James Cole has worked internationally across public, private and NGO sectors and is the Director of Corporate Relations & Communications at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. CISL hosts the EU Green Growth Platform, EU Corporate Leaders Group on climate change and Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Awards Programme. James shares responsibility for the Institute’s strategy, performance and impact and is a regular faculty member and contributes to CISL’s Executive and Postgraduate degree programmes. James was previously the Strategic Relationships Manager at Vodafone and developed a Business Engagement function to build key strategic partnerships and private sector networks to support environmental campaigns for Friends of the Earth.
At CISL (which hosts 7 corporate leadership platforms) James works across over 250 corporates per year, CISL’s 20,000 Network, and their major institutional partnerships. He is actively involved in the collaborative platforms CISL are part of, such as We Mean Business, Business for Nature, Cambridge conservation Initiative, and UKGBC amongst others.