Julia Hailes, MBE

Julia Hailes is a leading environmental opinion-former, freelance environmental consultant and speaker. Her work includes environmental auditing, management briefings and advising companies on environmental policy, strategy and communications. Clients with whom she has worked include British Airways, British Airways Holidays, Dow Europe, ICI Polyurethanes, Neste, Novo Nordisk, Procter & Gamble and Tioxide.

Julia Hailes is co-author of a number of books, including the international No.1 best-selling Green Consumer Guide published in 1988 and selling over one million copies. Other books include Green Pages: The Business of Saving the World (1987), The Green Consumer's Supermarket Shopping Guide (1989), The Young Green Consumer Guide (1990), The Green Business Guide (1991) and Holidays That Don't Cost the Earth (1992). She has also contributed to a number of key reports including The LCA Sourcebook (1993) and Who Needs It? (1995).

Her latest book written alongside John Elkington was published in July 1998 by Hodder & Stoughton. MANUAL 2000, Life Choices for the Future You Want is a fact-fact filled guide on how we can all help build a safer, saner world. She is now working on The GM Food Guide which will be published this summer by Victor Gollancz.

In 1987 Julia Hailes founded SustainAbility Ltd with John Elkington, where she was Director and Company Secretary until 1995. She is now a SustainAbility Council Member and Senior Associate working from her home in Somerset. SustainAbility is a leading edge environmental consultancy with an international profile. Julia Hailes is a non-executive director of the Out of this World, a chain of alternative supermarkets set up as a co-operative in 1994. Four shops have been opened to date.

In January 1996 Julia Hailes carried out an environmental review for the Bamburi Portland Cement Company in Kenya. She was also co-opted to the Somerset Committee for the Council for the Protection for Rural England as their Waste Officer (1996-1998). She is currently running for election to the District Council in her area.

Julia Hailes has spoken at conferences world-wide including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, the US and all over Europe. She has also made numerous television appearances in Britain and abroad including presenting a weekly series of environmental programmes on UK network television.

In 1989 Julia Hailes was elected to the UN Global 500 Roll of Honour for her outstanding environmental achievements and in 1992 was elected as the European representative to the Global 500 Forum Council. She is a recognised expert on eco-labelling and has sat on the UK Eco-labelling Board since its inception, in 1990.

Julia Hailes was awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours List in 1999. Tintinhull House, Tintinhull, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 8PZ Tel: + 44(0)1935 823 972 / Fax: +44(0)1935 826 176 / E-mail: hailes@tintinhull.demon.co.uk