CTPA Sustainability Summit - 'Think Sustainable, Act Positive'

Christines role involves guiding CTPA and its members through CTPA's Sustainability Strategy, 'Driving Towards a Net Positive Cosmetics Industry'. By building capacity within CTPA and membership, fostering collaborations and advocating on behalf of the industry, Christine works to better understand the challenges facing us all to focus on industry-wide solutions. Christine manages the Sustanability Committee and leads the Association's engagement with key sustainability stakeholders. Christine is also responsible for coordinating industry responses to Government consultations under its Resources & Waste Strategy. 

Christines role is to also assist those developing and manufacturing cosmetic products, advising on the technical aspects of testing and Good Manufacturing Practice, including microbiology. 

"This Sustainability Summit hosted by the CTPA was originally planned for May 2020.  Then COVID-19 swept through our lives, leaving a trail of disruption and human devastation on a scale not seen since a world war.  COVID also laid bare the hard truth that despite the efforts of so many in the sustainability field, at the start of the pandemic we weren’t any closer to dealing with many of our sustainability challenges.  However, with a system shock such as COVID, comes an opportunity for system transformation.  As we head into 2021, the possibility of deep and lasting systemic change for sustainability has never been greater.  This Summit will explore how we might translate that possibility into reality."

Sally joined Forum for the Future, then a not-for-profit based solely in the UK, in 2002. Previously Deputy CEO, Sally was appointed Chief Executive in 2013. Since then, she has spearheaded Forum’s mission to create a more sustainable future by catalysing transformational change in key global systems. Over this period, Sally has overseen Forum’s substantial growth into new markets while honing its focus on ensuring Forum makes a positive contribution to three global challenges: the climate crisis and ensuring the sustainability of our global food system and value chains.

Sally oversees the delivery of Forum’s programmatic work through a team of more than 80 sustainability professionals across offices in London, Singapore, New York and Mumbai. As part of this, she works with leading global players, including businesses such as Unilever and Olam, foundations such as the Laudes Foundation, and membership organisations such as Sedex, both in one-to-one partnerships, and also as part of multi-stakeholder collaborations designed to address complex challenges in systems as diverse as food, energy, apparel and shipping.

Currently, Sally is directly involved in a number of projects including Cotton 2040, a multi-stakeholder collaboration designed to accelerate the mainstreaming of sustainable cotton, and the Protein Challenge, a global coalition focusing on how we can feed growing global populations in ways that are healthy, affordable and good for the planet. Sally also helped initiate Net Positive, a coalition of leading businesses, all working to define the next wave of corporate sustainability. Striving towards Net Positive requires a focus on regenerative business practice, one of the reasons Sally is passionate about scaling practices such as Regenerative Agriculture. Sally is currently involved in our first US project in this area.

The global challenges we face cannot be tackled by any one person or organisation alone and Sally plays a key role in inspiring and equipping others to deliver systems change for sustainability. She recently advised the United Nations Global Compact on how it can ensure its actions on health and wellbeing have the potential to deliver multiple benefits across multiple systems. She also regularly speaks at international and national conferences and writes for a range of publications to influence the debate on sustainability issues - particularly now the decade of delivery, and the urgency it commands, is upon us. Her articles have featured in wide-ranging publications such as the New Statesman, Huffington Post, Management Today and The Independent. Sally is also helping build Forum’s School of System Change, a global community of change agents focused on accelerating progress towards a sustainable future.

With almost 30 years’ experience in sustainability, Sally acts an independent advisor on Advisory Boards for several global businesses, including Kimberly Clark, Kingfisher and Burberry. She is also an Advisory Board member for Sustainable Brands and Johnson and Johnson’s Earthwards Board. In 2018, she was the independent Chair of DFID’s Business Partnership Fund, part of the Business Innovation Facility. She acts as a judge for a number of sustainability award schemes, including the Queens Award for Sustainable Development.

In December 2017, Sally received an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for services to sustainability in business. In 2019, she was ranked number one on Assent’s list of Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders.

Graham has 30 years of experience advising on public affairs, political risk, corporate communications, issue and crisis management, stakeholder engagement, sustainability and corporate responsibility in the UK, the EU and globally.

Alongside his UK public affairs and strategic communications work, Graham is one of the leaders of the Global Government and Public Affairs practice, leads on Brexit and regularly advises major companies and investors on political risk alongside Teneo's risk, consulting and governance teams. Graham was a board director at Fishburn Hedges for over a decade before co-founding the award winning consultancy Open Road in 2007.

Open Road joined what is now Teneo in 2014.

John Chave was educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Exeter in the UK.

He is a lawyer by training and he has worked in the health field in London and Brussels.

He was Secretary General of the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU), a post he had held from 2006 to 2015.

Since then, he has been Director General of Cosmetics Europe.

Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster and campaigner on sustainable development. Established in 1996, Forum for the Future is now the UK’s leading sustainable development charity, with 70 staff and over 100 partner organisations, including some of the world’s leading companies. The Forum has a growing presence in the United States, and is doing more and more work in India, Singapore and Malaysia.

In addition, Jonathon is President of Population Matters, President of The Conservation Volunteers, a Non-Executive Director of Willmott Dixon Holdings, and a Director of Collectively (an online platform celebrating sustainable innovation). He is a Trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, and is involved in the work of many NGOs and charities as Patron, Chair or Special Adviser.

He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90), co-chair of the Green Party (1980-83), of which he is still a member, a Trustee of WWF UK (1991-2005), and a member of the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency (1999-2008). He stood down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in July 2009, after nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers.

Jonathon was installed as the Chancellor of Keele University in February 2012.

His latest book is ‘The World We Made’ (Phaidon 2013), providing a positive vision of how we get to be living in a fair and sustainable world in 2050. Previous books include Capitalism As If The World Matters (Earthscan, revised 2007).

Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection. 

Zoe ensures that Forum's partnerships are impactful and create maximum change for a more sustainable future. This includes managing partnerships with corporate sustainability leaders such as Walgreens Boots Alliance, Unilever and SIG and equipping the Forum team to do the same.

Zoe is passionate about helping organisations put back more than they take out, and has used futures techniques, and systems thinking with multinationals such as Pearson and Amazon to devise ambitious sustainability strategies. She leads Forum’s Net Positive thinking which includes co-leading The Net Positive Project with BSR and SHINE bringing together big corporates such as AT&T, Target and Dell, to help set and implement Net Positive strategies and build the movement of companies who take this ambitious approach.