Ian Sayers has a successful track record in international business strategy and sustainable export value chain development. He is now leading the improvement of access to, and use of, financing for sustainable SME growth in emerging markets and developing countries including the application of innovative financing, business and supply chain practices to improve enterprise profitability whilst reducing negative impact on the planet.

Skilled in Sustainable enterprise and value chain development, Trade and supply chain financing, Strategy, Market development, International Business, Financing for sustainable development and development economics. Ian has experience of leading change in some of the world’s largest multinationals, with governments, entrepreneurs and the smallest of rural communities. He is a community leader for the World Economic Forum’s Accelerating Sustainable Development platform, an alumnus of the Skoll Foundation, Oxford Said, IMD Lausanne, Cranfield and Newcastle Universities.