Edward Butt

Vice President, Sustainability

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc

            
Edward has Group-level responsibility for environmental management, health & safety and other sustainability and corporate responsibility issues at FTSE top-25 company Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a world leader in household, health and personal care products.

Reckitt Benckiser has operations in over 60 countries, sales in almost 200 countries, 24,900 employees and had net revenue of £7.8 billion UK pounds in 2009.

Reckitt Benckiser’s ground-breaking Carbon20 initiative aims to reduce by 20% per unit dose its products’ Total Carbon Footprint across their entire lifecycle, ‘from cradle to grave’, by 2020; including consumer use and the raw & packaging material supply chain. In 2008, the first year of the programme, a reduction of 5.75% of its products’ Total Carbon Footprint was achieved; progress with Carbon 20 is therefore substantially ahead of schedule after only the first year.

Edward has previously served two terms as a Council member and Non-Executive Director of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment and prior to joining RB as Environmental Director in 2001 spent 11 years in environmental management consultancy.