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The External Review Committee members
Our External Review Committee members bring a deep understanding of our main sustainability issues. Find out more here about the individual committee members.
Aron Cramer
Aron Cramer
Committee Chair
President and CEO
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) - opens in new window
Aron joined BSR in 1995 as the founding director of its Business and Human Rights Program, and in 2002, he opened BSR's Paris office, where he worked until becoming President and CEO in 2004.
Previously, Aron practiced law in San Francisco and worked as a journalist at ABC News in New York.. Aron is recognized globally as an authority on corporate responsibility by leaders in business and NGOs and by his peers in the field. He travels the world delivering insightful advice on achieving sustainable business success to C-level executives of BSR's 250 member companies and other global brands, at major events like the World Economic Forum in Davos and to a range of media outlets. Under his leadership, BSR has doubled its staff and significantly expanded its global presence.
Rebecca Adamson
Rebecca Adamson
President and Founder
First Peoples Worldwide - opens in new window
Rebecca has worked directly with grassroots tribal communities, and nationally as an advocate of local tribal issues since 1970. She started First Nations Development Institute in 1980 and First Peoples Worldwide in 1997. Rebecca’s work established a new field of culturally appropriate, values-driven development which created: the first reservation-based microenterprise loan fund in the United States; the first tribal investment model; a national movement for reservation land reform; and legislation that established new standards of accountability regarding federal trust responsibility for Native Americans. Rebecca is active in many non-profit organizations and served on several Boards. Over past two decades, Rebecca has received numerous awards for her work with Indigenous peoples. Rebecca holds a M.Sc in Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she also teaches a graduate course on Indigenous Economics within the Community Economic Development Program
Philippa Foster
Philippa Foster
Director
The Institute for Business Ethics - opens in new window
- opens in new windowSince taking a degree in Geography at University College London, Philippa has over 25 years of business experience. She began her career at Citibank NA before joining Bowater in their Corporate Treasury Department in 1979, leaving in 1988 as Group Treasurer. She was Group Finance Director at DG Gardner Group, a training organisation, prior to joining Thorn EMI in 1993 as Group Treasurer until 2000. In 2001 she was appointed Director of the Institute of Business Ethics. As Director of the Institute she is responsible for implementing strategy, leading the team and ensuring that the Institute meets its charitable aims, of raising awareness and spreading best practice in the field of business ethics. The Institute undertakes six key activities: advisory work with companies; events; research and publications; training; education through university academics; and advocacy work in the wider business context. She has a number of external appointments, including at the Institute of Directors where she sits on the Board and the Professional Accreditation Committee; and the Association of Corporate Treasurers, where she was President from 1999 to 2000. In 2002 she was appointed a Commissioner of the Public Works Loan Board.
In 2006 she was awarded the OBE for services to the Ministry of Defence where she was formerly a NED and Chair of the Defence Audit Committee.
Karin Ireton
Karin Ireton
Director of Group Sustainability Management
Standard Bank Group
- opens in new windowBefore joining Standard Bank Group, Karin worked as the Head of Sustainable Development Markets and Economics at Anglo American plc. She has been involved in the field of environmental and sustainable development policy since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and has participated in numerous international programmes, international think tanks and UN events around Sustainable Development. Karin was centrally involved in the international and local business community substantive preparations for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, including active participation in the Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development project. During the World Summit, Karin represented the business community in the high-level, multi-stakeholder roundtable debate on biodiversity and poverty alleviation, convened by the Secretary-General to inform negotiators about key issues. She has worked as a journalist for The Star and the Financial Mail, in a variety of roles at the Industrial Environmental Forum of Southern Africa and was a sustainable energy strategist in Eskom's long-term energy planning department. She holds a Master's degree in International Political Economy from the University of Leeds, which was awarded with distinction for her work on Trade and Sustainable Development.
Dr. Ligia Noronha
Dr. Ligia Noronha
Senior Fellow
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - opens in new window
Ligia is a Senior Fellow of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India, and Director of the Resources and Global Security Division. She has an M.A. in Economics from the University of Bombay, and an M.Sc in Sea Use Law, Economics, and Policy, and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Her work at TERI includes research into energy security, minerals development, sustainable tourism, coastal area management, and issues relating to climate change. She has co-ordinated and worked on a large number of research projects. Globally, she is associated with the Mining and Energy Research Network, UK, and was on the Global Assurance Group of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project of the IIED. She was involved with the Population Consumption and Environment Network. She is on several scientific review panels and on the international Editorial Boards of Ecohealth and Experimental Agriculture.
David Runnalls
David Runnalls
President
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - opens in new window
David is a member of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University. He is a member of the Advisory Council for Export Development Canada; and a member of the Council for Sustainable Development Technology Canada. He also serves on the International Sustainability Innovation Council of Switzerland (ISIS). He has served as Co-Chair of the China Council Task Force on WTO and Environment. David was the Leopold Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He served as Chair of the Adjudication Panel for the ALCAN Prize for Sustainability. David has also served as Senior Advisor to the President of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, Canada, and to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. He was Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Programme at the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Ottawa. He worked with Barbara Ward to found the International Institute for Environment and Development and directed both its London and Washington offices. David was the Canadian Board member of IUCN-the World Conservation Union for six years. He served as a member of the Boards of the World Environment Center (New York), IIED (London) and Pollution Probe (Toronto).
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