THE UNILEVER GLOBAL ADVISORY COUNCIL The Unilever Global Advisory Council (GAC) provides the business with specialist external advice on corporate responsibility and sustainability. It meets twice a year with Unilever’s senior leaders and programme managers to discuss issues such as climate change, sustainable sourcing and how to encourage consumers to adopt more sustainable practices. Helio Mattar Helio is President of the Akatu Institute in Brazil which he idealized and co-founded in 2001. The Akatu Institute is an NGO whose mission is to encourage consumers to consider social and environmental impacts of consumption when making their consumption decisions. Prior to founding Akatu, Helio held executive positions for more than 20 years in Brazilian and multinational corporations as well as in his own business. He was Secretary of Industrial and Trade Policy in the Federal Government of Brazil from 1999-2000. In 1998, he was one of the founders of the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility in Brazil, of which he is a member of the Board of Directors. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Consumption Council as well as several Boards of companies and social organisations. Malini Mehra Founder and CEO of the Centre for Social Markets, a non-profit organisation promoting corporate responsibility, civic engagement and leadership, Malini is a political scientist and gender specialist by training. She has worked as an adviser and policy maker for a range of organisations, including the UN and the UK government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where she established the UK’s Sustainable Development Dialogues with emerging markets. In 2009, she was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Jonathon Porritt Co-founder of Forum for the Future, a sustainable development charity in the UK, Jonathon is a leading environmentalist, writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. He is co-director of The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme which runs seminars for senior executives around the world and is involved in the work of many companies, NGOs and charities as non-executive director, patron, chair or special adviser. From 2000-2009 Jonathon chaired the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission, the government’s principal source of independent advice on sustainable development. Yolanda Kakabadse Yolanda served as Minister of Environment for the Republic of Ecuador from 1998 until 2000. She was the NGO Liaison Officer for the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (the Rio Earth Summit) in 1992, coordinating the participation of civil society organizations in the conference. Yolanda was the President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) from 1996-2004. In 1979 she was appointed Executive Director of Fundacion Natura in Quito, where she worked until 1990. In 1993 Yolanda founded Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano, served as Executive President until 2007, and is now its Senior Adviser. She chaired the Scientific and Technology Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility (STAP / GEF) from 2005 to 2008. Yolanda has been the President of WWF International since January 2010. Afshan Khan Afshan is Director of Emergency Programmes in UNICEF since August 2014, leading strategic and coordinated support in mobilizing UNICEF’s humanitarian response globally. From 2012 to 2014, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Women for Women International (WfWI). Prior to joining WfWI, Afshan had a career spanning more than 25 years with the United Nations, mainly with UNICEF. She was Director of UNICEF's Public-Sector Alliances and Resource Mobilization from 2008 to 2012, and Associate Director for the Eastern and Southern Africa from 2006 to 2008. She also served as UNICEF Country Representative in Jamaica, and worked in Eastern Zaire, Mozambique and Kenya. Afshan also worked for the Secretary-General’s Office and the United Nations Development Group (UNDG). Danielle Nierenberg Danielle is President of Food Tank and an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. She has written extensively on gender and population, the spread of factory farming in the developing world, and innovations in sustainable agriculture. Danielle previously served as the Director of the Food and Agriculture programme at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington D.C. She also worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic.