Summary of Nominations

Julian Walker-Palin represents the Retailers’ Palm Oil Group (RPOG), a non-competitive coalition of retail companies with the common aim of promoting the adoption of sustainable palm oil. After legal training he 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 also led global activity for Walmart including creating and managing the team responsible for the transition to sustainable palm oil and attended multiple RSPO meetings.

He left to set up ETANTE Ltd, a sustainability consultancy that supports many global brands and retailers. In this role he has been the strategic advisor and facilitator of the RPOG since 2019.

The Retailers' Palm Oil Group (RPOG), the only global group of its kind, is a non-competitive coalition of retail companies with a common aim of using sustainable palm oil in our 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. We have been in existence for over ten years and have supported the RSPO since our inception.