Facilitator

• Veronica Broomes Consultant and Researcher on Sustainability & Strategic Corporate Social Responsbility (CSR)
  

  Veronica Broomes

  Consultant and Researcher on Sustainability & Strategic Corporate Social Responsbility (CSR)

  Dr Veronica Broomes is a consultant on Sustainability and Researcher on Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Her early career included working as a Senior Research Scientist and Plant Biotechnologists at the National Agricultural Research Institute in Guyana, her country of origin, and during that period served as a member of the National Committee on Food Policy. Veronica’s professional experience includes conducting Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and preparing Environmental Management Plans for agriculture, forestry and infrastructure projects, undertaking sustainability audits for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and delivering customised training and talks on strategic approaches to CSR, Sustainability and SMEs. For over 10 years, she was a part-time Lecturer at the Guyana School of Agriculture and served also as Assistant Chief Examiner of Agriculture Science for the Caribbean Examination Council.

  Dr Broomes is author of the book ‘Who invests wins -Leveraging Corporate Social Responsibility for CEOs, Investors and Policy Makers to create ‘Triple Wins’ and book chapters on ‘Organisational governance and strategic CSR to strengthen local supply chains’ (published in 2014 by Cambridge Scholarly Publishing) and ‘How Strategic Approaches to CSR and Sustainable Development Can Deliver Effective Solutions for Society’s Most Pressing Issues’ for the book on Global Challenges to CSR and Sustainable Development (published in 2020 by Springer).

  In addition to consulting assignments, Veronica is also an entrepreneur, company director and second time business founder.

  Veronica’s academic qualification includes a BSc in Agriculture Science from the University of Guyana, PhD in Plant Science from the University of Sheffield and a Masters of Law (LLM) degree from The Open University.