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= Iain Anderson = Sir Iain Anderson (CBE) (30 June 1938), also known as Dr. Iain Anderson, is best known for holding numerous positions of relevance in several businesses and public and educational bodies such as the Medical Products Group, Unilever and Batchelors Foods.

Education
He studied at the University of Glasgow and gained his BSc in 1959 and a PhD in Microbiology in 1962.

Career
Anderson joined Unilever in 1965. He was appointed Unilever board director in 1988 and was the Chemicals coordinator from 1992 until his retirement in 1998. He was also responsible for North America Regional Management.

Before becoming the chemicals coordinator, he had been:

- Chairman of PPF International between 1981 and 1983

- Chemicals coordination and chairman of Medical Products Group between 1983 and 1985

- Chairman of Batchelors Foods between 1985 and 1988 and

- Corporate Development Director between 1988 and 1992.

He was passionate about sustainability and regularly delivered speeches on the subject, such as:

- “Challenges for sustainability in the food processing industry” Netherlands 29 May 1998 and

- “Sustainability: Unilever’s Approach” Brussels 5 March 1997.

Outside of Unilever he wrote a report on the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 2001-2002. He was also a special advisor to the Labour party 1998 to 2000 and has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2010.