Matthew Gitsham

Matt Gitsham is Director of the Ashridge Centre for Business and Sustainability. He works with colleagues across the Ashridge faculty to promote thought leadership around organisational change, leadership development and sustainability.

He has recently led research exploring CEO perspectives on the implications of sustainability for leadership development. This was conducted in partnership with the European Academy of Business in Society and the United Nations, and sponsored by Shell, Unilever, IBM, Johnson&Johnson and Microsoft.

He teaches on a range of Ashridge programmes, including the MBA, and is Programme Director for the Integrating Corporate Responsibility programme.

Matt is an elected member of the academic board of the European Academy of Business and Society. He is a member of the stakeholder advisory panel of Nexen, the Canadian Energy company. Matt is widely published and a frequent contributor to industry and academic conferences.