Profiles

Richard is a Senior Advisor to ELEVATE. He joined ELEVATE in 2017 as one of the founders of CSR Asia and later became chairman. He has over 30 years of experience working in the fields of environmental management and social responsibility. He was one of the early pioneers in developing social audit and reporting methodologies with UK-based organizations such as The Body Shop, IBM and Eastern Electricity in the 1990s. Over the past 14 years, he has worked closely with the private sector on developing CSR strategies with an emphasis on Hong Kong. He has worked with some of the leading multinational enterprises and local companies and NGOs in Asia.

Richard has extensive experience in senior management engagement and facilitates all the Board engagement and most of the senior level engagement undertaken by ELEVATE’s Sustainability Consulting team across Asia Pacific. From 2002 to 2010 Richard was also a professor at The University of Hong Kong and headed up the Corporate Environmental Governance Program.

Richard’s work has had a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability and social justice. He has worked on policies and implementation plans covering a range of issues including governance, supply chain risks, human rights, community investment, poverty alleviation, conservation and biodiversity. Richard is also a Director of ERP Environment, a UK based publisher and sits on the Board of AIDS Concern in Hong Kong.