Group CEO Jean-Claude Pierre discusses the Northamptonshire-based company’s success formula

Why the future for the business is looking green

The co-founder and chief executive of the African Leadership Institute worked for Shell before finding a more philanthropic calling – nurturing future African leaders. Here he talks defying apartheid, playing septuagenarian hockey and the task of creating would-be presidents.
Obeying your parents isn’t always right. I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, where my accountant father […]

As BP chief executive, Lord Browne transformed the company from ailing enterprise to global success story. In this exclusive interview, he talks engineering, energy and equality

For many students, a university project often ends up scrawled in a tutor’s red ink, destined to accumulate dust in the attic. Not so for Laurent Van Houcke.
The project he worked on at London’s Imperial College with fellow students Christopher Baker-Brian and Mansoor Hamayun had a noble aim: a charity delivering solar power to communities […]

Natural Power has grown from a small Glasgow-based player to the UK’s biggest renewable energy consultancy. Director Jeremy Sainsbury tells us why wind farms can offer a cheap future energy solution and a safer haven for investment.
The rundown former mining towns of East Ayrshire may speak of Scotland’s past, but neighbouring Dumfries offers a glimpse […]

Waste management company is encouraging diversity, nurturing youth and opening the innovation process up to all

Meet the maverick who’s out to pull the plug on his rivals