ethics etc... has two directors: Richard Evans and Allen Creedy. While their backgrounds and work experience are different, they bring complementary skills to the evaluation of corporate sustainability performance and believe that we need an increasingly integrated view of commerce and industry and the way they operate in the context of shared urban and regional habitats.

Richard Evans

Richard worked for 12 years in industry and then 20 years in two development agencies, Intermediate Technology and Traidcraft plc. He was responsible for developing the methodology for the UK's first independently audited social account (Traidcraft plc, 1993) and set up ethics etc… as an independent consultancy in 1997. He was a founding member of AccountAbility and chair of its board and has been involved in developing sustainability accounting and auditing methodologies and standards with AccountAbility and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) since 1990.

Richard has an MBA from Newcastle University , is a Special Professor of Nottingham University Business School and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has published a vareity of books and papers on corporate accountability and CSR auditing.

Allen Creedy

Allen worked as a practical forester/naturalist before qualifying as a Chartered Town and Country Planner in 1982.

Specialising in environmental planning he worked for a variety of local and national government agencies before starting work with the European Commission. He led the European Commission's development of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), piloting its implementation in European local authorities. He is a qualified Lead Auditor for EMAS and ISO14000. He designed and tested: a sustainable development reporting framework for European local authorities with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a peer review system for the Union of Baltic Cities for EMAS and for Baltic Urban Sustainable Transport Implementation & Planning (BUSTRIP).

Following on from Allen's recent peer review work with the cities of Venice, The Hague, Bristol, Malmo, Bourgas (Bulgaria), Copenhagen, Aalborg, and Lille Metropole, he has co-authored a guide to liveable cities for the European Commission.

Allen has been the driving force behind the establishment of the first voluntary Carbon Dioxide emissions trading scheme in Europe.