Dr Peter Heslam is Director of Transforming Business, a multi-disciplinary research and development project on enterprise solutions to poverty at Cambridge University. He works particularly closely with faculty at the University's Judge Business School and with leaders in international business. He is also the chief co-ordinator of the international network of business ethicists, economists, practitioners, consultants, psychologists, educators and opinion formers that is not formally part of the university but is vital to the scope and reach of the project. Peter's academic background covers social science, history and ethics and he holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.

Peter has an established international reputation for work at the interface between ethics, business, society and culture. He has published widely, including a book on the Dutch political theorist and former Prime Minister, Abraham Kuyper. He is a prolific writer, speaker, researcher and commentator on the role of business in economic and social development. His publications include Globalization: Unravelling the New Capitalism and Globalization and the Good.

Peter has lectured to university and business audiences around the world and was formerly the Convenor of JustShare (a consortium of twenty development agencies concerned with global economic ethics) and an Adviser to Lambeth Palace on the issue of globalization. The recipient of a number of prizes and awards, he is a Senior Member of Trinity College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the International Leadership Association and an Adviser to the Centre for Entrepreneurial Leaders at Trinity Western University in Canada. He is also an Advisory Board member of the journal Faith in Business Quarterly and the Co-Editor of the forthcoming Transforming Business: International Journal of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (more information here).