Professor Peter James is a Visiting Professor of Environmental Management at the University of Bradford. Peter was instrumental in setting up UK CEED’s SustainIT initiative.
Peter has managed a number of UK CEED projects in the area of teleworking and e-working, including: the work on Internet-enabled logistics and supply chains for the UK Digital Futures programme; teleworking research projects for the AA and BT ; a BT/EU funded series of awareness-raising seminars for UK local authorities. He has also been involved for UK CEED in a number of European Union projects, with a total value of over 1 million euros, including projects on environmental management at airports, service sector innovation and environmental accounting. He has also recently produced a report on service sector innovation for sustainability in conjunction with the Green Alliance.
As well as his work with UK CEED, Peter has experience of managing over 50 research projects, many involving co-ordination of multiple partners.
He has previously worked as a consultant; business school researcher, teacher and professor; manager and journalist in the areas of management of technology and environmental management. This has included positions with BBC Television Science Features department and as senior research fellow at the University of Warwick Business School, Professor of Management and MBA Director at the University of Limerick and Assistant Director, Research at Ashridge Management College. He is also a research associate of Ashridge and external examiner of the business and environment course at Imperial College.
His publications, with co-authors, include Sustainable Measures: Evaluation and reporting of Environmental Performance (Greenleaf), The Green Bottom Line: Environmental Accounting for Management (Greenleaf), Driving Eco-Innovation (FT Pitman), Corporate Environmental Management in Britain and Germany (Anglo-German Foundation) and Environment under the Spotlight: Current Practice and Future Trends in Environment-related Performance Measurement in Business (ACCA) as well as many articles on environmental benchmarking, environmental accounting, performance evaluation and product evaluation for environmental and business journals.