Senior Vice President of SustainabilityBP
Ivanka is the Senior Vice President of Sustainability at bp. She recently joined bp us from Target Corporation, where she was the Vice President of Responsible Sourcing and Sustainability. In that role she was responsible for establishing and driving Target’s strategy for sustainability across the manufacturing supply chain. Ivanka led global teams focused on driving positive social and environmental impact across all product categories of Target’s business.
Prior to this, Ivanka spent nearly 15 years at the United Nations, working for the International Labour Organisation. She served as the ILO’s Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist providing technical leadership and support on sustainability policies and activities including the ILO/IFC Better Work programme as well as the ILO’s Green Jobs programme in Asia and the Pacific. Ivanka has extensive experience in the field of corporate social responsibility, sustainability and human rights in global supply chains. In 2004, Ivanka published Implementing Codes of Conduct, a seminal research piece based on corporate sustainability practices that has formed the backbone of many of the ILO’s brand and factory focused improvement initiatives.
Ivanka holds a PhD and Masters of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge together with Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Economics degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her work on CSR has been published in several books as well as in leading journals, based on collaborative research on CSR undertaken with leading academics from Columbia University, Harvard University, Sydney University and others.