Akanksha Khatri
Head of nature and biodiversity - World Economic Forum
Akanksha Khatri is Head of Nature and Biodiversity at the World Economic Forum. In this role she led the creation of the New Nature Economy Report series that set forth a pathway for businesses to play an active role in read more
Aliza Ayaz
UN youth ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals
Aliza Ayaz is the world's youngest United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Ayaz is completing a Masters in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is the Founder and Chair of UCL's Climate Action society.
Andreas Ahrens (Norway)
Head of climate - Inter IKEA Group
Andreas Ahrens, MSc in Engineering, leads the climate agenda for Inter IKEA Group (the IKEA franchisor) and the full IKEA value-chain – from raw material extraction to product end-of-life. He is the main spokesperson for climate – internally and externally read more
Andrew Almack
Founder and CEO - Plastics For Change
Andrew is the Founder / CEO of Plastics For Change, Andrew is passionate about optimizing plastic waste as a resource for reducing poverty. Plastics For Change has developed an ethical sourcing platform that connects informal waste workers to global markets. read more
Basil Scarsella
CEO - UK Power Networks
Basil Scarsella is Chief Executive Officer and Director of UK Power Networks, owned by the CK Group. Prior to taking up the appointment at UK Power Networks, Basil was the CEO of Northern Gas Networks from 2005, also owned by read more
Becca Massey-Chase
Co-deputy head of the Environmental Justice Commission - IPPR
Becca is Co-Deputy Head of the Environmental Justice Commission at IPPR. She leads the commission’s deliberative democracy programme and research on a just transition for travel. Becca joined IPPR from Sustrans, where she held the position of head of strategy read more
Bukky Bird
Group sustainability director - Barratt Developments
Bukky joined Barratt Developments plc as Group Sustainability Director in January 2020, responsible for the overall sustainability strategy and for driving the next stage of business transformation for Barratt’s sustainability priorities. A key focus for her is to ensure Barratt read more
Carly Bilsbrough
Head of CSR - The Very Group
Charmian Love
Founder and CEO - B Lab UK
Charmian believes in the power of business as a force for good. She is Co-Founder and Activist in Residence at B Lab UK and Co-Chairs B Lab’s Global Climate Taskforce. She is also Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll read more
Claudine Blamey
Head of sustainability and digital strategy - Argent Services LLP
Currently Claudine is Head of Sustainability and Digital Strategy at Argent LLP. Claudine delivered the net zero carbon flights strategy at easyJet. Prior to this she set up the Group sustainability function at Sainsbury’s covering sustainable sourcing, operational waste and read more
Cristina Kenz
Chief growth officer - The Kraft Heinz Company
Dan Neale
Lead - social transformation - World Benchmarking Alliance
Dan leads the social transformation within the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), responsible for establishing the framework to assess the 2,000 keystone companies on what they are doing to ‘leave no one behind’. Previously, Dan led the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark read more
Dare Ilori
Group head of sustainability - Merlin Entertainments Ltd
Dr Darren Moorcroft
Chief Executive - Woodland Trust
In 2017, Darren joined the Woodland Trust as its Director of Estates & Woodland Outreach before becoming its Chief Executive in September 2019. Prior to this, Darren gained his PhD from Oxford University before joining the RSPB, where he held read more
Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas
CEO - Green Finance Institute
Rhian spent 20 years in investment and corporate banking and was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to green banking. She is an Emeritus Member of the TCFD, currently co-chair of the Informal Working Group for the Taskforce on read more
Dr Sally Uren OBE
CEO - Forum for the future
Sally is Chief Executive at Forum for the Future with overall responsibility for delivering Forum’s mission to accelerate a big shift towards a sustainable future by catalysing transformational change in global systems. This involves working with leading global organisations, including read more
Gaëlle Le Gélard
Food circular design project manager - Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Gaëlle has been leading Service Design and innovation projects for global design firms for the past 10 years. Her work at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is focused on circular design for food, applying circular economy principles to the design of read more
George Richards
Director - JRP Solutions
George has over 35 years’ experience of working with industrial and commercial clients across a range of sectors throughout the UK and Ireland delivering sustainable solutions that improve business performance and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He is a passionate believer read more
Graham Lloyd
Director of strategy, performance & sustainability - Nationwide Building Society
Graham Lloyd is Director of Strategy, Performance & Sustainability at Nationwide Building Society. Nationwide was founded to help people save and buy homes of their own. Graham leads the team which drives the organisation’s social purpose – to build society, read more
Harriet Lamb
CEO - Ashden
Harriet joined Ashden as CEO in May 2019, taking responsibility for developing and implementing the organisation’s ambitious new strategy to tackle climate change. Harriet was CEO at peacebuilding organisation International Alert and spent 15 years leading Fairtrade in the UK read more
Helen Wiggs
Head of climate - Shareaction
Helen joined ShareAction in 2018 following a 15-year career in equity broking at Morgan Stanley and previously, BNP Paribas. After an initial role in Investor Engagement, she was appointed Head of Corporate Climate in 2020 and runs the Investor Decarbonisation read more
Ian Riley
CEO - WCA
Ian joined the WCA in 2019, contributing to WCA’s key mission of sustainability, innovation and internationalization and facing the challenges of creating a sustainable cement industry. Ian has a wealth of international experience, having worked across the cement industry in read more
Jennifer Motles
Chief Sustainability Officer - Philip Morris International
Jennifer is an International and Human Rights lawyer and Chief Sustainability Officer for Philip Morris International (PMI). Ms. Motles joined the company in 2015 and helped craft PMI’s sustainability strategy, ensuring it was intrinsically linked to the adoption of the company’s vision of delivering a smoke-free read more
Jess Ainley
Head of sustainability - Fever Tree
Jo Gilroy
Group head of sustainability & environment - Kier
Jo Gilroy is a Sustainability Professional specialised in working in the corporate sector. She is passionate about the potential for business to ‘do well by doing good’. In her former role as Head of Sustainability for the Bunzl Group, she read more
Jo-Anne Chidley
Founder - Beauty Kitchen
Jo Chidley is a chemist and the Co Founder of Beauty Kitchen, a B Corp certified business on a mission to create the most effective, natural and sustainable beauty products in the world. Widely regarded as one of the pioneers read more
Joe Franses
VP sustainability - Coca-cola
Joe Franses is Vice-President, Sustainability at Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler. CCEP manufactures and distributes an extensive range of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages, serving a consumer population of over 300 million across Western Europe, including Great read more
Julia Barrett
Chief sustainability officer - Willmott Dixon
As the chief sustainability officer of the in-house sustainability team, Julia leads on realising Rick Willmott’s belief that Willmott Dixon has a 'purpose beyond profit'. Julia represents the sector on various industry and sustainability Groups. Under her leadership Willmott Dixon read more
Kresse Wesling
Founder - Elvis & Kresse
Kresse Wesling, CBE, is a multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur. After first meeting the London Fire Brigade in 2005, Kresse launched Elvis & Kresse, which rescues and transforms decommissioned fire hose into innovative lifestyle products and returns 50% of profits to read more
Laura McGonigal
Head of sustainability - Aesop
Luke Nicholls
Content director - edie
Lysander Bickham
Founder and CEO - Leo's Box
Lysander set up Leo's Box at 16 during the summer after his GCSEs. Having learnt about the Sustainable Deveolpment Goals, he believed that business could play a role in making sustainable changes more available for all. This drove him to read more
Madeleine Gabriel
Sustainable future mission director - Nesta
Madeleine leads Nesta’s mission to create A Sustainable Future, which focuses on decarbonisation and economic recovery.Her team is setting up innovation projects and partnerships exploring how to reduce carbon emissions from homes and, in the wake of COVID-19, how to read more
Marc Engel
Chief supply chain officer - Unilever
Marc was appointed Chief Supply Chain Officer and a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive in January 2016. Marc has worked at Unilever for over twenty years, joining in 1990, and has extensive experience in supply chain operations, covering procurement, read more
Matthew Vickers
CEO and chief ombudsman - Ombudsman Services
Matthew Vickers is Chief Executive and Chief Ombudsman of Ombudsman Services (OS), the UK’s energy and telecommunications ombudsman. OS provides independent dispute resolution which is open to consumers and microbusinesses in these key regulated sectors. OS works closely with government, read more
Mattie Yeta
Head of sustainability - Defra IT, UK Government
Mattie Yeta is the Head of Sustainability for Defra IT, PhD researcher and won the sustainability leader of the year award 2019/2020. She led the creation of the UK Government’s sustainable technology report 2017, and the Sustainable IT industry guide. Her read more
Natalie Campbell
CEO - Belu
Nina Prichard
Head of sustainable and ethical Sourcing, UK & Ireland Supply Chain - McDonald's
Paul Irwin-Rhodes
Head of sustainability and SHE - Greggs
Paul is the Head of Sustainability and SHE for Greggs and was heavily involved in the design and delivery of the ‘Greggs Pledge’, their latest sustainability strategy. As part of their longer term net zero ambition, Paul is currently focussing on their scope read more
Professor Nathalie Seddon
Director, nature-based solutions initiative - Oxford University
Nathalie Seddon is Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford and Founding Director of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org), an interdisciplinary programme of research, policy advice, and education that enhances understanding of the potential of Nature-based Solutions to address global read more
Richard Hall
VP general secretary - Danone UK & Ireland
Roland Rott
Head of ESG and sustainable investment research - La Francaise Group
Roland has nearly 20 years of experience in ESG and sustainable investing. He began his career in asset management in 2002 focussing on corporate governance while working for DWS in Frankfurt. Thereafter and for ten years, he was a Senior read more
Sarah Mukherjee
CEO - IEMA
Sarah Mukherjee is the CEO of IEMA. She was the BBC's Environment Correspondent for many years, presenting on national and international BBC radio and television news, working – and winning awards - across the world. Since leaving the Corporation, she read more
Serena Bashal
COP working group - UKYCC
Serena works for SSE in their business energy unit. She has been engaging with United Nations Climate Change for five years, working on youth advocacy, climate justice and the energy transition amongst other thematics. She was elected as the 2019 Global Focal read more
Shirley Rodrigues
Deputy mayor for environment and energy
Shirley Rodrigues was appointed as London Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy in October 2016. She has devised and delivered environmental policies and programmes in London, nationally and internationally for government and philanthropy including most recently overseeing a global cities read more
Sir David King
Founder and chair - Centre for Climate Repair
Professor Sir David King is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Founder and Chair of the Centre for Climate Repair in the University; Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group; an AffiliatePartner of SYSTEMIQ Limited; and Senior Strategy Adviser read more
Solitaire Townsend
Co-founder - Futerra
Sonya Bhonsle
Head of supply chain - CDP
Sonya Bhonsle is the Global Head of CDP’s Supply Chain program which enables major multinationals and governments to achieve sustainable supply chains, influencing over US$3.3 trillion in annual procurement spend. Sonya has over 14 years of Sustainable Supply Chain experience, both in read more
Soulla Kyriacou
Chief operating officer - A blueprint for better business
Soulla joined Blueprint in December 2012 and together with our CEO, has helped to grow Blueprint from an initiative that was launched with a conference looking at how corporate purpose and personal values could be united to serve society, to read more
Stephen Richardson
Director of Europe - World Green Building Council
Stephen Richardson is Director of the Europe Regional Network, coordinating the work and collaboration of 20+ Green Building Councils and eight regional partners. He is also WorldGBC’s representative in the EU Sustainable Finance Platform, helping lead the development of the read more
Steve Butterworth
CEO - Neighbourly
Steve Butterworth is CEO of Neighbourly, an award-winning community engagement and investment platform that works with over 15,000 community causes across the UK and Ireland, connecting them to support from leading businesses. Steve is committed to helping redefine the role read more
Susan Thomas
Senior director, commercial sustainability - Asda
Susan joined Asda in June 2020 into a new role created to drive Asda’s strategic focus on Sustainability. She “quarter-backs” Asda’s cross functional efforts across the Better Planet agenda, mobilising activities including our journeys towards net zero, elimination of waste, read more
Tom Domen
Global head of long term innovation - Ecover
Tom Domen graduated in 1996 with a Master in Industrial Design. In 2007, he completed a Master in Sustainable Development at the University of Brussels. With his MA on Sustainable Technology for Eastern Africa, he received the yearly Award for read more
Tom Hayes
Councillor - Oxford City Council
Tom is Oxford City Council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Zero Carbon Oxford and Green Transport. Tom has been recognized for his cli-mate action with the award of the 2020 LGIU national Cllr Award for En-vironment and Sustainability Pioneer. read more
Tony Juniper CBE
Chair - Natural England
Tony Juniper CBE is Chair of the official Nature conservation agency Natural England and a Fellow with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is a former Director of Friends of the Earth, Executive Director with WWF UK, read more
Will Ennett
Head of sustainability - TalkTalk
Will Ennett is currently Head of Content and Sustainability at TalkTalk and has over 15 years’ experience in building strong commercial partnerships across the TV, film, technology and telecoms sectors. Will is responsible for maintaining and enhancing those relationships, as read more
Will Pearson
CEO - Ocean Bottle
William’s interest lies at the intersection of entrepreneurship, social impact, and environmental conservation. After completing his undergraduate degree in engineering, William spent a year working at sea in the Indian Ocean, where he saw first hand the current state of read more
Zanagee Artis (USA)
Co-Founder - Zero Hour
Zanagee Artis is a 21 year-old from Clinton, Connecticut, USA studying political science and environmental studies in his final year at Brown University. He is a founder, a co-executive director, and the policy director of the global youth-led climate justice read more