New Year, New Blog

Having arrived inthe 21st Century a decade late, I thought it would be a good idea to start blogging, so here we go...

I spend my time working with various organisations - mostly companies - to help them understand the challenges they face from the world around them. Corporate Responsibility, CSR and Sustainability are some of the labels that get used for what I do, but I actually don't think any of them are that helpful. I prefer to think of what I do as helping companies to manage societal, ethical and environmental issues, and to see these things, not as additional work, but as a fundamental part of what they do. Part of the day job.

As a result, a lot of the time I find myself involved with issues that are highly political - human rights, governance, conflict and so on - hence the name for this blog. Understanding the changing relationship between governments and the corporate sector will, I think, be a major challenge in the next few years.

Watch this space...