Erik Bichard
Erik Bichard is Professor of Regeneration and Sustainable Development
at Salford University, in Greater Manchester. During his career,
he has worked as a sustainable development practitioner in the
public, private, third and now academic sector. Until June 2007,
and for ten years, he was Chief Executive of the UK National Centre
for Business & Sustainability. In addition to his role at Salford,
he has his own practice: Positively Responsible. In the past he
has been Co-operatives UK’ s sustainability advisor, and
currently performs the same function for the City of Liverpool.
He is a member of the UK Sustainable Development Panel, and serves
on several company boards as a non-executive director including
the social enterprise FRC Group, and Migrant Workers North West.
Professor Bichard is a frequent contributor to newspaper, TV and
radio programmes covering a range of sustainability issues from recycling
and renewable energy to social cohesion and responsible business
issues. His most recent written work includes texts on sustainable
governance, social enterprise and the recycling sector, and the relationship
between health in the workplace and business reputation on sustainable
development.
Cary L. Cooper CBE
Cary L. Cooper is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health,
and Pro Vice Chancellor at Lancaster University. He is the author/editor
of over 100 books (on occupational stress, women at work, and industrial
and organisational psychology), has written over 400 scholarly
articles for academic journals, and is also a frequent contributor
to national newspapers, TV and radio. He is currently Founding
Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and is a Fellow
of the British Psychological Society, The Royal Society of Arts,
The Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal Society of Health, British
Academy of Management, and an Academician of the Academy for the
Social Sciences.
Professor Cooper is past President of the British Academy of Management,
is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, and one of
the first UK-based Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management
(having also won the 1998 Distinguished Service Award for his contribution
to management science from the Academy of Management). In 2001, Cary
was awarded a CBE in the Queen’ s Birthday Honours List for
his contribution to occupational safety and health and, in 2007,
received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Occupational
Psychology of the British Psychological Society. |
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