James Madoc-Jones
James works as a Manager in the Business Services team. He supports corporates to understand and measure the environmental impact of their entire activities, both operational and in their value chains. He supports corporates to set science-based targets through feasibility analysis and provides assurance on their environmental impact activities.
His expertise lies in the food and food-retail sector, having worked with in a range of clients from primary processing to retail. He also has experience in agricultural model development.
He has worked on a number of advisory projects, including defining sustainability strategies for major companies and the development of science-based reduction targets in a range of sectors. Following a First Class BSc in Geography from Durham University, he obtained a distinction in Climate Change (MSc) from University College London.
Dr David Black
Cliona Duffy
Cliona is the Head of Partnerships, at RSPCA Assured, the RSPCA’s welfare assurance scheme for farmed animals. Cliona leads engagement and collaboration with the retail and foodservice sectors, encouraging and supporting them to adopt higher welfare sourcing. Prior to RSPCA Assured, Cliona started her career in buying, before moving into managing commercial partnerships at a number of large UK charities, most recently leading the Retail Partnerships team at Fairtrade Foundation.
Koen Boone
Koen Boone is coordinator Sustainable Value Chains at Wageningen University and Research and is Director Europe of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC, www.sustainabilityconsortium.org). Koen has 20+ years of experience in developing sustainability assessment systems on all kind of levels (product, company, farm, sector). He worked on the Food Processing guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and is a member of several advisory committees including an ecolabel (Foundation Earth) and an impact investment fund. Koen chairs the Dutch working group that is working on an Ecolabel for all food items sold in the Netherlands.
Vivenne Harris
Vivienne is from a livestock farming background in South Wales, graduating from Harper Adams in 2005 with a BSc Hons in Agri-food production with marketing and management and following that she completed an MSc in Meat Science at Bristol University in 2006. She has spent the last 17 years working in both the poultry and red meat sector with roles at PD Hook, 2 Sisters, Randall Parker Foods, ABP and most recently Map of Ag , before joining the Agriculture team at M&S at the end of August.
