Andrew Dakers
CEO, West London Business
Andrew Dakers
CEO, West London Business
Biography
Andrew Dakers is Chief Executive of West London Business. He grew up in Brentford, West London and he still lives and works locally. Andrew is a tireless campaigner on both local and global issues.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Andrew’s career has spanned IT at the BBC, business change management at GSK, campaigning for WWF-UK, leading Public Affairs at corporate responsibility charity Business in the Community, and leading Spark! a West London-based Education Business Partnership. Andrew was a founder director of fast fashion brand Strawberry Kats.
Andrew was Course Leader and a tutor in Business Ethics & Sustainability on the University of Bradford’s MBA programme (2010-15). The online MBA is ranked #8 globally by The Financial Times. Andrew was selected as a London Leader 2012/13 by the London Sustainable Development Commission.
He has worked in Fiji, India, Uganda, UAE and the USA, and gained an MSc Development Management from The Open University in 2002.
Andrew is a member of UKSIF and the Institute of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, as well as a subscriber to the Institute of Business Ethics.