LEAD Fellows featured in Rio+20 publication

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Created on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:46

What does it take to be a sustainability leader?

In an article published in RioPlus Business - a magazine commissioned by the Rio Conventions to highlight the role of business in contributing to sustainable development - LEAD argues that vision, innovative thinking and entrepreneurship are among the key behaviours demonstrated by successful leaders.

The article features several case studies of LEAD Fellows including Leonardo Martins Dias, a Brazilian who is hoping to address the issue of social exclusion in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro through a training programme that will develop a new generation of community leaders.

Also showcased in the article are:

• Yuyun Ismawati (LEAD Indonesia) – a social entrepreneur who has brought safe waste management systems to Indonesia

• Rachel Madan (LEAD Europe) - a CSR professional who has helped to develop a new generation of sustainability leaders in the cultural sector

• Adeolu Odusote (LEAD Anglophone West Africa) - an engineer who has created a scalable technique for producing energy from the cassava

• Olga Speranskaya (LEAD Commonwealth of Independent States/Canada) – a scientist who has brought civil society organisations together to pressure governments into taking action on toxic chemicals in the environment

To read the full article, please click here