ProfessorDoughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility
David Grayson CBE is Professor of Corporate Responsibility, and Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University School of Management. He is also chairman of the charity Carers UK. He is a former Managing-Director of Business in the Community. He has chaired or been a board member of several UK public agencies, appointed by the Thatcher, Major and Blair Governments. Much of his recent work has focused on how to shift Corporate Responsibility from being a bolt-on to business operations to being built-in to business purpose and strategy, and a source of innovation and new business, as well as societal good. He is the author of several books including “Corporate Responsibility Coalitions: The past, present and future of alliances for Sustainable Capitalism” co-authored with Jane Nelson; and his latest book is “Social Intrapreneurism and all that jazz" (2014) co-authored with Melody McLaren and Heiko Spitzeck. He is currently working on his next book: Take Care: being a great employer of care-givers to be publlished Autumn 2016