{"id":6050,"date":"2014-07-09T06:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T06:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2014-07-09T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T06:53:33","slug":"the-ellen-macarthur-foundation-gets-a-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/07\/09\/the-ellen-macarthur-foundation-gets-a-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ellen MacArthur Foundation gets a new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some ESD enthusiasts\u00a0were very sniffy about the Ellen MacArthur\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org\/?utm_source=All+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=e03988a1c8-Mailout_0297_1_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f507e40a10-e03988a1c8-54399869\">Foundation<\/a>\u00a0when it began. \u00a0They thought, variously,\u00a0it wasn't really academic, not interested in sustainability, had soiled its hands with mere trade, and had no idea about\u00a0ESD. \u00a0Others, of course, saw these (and a keen sense of purpose and possibility) as its core strengths. \u00a0Negative views were enhanced when the Foundation declined requests to\u00a0fund useless ESD projects. \u00a0However,\u00a0some\u00a0would come to\u00a0think that the Foundation was much wiser with its money than, say, <a href=\"www.hefce.ac.uk\">Hefce<\/a>, in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>It now has a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org\/news\/new-ceo-announced-at-the-ellen-macarthur-foundation\">new CEO<\/a>:\u00a0Andrew Morlet,\u00a0previously a managing director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accenture.com\/gb-en\/Pages\/index.aspx?c=ad_08ukglbpsgs&amp;n=g_Accenture_Core_Business\/a_0_k\/accenture&amp;KW_ID=sHxN8NwO0_dc|pcrid|15375319116\">Accenture<\/a>, and a partner in\u00a0<a href=\"www.mckinsey.com\">McKinsey<\/a> &amp; Co, who brings 25 years' global experience in consulting as well as large-scale programme and project design and delivery. \u00a0Mutually-assured confidence, it would seem. \u00a0However, for the unreconstructed ESD (wo)man, this will likely\u00a0demonstrate how right they were right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ESD enthusiasts\u00a0were very sniffy about the Ellen MacArthur\u00a0Foundation\u00a0when it began. \u00a0They thought, variously,\u00a0it wasn't really academic, not interested in sustainability, had soiled its hands with mere trade, and had no idea about\u00a0ESD. \u00a0Others, of course, saw these (and a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}