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BiographyNicola Acutt

Nicola Acutt, Ph.D., is Director of Curriculum and faculty member at Presidio School of Management. Nicola has worked as a consultant to the South African government on natural resource policy and coastal management as well as the London-based Business Partners for Development.
Nicola teaches the Business, Government & Civil Society course and has co-taught the Managerial Marketing and Integrative Capstone courses at Presidio. She is also a frequent guest lecturer on sustainable business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Nicola has worked as a consultant to the South African Government on natural resource policy and coastal management, a researcher at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment in the U.K., and a consultant for the London-based Business Partners for Development initiative on tri-sector partnerships.
She was also a writer for the Eastern Daily Press on special assignment to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. Nicola received her Ph.D. in the field of corporate environmentalism from the University of East Anglia in the U.K., and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley.

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