Thomas Lingard

Experience

Over 10 years broad based commercial and communications experience gained in executive and non-executive roles with leading organisations in both the private and NGO sector, including Unilever, Green Alliance and Oxfam.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and communications skills
• Proven team and organisational leadership skills
• Organisational strategy design and implementation skills
• High level of commercial acumen (ACMA)
• Tri-lingual (English, French, Italian)

• Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA)

  • Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
  • 2004

• Climate Change: the risks we can't afford to take (Editor)

  • Green Alliance
  • 2009
  Authors: Thomas Lingard, Martin Rees, Paul Ekins, Steve Holliday, Ed Mayo, Stephen Hale

  In this series of five thought pieces, five leading commentators were asked to set out exactly how they see the risks that we face and why in their view they are risks we can't afford to take.

• Conservatism in a Changing Climate (Editor)

  • Green Alliance
  • February 2, 2010
  Authors: Thomas Lingard, Ben Caldecott, Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Peter Ainsworth, Tom Burke, Professor Dieter Helm, Greg Clark

  The environmental movement has been catapulted into the heart of UK politics over the last four years. David Cameron and his ’Vote Blue, Go Green‘ mantra has helped to make environmentalism politically mainstream. The additional attention given to environmental problems within the centre-right is encouraging, but there is much still to do to explore the ideological rationale for action on the environment.
  
  With this publication, Conservatism in a changing climate: security, prosperity and a low carbon future, we aim to contribute to that debate, showing that the environment is not simply another issue to be addressed, but a context which brings additional saliency and urgency to traditional centre-right concerns such as security, technology, prosperity and efficiency.

• Creating a Corporate Responsibility Culture

  • in 'CSR From Aspiration to Application' (Kakabadse A. & Morsing, M.), Palgrave Macmillan
  • January 17, 2006
  Authors: Thomas Lingard

  Paper published as part of a collection of international papers aiming to integrate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) theory, research and practice. Shareholder and stakeholder concerns, as well as governance, boardroom and environmental considerations, are explored alongside an examination of the challenges facing managers in regulating and reporting CSR application. The book as a whole makes recommendations for CSR performance enhancement that are complimented by insightful enterprise and government case studies on CSR sustainability. The discussion stretches from an intellectual overview of varying sustainability perspectives to capturing the operational experiences and policy considerations of the individual manager, the enterprise and state.

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• French

  (Professional working proficiency)

• Italian

  (Professional working proficiency)

Interests:

opera, photography, languages, modern art

Groups and Associations:

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Friends of Covent Garden, Associate Member of the Glyndebourne Festival Society, The Wine Society, British Film Institute, Greenpeace, London Cycling Campaign, Transition Town Kingston, Tate Members, The Opera Group

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  BusinessGreen.com Group - UK green professionals
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  CIMA Members (ACMA / FCMA)
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  CSR Europe
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  CSR Geneva
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  Climate Policy Group
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  Corporate Communications Executive Network
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  Durham University Alumni
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  Energy & Utilities Network
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  Ethical Corporation: Business Intelligence for Sustainability
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  Guardian Sustainable Business
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  International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
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  OXFAM / EX-FAM
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  UNILEVER PEOPLE
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  Unilever Alumni Network (7000+ Global members!)
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  base cities