Rachel Martin

Senior Global Director Sustainability, Elsevier

As the global director of sustainability at Elsevier, Rachel Martin is driving change in the priority areas of sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on climate action. She is part of the team that launched the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact and the SDG Book Club. She represents Elsevier on several industry sustainability committees and is currently chair of the STM Social Responsibility Committee and UK Book Industry Communications (BIC) green supply chain committee. In 2022, Ms Martin co-founded of the Publishing 2030 Accelerator, seeking to test early-stage, industry-wide ideas such as carbon labels for books and journals. Her day job is to oversee Elsevier’s climate action programme and sustainability initiatives.