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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.
Clients
with whom she has worked include: British Airways, Bulmers, Cargill Dow,
Dow Europe, ICI, Novo Nordisk, Tioxide, and Unilever. More recent or
current clients include: Marks & Spencer, McDonalds, Morrisons,
Numis Investment Bank, Procter & Gamble and Shell.
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. In 2007 she made
at least 25 presentations during the year and is on the books of
several speaking agencies. 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 helped set up
the Haller
Foundation, and in 2008 she is still a Trustee. This charity
supports environmental conservation through grass routes initiatives such
as farmer training and community education. She also sits on
the the Food
Ethics Council, which promotes more sustainable food and farming
practices and the board or the Ecos
Trust, which promotes green building practices.
Julia
Hailes has been on a number of judging panels including Great
Britons both 2005 and 2007, the Green Awards 2006 and the first Rushlight
Awards, for renewable energy technologies,
which was held in 2007. She has written 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
13, 11 and 9.
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