Richard Clarke is the global leader of the firms Sustainability and Risk Practice. Richard has just completed four years as Global Leader and Chief Executive Officer for Arthur D. Little – responsible for development and delivery of the firm’s international strategy. A Chartered Engineer, Richard has almost 20 years of experience of sustainability, risk, and performance management assignments across a range of sectors including engineering, process industries and transport. Richard also worked internationally in civil engineering construction for 10 years prior to joining the firm. Richard has led several large, multi-stakeholder assignments for various clients over the last decade.

Dean is a Director and the Market Manager of Arthur D. Little in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He is also a member of the global management of the Sustainability and Risk Practice, located in Prague. Dean is responsible for the business development in Eastern Europe and focuses on Energy and Utilities, TIME (Telecoms, Information, Media and Electronics), Travel and Transportation. He has considerable experience in management consulting, with projects on regulation, market liberalization, and organizational effectiveness, managing the profitability of groups of customers (calculations, segmentations, reporting), enhancing business efficiency, cost management, risk management and strategy creation.

Dean graduated from the Economics University in Prague, specializing in economics of industry. He is a member of the Energy Regulator’s Office advisory board. He is the President of the Chief Finance Officers’ Club (CFO Club) which has nearly 70 members from leading Czech and Slovak companies.

James is based in Arthur D. Little's Cambridge, UK office. He currently leads the UK's Travel and Transportation and Sustainability and Risk Practices where he specialises in risk management. Prior to joining Arthur D. Little he worked in manufacturing R&D. Since joining he has been involved in risk related studies in the energy, chemicals, manufacturing, automotive and transport sectors. James is fluent in Spanish, English and French, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. James holds a Degree in Engineering Science, with emphasis on Electronic and Control Engineering, from Oxford University.

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Davide Vassallo is a Senior Manager of Arthur D. Little and heads the Sustainability & Risk Practice in Italy. His professional focus is on Climate Change, Emission Trading, Life Cycle - Energy and Environmental – Assessment and Sustainable Development. He has led a number of projects to support national and international companies to plan emission reduction programs and to assess opportunities related to EU ETS and CDM/JI projects. Davide is an Environmental Engineer graduate of Polytechnic University of Turin