Mark Drewell
Mark Drewell, Mark Drewell, MA (Oxon) is a business leader, sustainability expert and change agent who spends his time grappling with many of the most complex issues in business and society on a global stage.
Mark is a director and co-founder of deep-sustainability asset management company, 3 Laws Capital South Africa (Pty) Limited which is launching South Africa's first Climate Change Investment Fund, co-founder, first chairman and now Chief Executive of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative and Chairman of the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child Foundation. He has served as a senior advisor to the Cambridge University Program for Industry; chairman of the Endangered Wildlife Trust (Africa´s largest indigenous environmental NGO), and deputy chairman of the advisory board of the Centre for Corporate Citizenship at the University of South Africa. He grew up in England, studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, and moved to South Africa in 1989. From then until 2007 he worked for a Johannesburg listed multi-national industrial company Barloworld Limited where he was a member of the executive committee and head of public affairs from 1997-2007. In the early 2000's he served as a board member of the 16 000 member International Association of Business Communicators and chaired their global conferences in 2008 and 2009.
