Tom Dodd is responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility policy in the European Commission (Directorate‐General for Enterprise and Industry). He has contributed to the development of European Commission policy on CSR, in particular exploring the links between CSR and competitiveness. He has also worked on a number of initiatives to support responsible entrepreneurship and the uptake of CSR amongst small and medium sized enterprises. He wrote the report of the European Expert Group on CSR and small businesses, and is the co‐author of “Small is sustainable (and beautiful!): encouraging European smaller enterprises to be more sustainable”. He gives classes on CSR at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, and has also taught groups from other business schools including IESE and TiasNimbas.
He started working for the European Commission in 1995, managing emergency humanitarian assistance to various African countries, and subsequently completed a four year posting in the Commission's Delegation in Central America (Nicaragua), where he dealt with EU development aid programmes and trade policy issues. On returning to Brussels he was briefly responsible for relations between the European Commission and Mexico.
He holds a first class honours degree in European Community Studies and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Masters Degree in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
He lives near Brussels with his wife and three daughters.