Amanda Jordan
Chair and Founding Director
Amanda is joint Chair of Corporate Citizenship. She founded the SMART Company in 2001 after a successful in-house career spanning the voluntary and private sectors. In the 1990s she spent 10 years developing and managing an award winning CSR programme for UK Banking Group NatWest. Whilst at NatWest Amanda was an advisor to the UK government on business and social exclusion issues and the development of CSR.
Amanda focuses on high-level strategic advice to a wide range of clients including PWC, Sodexho, and ExxonMobil.
Amanda has a particular interest in the role that business plays in public policy development and has written and edited a number of publications particularly focusing on the boundaries of ‘corporate responsibility’. As well as advising clients on the importance of focused, relevant and measurable CSR programmes Amanda presents on these issues at conferences in the UK and abroad.
Amanda’s interest in responsible business behaviour extends into the field of self-regulation. She is the Non Executive Chair of IWF (regulating illegal content on the internet in the UK) and until recently a Non Executive Director of the Banking Code Standards Board. In addition she is a member of the ICAEW CSR Committee, the ICC CSR Advisory Board at Nottingham University. Amanda’s not for profit roles include Chair of the National Literacy Trust, Trustee of the Baring Foundation and Governor of Mountview Theatre School.