Michael is global head of environment for Diageo with responsibility to drive the company’s environmental strategy, policies and programmes, and associated stakeholder and partner engagement, with a particular focus on water, climate, nature and people. Key to success is understanding the evolving and complex sustainability agenda and industry best practice - and applying this across the full value chain of the business. He joined Diageo in 2007 prior to which he was with Ericsson. A graduate of the universities of Edinburgh and London, Michael is a Board Member of the Alliance for Water Stewardship, and member of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, and Institute of Economic Development. At weekends Michael is a keen, but amateur, smallholder farmer.