Philip Dobie - Chair of the Board

Philip Dobie took over as Chair of Stakeholder Forum in May 2010. He is an international development professional with over 30 years experience. He has lived and worked extensively in Latin America, Africa and the United States as well as the United Kingdom. He originally trained in natural sciences and worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from 1993 to 2010. He was most recently the Director of the UNDP Environment Cluster in Nairobi, which includes the UNDP Drylands Development Centre and the Poverty Environment Facility which is a joint UNDP/United Nations Environment Programme global initiative. Prior to this he was the Global Coordinator for UNDP's Capacity 21 from 1993 to 1999. Capacity 21 was a global programme designed to help countries to develop capacities to implement Agenda 21(the global agenda for sustainable development agreed at the Earth Summit in 1992).

Before working with UNDP he worked for the UK Overseas Development Agency from 1986 to 1993. He began his career as an agricultural researcher with the United Kingdom Government and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research and before moving to UNDP was Senior Advisor in Environment and Research for Africa.

Derek Osborn - President of the Board

Derek served 30 years in the Civil Service, the latter 6 years as Director General for Environmental Protection with the Department of the Environment until his retirement in 1996. He represented the United Kingdom and was Chair of the Management Board of the European Environment Agency (1995-1999). He was on the Board of the Environment Agency for England and Wales (1996-98), having been involved with its planning and creation. He has been a non-executive director of Severn Trent PLC, and chair of Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust. He is involved with several environmental organisations including the Institute of International Environmental Development (IIED) where he is vice chair.  He is also a Trustee of the Green Alliance.

Emmanuel Lebaut

Emmanuel is a Transformation Director at BT Group, one of the world’s leading communication services firms. Since he joined BT in 2005, Emmanuel has played a key role in the transformation of BT into a global, customer-focused provider of converged IT and telecommunications services. He led the creation of a new, 13,000-people strong operations unit, and engaged stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to drive the design and implementation of a common operating model. Previously Emmanuel spent seven years as a consultant, progressively specialising in change management and transformation. Emmanuel’s international consulting experience extends to both the private and public sector, notably BNP Paribas, and more latterly, the World Bank where he developed a change management strategy for the Bank’s ICT division. He has also worked extensively in Africa, Eastern and Western Europe as an international consultant for BNP Paribas.

Mehjabeen Price

Mehjabeen is currently the Director of Finance and Operations at South West Screen.  She started her career at First Women Bank in Pakistan in 1995.  During her time there she was awarded a scholarship from the Bank of England to complete an MBA at the University of Exeter in 1999.  Before joining South West Screen, Mehjabeen was a staff member at Stakeholder Forum responsible for the organisations finance and operations as well as its national policy and programme activities on environmental issues.  She was also the Deputy Director of the UN Association UK.

Felix Dodds

Felix has played a critical role in promoting multi-stakeholder dialogue at the UN. From 1997 to 2001 he chaired the NGO Coalition on Sustainable Development at the UN. He facilitated the setting up of the international NGO Coalition for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and the UN Habitat II Conference. He has been an advisor to the UK and Danish Governments and the European Commission at a number of UN meetings. He has published seven books, the latest edited with Andrew Higham and Richard Sherman is called Climate Change and Energy Insecurity, the previous one with Tim Pipard Human and Environmental Security brought out for the World Summit 2005 and was nominated as best environmental book of 2005. Felix has become a regular contributor to the BBC Green Room and other media outlets.

Craig Bennett - Vice Chair of the Board

Craig Bennett is Director of Policy and Campaigns at Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), one of the UK's most influential environmental organisations. He is the organisation's lead campaigner and policy strategist, representing the charity with Government and other key lobbying contacts and leading its tactical response to the changing political and policy context.

From 2007 to 2010, Craig was Deputy Director at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) and, in this role, was Director of The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (CLG). During this time, he built The Corporate Leaders Group into one of the most influential and progressive business voices in the international climate debate, primarily through its series of hard-hitting, punchy statements in support of a strong, effective and equitable global climate deal. The most recent of these, The Copenhagen Communiqué, secured the support of over 950 companies from more than 60 countries and was widely seen as the definitive progressive statement from the international business community ahead of the UN climate conference in Copenhagen (see www.copenhagencommunique.com).

He maintains his links with the University of Cambridge, both as a Senior Associate of the Programme for Sustainability Leadership and as a visiting Programme Director at the Judge Business School. He is also Vice-Chair of Stakeholder Forum (the UNEP National Committee for the UK) and a Teaching Fellow on sustainability at the Department of Engineering at The University of Bristol.

Prior to joining CPSL, Craig was the Head of the Corporates and Trade Campaign at Friends of the Earth. He also sat on the Executive Committee of Friends of the Earth International, the Steering Group of the Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition and was a Board Member of the Trade Justice Movement (TJM).

He has a BSc (Hons) in Human and Physical Geography and an MSc in Biodiversity Conservation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

He is a regular contributor to various publications including National Geographic Green.

Craig Jones

Craig Jones is Director of Government Affairs for Alstom, a power, transport and grid multinational company. (www.alstom.com) He has extensive government experience having worked in several departments, including the Department of Energy + Climate Change and the Foreign Office. Craig has spent most of his career on energy and climate policy, including UN, EU, G8 and G20 international negotiations. Craig worked in Paris for four years as the UK's representative at the International Energy Agency and on environment policies at the OECD. He was Private Secretary to the Minister for the Environment (1997-99); and established the UK's National Forest in 1995 (at that time the UK's largest environment project).

Charles Nouhan

Charles is an environmental manager in local government, where develops and oversees recycling and waste minimisation initiatives and most recently designed and implemented a recycling scheme for small and medium size businesses.

As Deputy Director and UK Co-ordinator of Stakeholder Forum (2000 to 2002), Charles worked alongside Felix Dodds and Derek Osborn in the run-up to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development. From 1998 to 1999 he was a project manager and advisor to the directors of the International Hotels Environment Initiative and the Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, both programmes of the International Business Leaders Forum.

In addition to his role at Stakeholder Forum, Charles sits on the Advisory Committee of the Resource Recovery Forum, and is an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.

Philippa Drew CB

Philippa Drew became a Member of the Board of the Stakeholder Forum in June 2011. She has been a Trustee of the Coalition for the International Court for the Environment since 2009 and a Vice-Chairman since 2011. She retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 2006 as Director, Global Issues with responsibility among other issues for human rights, climate change, sustainable development, the UN and the Commonwealth after a 34 year career in the Home Office, FCO and the Department for Culture Media and Sport.

Philippa is Special Adviser to the Board of Cancerkin, a breast cancer charity. She was a Trustee of the Oxford Research Group, which promotes a more sustainable approach to security for the UK and the world from 2007 to 2010 and a member of the London Probation Board 2007-2008. Philippa was Field Director for Save The Children Fund in Kathmandu, Nepal 1985-1987 and Chair of the Soho Family Centre, a charity providing children’s services to those who live or work in Soho, for 8 years from 1998-2006.