Corporate Citizenship

David is joint Chair of Corporate Citizenship. He began working on corporate responsibility in 1980 when he joined Levi Strauss & Co in Europe. He later became Director of Special Programs based in San Francisco, where he researched and managed a wide range of ethics, community, social responsibility and environmental concerns worldwide. From 1988 he consulted in the field in the USA and in 1996, was a co-founder of The Corporate Citizenship Company in London.

He has worked extensively on corporate social responsibility issues in Europe, the USA and more than 30 emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America. He advises on CSR and sustainability strategy and has done pioneering work in management and social reporting systems to, measure and report corporate responsibility across all company stakeholders.
Project work has been undertaken globally for companies such as Unilever, Diageo and Vodafone, and in local markets for Ford India and Guinness Nigeria. His work for Cadbury Schweppes has included visiting five pilot countries to review the company’s application of their human rights and ethical trading policy. For Unilever his work has included advising on business codes and principles, writing the first Social Review in 2000 based on the global CSR Self-Assessment survey of 9 countries and helping manage the joint study with Oxfam on the impact of Unilever Indonesia.

He has published several studies on issues like the impact of HIV/AIDS on business and how the lack of healthcare impacts on the productivity of women workers in developing countries. He also co-wrote “Corporate Citizenship: Rationale and Strategies” for the Hitachi foundation in the USA.

David is a graduate of London University, with an MA degree in Philosophy and an Advanced Diploma in Education. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of the National College of Ireland, and a Visiting Fellow in corporate philanthropy at the City University, New York.