Julia Hailes

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Julia Hailes is a leading opinion former, freelance consultant and keynote and conference speaker on social, environmental and ethical issues.  Her work includes environmental reviews, management briefings and advising companies on policy, strategy and communications.     

Julia 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. 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. 

Clients worked for

Recent or current clients include:  Marks & Spencer, McDonalds, Morrisons, Numis Investment Bank, Orange,  Procter & Gamble and Shell.  And past clients include:  British Airways, Bulmers, Dow Europe, ICI, Novo Nordisk and Unilever.

Author

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: What’s here, what’s coming, what it means for us’’  (1999).  Her most recent book, The New Green Consumer Guide  was published in 2007 by Simon & Schuster.

Julia also regularly contributes to her blog, click here to read what Julia has been writing about recently.

SustainAbility Ltd

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. 

In 2003 she helped set up the Haller Foundation, and 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 is a Patron of the Ecos Trust, which promotes green building practices. 

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 first Rushlight Awards for renewable energy technologies in 2007 and 2008.  She is currently helping the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) with a 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. 

 What others think of Julia...

"Julia Hailes is an inspiring speaker who really brought our seminar alive with her pithy personal insights, and funny stories, which she uses to push home important points.  Her talk was well liked by our audience"  

 The Food and Drink Innovation Network, Food Ethics Seminar, April 2008.

"We were surprised and delighted at the detailed depth of knowledge that Julia Hailes had on environmental issues"    

Shell - Feb 08

"Julia had a great impact at our sustainability conference." 

Reckitt Benckiser, July 08
 
"Your speech was well appreciated.  It was good to have some challenging views." 

AISE - European Soaps & Detergetn Industry Association, June 2008
 
"Most of all, a BIG thanks - you created a very good buzz for the rest of the day."  

Bob Langer, Head of CSR, McDonalds, May 07

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