Thomas Lingard
Global Head of Sustainability - Environment
Unilever
Thomas leads climate and environment within Unilever’s Global Sustainability Team. He joined Unilever in 1999 as a finance and IT graduate trainee. After 6 years in Unilever’s UK business, Thomas joined Green Alliance, a leading UK policy think tank, as Deputy Director. Thomas rejoined Unilever’s global team in 2010 and has spent over a decade working under three different CEOs in a variety of leadership roles, developing and launching successive generations of sustainability strategies, founding an in-house Global Advocacy Team, and advancing Unilever’s theory of change on systemic sustainability issues through organisations such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Economic Forum.