External Review Committee

External Review Committee members for the Shell Sustainability Report 2012:

• Motoko Aizawa (Chair), Advisor to the Sustainable Development Network, World Bank, Japan
• Tom Burke CBE, Environmental Policy Advisor, Rio Tinto plc, UK
• James Hoggan, President, James Hoggan & Associates, Canada
• Clarissa Lins, Executive Director, Foundation for Sustainable Development, Brazil
• Ndidi Nwuneli, Founder, LEAP Africa and Co-Founder, AACE Foods, Nigeria
• Charles Secrett, Founder Member, The Robertsbridge Group, UK
• Dan Sperling PhD, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, USA

Motoko Aizawa, Advisor

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Motoko is an expert on environmental, social and governance sustainability. She recently became the Advisor to the Sustainable Development Network for the World Bank.

Previously she was Sustainability Advisor at the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

She is the principal author of the IFC Sustainability Policy and Performance Standards, the de facto global environmental and social risk management framework for development and private financial institutions, and the basis for the Equator Principles.

She managed programs aimed at setting standards on business and human rights, and corporate integrity and governance, among others, and advises on financial mechanisms to enhance standards compliance and performance.

Motoko also works with governments that seek to improve sustainability performance in the private sector. For example, Motoko serves as an international expert for a multi-donor advisory council that advises the Government of China on environmental sustainability and financial and economic issues.

Motoko obtained her BA from Hamilton College, LLM from London University, and is a Barrister in England and Wales, and attorney-at-law in the State of New York.

Prior to pursuing her career path in sustainability, Ms. Aizawa specialized in international mergers and acquisition at Baker & McKenzie, and project finance at IFC.

Tom Burke CBE, Environmental Policy Advisor

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Tom is a currently an Environmental Policy Advisor to Rio Tinto plc and a Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London. He is a Senior Business Advisor to the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change. Tom is a Founding Director of E3G, a sustainability think tank and strategy consultancy. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of ENDS magazine.

He was appointed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to chair an Independent Review of Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland from 2006-2007. He was a member of the Council of English Nature, the statutory advisor to the British Government on biodiversity from 1999-2005. During 2002 he served as an advisor to the Central Policy Group in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office. He was Special Advisor to three Secretaries of State for the Environment from 1991-1997 after serving as Director of the Green Alliance from 1982-1991. 

He was an environmental advisor (part time) to BP plc from 1997-2001. He was a member of the OECD’s High Level Panel on the Environment 1996-1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was a member of the Council from 1990-1992 sitting on its Environment Committee 1988-1996. He also served on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations from 1984-1989. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Cranfield Institute of Management and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School.

He was formerly Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Environmental Bureau 1988-1991. He was the Secretary-General of the Bergen 1990 Environment NGO Conference 1988-1990.

He was a member of the Board of the World Energy Council’s Commission ‘Energy for Tomorrow’s World’ 1990-1993. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for Conservation International’s Centre for Environmental Leadership in Business in the US. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Energy Institute.

He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Carbon Disclosure Project. He is a Patron of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association and a Vice-President of Environmental Protection UK.

In 1993 he was appointed to United Nations Environment Programme’s ‘Global 500’ roll of honour. In 1997, he was appointed CBE for services to the environment. He was awarded Royal Humane Society testimonials on Vellum (1968) and Parchment (1970).

James Hoggan, President

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Jim Hoggan is a Canadian public-relations professional and the president and owner of the Vancouver firm Hoggan & Associates.

A law school graduate with a long-standing passion for social justice, Jim also serves as chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, one of Canada’s most influential environmental organizations, and as a Trustee of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education.

Jim is the cofounder of Stonehouse Standing Circle, an innovative public-engagement and communications think-tank, and the former chair of The Climate Project Canada - Al Gore’s global education and advocacy organization.

He also led the Province of British Columbia’s Green Energy Advisory Task Force on Community Relations and First Nations Partnerships.

Jim is the co-founder of the website DeSmogBlog, chosen as one of Time Magazine's Best Blogs for 2011. He has published books on sustainability issues and speaks, writes, and presents widely on public attitudes toward sustainability, climate change, and the environment.

Clarissa Lins, Executive Director

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Based in Rio de Janeiro, Clarissa is Executive Director of the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development – FBDS, a non-profit organization which aims at promoting sustainable development in Brazil. She heads up the corporate sustainability area, where she is responsible for coordinating both consultancy projects and think tank

activities. Clarissa has expertise in helping the major Brazilian companies (e.g. Vale, Banco Itaú, Light, BM&FBovespa, Duratex), focusing both sustainability strategy, management and reporting, as well as raising awareness on the corporate agenda towards sustainability. Clarissa has also served on numerous award panels in Brazil, always related to sustainability practices.

Previously, Clarissa worked for the private and public sectors. At the Ministry of Finance, she was an economic advisor to the team that drafted the stabilization plan (Plano Real). She was advisor to the President of the National Development Bank of Brazil (BNDES), where she was responsible for structuring privatization programs at the State level, as well as project finance in infrastructure.

After that, she worked for the Brazilian oil and gas state owned company (Petrobras), reporting to its CEO. Her principal objectives there were to contribute to the restructuring of the company, as head of Corporate Strategy and responsible for the relationship with the Board of Directors.

She is the author of a book about sustainability and value creation (Sustentabilidade e Geração de Valor, together with David Zylbersztajn) and several papers related to the sustainability agenda in Brazil.

She is an economist and holds a master degree in international economics from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC Rio.

Ndidi Nwuneli, Founder

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Mrs. Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli has seventeen years of experience in international development. She is the co-founder of AACE (African Alliance for Capital Expansion) Foods, an indigenous agro-processing company and a director of Sahel Capital Partners, an advisory firm focused on the agribusiness and manufacturing sectors.

Through her work with Sahel and AACE, she has also shaped agriculture strategy and policy and supported a range of clients in Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia, including ECOWAS, Oxfam International, AGRA, USAID, UNECA, and Technoserve.

She started her career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, working in their Chicago, New York and Johannesburg Offices. She returned to Nigeria in 2000, to fulfill her passion of promoting entrepreneurship and leadership development in Africa.

She served as the pioneer executive director of the FATE Foundation from 2000, and then established LEAP Africa, and NIA in 2002 and 2003 respectively. NIA empowers female university students to achieve their highest potential in life, while LEAP Africa provides leadership, ethics and management training and coaching for youth, business owners, social entrepreneurs and the public sector.

LEAP also conducts leadership research and has published numerous books on succession, governance, ethics, management and leadership.

Ndidi holds a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School and received her undergraduate degree with honors in Multinational and Strategic Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ndidi has received numerous honors and awards. She was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She also received a National Honor - Member of the Federal Republic, from the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Ndidi serves on numerous boards including USAID's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA) and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership.

Charles Secrett, Founder Member

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Charles is a Founder Member of The Robertsbridge Group and a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership.  He has been Chair of the Board of Triodos Renewables, the Triodos Bank’s renewable energy investment fund, since 2004.

He sits on the Advisory Boards for The Ecologist magazine and the Environmental Law Foundation in Britain.  He is a trustee of The Building Exploratory, Hackney and Vice-President of the London Wildlife Trust.

Between 2004 and 2008, he was a Special Advisor on Climate, Environment and Sustainability for The Mayor of London, a Board Member of the London Development Agency, and Chair of its Health and Sustainability Advisory Group. 

He was a member of the UK Government's Round Table (then Commission) for Sustainable Development for ten years from 1993 to 2003.  
He has held advisory and paid positions with a number of companies and NGOs. As Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (1993-2003), Charles led its transformation into becoming, for many years, the UK's leading NGO organisation.

Amongst other jobs, he has previously worked on a variety of environmental research and investigation projects in Brazil, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Nicaragua and Nigeria.  He attended the University of North Carolina on a Morehead Scholarship between 1972-1977. 

Dan Sperling PhD, Director

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Daniel has led ITS-Davis to international prominence by building strong partnerships with industry, government and the environmental community, integrating interdisciplinary research and education programmes, and connecting research with public outreach and education.

In February 2007, the Governor of California appointed Daniel to the board of the California Air Resources Board. His chief responsibilities are related to the state’s climate change, alternatives fuels and zero emission vehicle technology programmes. He also served as co-director of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard study, requested in the Governor’s January 2007 Executive Order.

Daniel is recognised as a leading international expert on transportation technology assessment, energy and environmental aspects of transportation, and transportation policy. He has testified numerous times to the US Congress, California Legislature and various government agencies, and has presented keynote addresses at international conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America.

In the past 25 years, he has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers and nine books. He is a recent member of ten National Academies committees on gasoline taxes, hydrogen, transport in China, biomass fuels R&D, sustainable transportation, and other related topics.

Prior to obtaining his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (with minors in Economics and Energy & Resources), Daniel worked as an environmental planner for the US Environmental Protection Agency and as an urban planner in the Peace Corps in Honduras.

He has an undergraduate degree in engineering and urban planning from Cornell University. From 1999-2000, he was a visiting scholar at OECD (European Conference of Ministers of Transport).