Yalmaz Siddiqui
Director, Environmental Strategy
Office Depot
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Yalmaz Siddiqui |
Yalmaz Siddiqui, is Office Depot’s Director of Environmental Strategy. He is responsible for setting strategic direction and helping integrate a wide range of environmental programs into the global organization. Office Depot’s industry-leading environmental programs span all parts of the company - from the supply chain (buying green) to internal operations (being green), to business and consumer markets (selling green). Yalmaz’s role includes improving the understanding of environmental issues and opportunities among suppliers, associates and customers. His goal is to help improve the environmental performance of Office Depot and its range of stakeholders. Yalmaz also oversees Office Depot’s five-year, $2.2 million Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (www.forestryalliance.org), which develops critical information, standards and tools for global forest and biodiversity conservation. The Alliance is Office Depot’s collaboration with Conservation International, NatureServe and The Nature Conservancy, three of the world’s most respected science-based conservation organizations. Yalmaz came to Office Depot in April of 2006 from IBM Business Consulting Services in Canada where he was a Senior Consultant in Customer Relationship Management, and author of the first global study on environmental procurement of wood and paper products. Before joining IBM, Yalmaz was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he focused on the forest, paper and packaging industries. Yalmaz is a frequent speaker at National and International Conferences on the environment, including:
Yalmaz holds a Master’s Degree in Environment & Development from Cambridge University in England where his thesis focused on Industrial Ecology and Biomimicry. He also has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Marketing & International Business from McGill University in Canada. |