Gareth Llewellyn

Executive Director of Safety and Sustainable Development
Network Rail

Gareth recently joined Network Rail as Executive Director of Safety and Sustainable Development having previously worked in an interim role with the World Gold Council.

Prior to this, Gareth was responsible for leading Anglo American’s strategy on safety, health and environmental issues, together with matters of sustainable development including human rights. He is also a non-executive director of the Government’s Renewable Fuels Agency where he is a member of the Audit Committee, and is Chair of Trustees at the not-for-profit body CLAIRE which works with government and industry to bring back contaminated land into economic use.

Prior to joining Anglo American, Gareth was a Non-Executive Director at Biffa plc, one of the leading waste management companies where he chaired the Board’s SHE Committee. He was also Global Director of Corporate Responsibility for National Grid plc, a director of both the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy and The Corporate Responsibility Group, and a non-executive director of National Grid Property. Before joining National Grid, Gareth was the Head of Risk for the UK’s Environment Agency.

He has also been the UK’s representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency dealing with the environmental and safety aspects of the long-term disposal of radioactive waste, and was a founder member of the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights. In 2005 Gareth became the first person from industry to be invited to address the United Nations General Assembly on the role of business in upholding human rights. Gareth is a member of the Criticaleye Advisory Board.