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Iain Thom
Iain’s recent research interests have included Scotland’s new planning regime, pollution legislation and community environmental action in India. He studied Environmental Geoscience at Edinburgh University. After a year running Friends of the Earth Scotland’s education programme with Queen Margaret University he is now coordinating the Carbon Accountability Programme.

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Dr. Craig Mackenzie, University of Edinburgh (Advisory group chair)
Director of the Carbon Benchmarking Project at the Edinburgh University School of Management and one of the UK’s most experienced corporate responsibility benchmarkers. Craig previously directed the Centre for Ethics in Public Policy and Corporate Governance at Glasgow Caledonian University he is also a member of advisory boards for FTSE4Good, the Global Reporting Initiative, Responsible Investment Metrics, and Fair Pensions. Craig was also Head of Investor Responsibility at Insight Investment and, before that, Director of Governance and SRI at Friends, Ivory and Sime.

Prof. Andy Gouldson, Director of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Director of the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds.
Recent research projects have examined the implementation and impact of different forms of environmental policy and regulation, the impacts of `right to know' legislation on the relations between business, regulators and community/pressure groups, the links between CSR processes and outcomes and the links between variations in corporate environmental performance and levels of social deprivation in local communities.

Prof. Rob Gray
Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting and Director of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) at the University of St Andrews. Rob is a qualified chartered accountant and was editor of Social and Environmental Accounting Journal from 1991 to 2007. He has published over 250 books, chapters, articles and monographs and his books include Accounting for the Environment and Accounting and accountability: Changes and challenges in corporate social and environmental reporting.

Dr. Belinda Howell, decarbonize
Belinda is the founder of decarbonize, accelerating business solutions towards a low carbon economy. Previously she was chief executive of Greenstone Carbon Management and European Director of URS Sustainable Solutions. As Director of Business in the Environment, she worked with business leaders across the FTSE 350. At Boots she developed environmental and ethical policies including in product stewardship and supply chain. She has led work with companies such as Unilever, HSBC, Fortis, The Body Shop, National Grid, United Utilities and Xstrata and in the public sector the UK Environment Agency and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the G8 summit. PhD in Biochemistry and MBA.

Duncan Mclaren, Friends of the Earth Scotland
Duncan joined Friends of the Earth Scotland as Chief Executive in May 2003. He has been an environmental activist, researcher and campaigner for over 15 years, working for much of that time at Friends of the Earth (England Wales and Northern Ireland), where he developed policy and managed research and campaigns on national and international sustainable development issues. He is currently a member of the UK Research Councils Energy Programme Scientific Advisory Committee, of the UK Green Fiscal Commission and of the editorial board of the Local Environment journal. Duncan holds masters level qualifications in Geography, Environmental Policy and Business Administration.

Andrea Smith, Carbon Disclosure Project, Technical Manager
Prior to joining CDP, Andrea worked for a Member of the European Parliament who sat on the Environment Committee. She began writing about sustainability 15 years ago since when she has had seven books published together with numerous articles. Her last major freelance project was a report into Information and Communication Technologies and Sustainability for the Society of Information Technology Managers.

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