Liam Smeeth is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and professor of clinical epidemiology. He is a global leader in the use of computerized health data for research. He was previously a Trustee of the British Heart Foundation and a non-executive director of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. He is a member of the strategic oversight committee for UK Biobank and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He co-chairs the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS. In response to the Covid pandemic he co-led the creation of the OpenSafely resource. 

Dr Saul Johnson has worked in healthcare in Africa for over 30 years.  He is the Partner in charge of the Health Practice at Genesis Analytics. Saul is a qualified doctor, with further degrees in public health and epidemiology. His areas of expertise include behaviour change communication, epidemiology, research, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), health system improvement, organisational development and change management. Since much of his focus has been on infectious diseases like HIV and TB, Saul was deeply involved in responding to the Covid pandemic, and is reviewing interventions to mitigate the impact of climate change on health systems. Saul started his own consulting company in 2002, Health & Development Africa, which he grew into a 60 person organisation. He sold this company in 2010 to Mott MacDonald, where he worked for another 4 years. He joined Genesis in 2016 to start up a Health Practice there. Saul also has a degree in coaching, and is passionate about passing on his experience to others. 

Glyn is Bupa’s Group Director of Sustainability and member of Bupa's Strategic Development Forum. Bupa's purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. 

Reporting into Bupa’s Chief Sustainability and People Officer, Glyn is responsible for the design and implementation of Bupa's global sustainability strategy, which recognises the intersection between, and interdependence of, human health and the health of the planet, and is focussed on creating healthier societies through delivering preventative care, increasing access through digital innovation, making communities healthier through cities and nature, and reducing the impact of healthcare delivery. Glyn also directs delivery of Bupa’s science-based targets and net zero commitments and solutions delivering on Bupa’s climate, health and nature ambitions. 

Glyn previously held roles in strategy and legal teams at Bupa, and was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2009 (although is not currently practicing law). 

He is fluent in English and German and has worked in Africa, Asia and Europe. 

Dr. Damien Ng is a Thematic Research Analyst in Julius Baer’s Next Generation Research. Damien focuses on demographics, healthcare and consumption issues under the ‘Future Health’ theme. Prior to joining Julius Baer in Zurich, he previously worked in Paris, Tokyo, and his home country, Singapore, for Goldman Sachs and Reuters. In addition to a PhD from Durham University in the United Kingdom, Damien has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, and Executive Certificates in Drug Development and Discovery from the Harvard Medical School, as well as in Nutrition Science and Exercise Physiology from Stanford University. He is also the author of a peer-reviewed book released by London-based publishing house Routledge. 

Anthony is a policy fellow in CGD’s global health policy team. He leads CGD’s work on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including modelling the macro-economic burden of AMR and was previously the technical lead of CGD’s working group, A New Grand Bargain to Improve the Antimicrobial Market for Human Health. He has also led projects analysing the COVID-19 vaccine portfolio, examining policy interventions to protect the supply chains for pharmaceuticals from COVID-19-induced shocks, and contributed to the international Decision Support Initiative’s work in Ethiopia. 

Before joining CGD, he was Head of Economic Research for the UK’s Independent Review into AMR which was set up by the UK government and the Wellcome Trust; led a Wellcome Trust project examining how it could fund more economic research; a research associate at ODI working on the political economy of why governments role out health services in LMICs, (particularly those aimed at reaching the left behind); and a senior health economist at the University of Oxford, modelling the cost of malaria interventions. 

Anthony has a master’s in public and economic policy from the London School of Economics, and his undergraduate degree is from Trinity College Dublin. 

Anthony is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, an independent, non-partisan think tank, where he leads the organisation’s work on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He was formerly head of economic research for the UK’s Independent Review into AMR, set up by the UK government. 

Peter leads all areas of work at Impact on Urban Health. 

Peter has been the Executive Director for Impact on Urban Health since 2023. 

Peter brings together our programmes’ funding and partnerships, as well as the work of our data, evidence and innovation teams in support of our urban health work. Peter brings a range of experience in senior leadership roles, in organisations including the Youth Endowment Fund and The Social Innovation Partnership. He also previously served as a Councillor in Southwark Council and as Chair of Blagrave Trust. 

Professor Collins Iwuji is Professor of Global Health and HIV Medicine at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, and an Honorary Consultant Physician at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, UK. He is a faculty member in Population Science and the Academic Lead of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), South Africa. Based at AHRI, his interdisciplinary research spans clinical medicine, population science, and climate change and health. 

His work focuses on evaluating interventions to strengthen health system resilience to extreme weather events, climate change and HIV, as well as climate change and mental health. Collins also serves on the Wellcome Trust Population and Public Health Advisory Group, the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change, and the interim Steering Committee of the African Population Cohorts Consortium. 

Andrea Mechelli is Professor of Early Intervention in Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS. His research uses smartphone technologies, electronic health records, and machine learning to examine the impacts of climate change on mental health. He leads Urban Mind, a cross-disciplinary study exploring how urban living affects mental wellbeing, and NatureBoost, a project helping people reconnect with nature to support mental health.

Sarah Kline is Co-Founder and CEO of United for Global Mental Health, a UK-based global mental health charity that exists to advocate, campaign and fundraise for greater political and financial
support for mental health around the world. Over the course of her career, she has developed and delivered successful national and international campaigns and initiatives aimed at governments, international institutions and political parties at the highest levels. From 2011 to
2017 she worked at the World Health Organisation in a variety of positions focused on polio eradication, and public health emergencies including the Ebola outbreak of 2014. Prior to working for WHO, she founded Malaria No More UK, an NGO dedicated to helping end malaria.
Sarah has worked for the British government (in DFID and the FCO), the World Bank, Oxfam GB and a private lobbying company in Washington DC. She is an experienced media spokesperson:
appearing in numerous national and international broadcast and print outlets.

Dr. Thomas Doherty is a clinical and environmental psychologist based in Portland, Oregon, with a specialty addressing personal and societal concerns about environmental issues and climate change. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, Past President of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology, and Founding Editor of the academic journal Ecopsychology. His multiple publications on climate change issues include the groundbreaking paper “The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change,” co-authored by Susan Clayton, cited over 1100 times. Thomas co-hosts the Climate Change and Happiness podcast. Thomas Doherty's new book Surviving Climate Anxiety: A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving arrives this fall.  

Thomas Doherty has provided workshops and training for the US National Park Service, the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the California Department of Health, and British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. 

Jane Burston founded and leads Clean Air Fund. Before setting up the organisation Jane worked as Head of Climate and Energy Science in the UK Government, where she was responsible for the UK greenhouse gas inventory and a £45m science programme. Previously, as Head of Energy and Environment at the National Physical Laboratory she managed a team of 150 scientists working in air quality, greenhouse gas measurement and renewable energy. 

Jane has a background in social enterprise and management consulting and a first-class degree in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. 

Jane has spoken at Davos and the UN General Assembly. She has been interviewed about air pollution and the movement for clean air by the New York Times, BBC, Times Radio and for numerous podcasts. In January 2021, Jane delivered a Letter to the 21st Century on BBC Radio 4. In 2020, Jane was profiled as one of WIRED’s changemakers of tomorrow. She was named as a ‘Young Global Leader’ of the World Economic Forum, as one of the ‘40 under 40 European Young Leaders’ by Friends of Europe and was previously a UK Social Entrepreneur of the year. 

Jane is also a trustee of Parkinson’s UK and a keen triathlete. 

Alejandro Guarin is the food systems transformation lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance, where he works to ensure that companies contribute to building a fairer and more sustainable food system. Alejandro’s research, advocacy, and policy engagement includes social and environmental issues related to smallholder agriculture, markets, value chains, and consumption. He has experience working in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Previously he was food systems lead at IIED in London, a researcher with the German Development Institute in Bonn, and a consultant for FAO. He has a PhD in geography from Berkeley and studied biology at the National University of Colombia. 

Stuart Gillespie has been fighting to transform our dysfunctional food system for the past forty years. Stuart worked with a range of UN agencies across the world, before joining the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1999. Here he founded the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security, the Transform Nutrition research consortium, a flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health programme and the Stories of Change initiative, amongst a host of other interventions in public food and nutrition policy. Stuart's newsletter, Food Fight Files, tackles the political and commercial drivers of food injustice and malnutrition and what can and should be done about them. 

Mary Robinson is a co-founder of Project Dandelion, which is a women-led global campaign for climate justice, Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice at Trinity College Dublin, and a member of The Elders and the Planetary Guardians. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honours and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States Barack Obama. Between 2013 and 2016, Mary served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in three roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change leading up to the Paris Agreement and in 2016 as his Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate. Her Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, established in 2010, came to a planned end in April 2019. 

A former President of the International Commission of Jurists and former chair of the Council of Women World Leaders she was President and founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative from 2002-2010 and served as Honorary President of Oxfam International from 2002-2012. She was Chancellor of the University of Dublin from 1998 to 2019.  

Mary Robinson serves as Patron of the International Science Council and Patron of the Board of the Institute of Human Rights and Business, is an Ambassador for The B Team, in addition to being a board member of several organisations including the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Aurora Foundation. Recently she became joint Honorary President of the Africa Europe Foundation. Mary’s memoir, ‘Everybody Matters’ was published in September 2012 and her book, ‘Climate Justice - Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future’ was published in September 2018. She is also co-host of a podcast on the climate crisis, called ‘Mothers of Invention’. 

Gary White is a globally recognized expert in the water and sanitation sector with more than 30 years of experience working to solve the global water crisis. As CEO and Co-founder of Water.org, WaterEquity, and WaterConnect, he has been at the forefront of developing sustainable, scalable solutions that have empowered millions of people with lasting access to safe water and sanitation. 

Gary is a trusted advisor to global organizations, including Inditex, Reckitt, Amazon Web Services, Bank of America, and the Water Resilience Coalition, offering strategic guidance on solving the water crisis. His work has earned him accolades such as the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, inclusion on the TIME100 list, and the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship. 

Gary holds three degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Missouri University of Science & Technology.