Who we are
Core Staff
Sancroft is a small team of consultants led by John Gummer. We have a permanent core staff of four consultants, all based at our offices at Queen Anne’s Gate, and a range of specialist Associate Directors who are assigned to projects as appropriate. Over the years we have found this method of working highly satisfactory and it has contributed to our successes – we work with, rather than for our clients ensuring that they harness their own internal resources to bring about change thereby making certain that this change is permanent.
The Rt. Hon John Gummer
The Rt. Hon John Gummer was the longest serving Secretary of State for the Environment the UK has ever had. His sixteen years of top-level ministerial experience covered Minster for London, Employment Minister, Paymaster General in HM Treasury, and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, before he moved to the Department of the Environment. In two hundred years, only five others have held so long a period of office.
Called by the NGO community ‘the best Environment Secretary we have ever had’, he has consistently championed a via media between business and environmental concerns. To that end he set up and now runs Sancroft, a Corporate Responsibility consultancy working with blue-chip companies, governments, and international organisations around the world.
John was also Chairman of the Quality of Life Policy Group, set up by David Cameron in December 2005 to provide an independent input into the Conservative Party's environmental policy. The Group published its final report, 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' in September 2007, the result of over 18 months work with contributions from nearly 500 people. It can be found in full at www.qualityoflifechallenge.com.
Eugenie Mathieu
Having graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, Eugenie Mathieu spent two years working as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company in London and Johannesburg. She then completed a MSc in Business and the Environment at Imperial College, London, where her thesis studied the stance of UK pension funds on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). She worked on the launch of FTSE4Good with FTSE’s partner, the rating agency EIRIS, on developing the environmental, social, ethical and human rights entry criteria for FTSE4Good. Once the FTSE4Good global index series was launched in July 2001 Eugenie joined Sancroft. She specialises in helping companies improve their sustainability performance and reporting.
Lucinda Hensman
Lucinda graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a degree in Geography and then studied for a Masters Degree in Urban Development at the University of Chicago. On returning to England she became an Environmental Consultant at Hyder Consulting, specialising in Environmental Impact Assessment. She joined Sancroft in June 2002, and now manages a wide range of clients and projects especially in the field of sustainable land-use planning and transport. Lucinda is qualified to carry out SA8000 social audits.
Sally Bell
Sally joined Sancroft from Save the Children where she was a Business Analyst leading CSR projects. She has over four years experience in the International Development sector, having completed an MSc in Education for Sustainability in 2003. Prior to this Sally taught overseas in Japan and Guatemala after graduating from Birmingham University in 2000 with a Classical Studies degree.
John Briggs
John studied Geography and Geology at the University of Manchester, before undertaking a PhD focusing upon the science of global warming at the University of Nottingham. Following completion of the PhD in 2007, John worked in a post-doctoral capacity for a year within the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Nottingham, undertaking work on carbon capture and storage technologies, and developing novel means of improving industrial energy efficiency for a large oil company.
Andrew Gibson
Andrew has led a number of corporate communications projects in the UK and overseas. He lived in Japan for nine years where he managed the Tokyo office of a British investor relations company. Clients included construction equipment manufacturers, global car makers and chemicals companies, most of them leading Japanese companies listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Prior to his time in Japan, Andrew worked in public relations and as research assistant at the House of Commons for three years in the 1980s. He has a strong academic record, including an MBA with Distinction. In Tokyo, he served for two years as a Board member of a leading NGO for which he established a new external communications function. Since returning from Japan in 2002, Andrew has worked with the Sancroft Group on a number of corporate communications initiatives.