ResponsibleSteel Board of Directors

Gerry is Executive VP of Corporate Affairs for BlueScope, Australia’s largest steelmaker. He is also a Founding Director of Manufacturing Australia, an association representing 12 of Australia’s largest manufacturing companies.

Gerry’s domestic work spans energy, trade, productivity restructuring, digital development, and corporate sustainability. Internationally, he works with governments on bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and regulatory issues.

He has advised companies across the IT&T, property, education, bio/technology, and manufacturing sectors for over 20 years. He is also an entrepreneur, having built and sold his own independent consulting businesses.

Gerry holds an MBA in International Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Brad is Executive VP, Head of Corporate Business Optimisation for ArcelorMittal. He joined Dofasco in 1986 as a project engineer, holding several positions before becoming a Business Unit Manager in 1996. In 2002, he became Strategic Marketing Manager, subsequently holding several senior marketing and commercial roles before becoming CEO of ArcelorMittal North America in 2018.

In his current role, he is responsible for Global Automotive, R&D, CTO, Commercial Coordination, Corporate Capital Goods Procurement, Corporate Communications and Corporate Responsibility, Automotive JVs in China and India, Tailored Blanks Americas, and is Vice Chairman of the Investment Allocation Committee.

Brad holds a mechanical engineering degree from McMaster University, Canada.

For more than 20 years, Cate has been actively involved in the design, planning, delivery and management of sustainability strategies across both the public and private sector.

Having completed a secondment as the Executive Director at the UN Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA), Cate returned to Lendlease in 2018 as Group Head of Sustainability and the Lendlease Foundation, responsible for Lendlease’s global operations, leading the execution of Lendlease’s industry leading Mission Zero Strategy and 1.5 degree aligned targets, in addition to its social value creation target.

Cate was recognised as one of the 2023 Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership A List winners, as well as being voted one of the FS Sustainability 50 Most Influential Corporate ESG Leaders in 2023.

Rajiv holds a Bachelor of Engineering (hons) in Metallurgy from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) and a postgraduate diploma in Business Management from XLRI Jamshedpur. He has completed an Advanced Management Programme at CEDEP (INSEAD, France) and a Director Certification Program from the Institute of Directors, Thailand.

Over the last 33 years, he has worked in the manufacturing, planning, marketing and sale of steel. He has held various leadership positions, including President and CEO of Tata Steel Thailand and Business Head for Steel Tubes and Steel Wires at Tata Steel.

In 2023, he became Vice President of Safety, Health and Sustainability for Tata Steel. Rajiv lives with his family in Jamshedpur, India.

Andrew is a metallurgy graduate from the University of Glasgow, and was BHP Steel’s (now BlueScope) representative on the IISI (now World Steel Association) Marketing Committee for 10 years, chairing it for four. 

On retirement from BlueScope, he was appointed as Chair of the Sustainability Committee of the Australian Steel Institute (ASI), which led to his Board appointments on the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society and, until recently, EPD Australasia Ltd.

In 2008, he represented the ASI at the formation of the Steel Stewardship Forum, which in 2010 launched what would become ResponsibleSteel. Andrew was part of the working group to develop the Steel Stewardship Council (now ResponsibleSteel) and has been an Independent Director since its incorporation in 2016.

Leeora is an independent consultant specialising in social aspects of corporate sustainability and a just transition to a low-carbon economy.

She spent 14 years as the Managing Director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, during which time she worked with the Steel Stewardship Forum to undertake market research to develop ResponsibleSteel. Later, the organisation joined Deloitte where she continued as Principal in the Sustainability Services team until 2020. 

She holds a PhD in Corporate Social Responsibility from Monash University and authored the first book published on the social license, “The Social License to Operate: Your Management Framework for Complex Times” (2013).

Hayley is CEO of the Supply Chain Sustainability School Limited (Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand), delivering collaborative accessible education for a sustainable future. Hayley has experience in a wide variety of areas including governance, strategic management, marketing, advocacy, and financial analytics; both for-profit businesses and for-purpose organisations.

Hayley grew up in a steel town and has previously worked for the Resolution Institute, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia, and BlueScope. Hayley is passionate about youth leadership, sustainable development, circular economy, and adult education.

As Director of Corporate Partnerships, Mike leads Climate Group’s global campaigns, including growing demand for renewable energy (RE100), electric vehicles (EV100), low carbon steel (SteelZero) and smart energy systems (EP100).

Mike has worked on climate and sustainability issues since 1998, spending over a decade at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), including as Director of Executive Programmes and Director of Strategy & Communications. Prior to this, he was COO of AccountAbility and led the development of the AA1000 framework for sustainability accounting and reporting.

Mike studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford and International Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

As Director for Clean Energy Solutions, Dan supports Ceres’ investor network in engagements with commercial and industrial companies to adopt science-based GHG targets. 

Before joining Ceres in 2016, Dan led energy conservation and environmental protection initiatives for the Maryland Energy Administration, the United Nations Foundation/Energy Future Coalition, the Apollo Alliance, the Sierra Club, and the World Resources Institute. Dan also worked with Baltimore Gas & Electric to bring data-driven energy efficiency services to Maryland’s commercial utility customers and wrote the landmark Green Jobs Act of 2007.

He holds a master’s degree in International Relations/Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in American History from the University of Chicago.

Anne-Sophie is a Senior Programme Manager in the Business & Nature team at Fauna & Flora International. She works in partnership with businesses to bring about positive change for biodiversity, providing them with best practices for avoiding and mitigating their impact on nature’s assets.

Anne-Sophie has worked in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in local communities for over 13 years, in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe. It was during this time she developed her expertise on ecosystem services and natural capital. She joined the ResponsibleSteel Board of Directors in 2022.

Anna is the United Steelworkers’ Director of Regulatory and State Policy where she helps lead the policy and advocacy agenda for the union. Anna began her career with USW fifteen years ago in the Health, Safety & Environment Department. She has helped the union work in coalition with other organisations, particularly in her roles representing USW on the BlueGreen Alliance steering committee and on the Carbon Capture Coalition’s board.

Anna also assists in maintaining and growing international relationships representing USW as IndustriALL Global Union’s Vice President for North America. She received her BS and MPH from Boston University.