Kathryn Dapré

Head of Sustainability at Cala

Speaker

Kathryn Dapré is a sustainability leader with over 30 years working in this topic across roles in the public and private sectors and academia . She is currently Head of Sustainability for Cala Group Ltd, one of the UK’s major housebuilders, where she is responsible for delivering their Sustainability Strategy and overseeing all sustainability reporting activity. Under her tenure, Cala’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions have fallen by over 40%, whilst business growth has remained consistent. She has also overseen the launch of Cala’s Urban Wildlife Strategy and Community Pledge initiatives. She is an active member of the Future Homes Hub which bring UK housebuilders together to collaborate on key industry issues in relation to sustainability, including embodied carbon and sustainability reporting. Prior to working for Cala, Kathryn spent over 9 years as Head of Energy and Sustainability for NHS National Services Scotland and was also a previous chair of the Sustainability Scotland Network.