Andy Wales
Current Position
Group Head of Sustainable Development, SABMiller plc
Sustainability Experience
Andy Wales is Group Head of Sustainable Development for SABMiller plc, one of the world's largest brewers. He leads the group's approach to prioritising economic, social and environmental issues within its business plans, including risks such as water scarcity and market opportunities such as promoting local enterprise development. He spends much of his time helping his organisation and others understand the connections, opportunities and trade offs between the linked resource challenges of water, agriculture, climate change and energy.
Previously Andy held Corporate Responsibility Director roles at the environmental services group Severn Trent, and textiles firm Interface, Inc.
He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, a masters degree in Sustainable Development Strategy from Middlesex University and a BA in English and International Development from Sussex University.
In 2009 he was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and of Forum for the Future.
Definition of Sustainable Development and why it is important for London
Cities are great places to live, and London is one of the best, but as we live day to day each of us has a large environmental footprint. We buy food, clothes and other goods from all over the world, and they all take energy, water and other resources to make them. Let's make London a world-leading low impact city, where we think globally about what we consume every day.
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