A recognized sustainability leader and trusted consultant to private business and government clients, Bas Kothuis has more than 25 years of experience in sustainable business, cleaner production, water stewardship, energy management, and corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Bas assists clients from Africa to Asia in developing and implementing sustainable business practices, including the completion of many life cycle assessments, energy audits, cleaner production assessments, and water resource management programs. His clients have included The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, SABMiller, Levi’s, Nike, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Bas has unique insight and expertise into the sustainability challenges faced by clients and facilities in the African region. He is also an experienced and frequently requested trainer and facilitator.

Bas was the founder and managing director of the Institute for Sustainable Business in Cape Town, South Africa, and founder of the Dutch Institute for Applied Environmental Economics in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is fluent in Dutch (native speaker) and English, and conversant in German, French, and Afrikaans. He has worked in or visited over more than 25 non-European countries.

Bas has assisted beverage bottling plants in South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Afghanistan, and Pakistan with their source vulnerability assessments (SVAs) and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans.

In the last 20 years, Bas’s focus has been on supporting multinational clients and their facilities with SVAs and with the development and implementation of water resource management strategies and plans. The focus was on the African continent. For the last 10 years, more than 75% of his has been in East and Southern Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

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