Supply chains and sustainable procurement

Alex Hall-Chen is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Institute of Directors. She is a specialist in employment, skills, and sustainability policy. She previously worked in education research and as a Policy Advisor at the Confederation of British Industry.

Chris leads the delivery of the UK Business Climate Hub, the one stop shop on net zero for small and medium sized businesses, and Broadway’s wider programme on net zero. Broadway Initiative is the coalition of leading trade associations working together with government, business and the third sector to deliver the UK’s net zero and environmental goals.

After his Cambridge degree, Peter started his procurement career at Mars Confectionery, then was Procurement Director for Dun & Bradstreet Europe, the UK Government’s Department of Social Security, and the NatWest Group. He was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply and was its President in 2003. Moving into consultancy, he served as a Senior Adviser to the Treasury (OGC) and the National Audit Office, has been a non-exec director of two large public sector organisations and a growing private firm. He is a well-known speaker, chair and host for webinars and events, and commentator on procurement & supply chain management, making several TV appearances about PPE procurement during the pandemic.

His first co-authored book, “Buying Professional Services” was published by The Economist Books in 2010. A second book, “A Procurement Compendium” was published in 2019, and Penguin Business published “Bad Buying – How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds and F*ck-ups” in October 2021, lifting the lid on some amazing global stories of disaster in the business (and government) world!

His passion is how procurement can contribute to wider global issues, and his book Procurement with Purpose – How Organizations Can Change the Way They Spend Money NOW to Protect the Planet and Its People was published in 2022.