James Laing

Director
London

James is a Director of africapractice
with responsibility for the Corporate
Citizenship Centre, the North Africa region, and
the Business Intelligence service. He trained as a
management consultant with Deloitte Consulting,
specialising in media and telecommunications, and is an accredited GoodCorporation consultant in ethical business. James has managed social marketing projects for the international non-governmental organisation Population Services International, using the power of commercial marketing to help prevent the spread of HIV in Zambia and across East and Southern Africa. He has coordinated research projects for clients to provide advice on their entry strategy to expanding business in Africa, supported clients in strategy and structure for their corporate foundations, and designed community relations programmes across Africa. He has also worked with a number of multinationals in Africa including The Coca-Cola Company and its bottlers, Diageo, and Barclays. He speaks English, Arabic and French, and has travelled extensively in Africa and the Middle East. James holds an MA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

Areas of Expertise
Strategy and Citizenship (Communities, Governance, Environment)

People don’t know I’m good at
Singing

Talk to me about
Treading lightly

An idea worth spreading
Living to the full the life we were designed for

I’m passionate about
People and our planet

Website links
www.csrconsultancy.co.uk
www.worldmapper.org
www.kidsalive.co.uk