Jason Perks

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Director

Experience

15 years

Nationality

British

Expertise

Sustainability strategy, reporting, assurance, training, facilitation, stakeholder engagement

Other positions

  • Member of the interim standards board for the AccountAbility AA1000 series of standards
  • Member of the technical committee for AccountAbility's AA1000 Assurance Standard and AA1000 Accountability Principles Standard

Career history

  • Independent sustainability consultant and sustainability advisor to Vauxhall Motors, 1996-99
  • Air quality communications researcher, Middlesex University, 1995-96
  • Set builder and model-maker, 1989-95

Education

  • MSc Environmental Technology, Imperial College, UK
  • BSc Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College

Key clients

Guardian News & Media, BP, Rio Tinto, Samsung SDI, Hyundai Motor Company, LG Electronics, GM, BG Group

Career highlights

  • Producing first European automotive industry sustainability report and receiving General Motors Chairman’s Honour for it
  • Producing first comprehensive sustainability management guidelines and toolkit (Project Sigma) that led the way for more recent standards and guidelines
  • Advising a range of leading global brands in Asia as CEO of Two Tomorrows (Asia)
  • Launching the leading IRCA-certified corporate responsibility training programme, now running in three continents
  • Providing what Guardian News & Media believe to be the world’s first online real-time sustainability assurance, with full openness to stakeholder input

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