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David Grayson CBE

Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management

Chairman of Housing 21

Chairman UK Small Business Consortium

Director: Business in the Community, UK

He speaks, advises and writes regularly on "Responsible Business" "Corporate Citizenship" and "Global Trends."

A Patron for the disability charity SCOPE; ambassador for the National AIDS Trust; trustee: Responsibility in Gambling Trust.

Previously: Principal of BLU; Board member of UK Strategic Rail Authority, Chairman of the UK's National Disability Council; Chairman of the UK Government's Business Link Accreditation Advisory Board; joint Managing-Director: Business in the Community; Director of The Prince of Wales Innovation Award; and joint MD of the Prince's Youth Business Trust. Co-founder of Project North East.

Educated at Cambridge and Brussels Universities.

Author: "Everybody's Business: Managing Risks and Opportunities in to-day's global society" (with Adrian Hodges) - Dorling Kindersley and The Financial Times (2001); and "Corporate Social Opportunity: Seven Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility work for your business" (Greenleaf - 2004) - also with Adrian Hodges.

Outside of work, happiest on, in and - especially - under water - in hot climates