Corporate Citizenship

Liza has over ten years consultancy experience and has worked in both the corporate and non-profit sectors. She has also lived in Greater China for ten years and is a fluent Mandarin speaker.

Liza works on a broad range of consultancy issues and is the first port of call for any issues related to China, supply chain or consumer brands. Prior to this she worked for Save the Children UK as private sector advisor, where she was responsible for advocacy work on corporate accountability issues. She also represented the charity on the Publish What you Pay Coalition (PWYP) and the Board of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI).

In China Liza was Director for a leading public affairs consultancy (Batey Burn, now APCO China) where she managed a wide range of investment, government relations and CSR projects for both the private and public sectors (including UNAIDS and DfID). She also initiated the first joint British-US Chamber Forum on Corporate Responsibility in China for over 100 representatives of business, NGOs and government. She began her career as Procurement Manager for Carlsberg in Guangdong Province.

Liza has an MSc in Business and Environment from Imperial College London and has also worked as a freelance consultant for the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED).

A graduate of Politics and East Asian Studies from Newcastle University, her publications include “Ethical Trade in China: One Country Two Systems?” She also co-authored a Save the Children UK publication “Beyond the Rhetoric: Transparency in the Oil and Gas Industry” (2005).