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Graham Adams seeba co-ordinator/webmaster


Professor Martin Charter Director, CfSD

Graham Adams graduated from the University of Sussex in 1970 with an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering. During his career he has worked in the fields of R&D in diesel fuel injection systems, electronics and fibre optic sensors, of which 5 years were in Spain, and 7 years in Germany.

In 1985 he joined Motorola to Manage the Mechanical Design Group in the European Design Centre. During his time at Motorola he was promoted up to Chief Engineer of the design centre then went into quality systems where he successfully led a European team to obtain ISO9001 followed by QS9000.

Following this he then moved on to be the Global Environmental Design Manager for Motorola IESS, during which time he was responsible for developing the dfe tools used by the Sector, and the integration of their use into the product launch process. He represented Motorola Corporate within EICTA and chaired the Supply Chain Management Task Force within it and received a reward for outstanding performance on Standards activities..

In April of 2002 he moved into Engineering Systems Consulting. He is now director of his own company PlesTech Ltd., (www.plestech.co.uk) and is invloved in the development of eco-design software, and integration of eco-design into companies management systems. He is the Co-ordinator/webmaster for seeba, and does workshops, seminars and webcasts for IPC and ERA Research Technologies. He is on the advisory committee for the RE4View environmental magazine.

Martin Charter is the Director and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at The Centre for Sustainable Design at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. Since 1988, he has worked at director level in 'business and environment' issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research. Prior to this he held in a range of management positions in strategy, research and marketing in gardening, construction, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy.

Martin is the former co-ordinator of one the UK's first green business clubs for SMEs and presently also directs a regional network focused on 'producer responsibility' issues. Martin is presently editor of the Journal of Sustainable Product Design and was the previous editor of The Green Management Letter and Greener Management International (where he retains Editorial Board involvement).

Other responsibilities include a member of the Advisory Board of the Sustainable Trade & Innovation Centre (STIC), Judging Panel of ACCA's corporate sustainability reporting awards, previous membership of ISO and BSI groups on 'Integrating Environmental Aspects into Product Development' (ISO TR 14062) and member of international advisory board of CARE electronics network.

He is the author, editor and joint editor of various books and publications including Greener Marketing (1992 and 1999), The Green Management Gurus [e-book] (1996), Managing Eco-design (1997), Sustainable Solutions (2001) and Sustainable Value (forthcoming 2003). Martin has an MBA from Aston Business School in the UK.

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