Sir Dave Lewis has more than three decades of experience in the Consumer Goods and Retail sectors. He is currently Chair of consumer health company, Haleon, and sits on the board of PepsiCo. Sir Dave is also Chairman of Xlinks, a privately owned renewable energy business. Prior to these roles, Sir Dave spent the majority of his career at Unilever, beginning as a graduate trainee and rising to join the Global Executive Team, first as President Americas and then as Global President for Personal Care. After 28 years at the consumer goods giant, he left to run Tesco, leading the retailer for six years between 2014 and 2020. In addition to substantial operational performance improvement, significant corporate repositioning took place including the divestments of businesses in Korea and Thailand. In the UK, Tesco completed a £3.7bn merger with the UK’s biggest wholesaler, Booker, to create a retail and wholesale powerhouse. Sir Dave is the Chair of WWF-UK, and was chair of Champions 12.3, a UN program seeking to add momentum to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Target 12.3 by 2030. Sir Dave co-chaired the Consumer, Retail and Life Sciences Business Council, which was established to advise the UK Prime Minister, and for three months in 2021, he volunteered to help the UK Government work through the supply chain challenges the country was facing at the time.