COMMUNITY PROFILE

Luke Wilde

CEO

twentyfifty

Luke founded the business consultancy twentyfifty in early 2004. The company helps its clients to turn commitments to respect human rights and sustainability into practice. Luke and his team have worked with over 30 global multinationals and large national businesses in the finance, pharmaceutical and specialist chemicals, extractives, FMCG and utilities sectors. Examples of recent engagements include:

- Assisting the sustainability team of a global investment bank, to create a strategic plan to integrate human rights into its sustainability programme and business unit practices
- Mentoring a senior manager in a global mining company responsible for delivering its commitment to a sustainable supply chain
- Preparing a business team for setting up operations in one of Africa's least developed and conflict ridden countries

In the UK, twentyfifty are working with the Ministry of Justice, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the CBI, Business in the Community and other interested parties to establish a multi-stakeholder dialogue in the UK on business and human rights. This follows a study undertaken for the Ministry in 2009 on the perceptions and engagement of the UK private sector with human rights.

Prior to establishing twentyfifty, Luke's experience as a leadership and organisational development consultant includes working in the public sector, private sector and with UN organisations. In the late nineties, he worked as senior management adviser to the first two UN High Commissioners for Human Rights, Jose Ayala Lasso and Mary Robinson. From this experience, he played an active role in the growing international dialogue on business and human rights; helping to establish the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights, overseeing the development of training for the UN Global Compact and the UN Environmental Programme Finance Initiative, and speaking and delivering training in the UK, Germany, and India.

Luke is also chair of the Black Swan Arts Centre in his home town of Frome, Somerset, a trustee of the Quaker Tapestry in Kendal, and organises an annual gathering of Quakers holding non-executive directorships in business and the public sector.