Gavin Milligan- Group Sustainability Director, William Jackson Food Group

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  Speaker Bio:

  Dr Gavin Milligan holds a PhD from the University of London and worked for 9 years in the chemical industry before moving to the food sector. He has worked for a number of businesses ranging from SMEs to blue chip corporates in supply chain, operations and commercial roles and is currently Group Sustainability Director for the William Jackson Food Group where he is responsible for the company’s social and environmental programmes. He is a Member Director of Sedex, sits on the Management Committee of FoodWasteNet and the consumer sustainable lifestyles engagement working group at IGD, is a committee member of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s agriculture sector group, chairs the Agri-food member interest group at Campden BRI and sits on the Industrial Advisory Board at Sheffield Hallam University’s centre for excellence in food engineering He is also a former member of the FDF’s sustainability steering group and WRAP’s Product Sustainability Forum

  Presentation Title:

  Collaboration in action – a case study

  Presentation Synopsis:

  Much of the coverage of initiatives around sustainability understandably focuses on the activities of large organisations. With constrained resources, SMEs may not have as much opportunity to engage. In this talk we present a case study on a current initiative at the William Jackson Food Group aimed at giving SMEs a voice in how we run collaborative projects.

 

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