Assheton Carter

Assheton L. Stewart Carter is Head of the Advisory Council at Equitable Origin, a sustainability certification and certificate trading enterprise for the energy development industry; Director of the Dragonfly Initiative, and a board advisor to natural resource companies and a number of luxury jewelry and fashion brands on their sustainability and sourcing strategies. Working with the largest retailer in the world, Assheton conceived the first fully traceable line of gold and diamond jewelry. His success in bringing together suppliers, mining companies and civil society partners enabled Wal-Mart to bring its Love, Earth line to market in 2008. This pioneering effort led to engagements with luxury brands, such as Cartier and Chopard, to source precious metals from assured and certified mines. Assheton designed a responsibly recycled line of jewelry for a major retailer which included developing a new standard for responsibly sources of recycled silver and gold. From 2009 to 2011 Carter built a program to assure the physical traceability of ‘conflict-free’ metals from the Congo for use by electronics manufacturers in the U.S.A. and signed on behalf of civil society a groundbreaking public private alliance with the U.S. Department of State, the electronics industry and representatives of government from East Africa.