Monica Middleton has 30 years’ experience across a diverse range of blue chip companies and SMEs, helping to deliver impactful business, marketing and communications strategies. Her focus over the past eight years has been on organisations which pursue a blend of financial, environmental and social imperatives, with her most recent executive position being UK managing director for Dutch international ESG investor, Oikocredit. Alongside LIBERTY Steel, she is currently a non-executive director for Cafédirect plc (also Chair of their Guardian Share Company and its Remuneration & Nominations Committee); the Ethical Property Company plc (also Chair of its Property Investment Committee); and UK Women in Social Finance. She has also held executive roles at Dyson Electronics, BBDO and the BBC and holds a first-class BSc in Business Administration and an MSc in Sustainability and Social Responsibility.