Louise Nicholls
Managing Director,
Suseco
Louise Nicholls is Managing Director of Suseco advising a broad range of clients from manufacturers to retailers, start-ups, investors and collaborative initiatives on sustainability and Human rights. She also tutors for Cambridge CISL in supply chain and sustainability management and with IHRB and Ethical trading initiative courses on Human rights. Louise is currently Vice Chair of IEMA and a Trustee of the innovative food redistribution charity Bread and Butter thing. Previously she had a long career with the retailer Marks and Spencer plc, initially in food technology and more latterly as Corporate Head of Human Rights, Food sustainability and Food Packaging. With a successful track record of stakeholder engagement in 40+ countries, from individual affected rights holders to win/win partnerships with NGO’s she brings broad breadth of experience in Social and environmental collaborative initiatives. Including chairing Sedex Global for 7 years and holding board positions with the Ethical Trading Initiative, LOCOG Stakeholder Oversight Board, Consumer Goods Forum and the temporary Labour Working Group (precursor to UK modern slavery regulator GLAA).

