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Jim Peacock has joined Hill & Knowlton’s specialist CR and sustainability team as associate director. Peacock has more than 10 years of corporate communications, sustainability strategy and communications experience. He joins from the Carbon Trust, where he was head of corporate communications and stakeholder engagement.
Karin Mortensen Laljani is the new managing director of Corporate Citizenship, the global full service sustainability consultancy and part of Bell Pottinger Group. Laljani’s remit is to drive sustainability into the marketing function and influence organisations to change the way they are approaching environmental and social issues as part of business strategy. Her most recent position was managing director of Aegis Media plc and she is co-author of Sustainable Communications, which was published in May 2009.
Standard Chartered has appointed Nii Okai Nunoo, current area head of corporate affairs in west Africa, as its new regional head of sustainability for Africa.
Appointment of the month
International entrepreneur and philanthropist Ram Gidoomal has become chair designate of Traidcraft, the fair trade company and development charity. Gidoomal was formerly UK chief executive of the Inlaks Group, an international food commodity company.
Gidoomal was co-founder of the Christmas Cracker project, which mobilised UK teenagers to raise money for the developing world in the 1980s and 1990s. His current roles include chairman of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education; chairman of the South Asian Development Partnership Trust; chairman of Allia, the social profit society; and board member of the International Justice Mission. He will assume his role as Traidcraft chairman once his election to the board is approved at this year’s AGM.
“Traidcraft has played a pioneering role in the fair trade movement and I am honoured to have been asked to serve as its chair,” Gidoomal says. “I look forward to working with the team as it embarks on a new strategic period in the vital work of helping producer communities in the developing world flourish and prosper.”
Timberland has hired Mark Newton as vice-president of corporate social responsibility CSR. In this newly created role, Newton will lead Timberland’s global team responsible for managing the organisation’s four areas of focus within CSR: environmental stewardship, global human rights, community engagement and transparency and reporting. Newton joins Timberland from Dell where he most recently served as executive director of global sustainability.
John Ruggie, UN special representative for business and human rights, is to join the corporate social responsibility practice of corporate law firm Foley Hoag.
Ruggie, currently a Harvard professor, will join the firm’s Boston office in September as a senior adviser. Ruggie is the author of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which the UN Human Rights Council formally endorsed in June after six years of development. The principles provide high-level guidance to companies on managing the human rights impacts of their operations and are likely to affect national law and policy in jurisdictions worldwide. As a senior adviser at Foley Hoag, Ruggie will help multinational companies navigate the principles and apply them to their global business practices.
Regnan – Governance Research and Engagement has appointed Amanda Wilson to the newly created position of deputy managing director. Wilson joins Regnan from Suncorp, where she was responsible for culture and performance, including reward, workplace relations, recruitment, systems and talent management. She will be based in Regnan’s Sydney office.
Gareth Llewellyn has joined Network Rail as its new safety director. Llewellyn, a former global director for safety, health, environment and corporate responsibility for the UK’s National Grid, was most recently managing director of a consultancy business providing safety and sustainability advice to global clients. As well as having responsibility for safety, Llewellyn is also leading Network Rail’s sustainability agenda.
Lexis PR has promoted Michael Hoevel to the position of head of sustainability for Glasshouse Partnership, its specialist CSR and sustainability unit. Hoevel has worked for the company since 2006 on a number of national and international accounts.
Tarmac has expanded its sustainability team with the appointment of Andy Swain as sustainability manager. Working across Tarmac’s UK business, Swain will be developing new environmental tools for customers to help to drive the company’s sustainability programme.
The Social Investment Business has appointed Jonathan Jenkins as its new CEO. The largest social investor in the UK, The Social Investment Business works to support social enterprises, charities and voluntary organisations to become stronger and more financially sustainable. Jenkins has more than 15 years’ experience in raising finance for small and medium projects from his City career. He is currently on secondment to the Big Lottery and NESTA, working on the Big Society Bank.
NSF International, an independent organisation that protects human health and the environment, has promoted Tom Bruursema to be general manager of NSF Sustainability. Bruursema will lead the growing portfolio of NSF’s sustainability services, including standards development through the National Center for Sustainability Standards founded by NSF International in 2010. Prior to his new appointment, Bruursema managed the NSF testing and certification programme for onsite wastewater treatment technologies.