 for Services to the Environment and in 2005 the US-based Rainforest Alliance gave him a lifelong award for his contribution to finding solutions to rainforest destruction caused by the timber industry.
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Date: 10 June 2009
