ADVISORY PANEL

At the time of GoodCorporation’s launch, Lord Sharman, former global head of KPMG, chaired and set up an Advisory Panel for GoodCorporation. This gave guidance to the organisation on its mission and strategy.

Advisory panel members serve in a personal capacity, and do not receive any payment. The founding Advisory Panel members still make themselves available to GoodCorporation as needed to give advice on business strategy and development issues.

The Founding Advisory Panel was chaired by:

Lord Sharman – Formerly the Chairman of KPMG Worldwide and now Chairman of Aviva plc. He is the Liberal Democrat spokesman for trade and industry in the House of Lords.

The other members of the panel are:

John Brackenbury CBE – John Brackenbury is Chairman of Business in Sport & Leisure and former Chairman of Pubmaster Ltd.

Sir Alan Budd (retired from the Panel in 2003) – Professor Sir Alan Budd is The Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford. He is a former Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Government and Permanent Secretary at the Treasury. Sir Alan was a Professor at London Business School and the London School of Economics (LSE).

Sir Anthony Cleaver – Sir Anthony Cleaver is Chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. He was formerly Chairman of AEA Technology plc, a company that he led from public ownership through privatisation. He was also formerly Chairman and Chief Executive of IBM and chaired the RSA Inquiry into “Tomorrow’s Company.”He has been a Deputy Chairman of Business in the Community and was Chairman of Business in the Environment.

Julia Cleverdon CBE – Julia Cleverdon has been chief executive of Business in the Community since 1992. She was previously Director of the Industrial Society’s Education and Inner Cities Division. She is a Director to the Prince’s Trust Volunteers and Gifts in Kind UK, a Trustee of Natwest Bank Group Charitable Trust, and a Governor of Henley Management College.

Bennett Freeman – Bennett Freeman is the Senior Vice President of Social Research and Policy at the Calvert Group in the USA. He was formerly Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility at Burson-Marsteller US and former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour under Clinton administration.

Baroness Greengross – Baroness Greengross chairs the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility and has advised several Governments on social policy. She is a Commissioner on the UK’s Commission for Equality and Human Rights. She is the former Director General of Age Concern England and currently Vice President for Europe of the International Federation on Ageing. She has been an advisor/consultant to the UN and to the World Health Organisation.

Will Hutton – Will Hutton is Chief Executive of The Work Foundation (formerly the Industrial Society). He was previously Editor-in-Chief of the Observer and Director of the Guardian National Newspapers. He is well known as the author of several books, including The State We Are In, which sets out a stakeholder model for the UK economy.

Geoff Lane – Geoff Lane is a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and leads its Global Sustainability Solutions Group. He is an expert in social and environmental accounting.

Michael Leahy – Michael Leahy is General Secretary of Community, (formerly ISTC), the steel and community union. He has been in the steel industry and the trade union movement all his working life.

Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DCMG – Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas was the fomer chair of the Policy and Resources Committee for the Corporation of London. She was a member of the Mayor of London’s cabinet advising on city and business issues as well as Special Adviser to the Chairman of Clifford Chance. She was formerly a law lecturer in New Zealand and London.

Rory Murphy – Rory Murphy is the former Joint General Secretary of the banking employee union Unifi.

Dame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG – Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is a former governor of the BBC. At the Foreign and Commonwealth Office she became political director and deputy under-secretary. She was foreign policy adviser to John Major and led the UK delegation at the Dayton peace conference on Bosnia. She was then appointed a managing director of Natwest Markets and vice-chair of Hawkpoint Partners, a member of the NatWest Group.

Vicky Pryce – Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser at the DTI. She was formerly chairman of GoodCorporation, partner and Chief Economist at KPMG, and partner at London Economics.

Sir Peter Walters –
Sir Peter Walters was Chairman of British Petroleum Company plc from 1981 to 1990. He was Chairman of Midland Bank plc from 1991 to 1994, Deputy Chairman of EMI plc from 1990 to 1999 and Deputy Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc from 1992 to 2001. He was a director of the Post Office and of the National Westminster Bank. He is the President of the Institute of Business Ethics Council.

Jenny Watson – Jenny Watson is a human rights consultant, specialising in compliance with the Human Rights Act. She was formerly the Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission and Chair of the Fawcett Society. She is an independent director of the Banking Codes Standards Board and is Chair of the Transparency Independent Review P