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Dr Gideon Middleton

Job title: Senior Lecturer MBA (Strategic Carbon Management) Course Director

Contact: g.middleton@uea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2644

Location: Thomas Paine Study Centre 2.09

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Biography

Gideon is Senior Lecturer in Business and Climate Change and Course Director for the MBA in Strategic Carbon Management with theUniversity of East Anglia's Business School.

Before joining the Norwich Business School, Gideon worked as a Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Manager for a range of high profile companies, including Kingfisher (B&Q, Screwfix), Wincanton, Exel, DHL, Network Rail and Orange. Through his work Gideon has built up expertise in a diverse range of areas including: corporate responsibility reporting, climate change strategy, carbon foot-printing, environmental management of logistics companies, corporate responsibility measurement and management systems, environmental management of major rail crashes and large pollution incidents. Specifically, whilst at Orange he launched the first environmental report for a UK based mobile phone operator, the first recycling scheme for mobile phones and whilst at Kingfisher Gideon member of the CBI working group on carbon reporting.

Before his corporate career Gideon trained and worked as a marine scientist during which time he undertook research into sea-level change and the uptake of carbon dioxide by marine organisms at the University of Wales, Bangor.