Tony Kingsbury is the EMEA Director of Sustainability and Advocacy for Dow’s Packaging & Specialty Plastics (P&SP) business. He is responsible for developing and implementing the business sustainability strategy to stop plastic from entering the environment, delivering circular economy solutions and increasing impact through partnerships.
Kingsbury honed his sustainability expertise during a three-decade long career in a variety of roles including both inside and outside Dow. He is a recognized expert in circular economy, ocean plastics, green chemistry, value chain sustainability, public policy, life cycle thinking, corporate and product sustainability. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies around the globe in supply chains ranging from packaging to consumer electronics, and from apparel to toys. He is known for using his wide-ranging knowledge of the whole supply chain to find workable solutions to complex challenges and for distilling complex messages into understandable language.
Kingsbury spent the period between 2007 and 2012 as an Executive in Residence and Professional Faculty member at University of California, Berkeley. In this role, he led the multidisciplinary sustainability center and taught a variety of graduate level courses on sustainability. In 2012 he left Dow to consult, specializing in sustainable plastics, packaging and chemicals. In early 2019 he returned to Dow in his current role.
Kingsbury holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University and completed the ESADE/Stanford Executive Program in Corporate Responsibility.
He lives in Switzerland with his wife and enjoys travel, scuba diving and photography.