“If business is not developing the solutions to the sustainability issues we face, there will be no solutions. My goal in teaching the next generation of managers is to inspire and excite them to possibilities of what they can do in their careers to achieve those solutions.”

Based in Ann Arbor in the US, Andy is Professor of Management and Organisations and Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan. He is also Associate Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. His research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organisations. In particular, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues. He has written extensively about the:

• Evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues;
• Corporate responses emerging as a result of those pressures, particularly around climate change; * Interconnected networks among NGOs and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems;
• Social and psychological barriers to change processes; and
• Underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome.

He has published eight books and over ninety articles and book chapters on these issues, including From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism, which was awarded the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Prior to academics, Andy worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency, Metcalf & Eddy Environmental Consultants, T&T Construction & Design, and the Amoco Corporation. He serves on advisory boards of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, TRIRIGA Software Solutions, Earth Portal, Center for Environmental Innovation, and Canopy Partnership, as well as the editorial board of Organization & Environment. In 2003 he was awarded the Faculty Pioneer/Rising Star award from the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute. Andy holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master in Civil and Environmental Engineering, also from MIT.