Senior Advisor, European Governance & Sustainability Center
The Conference Board
Uwe G. Schulte is a Senior Advisor for the European Governance & Sustainability Center at The Conference Board. In this role, he works closely with the C-suite executives to help them better understand and identify sustainable business risks and opportunities. He also serves as the Council Director for the European Sustainability Council.
Schulte was executive director of the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre and spent most of his professional career at Unilever. In his final role, he led the creation of the global Unilever procurement function.
Other roles include serving as head of the Personal Care supply chain for Europe; technical director for the Elida board; works manager of the Elida Gibbs Personal Care factory (in Germany); head of development and quality assurance of Lever Division Household Products and Personal Care (Sao Paulo, Brazil); head of production for detergent powders and liquids and product development (Lever Germany); and scientist/chemist in England and Germany.