- ClimateWorks Foundation: founder and funder of Project Catalyst, the international policy research platform focused exclusively on the economics of, and institutional arrangements needed for addressing climate change. Funded much of my work on climate change during 2008/2009, especially work focused on institutional arrangements, the Amazon Fund and low carbon growth planning.
- Department of International Development, UK Government: has supported several pieces of work over the years, recently including three pieces on the role of business in adaptation, especially the piece The Business of Adaptation launched at the UNFCCC meeting in Barcelona in 2009, and on-going work with the South African Government on low carbon growth planning. DFID is also a long term investor in the MFA Forum, which I helped to found and Chaired from its inception in late 2004 to the end of 2009. Now also supporting my work with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in staging an event in Beijing on natural resource governance in Africa.
- Swedish Government: through the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), has provided long-term support for the MFA Forum, and has supported through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs on-going work developed during my time at AccountAbility on Chinese competitiveness and sustainability, which was marked by the launch of an initial report Responsible Competitiveness in China at the EU-China Business Summit in Nanjing in November 2009.
- Swiss Government: through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SECO), is supporting on-going work with MOFCOM on sustainability standards in China, and has previously supported work in developing a multi-sector strategy for advancing Responsible Competitiveness in Jordan, and a major project in advancing a ‘star alliance’ for voluntary sustainability standards.
- World Bank: earlier support for my work on sustainability standards that led to the publication Investing in Sustainability Standards, and more recently work with the Development Research Centre of the State Council on Chinese business in Africa which underpinned the recent piece Responsible Business in Africa.
