Dan Phillips (FRSA, MSt (cantab) BEng (acgi)) is group director of sustainability at Buro Happold. He trained as a mechanical engineer at Imperial College, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has a Masters degree in interdisciplinary design for the built environment from Cambridge University. He started his career at Ford Motor Company followed by 8 years at Arup's in London and Africa. His professional passion is innovation and sustainable development and he believes that we will achieve this through constantly improving the relationship people have with our built and natural environment, the systems and tools we use to operate our buildings, cities and organisations and the quality of the built environment itself. Previously he ran a design and innovation company called the SEA, and was also the creative director at Battle McCarthy Engineers. He is a creative communicator and thinker having lectured in environmental design and published a book on Eco-friendly homes for Harper Collins.