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CEnv Profile | Adrian Mill, Managing Director, ESS & CEO, Lion Rouge

Adrian Mill CEnv | Awards Finalist/Winner CEnv profile

Adrian Mill CEnv was a finalist in the 2024 Awards and ultimately won our 2024 Environmental Professional of the Year Award. In this profile you’ll gain an insight into Adrian’s career, thoughts on the CEnv registration and how being a finalist has impacted his career.

 

What does an average day look like in your career?

The wonderful thing is that there is no average day! One day I’m overseeing a project, the next I’m at a conference, developing proposals or undertaking strategic planning for the growth of ESS, Lion Rouge and other ventures that I’m involved in. 

What are the top three key knowledge areas that are crucial to your role?

I start almost all conversations by making sure everyone present agrees on three key definitions – ESG (Environment, Social and Governance), HSEC (Health, Safety, Environment and Communities) and sustainability. ESG and HSEC are similar, as both are concerned with risk management and compliance, but HSEC is focused on the project / company level (management system, auditing, data collection, reporting etc.) while ESG is an investor term focused on ESG performance over a range of investees / assets. Sustainability is more aspirational and about aligning the organisation’s business model with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and similar frameworks – no-one has gone to prison for not meeting a carbon target! 

What part of your job do you find the most exciting?

The variability and working with exciting, up-and-coming young minds – my passion is to develop the next generation of ESG leaders in emerging economies, and I look forward to waking up every day!  

How has achieving CEnv registration impacted your work?

It has underscored my commitment to the sector, increased my pay when I worked for companies, and recently meant that I won the Environmental Professional of the Year award – so a massive impact. 

As an award winner, how has that recognition helped you?

I’m proud to tell anyone who’ll listen that I have won the award – so people have a point of comparison, I liken it to a Chartered Accountant winning an award for Accountant of the Year, which I find helps people to understand how important it is. It already has resulted in me being invited to speak in more conferences, which by consequence helps to raise the profile of my companies as well as the environmental causes that I am passionate about.  

 

 

Why would you encourage others in your sector to aspire to become a CEnv?

Being a CEnv is a commitment to yourself and to others that you intend to be the best environmental professional possible. Sometimes we get tired and stuck in the day-to-day, but CEnv requires us to be proactive and find innovative solutions to difficult problems, while continuing to learn. In fact, I regularly invite our more than 50 staff members to apply to become CEnv, some of whom are now in the application process. 

Q&A with Adrian Mill CEnv - 2024 Environmental Professional of the Year

🌎We sat down with Adrian Mill CEnv, our 2024 Environmental Professional of the Year Award winner and he tells us all about his career working in Senegal, how he feels about winning the prestigious award and his thoughts on how people could work across continents to better address environmental issues amongst other areas.

Profile correct as of October 2024.

 

Adrian’s CEnv registration

Adrian Mill is registered as a CEnv via membership of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES).

IES CEnv registration

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