Speaker: Dawn Rittenhouse, Director, Sustainable Develoment, DuPont Company

Discussion Topic:

DuPont's sustainability journey started decades ago when we began the focus on reducing our footprint.  While there has been significant benefit to reducing our footprint in terms of energy savings as well as other raw material savings, we have found that there is a much larger value in driving our focus on the development of products and services which help our customers or the final consumer to reduce their footprint.  This has required engagement well beyond the manufacturing organizations to include R&D, business management and sales and marketing.  There have also been some interesting challenges in trying to figure out how to track and report against the market facing goals.   

About the Speaker:

Dawn joined DuPont in 1980 and has held positions in Technical Service, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management within the Packaging and Industrial Polymers business and Crop Protection businesses.   In late 1997, she began working in the corporate organization to assist DuPont  businesses in integrating sustainability strategies into their strategy and business management processes.  She leads DuPont’s efforts at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development  (WBCSD) and the United Nations Global Compact.   She also manages the corporate recognition program for Sustainable Growth Excellence.  In 2007 she picked up responsibility for DuPont’s efforts on climate change.

In 2001 and 2002 Dawn served a co-chair of the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) working group that developed the SD Planner?.   She has also co-chaired the WBCSD working groups on Energy and Climate, Innovation and Technology and Sustainability through the Market. 

She is currently sits on the Board of Erthnxt , on the Education Committee of the Delaware Nature Society and is on the Sustainability Council at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business.  

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