I don t and a couple I think I deserve. The Body Shop and I have always been closely identified in the public mind, undoubtedly because it is impossible to separate the company values from my own personal values, and the issues that I care passionately about social responsibility, respect for human rights, the more environment and animal protection, and an absolute belief in Community Trade. One of our strongest expanding departments right now is The Body Shop Direct, a home sales service which provides a livelihood for over 24,000 consultants. Though I no longer sit on executive committees, I spend 90 per cent of my time on The Body Shop business. A large part of my role is sourcing new products which means four months travel a year.
Travel is a journey of discovery, much like a university without walls.
I hold great hopes for The New Academy of Business, a masters degree course at Bath University, which I helped to launch in 1997 with the aim of reforming business education for the new century. I believe the older you get, the more radical you become. There s a quote I love, A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. In November 1999, I flew to Seattle to speak out against the role of the World Trade Organization and witnessed the Battle of Seattle . I came away choking from the CS gas and feeling a deep sense of shame at the way that multinationals and politicians can behave.