Speaker Biography: Steve Lippman

Steve Lippman is a Senior Program Manager in Business for Social Responsibility's Environment Program. BSR is a business membership organization that works with companies to promote environmentally and socially responsible business practices. At BSR, Steve leads the program's initiatives related to Supply Chain Environmental Management and its Initiative on Sourcing Environmentally Responsible Forest Products. Through these efforts, he has worked with more than 50 large companies across a diverse range of industry sectors to explore best practices for reducing environmental impacts across their supply chains and addressing their forest product sourcing. Steve has also worked for Jellinek, Schwart & Connolly, a D.C.-based environmental consulting firm, and has also done work for Environmental Defense Fund, NRDC, the Oregon Water Trust, and the Ford Foundation's Community-Based Forestry Program. Steve contributed an article on supply chain environmental management for the Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and has given presentations on the subject at numerous workshops and conferences. He received his B.A. from Stanford and an M.S. from University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and the Environment.