Chris is managing partner and co-founder of Sustainable Value Partners. He provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the world’s largest companies to transform societal opportunities and risks into sources of competitive advantage. He has led over 100 executive seminars and spoken widely on “Sustainability for strategic advantage” inside companies and at leading business schools including Case Weatherhead, Cornell, and the European business school INSEAD in the Advanced Management Seminar and CEDEP Executive Education program.

For nearly ten years, he was an executive at Lafarge S.A., a world leader in building materials, holding positions as head of strategy, general manager of a manufacturing subsidiary, and vice president of business development. Prior to that he spent five years with Deloitte Touche, where he consulted on strategy to global industry leaders.

Educated at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and the University of Paris, Chris earned a Ph.D. in Economics and Management Science.  He is the author of The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance, Island Press, October 2003. (Paperback July 2005.)

His new book is, Sustainable Value: How Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good, Stanford University Press (US) and Greenleaf Publishing (UK), January 2008.