Our directors share a wealth of experience and sustainability expertise, across a breadth of sectors and industries
Duncan Gray – Founding Director
Duncan loves complicated questions where there aren’t obvious answers. His role is to break down complicated challenges into manageable chunks and create programmes that support businesses to overcome the negatives to make a positive contribution to the world.
Hayley Baines-Buffery – Consulting Director
Hayley has been at the forefront of sustainable products and materials for 15 years. As a leader in the sustainability world for many years she has worked on a vast array of projects covering the full sustainability spectrum in Europe and beyond.
Our team bring unique skills and know-how from both the corporate and consulting worlds.
Becca Hadaway – Consultant
Prior to joining BRODIE, Becca spent four years in the food and farming sector with The Prince's Countryside Fund, where she delivered projects and programmes built around corporate partners' ESG and sustainability agendas. Outside of work, she enjoys sharing her experience in corporate fundraising through volunteering and is a Trustee for the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust.
Benjamin Sobel – Analyst
Benjamin has recently joined BRODIE having achieved the highest score in his Cambridge cohort for Politics and Sociology. At university he studied elective modules including climate change in international relations and ecology in political thought. He has a particular interest in human rights and climate justice.
Charlotte Kenyon – Senior Analyst
Prior to joining BRODIE, Charlotte worked as a Structural Engineer, working on structural design for projects across a range of sectors. Before this, she completed an MEng in Engineering in Cambridge, specialising in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. She has a particular interest in sustainability in engineering through efficient design and material selection.
Emma Ryan – Principal Consultant
Emma has ten years’ experience advising business and government on complex and challenging strategic issues. Emma has provided extensive technical and strategic support to clients, from large corporations to start-ups, including future trends identification, GHG modelling, circular economy, ESG reporting and goal and targets development.
Eve Tambwe – Analyst
Eve is a recent Business and Management graduate with a deep interest in corporate social responsibility and business ethics. She is passionate about global sustainable development and the circular economy.
Joanna Newell - Finance Manager
Joanna is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience across practice and industry, with over a decade working for high street brands, as well as running her own accountancy business. She is passionate about helping businesses understand their finances and drive their business forward.
Katherine Usher – Head of Operations
Katherine manages operations and finance to ensure BRODIE and our clients have the best possible foundations from which to build. Katherine has extensive operations and project management experience across a variety of sectors, including leadership and organisational change management and inter-governmental environmental work.
Kiran Rayner - Consultant
Kiran works on research and analysis with a particular focus on sustainability data and the circular economy, having previously worked at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and completed internships with Accenture and Deloitte.
Liz Lowe - Senior Advisor
Liz is a sustainability and communications professional with 30 years’ experience in roles spanning corporate responsibility and sustainability, brand PR, public affairs and corporate and third sector communications. With in-house and consultancy-side experience, she spent over 20 years at The Coca-Cola Company in Great Britain. She enjoys conservation volunteering and is a Trustee of the Kent Wildlife Trust.
Lydia-Rose Cox – Senior Consultant
Lydia-Rose leads research, analysis and project management across a number of clients and sectors, with a particular focus on materiality and reporting projects. She has experience identifying global and sector-specific sustainability trends, delivering peer and leading company benchmarks, and aligning company disclosure with internationally-recognised reporting frameworks and the evolving regulatory landscape.
Miles Fenner – Analyst
Miles recently graduated from the University of Bristol with first-class honours in Geography. His degree has equipped him with a critical understanding of the challenges surrounding sustainable development, as well as a solid foundation in climate science. At BRODIE, Miles has gained experience in conducting peer and leading company benchmarks, developing training programs, and ensuring company disclosure aligns with the evolving regulatory requirements.
Meredith Cook - Senior Analyst
Meredith works on research and analysis across projects. She recently graduated with an MSc in Climate Management and Finance from Imperial College London. Meredith has academic and vocational experience in urban and environmental policy, with a focus on decarbonising the built environment and supporting the development of environmental policy proposals.
Sarah Mae Smit - Senior Consultant
Sarah leads on project management, research and analysis for our North American clients and has experience supporting Seven Eleven Inc, PepsiCo, Diageo and Peloton.
Prior to joining BRODIE, Sarah spent four years managing client relationships on behalf of Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she gained experience integrating bespoke ESG considerations into multi-asset portfolios.
Susannah Cooke – Senior Advisor
Susannah has six years' experience in developing and delivering sustainability projects to clients in London and Dublin. Prior to BRODIE, Susannah worked with KPMG Ireland in its Sustainable Futures team where she focused on providing strategic support to clients on ESG reporting, training, and on issues such as biodiversity and climate risk.
Susannah’s current role comprises assisting clients in developing sustainability strategy, reporting, multi-stakeholder engagements, and materiality assessments for companies from a broad array of industries.
BRODIE collaborates with an ecosystem of subject matter experts
Chris Fox
Chris is a Senior Advisor in the US. As HanesBrands’ Chief Sustainability Officer, Chris oversaw the company’s worldwide sustainability strategy, programs and long-term sustainability goals. Chris also has fifteen years experience at Hanesbrands as vice president, corporate social responsibility designing, building and running HanesBrands’ ethics, human rights, product safety, environmental sustainability and philanthropy programs.
David Guernsey
Dave is a master of sustainability data helping businesses understand how an effective sustainability strategy can also make business sense. He developed his skills over 30 years with UPS. Dave was central to the establishment of UPS’ sustainability ambition and systems.
Katherine Symonds-Moore
Katherine is a communications expert, with a background in publishing, food and retail, and many years as a sustainability consultant and writer.
Kath Williams
Kath is an expert in environmental strategies for the built environment and helps clients understand the impact of their buildings and ways to simply and effectively reduce that impact. As past President of the World Green Building Council and Vice-Chair of the US Green Building Council, there are few people in the world as well qualified as Kath in this space.
Mandy Lucas
Mandy is a world class animal welfare expert having worked on food and textile supply chains from chickens to yaks and everything in between. Animal welfare, productivity and animal husbandry has always been part of Mandy’s life, from growing up on a farm to helping UK retailers, global restaurant and luxury brands better understand their supply chains to meet consumer demand for greater transparency of farming practices and standards.
Mike Barry
Mike is a change agent, committed to helping business prepare for and succeed in the great sustainability disruption that will wash through the economy in the 2020s. He’s worked with a breadth of organisations including Tata Consulting Services, Consumers International, Bloomberg NEF, Chanel, PwC Japan, Unilever, Haleon, Kite Insight’s Climate School, Ball, Nestle, Danone, Microsoft, Lidl, Ikea, IBM, Nomad Foods, The Climate Pledge, the Environment Agency, Which, Royal Society of Chemistry, British Retail Consortium, CoGo, Liverpool University.
Until 2019 Mike was Director of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, spearheading its ground-breaking Plan A. He co-chaired the Consumer Goods Forum’s sustainability work bringing the world’s largest retailers and fast moving consumer goods brands together to work on issues such as deforestation, plastics and forced labour. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Trustee at Blueprint for Better Business.
Nora Wolters
Nora specialises in human rights and responsible sourcing. Her experience ranges from in-depth stakeholder engagement at local level to advising multinational companies on their human rights strategies and regulatory robustness. She has worked with a variety of businesses worldwide, including retail, consumer goods, electronics and finance. Nora believes that a collaborative approach is most effective in ensuring respect for workers globally, especially in a vastly changing operating context for businesses.
A German native, Nora holds a Master’s degree in Politics, Economics and Philosophy and is currently working on her PhD in the field of Business & Human Rights.
Paloma Lopez
Paloma is Senior Advisor in the US. She is the former Global Director of Sustainability and Brand Strategy for the Kellogg Company.
Paloma has eighteen years of global experience creating vision for healthy and sustainable food systems and driving business transformation to grow purpose-led brands and global sustainable agriculture programs.
Bringing even more expertise to the BRODIE team.
Senior Consultant, Human Rights (London Office)
We are looking for a Senior Consultant with a Human Rights specialism to join our London office.
Application deadline 13th may 2024. See here for further information and how to apply.
USA
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United Kingdom
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