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Yalmaz Siddiqui is Director of Environmental Strategy for Office Depot.  Siddiqui is responsible for guiding Office Depot’s global environmental vision to “increasingly buy green, be green and sell green.”  As part of this company-wide initiative, Siddiqui partners with a number of internal and external stakeholders to develop and integrate a wide range of environmental programs, initiatives and products.

Office Depot’s industry-leading environmental programs span all parts of the company - from the supply chain (buying green) to internal operations (being green), to business and consumer markets (selling green).  Siddiqui’s role includes improving the understanding of environmental issues and opportunities among the Company’s suppliers, associates and customers.  His end goal is to help improve the environmental performance of Office Depot and its range of stakeholders.

Siddiqui also oversees Office Depot’s five-year, Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (www.forestryalliance.org), which develops critical information, standards and tools for global forest and biodiversity conservation.  The Alliance is Office Depot’s collaboration with Conservation International, NatureServe and The Nature Conservancy, three of the world’s most respected science-based conservation organizations.

Siddiqui came to Office Depot in April of 2006 from IBM Business Consulting Services in Canada where he was a Senior Consultant in Customer Relationship Management, and author of the first global study on environmental procurement of wood and paper products.  Prior to joining IBM, Siddiqui was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he focused on the forest, paper and packaging industries.

Siddiqui holds a Master’s Degree in Environment & Development from Cambridge University in England, and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Marketing & International Business from McGill University in Canada.