Anna Baker joins Kier Construction after two years with Careys as head of sustainability. Before that, she was with Sir Robert McAlpine鈥檚 environmental team for nearly 13 years, latterly as director of safety, sustainability, health, environment and quality (SSHEQ).
鈥淭his is an exciting time to join Kier, a business I鈥檝e long admired,鈥� she said. 鈥淲ith so much great work already underway, I鈥檓 looking forward to bringing my experience to the role and leading on the next steps of Kier鈥檚 sustainability journey for the construction business.鈥�
The appointment of a head of sustainability for Kier Construction comes on the back of the formation of a group-level 鈥榬esponsible business鈥� team, headed by chief people officer Helen Redfern, in overall charge of the whole ESG (environmental, social and governance) agenda. Reporting to Helen Redfern are Chris Lilley as group health, safety, wellbeing & sustainability director, Ben Stone as group head of environmental sustainability and Lisa Sanders as group head of social sustainability.
Louisa Finlay, managing director of clients and markets at Kier Construction, said: 鈥淎nna鈥檚 drive to really make a difference and proven ability to see the big picture will complement the work being done across the group to achieve our targets in sustainability.鈥�
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