Sustainability Leadership

Sustainability Leadership Council

GBTA’s Sustainability Leadership Council (SLC) is set up as an advisory body to the GBTA Foundation. It actively guides and shapes the Foundation’s efforts to build a greener future for business travel. Council members bring deep sustainability experience and are nominated by their company to serve a one-year calendar term. They help guide GBTA’s efforts, define priority areas for collaborative and global action, raise the bar for the business travel industry overall, and identify significant contributions the sector can make to climate action and corporate responsibility.

Lauren Riley
Chair
Chief Sustainability Officer and Managing Director, Global Environmental Affairs
United Airlines

Jean Garris Hand
Co-Vice-Chair
Vice President, Global ESG
Hilton

Nora Lovell Marchant
Co-Vice-Chair
Vice President, Global Sustainability
American Express
Global Business Travel

Brune Poirson
Chief Sustainability Officer
Accor

Diana Birkett Rakow
SVP Public Affairs & Sustainability
Alaska Airlines

Sara Digiesi
Chief Executive Officer
BWH Hotel Group Italia

Gail Grimmett
Senior Vice President, Sustainability Performance and Strategic Partnerships
Delta Air Lines

Matt Kupcak
Senior EHS and Sustainability Leader
Enterprise Holdings

Martin Biermann
Vice President, Global ESG
HRS

Townsend Bailey
Head of Corporate Responsibility, Americas
IHG

Denise Naguib
Vice President, Sustainability & Supplier Diversity
Marriott International

Anne Haugland
Corporate Travel, Global Agreements Manager
Shell

Helen Giles
Director Environmental Sustainability
Southwest Airlines

Joel Fisher
Vice President, Product
Travelport

Liaison Roles on the Sustainability Leadership Council

To ensure alignment and coordination between the Sustainability Leadership Council and other GBTA Leadership Groups (i.e., the GBTA Foundation Board of Directors; GBTA Elected Board of Directors; and GBTA Sustainability Committee), representatives from these groups are invited to participate and contribute to discussions.

Darragh Ormsby
Board Member, GBTA Foundation
Head of Google Procurement – Travel & Events, Google

Mark Cuschieri
President, GBTA Board of Directors
Head of Global Travel Management, UBS

Robyn Grassanovits
Chair of GBTA Sustainability Committee
VP Emerging Business
Cirium

Corporate Advisory Board

GBTA’s Corporate Advisory Board (CAB) is composed of sustainability experts from large multinationals actively involved in reducing their emissions from scope 3 category 6 (business travel). CAB members convene regularly to help the Foundation deepen its understanding of the sustainability trends for companies relying on business travel to conduct their business; and outline concrete ideas for impactful collaboration between corporates users and suppliers of business travel.

Mike Nicholus
Global Environment Director
Accenture

Stuart West
UK World Climate Net Zero Lead
Deloitte

Devon Lake
Head of Net Zero Strategy
Meta

Sam Mitchell
Global Sustainability Director
Oracle

Maarten Dansen
Senior Manager, Corporate Sustainability
PwC Netherlands

Jamila Yamani
Senior Manager, Climate & Nature Research
Salesforce

Scott Tew
Vice-President, Sustainability & Managing Director
Trane Technologies

Stuart Harper
Group Corporate Services Lead
UBS

Alexandru Dinca
Global Sustainability Lead
Unilever

Sarah Lane Mulholland
Corporate Responsibility Lead
Willis Towers Watson

Climate Leaders

Every company supporting the GBTA Foundation’s Sustainability Initiative can appoint a ‘Climate Leader’ (senior leader with deep sustainability management expertise in their organization) who can contribute expertise to GBTA Foundation’s sustainability initiatives. GBTA Climate Leaders from companies with the highest level of contribution and commitment to the Foundation are eligible for a seat on GBTA’s Sustainability Leadership Council (SLC Members).

Brune Poirson
Chief Sustainability Officer
Accor
SLC Member