Neil Bentley Director, Business Environment CBI |
| | Neil Bentley As director of the Business Environment, Neil is responsible for leading the CBI's climate change campaign to promote government, business and consumers working together to build a low-carbon economy. Neil works closely with the CBI’s Climate Change Board to set the direction for the campaign and leads on communications with government and other stakeholders in the UK and abroad. Equally, Neil leads our work on infrastructure, transport, planning, energy, environment and health and safety.
Neil took up this role in July 2008. From 2005 he was CBI director of the Public Services, responsible for leading the CBI's campaign on public service reform. And from 2002, he was Head of Skills and Employment with responsibility for areas such education, skills, diversity, trade union relations, employee involvement and working time.
Before joining the CBI in 2002 he was European employee relations consultant at EDS Ltd, a global IT services company. Prior to EDS, Neil was a researcher on European employment law and industrial relations issues at the Industrial Relations Services. Neil's doctorate focused on trade union attitudes to racism and immigration. |