Hadley Barrett
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Hadley Barrett is CEO, major shareholder
Shareholder
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 of the Oxford Sustainable Group
Oxford Sustainable Group
The Oxford Sustainable Group is a sustainable development company operating across Europe and managing four stock market listed companies, as well as its own portfolio with a value of between 2.5bn and 5bn Euro, which makes it one of the largest sustainable development groups in the region...

, and director of five stock market
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 listed companies. A British
British people
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 citizen, Hadley Barrett was born in Southampton
Southampton
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, England
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Career

With both a blue chip and entrepreneurial background, Hadley Barrett founded the 2nd largest online bulletin board system in the UK at age 15 and later sold a Benelux based Lifescience company. Since then he founded the Oxford Sustainable Group
Oxford Sustainable Group
The Oxford Sustainable Group is a sustainable development company operating across Europe and managing four stock market listed companies, as well as its own portfolio with a value of between 2.5bn and 5bn Euro, which makes it one of the largest sustainable development groups in the region...

 with operations in various countries throughout Europe,,,,

Hadley Barrett graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics. He read an MBA at Oxford University.

According to various media sources, as a tycoon, he currently has an estimated personal worth of between 100m and 1.5bn Euro. Mediafax/Ziarul quotes the Oxford Sustainable Group
Oxford Sustainable Group
The Oxford Sustainable Group is a sustainable development company operating across Europe and managing four stock market listed companies, as well as its own portfolio with a value of between 2.5bn and 5bn Euro, which makes it one of the largest sustainable development groups in the region...

 as investing 1bn Euro in Romania
Romania
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, The Financial Times
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  as creating a 200m Euro Fund in 2009 and Pensions News that Hadley has invested 20m Euro of his own fortune into their latest investment opportunity.

Hadley has been quoted in various media such as Investment Week, New Energy Finance, Pensions News, The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
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, amongst other international publications, for his expertise on variously - renewable energy
Renewable energy
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, renewable agriculture, real estate sustainable development
Sustainable development
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 and business in Central and Eastern Europe
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Background

According to the Oxford Sustainable Group
Oxford Sustainable Group
The Oxford Sustainable Group is a sustainable development company operating across Europe and managing four stock market listed companies, as well as its own portfolio with a value of between 2.5bn and 5bn Euro, which makes it one of the largest sustainable development groups in the region...

 website, Hadley has been involved with advising global banks, governments and institutions across Europe on sustainability
Sustainability
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 and speaks English
English language
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, Dutch
Dutch language
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 and Russian
Russian language
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. A keen sportsman, he has played at amateur level as centre forward for Southampton F.C.
Southampton F.C.
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 and Hampshire F.A., both UK based professional football teams. He maintains an active athletic lifestyle.

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