Mr Jeff Seabright
Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever, UK
Jeff Seabright is current Chief Sustainability Officer of Unilever, where he is responsible for driving, through advocacy and partnerships, transformational change on priority areas of Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan: climate change and eliminating deforestation; sustainable agriculture & smallholder farmers; water, sanitation and hygiene; and opportunities for women. Previously, he served as Vice President for Environmental and Water Resources at the Coca-Cola Company. During the Clinton Administration in 1993, he worked for the head of the US Agency for International Development, later serving as the Director of the Office of the Energy, Environment and Technology. He moved to the White House in 1999 where he served as the Executive Director of the Climate Change Task Force. In 2000, he left government to work for the CEO of Texaco in NY as Vice-President, Policy Planning. Board memberships include: National Council on Science & Environment, WEF Global Advisory Council on Forestry (Chair); World Environment Center; ERB Institute for Global Social Enterprise, University of Michigan; Global Water Challenge