Oliver Dudok van Heel

Oliver Dudok van Heel is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a tutor on CISL’s Executive Programmes and Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business.

He has spent the previous 25 years advising corporations on how to become more sustainable, working with the world’s largest corporations across a range of sectors. He now devotes his time to writing a book on the societal narratives that have driven us to act in ways that are destructive to ourselves, to others and to the planet. You can find his most recent writing at changingstories.substack.com.

Previously he was Global Sustainability Director with Strategy Consultants Kearney and Head of Client Sustainability and Environment with law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he created and led the New York Circular City Initiative. Before that he was Director of The Aldersgate Group, an alliance of leaders from business, government and society that is seeking to develop sustainable policy change. It is during his time at Aldersgate that he started working with CUSP, while researching and writing ‘An Economy That Works’ a report that sought to identify the core characteristics of a sustainable economy. He has worked as a strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little, Monitor, SustainAbility, Radley Yeldar and Enviros.

He is also a Fellow of CUSP, the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity where he focuses on identifying ways to develop an authentic positive narrative which will help deliver genuine sustainable prosperity. 

Oliver speaks English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Portuguese and holds a Master’s of Law and an Insead MBA. He has three wonderful grown-up children and lives in the Scottish Highlands with his wife, Maia.