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Julia Hailes is a leading opinion former, freelance consultant and speaker on social, environmental and ethical issues. Her work includes environmental
reviews, management briefings and advising companies on policy, strategy and
communications.
Recent or current clients include: British Gas, Marks & Spencer, McDonalds,
Morrisons, Orange, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser and Shell. And past clients
include: British Airways, Bulmers, Dow Europe, ICI, Novo Nordisk and
Unilever.
Julia Hailes is author or co-author of nine books, including the international No.1 best-selling Green Consumer
Guide published in 1988 and selling over one million copies worldwide. Other books include: Green Pages -
the business of saving the world (1987); The Green Consumer's Supermarket Shopping Guide (1989), The Young
Green Consumer Guide (1990); The Green Business Guide (1991), Holidays that Don't Cost the Earth (1992); Manual
2000 (1998) and The New Foods Guide (1999). Her most recent book, The
New Green Consumer Guide was published in 2007 by Simon & Schuster.
In 1987 Julia Hailes founded SustainAbility Ltd with John Elkington, where she was Director and Company Secretary until 1995.
SustainAbility is a leading edge consultancy with an international profile. Between 1994 and 2000 she was
a non-executive director of Out of this World, a small chain of
'alternative supermarkets' and between 2001 and 2006 a non-executive director of Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust, set up by Jupiter Asset
Management.
Julia Hailes has spoken at conferences, seminars and workshops world-wide including Australia, New Zealand,
Japan, Canada, the US and all over Europe. She is on the books of several speaking agencies and in 2007
made at least 25 presentations during the year. She has also made numerous television and radio
appearances in Britain and abroad including presenting a weekly series of environmental programmes on UK
network television.
In 2003 she co-founded the Haller and is still a Trustee. This
charity supports sustainable living projects, such as farmer trainer, community education and building dams in
Kenya. She also sits on the the Food Ethics Council, which promotes
sustainable food and farming practices and is a Patron of the Ecos Trust,
which provides information and support for green building projects.
Julia Hailes writes regularly for Telegraph online, as well as writing a
Blog. She has been on a number of judging panels including Great Britons both
2005 and 2007, the Green Awards 2006 and the Rushlight Awards for
renewable energy technologies in both 2007 and 2008. In 2008 and 2009 she worked with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) on their Chilling Facts campaign on supermarket refrigeration, which is a major
contributor to global warming.
She wrote a regular monthly column for BBC online and the Western Daily press on food and sustainability
issues; worked with the International Institute of Environment & Development (IIED) on benchmarking
supermarkets progress towards a greener fairer food system; has sat on the UK Eco-labelling Board since it started in 1989 and was appointed Deputy Chair to
its successor the Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment (ACCPE) from 1999 to 2005, when
it was disbanded. And in 2003, Julia stood down from being a District Councillor in South Somerset.
In 1989 Julia Hailes was elected to the UN Global 500 Roll of Honour for
her ‘outstanding environmental achievements'. She was awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours List in 1999. She lives in Somerset with
her three sons, Connor, Rollo and Monty, aged 14, 12 and 10.
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