Peter is Director for Global Sustainability at P&G. Based in Newcastle, UK, he chairs P&G’s Sustainability Leadership Council - the global, business-wide group responsible for developing and delivering P&G’s new 5-year Sustainability Strategy and Goals.

Peter also leads P&G’s Global Sustainability Department.  This corporate group supports the global business units, manages sustainability issues and reports progress against the company sustainability goals.  It also delivers P&G’s Philanthropic program around the world, which includes the corporate cause –Live, Learn and Thrive, helping children in need, and the Children’s Safe Drinking Water program which has so far delivered over a billion litres of clean water in developing countries.

Peter is actively involved in the work of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and has written and spoken widely on sustainability issues.  A biologist by training, Peter has worked for P&G for 17 years in the areas of Environmental Management, Lifecycle Assessment and Integrated Solid Waste Management.

Prior to joining P&G he researched and taught Biological and Environmental Science at the Universities of Oxford, California (Berkeley) and Arizona (Tucson), and also spent three years as a volunteer teacher in Nigeria with VSO.

He is married with 3 children, and loves sailing, cycling and walking.