Summary of Nominee Profile
After legal training Julian joined Tesco and worked for nearly 10 years across legal, property, corporate responsibility and corporate affairs. Before he left, he was responsible for local communications and policy across much of the UK.
In 2007, he joined Walmart as Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asda, and for 7 years was their European sustainability leader. He led global activity for Walmart including creating and managing the team responsible for the transition to sustainable palm oil and attended multiple RSPO meetings, including delivering a plenary speech at RT10.
He left to set up ETANTE Ltd, an ESG consultancy that supports global brands and retailers to deliver change. As part of WWF-US, in 2017 he also co-founded the Cerrado Manifesto Statement of Support group to de-couple deforestation from increased soy and cattle production in Brazil’s Cerrado and, since 2019, has been the strategic advisor and facilitator of the Retailers' Palm Oil Group.
Summary of Organisation Profile
The Retailers' Palm Oil Group (RPOG), the only global group of its kind, is a non-competitive coalition of retail companies who have the common aim of using sustainable palm oil in their products. Our wider ambition is to make the use of sustainable palm oil standard across all relevant supply chains. We trade globally with our head offices predominately based in Europe.
