Dave Knight

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Group director

Experience

13 years

Nationality

British

Expertise

Strategy development, training, reporting, producer responsibility. Lead Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner (Lead CSAP) Experienced conference speaker and workshop facilitator, and author of articles, guidelines and chapters in specialist CR and sustainable development titles.

Other positions

Previously on the advisory board of WWF’s One Planet Business programme. Partner manager for Project SIGMA, which produced the SIGMA guidelines, the precursor of many of today’s leading sustainability approaches and standards.

Career history

  • Independent sustainability consultant, 1998-1999
  • Renewable energy researcher, Energy for Sustainable Development, 1996-1997
  • Consultant manager, RM Consulting, 1994-96
  • Balancer and juggler, 1991-94

Education

MSc Environmental Technology, Imperial College, UK

Key clients

Tieto, InBev, Royal Mail, DFDS, United Utilities, RWE npower, Scottish Power, Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Samsung SDI, LG Electronics, Nationwide Building Society

Career highlights

  • Sharing learning from leading many training courses including the world's first International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA)-certified (now AccountAbility certified) course in CR, stakeholder engagement, reporting and assurance
  • Helping improve the credibility of the sustainability discipline by feeding into the development of the AA1000 Assurance Standard

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