Our Associates : David Rice
David Rice is an adviser on the social and environmental impacts of business. He is a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, and a Tutor for the Programme’s Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business.
David works with companies, NGOs and academics on social and environmental issues at policy and individual project level. He was worked with natural resource companies in Azerbaijan, Australia, Angola, Colombia, Libya, South Africa, and Turkmenistan, and on issues in the pharmaceutical and confectionary industries.
He has written widely on the subjects of Ethics and Sunstainability, for example Ethics and the Multinational Corporation, Andrew Mackenzie and David Rice, in The Moral Universe, Ed. Tom Bentley and Daniel Stedman Jones, Demos, 2002.
David spent most of his career at BP where he was Director, Policy Unit, and Chief of Staff for the global Government and Public Affairs function, and the BP Group Policy Adviser on Development Issues. He worked for BP in Holland, Norway, Alaska, Texas, Thailand, Egypt, and China, as well as advising on the social impacts of major industrial projects in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Angola, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Indonesia, and Russia. He instigated for BP a number of relationships with NGOs and helped develop and implement BP’s policies with respect to climate change, human rights, indigenous people, resettlement, HIV, social investment, and more. He was an initiator of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights for the oil, gas and mining industry, launched by the Secretaries of State for the USA and the UK in 2000.
