Vice Chair, UN Global Compact

Chairman of the Global Compact Foundation and Vice Chairman of the UN Global Compact under the Chairmanship of the UN Secretary General. A director Saudi Aramco (2007-) and on the advisory board of Envision Energy a private Chinese renewable energy company. He was Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group (1998–2001), of Anglo American plc (2002-2009) and of Hermes Equity Ownership Services (2009-2016). Born in Antigua, after a degree and doctorate in geology in 1966 at Cambridge, he worked for Shell starting as an exploration geologist, living in Holland, Spain, Oman, Brunei, Australia, Nigeria, Turkey and Malaysia, and the UK. He is Chairman of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium for combating insect borne disease and was Chairman of the Global Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS from 2002-2011. He was a director of HSBC from 2001-1010 and of the International Institute for Sustainable Development2003-2011. He served on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development 2003-2011. Honorary Co-Chairman of the International Tax and Investment Center (2011-). He chaired task forces on renewable energy for the G8 and for business for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Board Member of the Global Reporting Initiative 2002-7. President Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 1997-2008. Member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Council for the Global Compact 2001-2004. Author of “Responsible Leadership – Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics”.