Future Leader Award
WINNER: Thomas Newbigging, GSK

Entry Overview
Thomas Newbigging has played a pivotal role in a wide variety of initiatives at GSK and beyond. Including leading supplier engagement on Energize, a project to support suppliers with the transition to renewable energy, and convening a group of six pharmaceutical companies to form Activate, which focuses on the decarbonisation of manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients.

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Official announcement of the World Sustainability Awards 2024 winners and highly commended

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“Tom’s passion, approach and engagement with suppliers, spearheading critical programmes for GSK Pharma is important work and impressive!”
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