Miguel Veiga-Pestana is Chief Sustainability Officer at Reckitt, a consumer goods company whose brands include Dettol, Durex, Finish, and Nurofen. Miguel oversees the development and integration of Reckitt’s sustainability and purpose-led agenda.
He speaks about how consumer behaviour responds to and elicits change from big businesses, he speaks of the challenges and successes of phasing single-use plastics out of consumer product packaging, and reflects on the corporate leadership needed to drive the necessary momentum towards net-zero.