Experience

BankTrack

• Netherlands
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Communications & Research

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Researcher and Editor, Human Rights Campaign Coordinator

  • Oct 2012 - Jan 2022

  Managing research, web and database content, communications and social media with BankTrack, a civil society organisation which campaigns for a sustainable banking sector. I am also coordinating BankTrack's human rights campaign.



Save Our Bank

• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Save Our Bank is a campaign to hold the UK's Co-operative Bank to account for its ethical promises under its new ownership, and campaign for a return to co-operative ownership. We have established the world's first co-operative customer union, representing customers' interests at the bank. Save Our Bank is a campaign to hold the UK's Co-operative Bank to account for its ethical promises under its new ownership, and campaign for a return to co-operative ownership. We have established the world's first co-operative customer union, representing customers' interests at the bank.



Bright Analysis

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate

• Principal Consultant

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2015

  Freelance consultant researcher for sustainability and social change. Freelance consultant researcher for sustainability and social change.


Sustainable Finance Advisory
• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• Associate Sustainability Consultant

  • Oct 2012 - Jan 2015


The Co-operative Group

• United Kingdom
• Retail Groceries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sustainability Projects Adviser

  • Aug 2011 - Sep 2012

  • Project managed the pension scheme’s first Responsible Investment Policy, leading to platinum ranking in an independent benchmark within 12 months; • Managed the Group’s Human Rights and Trade Policy, establishing Co-operative as a leading corporate advocate of human rights; • Managed award submissions including FT Sustainable Bank of the Year Europe (awarded 2011);• Managed Co-operative Funeralcare Ethical Strategy, leading to development of a world-first Fairtrade product launch.

• Ethics Adviser

  • Sep 2006 - Aug 2011

  • Rigorous implementation of The Co-operative Bank’s pioneering Ethical Policy (2006-2008). • Author of Ethical Finance chapter of the Group’s award-winning Sustainability Report, securing the highest standard of audit from external sustainability auditors each year.• National Ethical Investment Week Advisory Board member, 2009 - 2010. • Primary author of The Co-operative Bank’s Ethical Consumerism Report, 2007 - 2010, the principal barometer of ethical consumerism in the UK. • Experienced public speaker. Show less



Datamonitor

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst

  • Jan 2002 - Sep 2006

  Heading the Consumer Markets Consultancy team, working with large companies to plan and deliver research projects as the head of a team of three researcher-analysts. Heading the Consumer Markets Consultancy team, working with large companies to plan and deliver research projects as the head of a team of three researcher-analysts.