PETER DAVIS : BIOGRAPHY

Peter, joined the Federation in 1998 and even by that time he had a richly varied career which had already earned him an OBE for political services. A South London boy who had been educated at Archbishop Tennison's Grammar School, he subsequently became a Metal Box trainee which some say initiated his life-long love affair with packaging.
 
Not long afterwards he answered a call from the political world and spent some time as the leader of the Conservative Party in Lambeth Town Council during the days of the infamous Red Ted Knight. He later worked as a Special Advisor to Kenneth Baker, now Lord Baker, then Secretary of State of the Environment.
 
Then followed a period in Conservative Party's Central Office and a spell as Marketing Director of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
 
Immediately prior to joining the Federation as Director General he was the Director of Incpen, the Industry Committee on Packaging and the Environment, where he played a key role in determining the split in responsibilities among the players in the packaging chain for the recovery and recycling of packaging.
 
At the BPF, he has carried the profile of the organisation to great political heights, most recently witnessed in the personal letter sent to him by David Cameron, thanking Peter for his contributions to British Industry, a letter which meant a great deal to Peter.
 
He has presided over a growth in BPF membership and a widening of the services on offer to member firms. He has tirelessly carried the British Plastics message to all corners of the globe be it at trade fairs in China or in our industry's fora in Brussels. He  has frequently appeared in the press as a commentator and as an author and we will always remember his fearless debate with Jeremy Irons on prime time TV on the subject of plastic bags.  It was during his time in office that the BPF managed to secure a Climate Change Agreement and set up BPF Energy which brought has brought enormous cost savings to our industry.

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The British Plastics federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry – representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.