Strengthening sustainability education for future business leaders. Professor Gary Kass (Visiting Professor in Sustainability Science, Policy and Practice) will outline the evolving relationships between business and sustainability, emphasising countervailing forces driving change historically, currently, and into the future.
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Our next lunchtime seminar will be delivered by Professor Gary Kass on 24 April, 1pm-3pm, at the University of Southampton Business School (Boldrewood Innovation Campus).
The seminar will offer a challenge to business educators to up their game on sustainability, despite recent headwinds. Professor Gary Kass (Visiting Professor in Sustainability Science, Policy and Practice) will outline the evolving relationships between business and sustainability, emphasising countervailing forces driving change historically, currently, and into the future. Gary will illustrate this by briefly describing the evolution of climate and nature as critical business issues. He will then outline the roles and responsibilities of business schools in relation to embedding sustainability in business and management education and will end the seminar with some thoughts about where this might be heading and how we might take the journey together. This event will be an excellent opportunity to bring our Help to Grow: Management alumni together.
This event includes a networking lunch.
Speaker’s bio
Gary is Visiting Professor in Sustainability Science, Policy and Practice at three leading UK universities (Imperial, Surrey and Royal Holloway). With nearly forty years’ practice, Gary is an environmental and sustainability expert and knowledge broker who strides the divide between academia and practice. He has worked both in the private and public sector. Among his various roles, he led the Environment and Energy programme at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and held the brief for Public Engagement with Science and Technology within the (then) Department of Trade and Industry. Gary joined Natural England, serving as Deputy Chief Scientist, and Deputy Director for Foresight and Innovation, and served a short stint as Defra deputy Chief Scientific Adviser. Gary has worked widely in academia, including serving on the Natural Environment Research Council’s Innovation Advisory Board, the Research Excellence Framework Geography and Environmental Studies sub-panel, and he held a Fellowship at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy. He is now a member of the Office for Environmental Protection College of Experts, a Vice-President of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, Chair of the Institution’s Policy Committee, and an associate consultant at Socially Adept Ltd and Jigsaw Foresight Ltd.