Dr James Cadman FIEMA CEnv has worked in product sustainability and supply chains for more than 20 years. He has extensive experience of assessing the sustainability impacts that products and services have through their life cycle and supply chains and then applying that to sustainable procurement and supply chain policies and strategies. His work encompasses strategic carbon assessments, implementing sustainable procurement, and circular economy principles.

During his career he has developed sustainable procurement specifications, policies and guidance, and codes of conduct for many organisations, public and private. Along the way, he was involved in developing criteria for the EU Ecolabel. He has undertaken several sustainable procurement assessments for organisations in logistics, healthcare, rail, utilities, and construction. Elsewhere he has undertaken business-level and product-level carbon footprinting on a variety of products, calculating the impacts and then using that in situations such as sustainable procurement and submissions to Science Based Targets.