Jim is Director of Corporate Affairs and Packaging at the FDF. He leads the FDF's political engagement, and its policy work on packaging. Jim and his teams work across the FDF's priority campaigns, ensuring the food and drink industry is well-represented in governments around the UK. On packaging, Jim focuses on securing well-functioning EPR and DRS schemes that deliver value for money and improve recycling rates. Jim has led government and corporate affairs for some of the UK's leading brands across multiple sectors, including PepsiCo, TCS, Manpower and the CBI. He has extensive experience of operating at senior levels in global and UK-based businesses and trade bodies, working with stakeholders in business, government and the media to communicate and bring about policy change. Jim has engaged with some of the most sensitive and complex policy challenges in the last 15 years, such as industrial relations, pensions, the Bribery Act, employment and equality, immigration reform, HFSS foods and packaging waste. He is a former chair of the Confederation of Indian Industry in the UK, and visiting fellow at the University of Oxford.