Lord St John of Bletso appointed President of GSFA
Tuesday 9th June 2015
Tuesday 26 May 2015: Two key figures in the field of international business and global environmental policy will be heading up tve's 2015 awards for green business communications. Global business astrategist, Lord St John of Bletso is taking on the role of President of the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2015. Anthony St John is an international expert in corporate governance, finance and legal due diligence and has been an active supporter of tve for more than two decades.
Nick Nuttall, Head of Communications and Outreach, and spokesperson for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will chair the Awards' panel of judges.
Full details on how to enter the Awards are available on the website www.tve.org/awards The Awards encourage best-practice companies to share innovative sustainability initiatives through the powerful medium of film. Winners will be announced at an Awards ceremony and Gala dinner at BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) in London's Piccadilly on 23 November 2015. The event will be filmed and broadcast across Europe by tve's media partner Propeller TV.
Cheryl Campbell, executive director of tve comments: This year all eyes will be on sustainable development and climate change. Our intention is that these Awards, now in their fourth year, and with Lord St John of Bletso as President, and Nick Nuttall as Chair of Judges, will inspire businesses to fulfil their potential in being key drivers of a more sustainable future.'
Lord St John of Bletso comments: Awards like these are changing the pattern of how we do business. They are focusing companies' minds on how they are doing business, and showing that doing business sustainably is not just good for the planet and people, it is also good for the profit margin.'
About Lord St John of Bletso: Anthony St John was appointed Chairman of merchant bank Strand Hanson in January this year. He took up his seat as an Independent Member of the House of Lords in 1978. He was brought up in South Africa where he qualified as a solicitor and worked at Shell in Cape Town as internal auditor and legal counsel. He completed his Masters at London University in Chinese and Maritime Law and spent a year living in China and Hong Kong. He worked for over 15 years in the City in London, starting his career as an oil analyst and then equity sales and investor relations with Smith New Court and then Merrill Lynch, focussed on Sub Saharan Africa and the Far East. From 1998 to 2003 he served as Managing Director and latterly as Global Business Development Director for Globix, one of the largest ISP data centre businesses. He has served as a director on many listed and unlisted companies ranging from oil, telecommunications, IT, renewable energy, financial services, manufacturing and marketing services. He is on the board of Silicon Valley Bank, which lends to technology, life science and renewable energy companies. He has extensive experience over the past 15 years in dealing with South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leona, The DRC, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and more recently Morocco.
Anthony was appointed Extra Lord-in-Waiting to HM the Queen in 1998, predominantly focused on meeting Heads of State from Africa. He is an executive Committee Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Africa Group, and has a particular interest in infrastructure and renewable energy. He has been a Member of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee and the Information Committee and is Vice Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary South Africa Group.
About Nick Nuttall: Before joining the UN in 2001, Nick was the Environment and Technology correspondent at The Times, from 1989, having worked for various newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Evening Standard, Woman and Cosmopolitan.
During his time at the United Nations Environment Programme, Nick was responsible for transforming the organisation's media profile and, in collaboration with its Executive Director, inspiring several landmark reports including the 2009 Climate Change Science Compendium; The Natural Fix? The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation, and Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development. He also spearheaded the communications aimed at popularising the concepts and ideas behind UNEPs Global Green New Deal/Green Economy initiative. Nick moved to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in January 2014.
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Lord St John of Bletso appointed President of GSFA 
