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### From Resilience to Renewal
Climate and the Future of Health 2026 is London’s leading climate and health conference during London Climate Action Week, uniting health, policy, finance and innovation to build climate‑resilient, prevention‑focused health systems.
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Climate and the Future of Health 2026 is London’s leading climate and health conference during London Climate Action Week, uniting health, policy, finance and innovation to build climate‑resilient, prevention‑focused health systems.
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Climate change is already reshaping human health, from extreme heat, air pollution and disrupted food systems to pressure on medicines, infrastructure, and mental wellbeing.
Climate and the Future of Health 2026 is the **preeminent climate and health conference at London Climate Action Week,** bringing together leaders across health systems, climate policy, finance, innovation, culture and communities.
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## An Official Flagship Event of London Climate Action Week
As part of its Solutions Lab, the one-day summit focuses on practical models of prevention, resilience and renewal – showcasing how data, finance, policy and innovation can protect health while accelerating net zero. Across keynotes, debates, solution sessions and introducing new tracks for culture, art and food systems, participants will move from crisis response to systemic redesign and real‑world implementation.
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## Hosted at The Conduit, an Official London Climate Action Week Hub
As part of its Solutions Lab, the one day summit focuses on practical models of prevention, resilience and renewal – showcasing how data, finance, policy and innovation can protect health while accelerating net zero. Across keynotes, debates, solution sessions and a dedicated culture, art and food systems, participants will move from crisis response to systemic redesign and real‑world implementation.
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## Our *Speakers*
This conference brings together world-leading experts across sectors to share the latest insights and chart a new course to a prosperous green future.
#### BAREND VAN BERGEN
Chief Sustainability Officer, Roche
#### METE COBAN MBE
Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy
#### JEMILAH MAHMOOD
Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health
#### FIONA ADSHEAD
Chair, Sustainable Healthcare Coalition
#### SUE PRITCHARD
Chief Executive, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
#### SARAH NEVILLE
Global Health Editor, Financial Times
#### EMMA ASKEW
Founder and Director, Earth Minutes
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#### LILY BLACKSELL
Head of Programming, The Conduit
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#### GABBY MORGAN
Partner, Conduit Connect
#### CLAIRE MACKENZIE
Film, Impact and Content Producer
#### ALASTAIR JOHNSTONE-HACK
Climate Visuals Manager, Climate Outreach
#### KARL ASTBURY
Lead, Climate and Health Programmes, Resilient Cities Network
#### DEE WOODS
Food action~ist/Afroecologist\\earth wisdom keeper
#### GRAHAM PETERSEN
Member, Greener Jobs Alliance Steering Group
#### KITTY PARKER-BROOKS
Expert in Residence on Climate and Health, The Conduit
#### NAOMI DUNCAN
Chief Executive, Chefs in Schools
#### CASSIE SUTHERLAND
Managing Director, Climate Solutions and Networks, C40
#### EILEEN HIGGINS
Mayor, City of Miami
#### ASHIF SHAIKH
Founder, People's Courage International
#### KEVIN WATSON
Sustainability Director, Levy
#### KATE GALLEGO
Mayor, Phoenix
#### AMANDA POWELL-SMITH
Chief Executive, Forster Communications
#### KATHY BAUGHMAN MCLEOD
Founder and CEO, HERA
#### FABRICE DECLERCK
Chief Science Officer, EAT
#### JAMES THOMPSON
Founder, In Place of War
#### MATT JUDEN-BLOOMFIELD
Head of Sustainability, Lidl GB
#### DANIELLE ALAKIJA
Olympian, Barrister, Founder of the SOLI Group and Climate Advocate
#### POPS MENSAH-BONSU
British Olympian, Former NBA Player and Founder, SEED Academy Ghana
#### VALDIS
Artist, Flow
#### BIRNA EYFJÖRÐ
Artist, Flow
#### KEILA
Artist, Flow
#### SOHINI ALAM
Artist, Flow
#### BEBÉ SALVEGO
Artist, Flow
#### KATIE CROSS
Founder and CEO, Pledgeball
#### ADAM PENNY
Co-Founder and CEO, The Beautiful Truth
#### FATMA SABET
Research Fellow in Health and Community Sciences, University of Exeter
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#### PAUL VAN ZYL
CEO and Co-Founder, The Conduit
#### ALAN DANGOUR
Director, Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust
#### JIMENA EYZAGUIRRE
Climate Change Adaptation Practice Lead, ESSA
#### SOPHIE LAMBIN
Founder and CEO, Kite Insights
#### LAURA CLARKE OBE
CEO ClientEarth
#### BARONESS ROSIE BOYCOTT
Vice-Chair, Peers for the Planet
#### MARJORIE ADAM
Global Lead for Access to Healthcare, Sanofi
#### TOLULLAH ONI
Founder, UrbanBetter & Professor, University of Cambridge
#### OMNIA EL OMRANI
Director of Programs, Youth Climate Justice Fund
#### SALLY HIGGINS
Presidency Youth Climate Champion, COP31
#### DIMV
DJ, OurHeartBeats
#### CHARLOTTE WATTS
Executive Director, Solutions, Wellcome Trust
#### NAVEEN RAO
Senior Vice President of Health, The Rockefeller Foundation
#### EMMA PINCHBECK
Chief Executive, Climate Change Committee
#### COLIN BUTFIELD
Co-Founder and Director, Open Planet Studios
#### LIV TORC
Co-Artistic Director, Hot Poets
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#### EMMA HOWARD BOYD CBE
Chair, National Heat Risk Commission
#### CHARLIE HICKS
Research Officer, LSE Cities
#### JOE BURTON
Sustainability Transformation Project Lead, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
#### CHRIS NAYLOR
Senior Fellow, The King's Fund & Policy Lead, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
#### PROF. SIR ANDY HAINES
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
#### LETTY THOMAS
Head of Field Building and Networks, Foundation for International Law for the Environment
#### SANDRINE DIXSON-DECLÈVE
Honorary President, The Club of Rome and Executive Chair, Earth4All
#### SHWETA NARAYAN
Campaign Lead, Global Climate and Health Alliance
#### JOHANNA GUSMAN
Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law
#### ROGER-MARK DE SOUZA
Vice President, Environment, The Pew Charitable Trusts
#### ELHADJ AS SY
Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation
#### SHANA TABAK
Senior Fellow & Director of Climate Mobility, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
#### BELYNDAR RIKIMANI
Campaigns and Research Lead, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change
### "There is such a tight link between planet and health - if you undermine biodiversity you undermine health."
Mary Robinson - Former President of Ireland
## Founding Partner
Wellcome supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
Our climate and health programme uses research and evidence to drive action by decision makers with human health at the centre. By working with researchers and partners, we’re working to inform and accelerate climate action based on science.
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### Health at the heart of climate action
Explore how future-ready health systems are designed around prevention, care and sustainability.
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### Connect capital, policy and delivery
Meet health leaders, policymakers, investors, insurers and innovators financing and delivering scale ready climate‑smart health solutions.
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### Practical insight and partnerships
Gain evidence, case studies and cross-sector connections you can apply in your organisation whether you work in health services, city leadership, finance, philanthropy, research, or innovation.
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### Gain Practical Strategies
Equip your organisation with actionable solutions for climate-resilient healthcare.
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### Build Powerful Connections
Tap into a world of health networking with pioneers transforming the climate-health space
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Discover breakthrough innovations and partnerships redefining global and public health.
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This conference brought experts together to explore how insurance can support government priorities, manage green transition risks, and drive innovation and economic security.
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CEO, National Emergencies
## Conference Agenda: *Breaking New Ground*
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Culture Track
08:00 – 09:30
### Registration & Networking
09:30 – 09:45
### Welcome Remarks
Paul van Zyl
CEO and Co-Founder, The Conduit
Alan Dangour
Director, Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust
09:45 - 10:05
### Opening Keynote: Health at the Heart of Climate Action
Setting the intention for the day and anchoring health as the metric by which climate action and inaction will be judged.
10:05 - 10:45
### Embedding Health in Climate Action: From National Policy to Implementation
As climate impacts intensify, health must be placed at the centre of national climate planning. This session will explore how health systems can better integrate health into NDCs and NAPs, whilst ensuring that climate ambition is designed from the outset with implementation in mind and primed to deliver stronger health outcomes, resilience and co-benefits at scale.
Bringing together leaders from government, policy, research and healthcare, the discussion will move from policy to practice, examining how national alignment can be translated into implementation across health systems.
It will consider how health systems can define, measure and reward the value of sustainability through smarter policy, financing, procurement and delivery models, and what operational changes are needed to embed climate priorities into day-to-day decision-making.
Fiona Adshead
Chair, Sustainable Healthcare Coalition
Barend van Bergen
Chief Sustainability Officer, Roche
Jimena Eyzaguirre
Climate Change Adaptation Lead, ESSA
Joe Burton
Sustainability Transformation Project Lead, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
Chris Naylor
Senior Fellow, The King's Trust & Policy Lead, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
10:45 - 10:55
### Keynote Speech
Mete Coban MBE
Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy
11:00 – 11:40
### Built to Last: Strengthening City Infrastructure Against Climate Extremes
As climate pressures intensify, cities are on the front line of keeping essential systems running. This session convenes mayors and city leaders to explore how infrastructure is being designed and delivered to withstand growing stresses—particularly extreme heat and harmful super pollutants.
The discussion will move beyond high-level resilience toward real-world delivery. It will spotlight how cities are responding to heat and air pollution through integrated systems—spanning energy, transport, cooling, and urban planning—and how these interventions are improving outcomes for residents.
Grounded in practical examples, the session will focus on how city leaders are working across agencies, scaling solutions, and accelerating implementation. From distributed energy for critical services to cleaner systems that cut super pollutants, the conversation will highlight what’s working, what’s replicable, and how cities can move faster toward infrastructure that is resilient, low-emissions, and health-enhancing.
Cassie Sutherland
Managing Director, Climate Solutions and Networks, C40
Eileen Higgins
Mayor, City of Miami
Kate Gallego
Mayor, Phoenix
11:40 – 12:15
### *Networking Break*
12:15 – 13:00
### Designing Community-Based Interventions - A Case Study on the Heat Impacts on Maternal Health
Extreme heat during pregnancy is linked to higher risks of miscarriage, preterm birth and stillbirth in both tropical and temperate regions.
This session uses maternal health as a test case for climate resilience, drawing on examples such as India’s heat action plans, co‑designed community programmes in sub‑Saharan Africa, and emerging UK guidance on protecting pregnant women in hotter summers.
The session will explore community-led models, trusted messengers and practical heat protection measures that can reduce risk in both the UK and globally.
Sarah Neville
Global Health Editor, Financial Times
Kathy Baughman McLeod
Founder and CEO, HERA
Jemilah Mahmood
Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health
Baroness Rosie Boycott
Vice-Chair, Peers for the Planet
13:00 – 14:00
### *Working Lunch*
Guests will be encouraged to join working lunch programming throughout the building.
14:00 – 15:00
### Debate: *Will the International Court of Justice ruling on climate change deliver better health outcomes?*
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The International Court of Justice's landmark ruling on climate change, endorsed by the UN General Assembly, has been described as a breakthrough for accountability and a significant step forward for climate justice. But will it translate into better health outcomes?
Will it accelerate the policy, financing and innovation needed to protect people from the growing health impacts of climate change? Will it influence the decisions of governments, businesses and investors? And will its benefits reach the communities most vulnerable to climate-related health risks?
Bringing together voices from across law, health, policy and business, this debate will explore the opportunities the ruling creates, the barriers that could limit its impact, and what it will take to turn landmark legal decisions into meaningful improvements in human health.
Laura Clarke OBE
CEO, ClientEarth
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Honorary President, The Club of Rome and Executive Chair, Earth4All
Shweta Narayan
Campaign Lead, Global Climate and Health Alliance
Johanna Gusman
Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law
Shana Tabak
Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Mobility, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Belyndar Rikimani
Campaigns and Research Lead, Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change
15:00 - 15:10
### A Well Adapted UK
Nearly 20 years since the landmark Climate Change Act was passed, this keynote on the A Well Adapted UK report will examine what it takes to accelerate health adaptation across public services, infrastructure and business, and why health must sit at the centre of that response if the UK is to become more resilient, better protected and fit for a changing climate.
Adam Penny
Co-Founder and CEO, The Beautiful Truth
Emma Pinchbeck
Chief Executive, Climate Change Committee
15:10 – 15:35
### Supporting Workers in a Warming World
As heat shocks intensify, quietly reshaping how and whether people can work, this session explores what it really means to support workers and communities.
The session will examine practical approaches employers, unions, city leaders and health systems can take to redesign the future of work so that climate action strengthens, rather than erodes people’s ability to live well and thrive.
Adam Penny
Co-Founder and CEO, The Beautiful Truth
Graham Petersen
Member, Greener Jobs Alliance Steering Group
Ashif Shaikh
Founder, People's Courage International
15:35 – 15:55
### *Networking Break*
15:55 - 16:25
### Investing for Health Resilience
Climate driven health risks are now a major macroeconomic exposure; while resilient health is emerging as a new investment frontier.
Public funding alone will not meet the scale of climate-health needs. This session asks how to unlock new forms of investment for prevention and resilience. It will focus on how funders, investors and partnerships can back solutions that protect public health now and strengthen systems for the future.
Gabby Morgan
Partner, Conduit Connect
Charlotte Watts
Executive Director, Solutions, Wellcome Trust
Naveen Rao
Senior Vice President of Health, The Rockefeller Foundation
Roger-Mark De Souza
Vice President, Environment, The Pew Charitable Trusts
16:25 - 17:10
### Solutions for Impact – Adaptation in Action
This cross-sector panel will distil the day’s discussions into a focused set of implementation priorities for climate and health, with a dual lens on adaptation and mitigation. The evidence base is no longer the constraint. The challenge now is delivery at scale.
Focusing on ready-to-scale solutions, the discussion will examine what it takes to move from pilots and fragmented interventions to integrated, system-wide climate and health implementation that is both durable and equitable.
Kitty Parker-Brooks
Expert in Residence, The Conduit
Marjorie Adam
Global Lead for Access to Healthcare, Sanofi
Tolullah Oni
Founder, UrbanBetter and Professor, University of Cambridge
Emma Howard Boyd CBE
Chair, National Heat Risk Commission
Charlie Hicks
Research Officer, LSE Cities
17:10 - 17:25
### Closing Keynote: From Pledges to Action: Visionary Leadership in a Climate Shocked World
Elhadj As Sy
Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation
17:25 – 17:30
### Closing Remarks from The Conduit
17:30 – 19:30
### *Drinks Reception*
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DJ Collective
DIMV
DJ, OurHeartBeats
11:45 – 11:55
### Opening Keynote
Food security and health are inseparable challenges, and climate is the force binding them together. Yet food is too often treated as a commodity rather than a public value connected to resilience, equity, governance and societal wellbeing.
As climate shocks and geopolitical instability reshape how and where food is produced, this opening keynote will examine what it takes to build food systems that are healthier, fairer and more resilient in a climate-constrained world.
Sue Pritchard
Chief Executive, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
11:55 - 12:30
### Food Systems Transition
How food can be treated as a central lever for building healthier, more resilient and more equitable systems at scale.
Food systems are facing intensifying pressure from climate change, biodiversity loss and health inequities, while policy still struggles to keep pace. This session examines how evidence is shaping the next generation of food systems strategy, and how it can be translated into practical action.It will explore how food systems can be aligned with climate limits, nutrition and health, and how data can help anticipate and respond to food insecurity.
The discussion will also consider how to move beyond fragmented approaches toward more integrated policy that links emissions, resilience, diet quality and land use.
Claire Mackenzie
Film, Impact and Content Producer
Dee Woods
Food action~ist/Afroecologist\\earth wisdom keeper.
Fabrice DeClerck
Chief Science Officer, EAT
Sally Higgins
Presidency Youth Climate Champion, COP31
12:30 – 13:00
### Food Systems in Practice: From Policy to Plate
What people eat is shaped long before they sit down to a meal. In many cities, access to healthy food remains uneven, with food deserts, pricing, and convenience driving poor dietary outcomes and widening health inequalities.
This session examines how food systems sit at the intersection of climate and health. From public procurement and school meals to supply chains and retail environments, it will explore how systems are being redesigned to make healthier, more sustainable choices the default.
Grounded in real-world delivery, the session will surface what is working, what remains difficult, and what it takes to turn ambition into meaningful, system-level change.
Amanda Powell-Smith
Chief Executive, Forster Communications
Naomi Duncan
Chief Executive, Chefs in Schools
Kevin Watson
Sustainability Director, Levy
Matt Juden-Bloomfield
Head of Sustainability, Lidl GB
Fatma Sabet
Research Fellow in Health and Community Sciences, University of Exeter
13:00 – 14:00
### Working Lunch *(Invite Only)*
15:30 – 15:40
### Opening Keynote: Narratives that Move Policy
This opening keynote from a leading artist or cultural voice reframes climate change as an immediate, lived health experience rather than a distant environmental threat.
From heatstroke and respiratory illness to food insecurity and displacement, the session foregrounds the human body as the front line of climate impact.
Through a cultural lens, it explores how storytelling and creative practice can make these realities visible and visceral, shifting public perception, deepening empathy, and catalysing the political will needed to drive meaningful climate action.
Colin Butfield
Co-Founder and Director, Open Planet Studios
15:40 - 16:00
### Winning in a Warming World
Climate change is already reshaping sport. Fans watch on as rising temperatures disrupt fixtures and place growing strain on athlete health. This session will explore how sport figures can use their influence to bring conversations about climate resilience to broader audiences.
Athletes and sports teams hold significant influence in the public conversations about the impact of climate on health, acting as cultural ambassadors, bridging divides, and influencing social values beyond their sporting achievements.
Katie Cross
Founder and CEO, Pledgeball
Danielle Alakija
Olympian, Barrister, Founder of the SOLI Group and Climate Advocate
Pops Mensah-Bonsu
British Olympian, Former NBA Player and Founder, SEED Academy Ghana
16:00 - 16:30
### Communicating Through Creativity
This session explores how we translate climate and health in the public imagination through creativity and culture. It brings together creatives, communicators and health leaders to share how we can make complex ideas understandable, accessible and relatable to new audiences through storytelling, film and poetry.
Lily Blacksell
Head of Programming, The Conduit
Emma Askew
Founder and Director, Earth Minutes
Omnia El Omrani
Director of Programs, Youth Climate Justice Fund
Liv Torc
Co-Artistic Director, Hot Poets
16:30 - 17:00
### Stories from the Frontline
Beautifully crafted visual narratives, poetry and musical performances from a diverse community of activists, artists and civic society telling stories of resilience shaped by the impacts of climate and health.
Karl Astbury
Lead, Climate and Health Programmes, Resilient Cities Network
Alastair Johnstone-Hack
Climate Visuals Manager, Climate Outreach
James Thompson
Founder, In Place of War
Sohini Alam
Artist, Flow
17:00 - 17:20
### A Performance by Flow
From melting glaciers in Iceland, droughts in Brazil, and flooding rivers in the UK, to rising sea levels in Bangladesh, water is carrying an important message about the climate crisis and the planetary health - and we are here to amplify her voice and let her be heard.
Through the power of music, 6 artists from Brazil, Iceland, UK and Bangladesh - Bebé Salvego, Keila, Valdis, Birna, OneDa and Sohini Alam - will translate the strength and struggles of their territories into powerful performances during London Action Climate Week, calling for the protection of waters, women’s rights, health and climate justice.
Bebé Salvego
Artist, Flow
Sohini Alam
Artist, Flow
Keila
Artist, Flow
Birna Eyfjörð
Artist, Flow
VALDIS
Artist, Flow
Sarah Neville
Sarah Neville
Global Health Editor, Financial Times
Sarah Neville is the FT's global health editor. She covers healthcare developments around the world, including the NHS. Since joining the FT more than 25 years ago, she has held a variety of senior editing and reporting roles including weekend news editor, analysis editor, UK news editor, public policy editor and global pharmaceuticals editor.
Sarah Neville is the FT's global health editor. She covers healthcare developments around the world, including the NHS. Since joining the FT more than 25 years ago, she has held a variety of senior editing and reporting roles including weekend news editor, analysis editor, UK news editor, public policy editor and global pharmaceuticals editor.
Barend van Bergen
Barend van Bergen
Chief Sustainability Officer, Roche
Barend van Bergen is Chief Sustainability Officer at Roche, where he is responsible for leading the implementation of the company’s sustainability strategy, supporting Roche’s long-term approach to sustainable healthcare. Before joining Roche, Barend spent 30 years in sustainability consulting, including leadership roles at EY and KPMG, advising organisations on sustainability strategies and long-term value creation. A recognised leader in impact measurement and valuation, Barend has co-authored several publications on sustainability and was a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Management. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences from Eindhoven University of Technology.
Barend van Bergen is Chief Sustainability Officer at Roche, where he is responsible for leading the implementation of the company’s sustainability strategy, supporting Roche’s long-term approach to sustainable healthcare. Before joining Roche, Barend spent 30 years in sustainability consulting, including leadership roles at EY and KPMG, advising organisations on sustainability strategies and long-term value creation. A recognised leader in impact measurement and valuation, Barend has co-authored several publications on sustainability and was a visiting fellow at the Yale School of Management. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences from Eindhoven University of Technology.
Sue Pritchard
Sue Pritchard
Chief Executive, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
Sue Pritchard is Chief Executive of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission, an independent UK commission, providing policy and systems change expertise to governments, businesses and communities. Stretching debates with bold ideas and fresh perspectives, we bring together the people and organisations who want to take on the difficult issues, developing radical and practical pathways for fairer economies and thriving, resilient communities.
Sue Pritchard is Chief Executive of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission, an independent UK commission, providing policy and systems change expertise to governments, businesses and communities. Stretching debates with bold ideas and fresh perspectives, we bring together the people and organisations who want to take on the difficult issues, developing radical and practical pathways for fairer economies and thriving, resilient communities.
Emma Askew
Emma Askew
Founder and Director, Earth Minutes
Emma is the Founder & Director of Earth Minutes - a creative impact studio driving environmental and social change through storytelling. Through national to international campaigns and events, from leading the social media at UN Ocean House, the first ever Youth Summit at London Climate Action Week (2025), to building a global youth communications programme, she is driving a new generation of storytellers and shaping the future of environmental communications.
Emma is the Founder & Director of Earth Minutes - a creative impact studio driving environmental and social change through storytelling. Through national to international campaigns and events, from leading the social media at UN Ocean House, the first ever Youth Summit at London Climate Action Week (2025), to building a global youth communications programme, she is driving a new generation of storytellers and shaping the future of environmental communications.
Lily Blacksell
Lily Blacksell
Head of Programming, The Conduit
Lily Blacksell joined The Conduit in April 2025 as Head of Programming, having worked in artistic programming at Southbank Centre and the Royal Society of Literature. She has an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, where she was a teaching fellow. Lily runs a poetry and music night called Canon Fodder at The Social in London and at Glastonbury Festival. Her collection, Life Immediately, was published by Bloodaxe Books in March 2026.
Lily Blacksell joined The Conduit in April 2025 as Head of Programming, having worked in artistic programming at Southbank Centre and the Royal Society of Literature. She has an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, where she was a teaching fellow. Lily runs a poetry and music night called Canon Fodder at The Social in London and at Glastonbury Festival. Her collection, Life Immediately, was published by Bloodaxe Books in March 2026.
Fiona Adshead
Fiona Adshead
Chair, Sustainable Healthcare Coalition
Fiona chairs the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition that inspires partnerships and action on sustainable healthcare. She also works as an independent expert advisor and board member for national and global organisations on wellbeing and sustainability. She is a high-profile wellbeing and public health leader with a track record of reframing thinking and developing innovative strategy and programmes at the heart of business and government. Her previous roles include Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director General in the UK Government, Director of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion at the World Health Organisation and Bupa’s Chief Wellbeing Officer. Fiona is a visiting Professor at UCL and is a Senior Associate at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Fiona’s recent board roles include Fresenius ESG Advisory Board, My Green Lab, British Land’s Sustainability Advisory Panel, Marks and Spencer’s Sustainable Retail Advisory Board, and Business in the Community’s Wellbeing Leadership Team. Fiona is a member of the Health System Taskforce of the Sustainable Markets Initiative.
Fiona chairs the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition that inspires partnerships and action on sustainable healthcare. She also works as an independent expert advisor and board member for national and global organisations on wellbeing and sustainability. She is a high-profile wellbeing and public health leader with a track record of reframing thinking and developing innovative strategy and programmes at the heart of business and government. Her previous roles include Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director General in the UK Government, Director of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion at the World Health Organisation and Bupa’s Chief Wellbeing Officer. Fiona is a visiting Professor at UCL and is a Senior Associate at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Fiona’s recent board roles include Fresenius ESG Advisory Board, My Green Lab, British Land’s Sustainability Advisory Panel, Marks and Spencer’s Sustainable Retail Advisory Board, and Business in the Community’s Wellbeing Leadership Team. Fiona is a member of the Health System Taskforce of the Sustainable Markets Initiative.
Gabby Morgan
Gabby Morgan
Partner, Conduit Connect
Gabby Morgan is a Partner at Conduit Connect Ventures, where she invests in early-stage companies building solutions across integrated health, sustainable industry, and financial resilience. She joined Conduit Connect in 2019 and has played a key role in building the firm’s venture platform — helping launch its first fund, the Conduit EIS Impact Fund, raising capital, leading investments, and supporting portfolio companies from sourcing through scale. Gabby has led investments across healthtech, climate data, and logistics, including Lucida Medical, Untap Health, Fin Last Mile Logistics, and Kamma, and works closely with founders on strategy and follow-on fundraising. She is particularly passionate about backing diverse and female founders building commercially ambitious businesses with embedded impact. She began her career in New York at Euromoney Institutional Investor, where she became a Director running private networks for CIOs and senior investment leaders across major US wealth advisory firms. While there, she launched the Wealth Managers Impact Investing Forum, identifying early institutional momentum behind impact-oriented capital allocation. Gabby went on to complete her MBA at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she specialised in finance and venture impact investing. During and following her studies, she worked as an Investment Research Analyst with Align Impact, a leading US impact wealth advisor, supporting its investment team on venture diligence, investment framework development, and impact thought leadership.
Gabby Morgan is a Partner at Conduit Connect Ventures, where she invests in early-stage companies building solutions across integrated health, sustainable industry, and financial resilience. She joined Conduit Connect in 2019 and has played a key role in building the firm’s venture platform — helping launch its first fund, the Conduit EIS Impact Fund, raising capital, leading investments, and supporting portfolio companies from sourcing through scale. Gabby has led investments across healthtech, climate data, and logistics, including Lucida Medical, Untap Health, Fin Last Mile Logistics, and Kamma, and works closely with founders on strategy and follow-on fundraising. She is particularly passionate about backing diverse and female founders building commercially ambitious businesses with embedded impact. She began her career in New York at Euromoney Institutional Investor, where she became a Director running private networks for CIOs and senior investment leaders across major US wealth advisory firms. While there, she launched the Wealth Managers Impact Investing Forum, identifying early institutional momentum behind impact-oriented capital allocation. Gabby went on to complete her MBA at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she specialised in finance and venture impact investing. During and following her studies, she worked as an Investment Research Analyst with Align Impact, a leading US impact wealth advisor, supporting its investment team on venture diligence, investment framework development, and impact thought leadership.
OurHeartBeats
OurHeartBeats
DJ Collective
OurHeartBeats is more than a DJ crew – it’s a movement. Rooted in the belief that music has the power to unite, empower and challenge narratives, OurHeartBeats creates spaces where culture, migration and identity collide on the dance floor. Championing DJs from displaced and underrepresented backgrounds, the collective curates line-ups that transcend borders, blending sounds from home with the sonic influences of London’s ever-evolving music scene.
OurHeartBeats is more than a DJ crew – it’s a movement. Rooted in the belief that music has the power to unite, empower and challenge narratives, OurHeartBeats creates spaces where culture, migration and identity collide on the dance floor. Championing DJs from displaced and underrepresented backgrounds, the collective curates line-ups that transcend borders, blending sounds from home with the sonic influences of London’s ever-evolving music scene.
Claire Mackenzie
Claire Mackenzie
Film, Impact and Content Producer
Claire is a film, impact and content producer. She is the producer of independent environmental documentaries ‘Six Inches of Soil’ and ‘From the Ground Up’, both exploring our current farming system, and the recently launched ‘Six Inches of Soil’ podcast. She has a background in TV production, charity fundraising and event organising. As an environmental campaigner she set up eco community groups both in London and Cambridgeshire - with food and farming at the heart of her campaigning. With a passion for holistic health care she has been a trained therapist for 15 years, specialising working with those affected by cancer and a trustee at Cambridge Cancer Help Centre. Claire is never happier than when she has her hands in the soil. When she can she works at Sweetpea Market Garden (farm featured in Six Inches of Soil) In 2025 she set up ‘Regen Cam’, an ever growing group of soil / agroecology loving folk in Cambridgeshire.
Claire is a film, impact and content producer. She is the producer of independent environmental documentaries ‘Six Inches of Soil’ and ‘From the Ground Up’, both exploring our current farming system, and the recently launched ‘Six Inches of Soil’ podcast. She has a background in TV production, charity fundraising and event organising. As an environmental campaigner she set up eco community groups both in London and Cambridgeshire - with food and farming at the heart of her campaigning. With a passion for holistic health care she has been a trained therapist for 15 years, specialising working with those affected by cancer and a trustee at Cambridge Cancer Help Centre. Claire is never happier than when she has her hands in the soil. When she can she works at Sweetpea Market Garden (farm featured in Six Inches of Soil) In 2025 she set up ‘Regen Cam’, an ever growing group of soil / agroecology loving folk in Cambridgeshire.
Alastair Johnstone-Hack
Alastair Johnstone-Hack
Climate Visuals Manager, Climate Outreach
Alastair manages the Climate Visuals project at Climate Outreach. With a background in photojournalism, he is particularly interested in how you tell effective stories with photography, and how viewers interact and engage with photographs. Prior to this, Alastair was the Deputy News Picture Editor of The Times & The Sunday Times newspapers and an agency news photographer.
Alastair manages the Climate Visuals project at Climate Outreach. With a background in photojournalism, he is particularly interested in how you tell effective stories with photography, and how viewers interact and engage with photographs. Prior to this, Alastair was the Deputy News Picture Editor of The Times & The Sunday Times newspapers and an agency news photographer.
Karl Astbury
Karl Astbury
Lead, Climate and Health Programmes, Resilient Cities Network
Karl Astbury works at the intersection of climate resilience, health, and equity, serving as Lead for Climate & Health at the Resilient Cities Network. Based in Greater Manchester, he collaborates with cities around the world to address the interconnected challenges of climate change, public health, and inequality - from reducing extreme heat risks to supporting community-led adaptation in flood-prone neighbourhoods. Karl oversees key global initiatives, including *Resilient Cities: Reimagining Health* and *Urban Pulse*, which bring together city leaders, researchers, and private sector partners to integrate health into climate strategies and develop practical, evidence-based solutions. He has also designed and is delivering the *Resilience for Communities* programme, embedding local action and community voices into policy change whilst unlocking investment for community resilience and wellbeing. His work spans strategic partnerships with the Rockefeller Foundation, Yale University, the Sustainable Markets Initiative, the Z Zurich Foundation and other partners committed to advancing whole-of-society resilience. Previously, he led Greater Manchester’s first Resilience Strategy and oversaw regional emergency planning, bringing together diverse sectors to prepare for and adapt to complex urban shocks and stresses. He is a regular contributor to global discussions on climate, health, and equity, advocating for approaches that ensure resilience benefits those who face the greatest barriers.
Karl Astbury works at the intersection of climate resilience, health, and equity, serving as Lead for Climate & Health at the Resilient Cities Network. Based in Greater Manchester, he collaborates with cities around the world to address the interconnected challenges of climate change, public health, and inequality - from reducing extreme heat risks to supporting community-led adaptation in flood-prone neighbourhoods. Karl oversees key global initiatives, including *Resilient Cities: Reimagining Health* and *Urban Pulse*, which bring together city leaders, researchers, and private sector partners to integrate health into climate strategies and develop practical, evidence-based solutions. He has also designed and is delivering the *Resilience for Communities* programme, embedding local action and community voices into policy change whilst unlocking investment for community resilience and wellbeing. His work spans strategic partnerships with the Rockefeller Foundation, Yale University, the Sustainable Markets Initiative, the Z Zurich Foundation and other partners committed to advancing whole-of-society resilience. Previously, he led Greater Manchester’s first Resilience Strategy and oversaw regional emergency planning, bringing together diverse sectors to prepare for and adapt to complex urban shocks and stresses. He is a regular contributor to global discussions on climate, health, and equity, advocating for approaches that ensure resilience benefits those who face the greatest barriers.
Dee Woods
Dee Woods
Food action~ist/Afroecologist\\earth wisdom keeper
Dee Woods is an award winning food system leader. A passionate knowledge broker, ideator, pollinator and weaver who advocates for good food for all and a just food system. Her work meets at the nexus of human rights, food sovereignty, agroecology, community, policy, decolonial research, reparations, culture, climate and social justice.
Dee’s work is grounded in African ways of being and knowing, Yoruba spirituality and Black feminist praxis, centering care, radical love and joy.
Dee wears many headwraps including being a director of the Landworkers Alliance,the U.K. member of La Via Campesina. She is the co-founder of the African and Caribbean Heritage Food Network and Granville Community Kitchen in London.
Dee Woods is an award winning food system leader. A passionate knowledge broker, ideator, pollinator and weaver who advocates for good food for all and a just food system. Her work meets at the nexus of human rights, food sovereignty, agroecology, community, policy, decolonial research, reparations, culture, climate and social justice.
Dee’s work is grounded in African ways of being and knowing, Yoruba spirituality and Black feminist praxis, centering care, radical love and joy.
Dee wears many headwraps including being a director of the Landworkers Alliance,the U.K. member of La Via Campesina. She is the co-founder of the African and Caribbean Heritage Food Network and Granville Community Kitchen in London.
Graham Petersen
Graham Petersen
Member, Greener Jobs Alliance Steering Group
Graham Petersen is a member of the Greener Jobs Alliance Steering Group which is a coalition of NGOs, trades unions and student organisations. The GJA has worked on a range of initiatives to promote green jobs and skills.
He has written a range of climate change publications for the British and Wales TUC and for his own trade union - the University and College Union. He was previously their Environment Co-ordinator. He has also represented Education International, the global union federation of over 30 million workers in the education sector, at UN climate conference events.
He is a founding member of the Trade Union Clean Air Network (TUCAN) and worked on campaigns to raise the profile of the impact of climate risks on workers.
Graham Petersen is a member of the Greener Jobs Alliance Steering Group which is a coalition of NGOs, trades unions and student organisations. The GJA has worked on a range of initiatives to promote green jobs and skills.
He has written a range of climate change publications for the British and Wales TUC and for his own trade union - the University and College Union. He was previously their Environment Co-ordinator. He has also represented Education International, the global union federation of over 30 million workers in the education sector, at UN climate conference events.
He is a founding member of the Trade Union Clean Air Network (TUCAN) and worked on campaigns to raise the profile of the impact of climate risks on workers.
Kitty Parker-Brooks
Kitty Parker-Brooks
Expert in Residence on Climate and Health, The Conduit
Kitty Parker-Brooks is currently an ‘Expert in Residence on Climate and Health’ at The Conduit and a project manager at Systemiq, working at the intersection of climate action, human health and systems change. She has broad, cross-sectoral experience having worked in and with large global companies, newly founded charities and issues-focused coalitions. Kittybegan her career in the food sector at Mars UK working across supply chain, category growth and brand management and more recently she was Chief of Staff and Director of Memberships for The Circular Bioeconomy Alliance and co-authored the Future Fit Food and Agriculture report series, whilst in role as Head of Business Engagement for the Food and Land Use Coalition.
Kitty Parker-Brooks is currently an ‘Expert in Residence on Climate and Health’ at The Conduit and a project manager at Systemiq, working at the intersection of climate action, human health and systems change. She has broad, cross-sectoral experience having worked in and with large global companies, newly founded charities and issues-focused coalitions. Kittybegan her career in the food sector at Mars UK working across supply chain, category growth and brand management and more recently she was Chief of Staff and Director of Memberships for The Circular Bioeconomy Alliance and co-authored the Future Fit Food and Agriculture report series, whilst in role as Head of Business Engagement for the Food and Land Use Coalition.
Naomi Duncan
Naomi Duncan
Chief Executive, Chefs in Schools
Naomi Duncan is the Chief Executive at Chefs In Schools. In 2014, Naomi was inspired by the School Food Plan to leave a decade-long career in commercial hospitality to go and work directly with schools to help them implement the ethos of the plan - inspiring and educating children through great, nutritious food.
In 2022, Naomi was named one of Waitrose’s Top 10 Women in Food, along with Nicole Pisani, co-founder of Chefs in Schools.
Chefs in Schools is a fast-growing, solutions-focused charity. It offers intensive, onsite transformation programmes and bite-sized training courses to help school kitchen teams serve up innovative food and food education. It’s reaching tens of thousands of children each school day. The charity also campaigns for lasting reforms to improve school food.
It’s won numerous awards, including the Urban Food Awards Children’s Food Champion 2020, Third Sector Big Impact & Charity Partnership of the Year Award 2021, the BBC Food & Farming Outstanding Achievement Award 2023 and one of CODE’s Happiest Places to Work in 2024.
Naomi Duncan is the Chief Executive at Chefs In Schools. In 2014, Naomi was inspired by the School Food Plan to leave a decade-long career in commercial hospitality to go and work directly with schools to help them implement the ethos of the plan - inspiring and educating children through great, nutritious food.
In 2022, Naomi was named one of Waitrose’s Top 10 Women in Food, along with Nicole Pisani, co-founder of Chefs in Schools.
Chefs in Schools is a fast-growing, solutions-focused charity. It offers intensive, onsite transformation programmes and bite-sized training courses to help school kitchen teams serve up innovative food and food education. It’s reaching tens of thousands of children each school day. The charity also campaigns for lasting reforms to improve school food.
It’s won numerous awards, including the Urban Food Awards Children’s Food Champion 2020, Third Sector Big Impact & Charity Partnership of the Year Award 2021, the BBC Food & Farming Outstanding Achievement Award 2023 and one of CODE’s Happiest Places to Work in 2024.
Cassie Sutherland
Cassie Sutherland
Managing Director, Climate Solutions and Networks, C40
Cassie Sutherland is the Managing Director for Climate Solutions and Networks at C40, supporting cities to accelerate inclusive climate action in energy and buildings, food and waste, transport, urban planning, air quality and climate resilience. C40 is a network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis.
Prior to joining C40, Cassie worked at the Greater London Authority, where she led on climate adaptation in London and at national government, where she developed smart energy systems policy and delivered national energy efficiency schemes for residential buildings. Cassie lives in London and has studied at Edinburgh and Newcastle Universities.
Cassie Sutherland is the Managing Director for Climate Solutions and Networks at C40, supporting cities to accelerate inclusive climate action in energy and buildings, food and waste, transport, urban planning, air quality and climate resilience. C40 is a network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis.
Prior to joining C40, Cassie worked at the Greater London Authority, where she led on climate adaptation in London and at national government, where she developed smart energy systems policy and delivered national energy efficiency schemes for residential buildings. Cassie lives in London and has studied at Edinburgh and Newcastle Universities.
Ashif Shaikh
Ashif Shaikh
Founder, People's Courage International
Ashif Shaikh is a globally recognised development leader and social entrepreneur from central India, and founder and CEO of People's Courage International (PCI). PCI is committed to advancing social protection, climate resilience, and climate finance for millions of informal sector workers across Asia and Africa.
Born into a socially excluded community, Ashif's lived experience of marginalisation became the foundation of a lifetime's commitment to dignity and inclusion of excluded communities. With over two decades of frontline experience, including twenty years leading Jan Sahas to end forced labour, trafficking, and sexual violence and to ensure safe migration.
When COVID-19 exposed the catastrophic vulnerability of informal workers, Ashiffounded the Migrants Resilience Collaborative (MRC), extending social security to millions of households across South and Southeast Asia. Today, the Global Climate Resilience Collective (GCRC) pioneers adaptation solutions, including parametric insurance, adaptive social protection, and heat resilience programmes, for the hundreds of millions of informal workers facing climate-driven displacement.
A networked systems-change leader, Ashif builds multi-stakeholder coalitions that scale local agency rather than bypass it. He is the recipient of the 2022 Gleitsman International Award from Harvard University, the 2020 Schwab Social Innovator award from the World Economic Forum, the 2016 Ashoka Fellowship, and the 2013 Star Impact Award presented by President Bill Clinton.
Ashif Shaikh is a globally recognised development leader and social entrepreneur from central India, and founder and CEO of People's Courage International (PCI). PCI is committed to advancing social protection, climate resilience, and climate finance for millions of informal sector workers across Asia and Africa.
Born into a socially excluded community, Ashif's lived experience of marginalisation became the foundation of a lifetime's commitment to dignity and inclusion of excluded communities. With over two decades of frontline experience, including twenty years leading Jan Sahas to end forced labour, trafficking, and sexual violence and to ensure safe migration.
When COVID-19 exposed the catastrophic vulnerability of informal workers, Ashiffounded the Migrants Resilience Collaborative (MRC), extending social security to millions of households across South and Southeast Asia. Today, the Global Climate Resilience Collective (GCRC) pioneers adaptation solutions, including parametric insurance, adaptive social protection, and heat resilience programmes, for the hundreds of millions of informal workers facing climate-driven displacement.
A networked systems-change leader, Ashif builds multi-stakeholder coalitions that scale local agency rather than bypass it. He is the recipient of the 2022 Gleitsman International Award from Harvard University, the 2020 Schwab Social Innovator award from the World Economic Forum, the 2016 Ashoka Fellowship, and the 2013 Star Impact Award presented by President Bill Clinton.
Eileen Higgins
Eileen Higgins
Mayor, City of Miami
Eileen Higgins made history as the first female Mayor of the City of Miami, following years of dedicated public service as the Miami-Dade County Commissioner for District 5, a seat she was first elected to in 2018. Representing one of Miami-Dade’s most diverse districts—with communities facing stark inequalities—she became a leading voice for closing equity gaps by expanding transportation to underserved neighborhoods, championing affordable housing, supporting small minority-owned businesses, defending low-wage workers, seniors, and LGBTQ allies, and protecting the waters that surround Miami-Dade County.
As County Commissioner, she tackled Miami-Dade’s housing crisis head-on, spearheading policies to protect renters from eviction, expedite affordable housing permits, preserve naturally occurring affordable housing, and increase homeownership incentives. With a strong focus on transit-oriented development, she helped plan, initiate, and preserve more than 7,000 affordable housing units in District 5 alone.
Eileen Higgins is a problem-solver with a proven record of addressing complex community challenges through practical, compassionate solutions. From improving transportation reliability to confronting sea level rise, from expanding affordable housing to creating better-paying jobs, she has long championed policies that help all Miamians succeed. She now brings that experience, vision, and commitment to her historic role as Miami’s first female Mayor—ready to tackle our city’s challenges to deliver results and ensure opportunity lives in every neighborhood.
When she’s not working for residents, Eileen enjoys exploring Miami’s diverse neighborhoods and natural beauty. She’s an avid reader and frequent user of public transportation—and loves combining both by listening to audiobooks on her daily bus rides.
Eileen Higgins made history as the first female Mayor of the City of Miami, following years of dedicated public service as the Miami-Dade County Commissioner for District 5, a seat she was first elected to in 2018. Representing one of Miami-Dade’s most diverse districts—with communities facing stark inequalities—she became a leading voice for closing equity gaps by expanding transportation to underserved neighborhoods, championing affordable housing, supporting small minority-owned businesses, defending low-wage workers, seniors, and LGBTQ allies, and protecting the waters that surround Miami-Dade County.
As County Commissioner, she tackled Miami-Dade’s housing crisis head-on, spearheading policies to protect renters from eviction, expedite affordable housing permits, preserve naturally occurring affordable housing, and increase homeownership incentives. With a strong focus on transit-oriented development, she helped plan, initiate, and preserve more than 7,000 affordable housing units in District 5 alone.
Eileen Higgins is a problem-solver with a proven record of addressing complex community challenges through practical, compassionate solutions. From improving transportation reliability to confronting sea level rise, from expanding affordable housing to creating better-paying jobs, she has long championed policies that help all Miamians succeed. She now brings that experience, vision, and commitment to her historic role as Miami’s first female Mayor—ready to tackle our city’s challenges to deliver results and ensure opportunity lives in every neighborhood.
When she’s not working for residents, Eileen enjoys exploring Miami’s diverse neighborhoods and natural beauty. She’s an avid reader and frequent user of public transportation—and loves combining both by listening to audiobooks on her daily bus rides.
Kevin Watson
Kevin Watson
Sustainability Director, Levy
Kevin Watson is an experienced food & drink operator who has led Levy’s ambitious strategy to deliver sustainability at scale.
With initiatives spanning environment, nature and health, he has embedded sustainability education and cultural change, maintaining a sharp focus on supply chain, identifying suppliers to help drive changes such as: championing wild venison, rolling out plant-based desserts, cutting single use plastics with seaweed-based packaging, reengineering menus with reduced red meat and dairy, and swapping in rapeseed oil grown without glyphosate, and rice which needs less water to grow.
Passionate about hospitality, Kevin has held operational roles during his 13 years at Levy, including at Excel London, EICC, CCD and the QEII, and after the successful operational and strategic delivery of COP26 in November 2021, has used his insights and knowledge to drive Levy’s ambitious climate plan at scale.
Kevin Watson is an experienced food & drink operator who has led Levy’s ambitious strategy to deliver sustainability at scale.
With initiatives spanning environment, nature and health, he has embedded sustainability education and cultural change, maintaining a sharp focus on supply chain, identifying suppliers to help drive changes such as: championing wild venison, rolling out plant-based desserts, cutting single use plastics with seaweed-based packaging, reengineering menus with reduced red meat and dairy, and swapping in rapeseed oil grown without glyphosate, and rice which needs less water to grow.
Passionate about hospitality, Kevin has held operational roles during his 13 years at Levy, including at Excel London, EICC, CCD and the QEII, and after the successful operational and strategic delivery of COP26 in November 2021, has used his insights and knowledge to drive Levy’s ambitious climate plan at scale.
Kate Gallego
Kate Gallego
Mayor, Phoenix
Mayor Kate Gallego is the second elected female Mayor in Phoenix’s history and one of the youngest big city mayors in the United States. She holds an environmental studies degree from Harvard University and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Mayor Gallego’s priority is to build the Phoenix of the future—a prosperous and resilient city where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Under her leadership, Phoenix is becoming a global leader in bioscience, technology, research, advanced manufacturing, and climate resiliency. Her climate resiliency achievements include creating Phoenix’s Office of Heat Response and Mitigation in 2021, the first publicly-funded local government office focused on extreme heat in the United States. Mayor Gallego is Chair Emeritus of Climate Mayors and serves as North American Vice Chair of C40 Cities.
Mayor Kate Gallego is the second elected female Mayor in Phoenix’s history and one of the youngest big city mayors in the United States. She holds an environmental studies degree from Harvard University and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Mayor Gallego’s priority is to build the Phoenix of the future—a prosperous and resilient city where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Under her leadership, Phoenix is becoming a global leader in bioscience, technology, research, advanced manufacturing, and climate resiliency. Her climate resiliency achievements include creating Phoenix’s Office of Heat Response and Mitigation in 2021, the first publicly-funded local government office focused on extreme heat in the United States. Mayor Gallego is Chair Emeritus of Climate Mayors and serves as North American Vice Chair of C40 Cities.
Amanda Powell-Smith
Amanda Powell-Smith
Chief Executive, Forster Communications
Amanda is at the forefront of the sustainability movement, helping organisations to build an impact economy that respects both people and planet. An experienced leader with a background in strategic communications, she works directly with senior teams and holds a range of specialist and advisory roles. She heads Forster Communications, a founding UK B Corp, and was awarded the SDG Pioneer award for SMEs by the UN Global Compact Network UK in 2024.
Amanda is at the forefront of the sustainability movement, helping organisations to build an impact economy that respects both people and planet. An experienced leader with a background in strategic communications, she works directly with senior teams and holds a range of specialist and advisory roles. She heads Forster Communications, a founding UK B Corp, and was awarded the SDG Pioneer award for SMEs by the UN Global Compact Network UK in 2024.
Kathy Baughman McLeod
Kathy Baughman McLeod
Founder and CEO, HERA
Kathy Baughman McLeod is Founder and CEO of HERA, formerly known as Climate Resilience For All, a women-led global NGO dedicated to protecting the health, income, and dignity of women on the front lines of extreme heat.
One of HERA's signature programs currently reaches 300,000 informal women workers in India with an insurance that pays out when it's too hot to work and the heat threatens their health and income. It is being scaled in Thailand, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and Los Angeles.
She is the former Director of the Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Global Executive for Environmental and Social Risk at Bank of America, Global Managing Director for Climate Adaptation at The Nature Conservancy, and Deputy Chief of Staff to Florida's elected CFO. She served as a Florida Energy & Climate Commissioner for two terms and was recognized by Reuters' as a 2024 Trailblazing Woman in Climate.
She serves as a member of the Operating Committee of the Insurance Development Forum, is a Trustee of UK-based charity Humanity Insured and is a former member of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Advisory Council as the agency’s first climate specialist.
Kathy is a recipient of the 2025 "Visionary Impact Award" from the Arts & Nature Social Club and the Fuqua School of Business 2021 “Leader of Consequence” award and is a Policy Fellow of the French Foreign Ministry. She holds an MBA from Duke University, an MS in Geography from Florida State University, and certification in Health Impact Assessment from The University of Liverpool in the UK.
Kathy Baughman McLeod is Founder and CEO of HERA, formerly known as Climate Resilience For All, a women-led global NGO dedicated to protecting the health, income, and dignity of women on the front lines of extreme heat.
One of HERA's signature programs currently reaches 300,000 informal women workers in India with an insurance that pays out when it's too hot to work and the heat threatens their health and income. It is being scaled in Thailand, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and Los Angeles.
She is the former Director of the Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Global Executive for Environmental and Social Risk at Bank of America, Global Managing Director for Climate Adaptation at The Nature Conservancy, and Deputy Chief of Staff to Florida's elected CFO. She served as a Florida Energy & Climate Commissioner for two terms and was recognized by Reuters' as a 2024 Trailblazing Woman in Climate.
She serves as a member of the Operating Committee of the Insurance Development Forum, is a Trustee of UK-based charity Humanity Insured and is a former member of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Advisory Council as the agency’s first climate specialist.
Kathy is a recipient of the 2025 "Visionary Impact Award" from the Arts & Nature Social Club and the Fuqua School of Business 2021 “Leader of Consequence” award and is a Policy Fellow of the French Foreign Ministry. She holds an MBA from Duke University, an MS in Geography from Florida State University, and certification in Health Impact Assessment from The University of Liverpool in the UK.
Fabrice DeClerck
Fabrice DeClerck
Chief Science Officer, EAT
Dr. Fabrice DeClerck is an ecologist and geographer. He specializes in biodiversity and environmental function with a focus on food systems. In his current role as EAT’s Chief Science Officer, his focus and leadership has broadened to food systems and their impacts on human health, environmental sustainability and social justice. In this role, Dr. DeClerck leads the development of EAT’s research and synthesis science including the EAT-Lancet Commission (both 1 and 2). He holds a joint position with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT of the CGIAR where he is a Principal Scientist. Fabrice is a member of the Earth Commission which proposed safe and just Earth System boundaries, is an author on multiple IPBES Assessments, notably leading the food chapter of the IPBES Nexus Assessment, and is a member of the French Academy of Agricultural Science. He works closely with EAT’s partners and programs as the interface between science and practice. Fabrice feel fortunate to have been able to work with individuals across food systems, and across the world on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. He strongly believes that food is a key nexus solution to address these challenges.
Dr. Fabrice DeClerck is an ecologist and geographer. He specializes in biodiversity and environmental function with a focus on food systems. In his current role as EAT’s Chief Science Officer, his focus and leadership has broadened to food systems and their impacts on human health, environmental sustainability and social justice. In this role, Dr. DeClerck leads the development of EAT’s research and synthesis science including the EAT-Lancet Commission (both 1 and 2). He holds a joint position with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT of the CGIAR where he is a Principal Scientist. Fabrice is a member of the Earth Commission which proposed safe and just Earth System boundaries, is an author on multiple IPBES Assessments, notably leading the food chapter of the IPBES Nexus Assessment, and is a member of the French Academy of Agricultural Science. He works closely with EAT’s partners and programs as the interface between science and practice. Fabrice feel fortunate to have been able to work with individuals across food systems, and across the world on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems. He strongly believes that food is a key nexus solution to address these challenges.
James Thompson
James Thompson
Founder, In Place of War
James Thompson is Professor of Applied Theatre at the University of Manchester and co-Director of The Care Lab. He was one of the founders of the TiPP Centre (tipp.org.uk) and founder of In Place of War (inplaceofwar.net). As an arts practitioner he has worked in international war zones and places of humanitarian disaster. He has written widely on the socially engaged arts and now researches care aesthetics – exploring ‘artful care’ in different areas of health and social care. He is editor of the Routledge Studies in Care Aesthetics series, is one of the editors of ‘Care Aesthetics and the Arts (2025) and ‘Care Aesthetics and Dementia Studies' (2026). His book Care Aesthetics: for Artful Care and Careful Art was published in 2022.
James Thompson is Professor of Applied Theatre at the University of Manchester and co-Director of The Care Lab. He was one of the founders of the TiPP Centre (tipp.org.uk) and founder of In Place of War (inplaceofwar.net). As an arts practitioner he has worked in international war zones and places of humanitarian disaster. He has written widely on the socially engaged arts and now researches care aesthetics – exploring ‘artful care’ in different areas of health and social care. He is editor of the Routledge Studies in Care Aesthetics series, is one of the editors of ‘Care Aesthetics and the Arts (2025) and ‘Care Aesthetics and Dementia Studies' (2026). His book Care Aesthetics: for Artful Care and Careful Art was published in 2022.
Mete Coban MBE
Mete Coban MBE
Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy
Mete Coban MBE became the Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy in July 2024, overseeing the Mayor’s world-leading climate action plan for the capital.
Before becoming Deputy Mayor, Mete was a Councillor and Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment, and Transport in the London Borough of Hackney, delivering a £61 million Green New Deal to tackle the climate crisis. He is best known for pioneering Hackney’s Community Energy Fund, providing clean, green, community-owned energy to 39 not-for-profits.
Mete is widely credited with making politics more accessible to young people as the Founder of the youth-led charity My Life My Say. He led the Give an X voter registration campaign, which resulted in over 488,000 newly registered voters ahead of the UK General Election in July 2024.
In the New Year's 2020 Honours List, Mete received an MBE for services to young people, recognising his efforts to make politics and democracy more accessible to the younger generation. Mete also serves as a Trustee at the London Marathon Foundation and My Life My Say.
Mete Coban MBE became the Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy in July 2024, overseeing the Mayor’s world-leading climate action plan for the capital.
Before becoming Deputy Mayor, Mete was a Councillor and Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment, and Transport in the London Borough of Hackney, delivering a £61 million Green New Deal to tackle the climate crisis. He is best known for pioneering Hackney’s Community Energy Fund, providing clean, green, community-owned energy to 39 not-for-profits.
Mete is widely credited with making politics more accessible to young people as the Founder of the youth-led charity My Life My Say. He led the Give an X voter registration campaign, which resulted in over 488,000 newly registered voters ahead of the UK General Election in July 2024.
In the New Year's 2020 Honours List, Mete received an MBE for services to young people, recognising his efforts to make politics and democracy more accessible to the younger generation. Mete also serves as a Trustee at the London Marathon Foundation and My Life My Say.
Matt Juden-Bloomfield
Matt Juden-Bloomfield
Head of Sustainability, Lidl GB
Matt Juden-Bloomfield is the Head of Corporate Sustainability and CSR Strategy for Lidl GB, where he connects commercial operations with social impact. By embedding responsibility across the full value chain - from suppliers to stores - he drives practical, measurable sustainability through robust corporate governance. Matt holds an MSt in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University and spent the first decade of his career in various UK and global roles at Deloitte.
Matt Juden-Bloomfield is the Head of Corporate Sustainability and CSR Strategy for Lidl GB, where he connects commercial operations with social impact. By embedding responsibility across the full value chain - from suppliers to stores - he drives practical, measurable sustainability through robust corporate governance. Matt holds an MSt in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University and spent the first decade of his career in various UK and global roles at Deloitte.
Jemilah Mahmood
Jemilah Mahmood
Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health
Prof. Dr. Jemilah Mahmood is a medical professional and humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience across health crises, disaster response, and conflict settings. She is currently Professor and Executive Director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health at Sunway University in Malaysia, and holds a wide range of advisory and board roles both nationally and globally, including positions with the World Economic Forum, the Planetary Health Alliance, Roche, the Employees Provident Fund, and AirAsia, among others.
Her previous appointments include serving as Special Advisor on Public Health to the Prime Minister of Malaysia during COVID-19, Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit at the United Nations, Under Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at UNFPA. She is also the Founder of MERCY Malaysia, a leading humanitarian organisation from the Global South.
Her contributions to humanitarian action, public health, and planetary wellbeing have been recognised with numerous national and international honours, including the Merdeka Award of Malaysia, three Royal Awards, the Isa Award for Humanity from the Kingdom of Bahrain - of which she was the first ever recipient - the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Morehouse College, and the ASEAN Prize.
Prof. Dr. Jemilah Mahmood is a medical professional and humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience across health crises, disaster response, and conflict settings. She is currently Professor and Executive Director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health at Sunway University in Malaysia, and holds a wide range of advisory and board roles both nationally and globally, including positions with the World Economic Forum, the Planetary Health Alliance, Roche, the Employees Provident Fund, and AirAsia, among others.
Her previous appointments include serving as Special Advisor on Public Health to the Prime Minister of Malaysia during COVID-19, Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit at the United Nations, Under Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at UNFPA. She is also the Founder of MERCY Malaysia, a leading humanitarian organisation from the Global South.
Her contributions to humanitarian action, public health, and planetary wellbeing have been recognised with numerous national and international honours, including the Merdeka Award of Malaysia, three Royal Awards, the Isa Award for Humanity from the Kingdom of Bahrain - of which she was the first ever recipient - the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Morehouse College, and the ASEAN Prize.
Pops Mensah-Bonsu
Pops Mensah-Bonsu
British Olympian, Former NBA Player and Founder, SEED Academy Ghana
Pops Mensah-Bonsu is a former NBA player, British Olympian, global basketball executive, and climate adaptation advocate. A London native and the second player of Ghanaian descent to reach the NBA, Pops spent 10 years playing professionally across the NBA and international leagues, including representing Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics. Today, Pops serves as President of G-League Operations for the New York Knicks and is the Founder of SEED Academy Ghana, a program focused on developing future leaders through basketball, education, discipline, and technology. As an Adapt2Win Athlete, Pops uses the mindset of sport to champion climate adaptation as a pathway to resilience, economic innovation, and shared prosperity.
Pops Mensah-Bonsu is a former NBA player, British Olympian, global basketball executive, and climate adaptation advocate. A London native and the second player of Ghanaian descent to reach the NBA, Pops spent 10 years playing professionally across the NBA and international leagues, including representing Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics. Today, Pops serves as President of G-League Operations for the New York Knicks and is the Founder of SEED Academy Ghana, a program focused on developing future leaders through basketball, education, discipline, and technology. As an Adapt2Win Athlete, Pops uses the mindset of sport to champion climate adaptation as a pathway to resilience, economic innovation, and shared prosperity.
Danielle Alakija
Danielle Alakija
Olympian, Barrister, Founder of the SOLI Group and Climate Advocate
Danielle Alakija is a barrister, multidisciplinary artist, Olympic athlete, and Founder of The SOLI Group, an advocacy-based think tank and creative studio operating at the intersection of community, culture, and crisis. She serves on the ONE Diaspora Creative Council, is a 2024 Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader, and is a member of the Asian Forum on Global Governance. Born in the UK and raised between Fiji, Nigeria, and the U.S., Danielle brings a unique combination of legal insight, creative practice, and lived experience to global conversations on justice, equity, and climate resilience. As an Adapt2Win Ambassador, she champions frontline communities and elevates local voices in global discussions around climate adaptation, inequality, and systemic change.
Danielle Alakija is a barrister, multidisciplinary artist, Olympic athlete, and Founder of The SOLI Group, an advocacy-based think tank and creative studio operating at the intersection of community, culture, and crisis. She serves on the ONE Diaspora Creative Council, is a 2024 Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leader, and is a member of the Asian Forum on Global Governance. Born in the UK and raised between Fiji, Nigeria, and the U.S., Danielle brings a unique combination of legal insight, creative practice, and lived experience to global conversations on justice, equity, and climate resilience. As an Adapt2Win Ambassador, she champions frontline communities and elevates local voices in global discussions around climate adaptation, inequality, and systemic change.
VALDIS
VALDIS
Artist, Flow
VALDIS is an Icelandic singer-songwriter from Sauðárkrókur, a small coastal town in northern Iceland. She has steadily carved out her place in modern Scandinavian pop through strong toplines, bright vocals and emotionally resonant songwriting. Since 2020 she has built momentum through radio success and playlist support. Her music balances commercial pop with emotional depth, positioning her strongly for Nordic and European markets as both an artist and a songwriter.
VALDIS is an Icelandic singer-songwriter from Sauðárkrókur, a small coastal town in northern Iceland. She has steadily carved out her place in modern Scandinavian pop through strong toplines, bright vocals and emotionally resonant songwriting. Since 2020 she has built momentum through radio success and playlist support. Her music balances commercial pop with emotional depth, positioning her strongly for Nordic and European markets as both an artist and a songwriter.
Keila
Keila
Artist, Flow
Keila was born and raised on the outskirts of Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon. A singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress, she began her artistic journey in her church choir before rising to national recognition as the lead vocalist of Gang do Eletro, one of the pioneers of Amazonian electronic music. With the group, she performed at major international festivals such as SXSW (USA) and Transmusicales (France), as well as the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics. In her solo career, she released the EP Keila and the album Malaka, blending technobrega, pop, and Amazonian peripheral sounds into a powerful and vibrant musical identity.
Keila was born and raised on the outskirts of Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon. A singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress, she began her artistic journey in her church choir before rising to national recognition as the lead vocalist of Gang do Eletro, one of the pioneers of Amazonian electronic music. With the group, she performed at major international festivals such as SXSW (USA) and Transmusicales (France), as well as the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics. In her solo career, she released the EP Keila and the album Malaka, blending technobrega, pop, and Amazonian peripheral sounds into a powerful and vibrant musical identity.
Birna Eyfjörð
Birna Eyfjörð
Artist, Flow
Birna Eyfjörð is an Icelandic musician, songwriter, and composer working across songwriting and cinematic soundscaping. Her work is defined by atmospheric depth, emotional precision, and a subtle connection to natural environments, shaping a sonic language that moves seamlessly between intimacy and scale. Raised in the coastal village of Grenivík, Birna developed an early sensitivity to sound and environment—an influence that continues to inform her compositional voice. She has contributed to major international productions, including Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, the series Defending Jacob, and Unprecedented. In Iceland, she has composed for television projects such as the comedy series Kennarastofan and Íslensk sakamál (Season 2), establishing a presence across both international and local screen industries. As both a writer and vocalist, Birna’s voice is central to her artistic identity. Her songwriting extends her cinematic sensibility into a more personal space, where sound, language, and atmosphere meet. Working across film, television, and independent music, she brings a refined, textural approach to storytelling, with a focus on clarity, restraint, and emotional resonance.
Sohini Alam
Sohini Alam
Artist, Flow
Sohini Alam is a British Bangladeshi singer, composer, and music director whose repertoire is focussed on interpretations of Bengali songs. She also sings in multiple other languages in bands, dance, film, and theatre. Sohini is lead vocalist for the critically acclaimed bands Khiyo, Lokkhi Terra, and In Place of War's GRRRL. She is Musical Director of the arts company Komola Collective and has created music for theatre shows including Birangona: Women of War and Indigo Giant. A vocalist from a family of renowned Bangladeshi singers, Sohini has been collaborating with dancer/choreographer Akram Khan for fifteen years on shows including DESH, Until the Lions, Gigenis, and Thikra: Night of Remembering. She and her Khiyo bandmate Oliver Weeks are music directors of Leesa Gazi's multiple award-winning films Rising Silence and A House Named Shahana.
Bebé Salvego
Bebé Salvego
Artist, Flow
Born into a family of musicians and artists, Bebé (21) has quickly emerged as one of the most promising voices in Brazilian music, recognized for her unique vocal tone and striking artistic presence. Often compared to jazz legends such as Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan, she gained early attention after being invited by Jô Soares to appear on Programa do Jô in 2011.
Since then, Bebé has performed alongside major orchestras including the Piracicaba Symphony Orchestra and Brasil Jazz Sinfônica, where she was awarded as a New Talent Revelation. In 2021, she released her self-written debut album Bebé, earning recognition from CNN as one of the “10 singers set to change Brazilian music.” She has since performed at major festivals in Brazil and abroad, including Primavera Sound São Paulo and MIL Lisboa, and recently collaborated with rapper BK’ on the album ICARUS.
Currently, Bebé is touring her second original project, SALVE-SE! (2024), released through Coala Records and presented at festivals such as Coala Festival, Rock The Mountain, and Se Rasgum.
Katie Cross
Katie Cross
Founder and CEO, Pledgeball
Katie Cross is Founder and CEO of BBC Award-winning charity Pledgeball. Experts in fan engagement on climate, Pledgeball spearheads initiatives that mobilise sporting communities, from grassroots to professional levels, to create meaningful impact for climate and nature.
Adam Penny
Adam Penny
Co-Founder and CEO, The Beautiful Truth
Adam Penny is the co-founder and CEO of The Beautiful Truth – a corporate and culture communications consultancy dedicated to imagining new narratives of what business can be. For over 20 years, Adam has been devoted to telling meaningful stories that foster trust, belief, and illuminate the transformative potential of business to enrich lives and communities.
Beginning as a documentary film studio in 2002, Adam made award-winning films for cinema, BBC and Channel 4, as well as short-form documentaries for large corporations – travelling across the globe to capture the voices of employees and stakeholders and gaining a unique insight into the interplay between business, its employees, society, and the environment. From ex-Soviet miners in Kazakhstan to the president of Liberia, and from grassroots communities to investors in New York, the work revealed a remarkable diversity of perspectives on the impact of business.
This insight inspired Adam to evolve The Beautiful Truth in 2018 expanding beyond filmmaking to ask the question – what should a business be at this pivotal moment in our history? – working with some of the largest and most impactful organisations in the world, including British Airways, Pfizer, Cargill, ArcelorMittal, the UN, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Today, he and his team operate at the intersection of deep philosophy, creativity, and business acumen, delivering transformative solutions through publishing, consulting, storytelling, and experience design.
Fatma Sabet
Fatma Sabet
Research Fellow in Health and Community Sciences, University of Exeter
Fatma is an Egyptian-British academic, educator, and social entrepreneur working at the intersection of planetary health, food systems, and health equity. My research explores how we can create healthier, fairer, and more sustainable futures through food, education, and social change.
In 2016, I founded Shillingford Organics Farm School in Exeter, connecting schools and universities with local agroecological farmers. In 2026, I was awarded UKRI FEED: Food Equity and Ecological Diets, developing sustainable food solutions for the public sector.
My doctoral research developed a planetary health framework for school food systems, and I am now a Wellcome Trust Fellow leading PHOENix, an international research programme investigating how school feeding can improve nutrition, health, equity, and environmental sustainability in Egypt and beyond.
At the heart of my work is a simple belief: food systems can be powerful catalysts for both human and planetary wellbeing.
Jimena Eyzaguirre
Jimena Eyzaguirre
Climate Change Adaptation Practice Lead, ESSA
Jimena Eyzaguirre is the Climate Change Adaptation Practice lead at ESSA, a Canadian environmental sciences consultancy. She supports communities and organizations in adapting to climate change, while delivering benefits for people and nature. With over 20 years of combined experience as a policy advisor and senior consultant, Jimena is known for her focus on building the enabling conditions for transformative, cross-sector adaptation solutions. She guides interdisciplinary teams to deliver grounded strategies, policy recommendations, practical tools, and capacity strengthening activities that advance climate action in diverse cultural and geographic contexts. Her work spans climate risk and adaptation assessment, environmental stewardship, and monitoring & evaluation, with current projects in Canada, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Alan Dangour
Alan Dangour
Director, Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust
In January 2022, Alan joined the Wellcome Trust to lead its ambitious new strategy that aims to put health at the heart of global climate change action.
Alan was previously based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for twenty years, where he was a Professor of Food and Nutrition for Global Health and Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. Alan led an interdisciplinary team working on the interconnections between environmental change, food systems and health.
Familiar working in national and international fora, Alan was an Expert Advisor to the Environmental Audit Committee of the UK Parliament and a Senior Research Fellow at the UK Department for International Development.
Paul van Zyl
Paul van Zyl
CEO and Co-Founder, The Conduit
Paul served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Paul also co-founded the International Centre for Transitional Justice, an organization that works in over 40 countries that have endured massive human rights violations under repression conflict. Paul is also a co-founder and CEO of Maiyet, an ethical luxury fashion brand that cultivates traditional design and culture by partnering with global artisans. Most recently, Paul co-founded The Conduit, which serves as a home for those committed to improving the world by harnessing the power of creativity and entrepreneurship. The Conduit serves as a home for a diverse community of people passionate about social change.
Sophie Lambin
Sophie Lambin
Founder and CEO, Kite Insights
Sophie Lambin is the Founder and CEO of Kite Insights, a company she established in 2012 to help organisations translate insight into meaningful action. She is the founder of Kite Academy, a global learning platform focused on sustainability, AI and organisational transformation; the Head-Heart-Hands (HHH) Readiness Assessment, a data-driven framework for measuring workforce readiness for change; Hurd, a free platform that empowers people at work to take action on issues they care about; and DEBATABLE., a live debate platform designed to help leaders navigate complexity through constructive disagreement. Her work focuses on building the knowledge, motivation and agency needed to drive meaningful and lasting change.
Laura Clarke OBE
Laura Clarke OBE
CEO, ClientEarth
**Laura Clarke** joined ClientEarth in September 2022, after two decades in public policy, and in diplomatic roles across Africa, Asia and Europe. She has worked extensively on climate, environmental and sustainability issues throughout her career, and brings a deep understanding of global policy issues and international relations, alongside extensive senior leadership and partnership-building experience, all of which are critical as we expand our impact globally.
Laura was British High Commissioner to New Zealand, and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands, from January 2018 – July 2022, and High Commissioner to Samoa from March 2018 – December 2019. As British High Commissioner, she worked to strengthen the UK – New Zealand relationship, including through the negotiation of a standard-setting Free Trade Agreement, co-operation with New Zealand and the South Pacific during the UK’s COP26 Presidency, and work on international security. She also enhanced the UK’s relationship with New Zealand Māori: both by acknowledging the wrongs of the past, and in building forward-looking co-operation on trade, culture and climate. In her role as Governor of the Pitcairn Islands she was responsible for the governance and sustainability of the Islands, and efforts to maximize the benefits of its Marine Protected Area – the fourth largest in the world.
During her career as a diplomat she was Head of the South Asia Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Government Coordinator for India; Political Counsellor in Pretoria, South Africa; Chief of Staff to the Minister for Europe; and worked on Sudan, Yemen and EU Justice and Home Affairs. Her early career was spent in the British Parliament, as Group Co-ordinator of the All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Waste Group, and in DG Enlargement of the European Commission.
Baroness Rosie Boycott
Baroness Rosie Boycott
Vice-Chair, Peers for the Planet
Baroness Rosie Boycott is a former newspaper and magazine editor and currently a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. Baroness Boycott spent 10 years as chair of the London Food Board and is the vice chair of Peers for the Planet, the cross-party climate and nature action group in the House of Lords.
Marjorie Adam
Marjorie Adam
Global Lead for Access to Healthcare, Sanofi
Marjorie Adam serves as Global Lead for Access to Healthcare at Sanofi, where she drives equitable access strategies for underserved populations worldwide - with particular focus on disease areas most impacted by climate and environmental challenges as part of the company's sustainability roadmap.
With a Doctorate in Pharmacy and advanced training in epidemiology, Marjorie has built a distinguished career spanning scientific affairs, market access and pricing, and corporate social responsibility across leading pharmaceutical and vaccine companies. Throughout her journey, public health and healthcare innovation access have remained her guiding focus.
She brings deep expertise in healthcare ecosystems and climate-health nexus challenges, proven experience in payer engagement and cross-sector partnership development, and a rigorous commitment to evidence-based approaches. Marjorie is passionate about delivering meaningful impact to patients, communities, and health systems through co-designed, tailored access solutions that advance both global health equity and sustainable business growth.
Marjorie is based in Lyon, France
Tolullah Oni
Tolullah Oni
Founder UrbanBetter & Professor, University of Cambridge
Tolu(llah) Oni is Clinical Professor of Global Public Health and Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge and Founder of UrbanBetter. An Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, she is a pan-African British public health physician and urban epidemiologist with deep ties to Nigeria, South Africa and the UK. Her work bridges science, policy and society to design healthier, climate-resilient cities, grounded in the conviction that health must be built into environments. A widely published scholar, she is a Fellow of the International Science Council and the African Academy of Sciences and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Omnia El Omrani
Omnia El Omrani
Director of Programs, Youth Climate Justice Fund
Omnia El Omrani is a medical doctor who has dedicated her career to addressing the intersection of climate change and health. She is currently the Director of Programs for the Youth Climate Justice Fund. She served as the first official Youth Envoy to the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and COP27 President, and later as COP28 Health Envoy, helping elevate youth and health voices within global climate negotiations. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford and serves as Board Vice-Chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. Through her work with the World Bank and four Lancet Commissions, alongside 38 peer-reviewed publications and capacity-building across 21 countries, she focuses on translating health evidence and lived experience into equitable climate action. She was selected as one of Apolitical’s 50 Gender Equality Gamechangers in 2024 and Fast Company Middle East’s 35 Most Creative People in Business in 2023, and was awarded the 2023 Women of the Future Award as a Rising Star in ESG.
Sally Higgins
Sally Higgins
Presidency Youth Climate Champion, COP31
Sally is the Presidency Youth Climate Champion of COP31. She is committed to ensuring young people, particularly those from regional and climate-affected communities, have meaningful opportunities to contribute to climate decision-making. Sally has experience across government and industry in climate and natural resource policy, and most recently worked at Nous Group, where she led projects on community transition planning, regional economic diversification and natural resource strategy. Through this work, she has supported inclusive, evidence-based and locally grounded approaches to the transition. As a Nuffield Farming Scholar, she has developed an international network and a systems-level understanding of climate, land use and community outcomes.
DIMV
DIMV
DJ, OurHeartBeats
DIMV is a Russian-born, London-based DJ whose selections draw on a wide range of musical influences and cultural references. Blending house, melodic electronic music, organic rhythms and sounds from around the world, his sets are guided by storytelling, atmosphere and curiosity. Moving between warm grooves, uplifting melodies and unexpected discoveries, he creates musical journeys designed to bring people together while maintaining a strong sense of place and emotion.
Charlotte Watts
Charlotte Watts
Executive Director, Solutions, Wellcome Trust
Charlotte is a mathematician and social epidemiologist by training, whose career has spanned global health and international development research, science diplomacy, and policy engagement. At Wellcome, Charlotte leads the Solutions Department, Wellcome's impact focused portfolios of research and partnership investments in Climate and Health; Infectious Diseases; Mental Health, and Innovation access, including cross-cutting work on innovation and access, data and AI, and health system financing research.
Prior to joining Wellcome Charlotte spent ten years in government, as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and previously the Department for International Development (DFID). As the senior scientist in the department, she provided scientific advice to FCDO/DFID ministers and seniors, led the Department's development focused research investments, represented the UK in G20, UN and government to government technical dialogues, and co-led the UK's international science diplomatic network.
Charlotte holds an honorary position of Professor of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Over her academic career at LSHTM, she published extensively, led large multi-disciplinary and multi-country research programmes and intervention trials, including on infectious disease epidemiology, HIV prevention, and gender-based violence, and served as an expert advisor on WHO and other UN technical panels.
Charlotte is a fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, a Foreign Associated member of the US National Academy of Medicine and was made a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen’s birthday honours for her services to violence research and global health.
Naveen Rao
Naveen Rao
Senior Vice President of Health, The Rockefeller Foundation
As Senior Vice President of Health at The Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Naveen Rao drives global efforts to make health systems more equitable and resilient to climate change. A physician and longtime global health advocate, he has led groundbreaking initiatives in pandemic preparedness and maternal health, including the creation of Merck for Mothers.
Emma Pinchbeck
Emma Pinchbeck
Chief Executive, Climate Change Committee
Emma is the Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee, the UK’s national climate advisor. The body advises on the country’s Carbon Budgets and Climate Change Risk Assessments and does annual assessments of the Government’s progress.
Colin Butfield
Colin Butfield
Co-Founder and Director, Open Planet Studios
Colin Butfield is the co-founder and Director of Open Planet Studios. He has worked on numerous documentaries and short films including the BBC series Earthshot, Netflix features A Life on Our Planet and Breaking Boundaries, and the National Geographic feature documentary Ocean, also with David Attenborough. He is the co-author of Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet.
Liv Torc
Liv Torc
Co-Artistic Director, Hot Poets
Liv Torc is world shaping, creativity championing, poet, performer, producer and UN Consultant, who seeks and delivers creative solutions to the pressing problems of our time. Co-Artistic Director of Hot Poets and producer of the poetry stage at WOMAD, Liv has performed at Glastonbury Festival, UNESCO in Paris, TEDxLondonWomen and on Radio 4. In 2022 she was chosen by the UN to be one of 50 international thought leaders, taking part in Adaptation week in Botswana, invited back in 2023 to South Korea, as lead facilitator for the UNFCCC’s Resilience Frontiers. Her published books include Show Me Life and The Human Emergency.
Emma Howard Boyd CBE
Emma Howard Boyd CBE
Chair, National Heat Risk Commission
Emma Howard Boyd has had a distinguished career focused on environmental issues and sustainable finance. She served as Chair of the Environment Agency for England from 2016 to 2022 and was an ex officio board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs during the same period. Appointed by the Mayor of London, Emma chaired the London Climate Resilience Review, publishing a full set of recommendations in July 2024 to help the city prepare for the increasing impacts of climate change such as extreme heat, flooding, droughts, wildfires, sea level rise and storms.
Currently, Emma chairs ClientEarth's Group Board and ClimateArc, and is a Co-Chair of Climate Resilience for All. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Climate Foundation and a Visiting Professor in Practice, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Emma was the UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation from 2018 until its sunset in January 2021.
Charlie Hicks
Charlie Hicks
Research Officer, LSE Cities
Charlie is a Research Officer at LSE Cities working on a range of local and regional policy research projects, conducting qualitative and quantitative research. His current research is on participatory democracy, transitions to more sustainable transport systems in cities, and public sector innovation by city governments. Charlie was previously a councillor at Oxfordshire County Council, where he focused on climate and transport policy. As Champion for Future Generations, he pioneered the council’s introduction of futures and foresights policy to consider the long-term and intergenerational fairness.
Joe Burton
Joe Burton
Sustainability Transformation Project Lead, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
Joe Burton is Sustainability Transformation Project Lead at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). He is lead author of UCLH’s net zero strategy, Critical Care for Our Climate, which established the organisation’s net zero trajectory, and now leads delivery of its full sustainability transformation programme.
He is co-founder and Chair of The Circular Economy Healthcare Alliance, a coalition of NHS Trusts driving bottom-up sustainability transformation through circular economy principles. He also chairs the Association of Dental Hospitals’ Environmental Sustainability Subgroup and also provides strategic input to national healthcare sustainability initiatives.
Johanna Gusman
Johanna Gusman
Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law
Johanna is a Senior Attorney at CIEL working specifically on legal pathways to a fossil fuel phaseout. She has extensive experience working closely with Pacific governments in UNFCCC climate negotiations, at the International Court of Justice advisory proceedings on States' obligations in respect of climate change, and most recently at the First Conference on Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels. She was the Expert Report author for Pacific Island nations in connecting climate science with legal arguments. Her interdisciplinary background in biophysics and international law has allowed her to serve as a Visiting Research Scholar at Australian National University, Georgetown University Law Centre, and the University of Oxford, working on novel ways to increase access to justice where there are perceived power imbalances. Previously, she worked with the World Health Organization as a Technical Expert and has been a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow in Samoa as well as a Gates Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law.
Shweta Narayan
Shweta Narayan
Campaign Lead, Global Climate and Health Alliance
Shweta Narayan is the Campaign Lead for the Global Climate and Health Alliance, a global network of over 250 organisations working on the links between health and climate change. She spearheads campaigns focused on fossil fuels, air pollution, climate justice, and health equity. Her efforts aim to ignite a global conversation among leading health professional networks, academic institutions, think tanks, public health experts, environment and climate movements to amplify advocacy on climate change and health.
Based in India, Shweta brings over two decades of experience in advocacy and community organizing on environmental justice issues. She provides legal, media, and scientific research support to residents of pollution impacted communities and workers exposed to toxic chemicals. Additionally, she collaborates with state and local governments in India to incorporate health professional input in developing climate and environmental health policies. Shweta holds an undergraduate degree in business, and a master’s degree in social work with a specialization in Criminology and Correctional Administration from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.
Shweta's TED Talk on the interdependence of human health and planetary health, and the role of the health community in climate action, presented at the TED Countdown Summit 2021, can be found [here](https://www.ted.com/talks/shweta_narayan_it_s_impossible_to_have_healthy_people_on_a_sick_planet).
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Honorary President, The Club of Rome and Executive Chair, Earth4All
Sandrine Dixson-Declève is an environmental scientist and an international climate change, sustainable development, sustainable finance, and complex system thought leader. She is Honorary President of the Club of Rome and Executive Chair of Earth4All, dividing her time between the Club of Rome, advising on non-Executive corporate and academic Boards, lecturing, and facilitating difficult conversations. She is a TED global speaker and was recognised by Reuters in 2023 as one of 25 global female trailblazers and by GreenBiz as one of the 30 most influential women across the globe driving change in the low carbon economy and promoting green business.
Letty Thomas
Letty Thomas
Head of Field Building and Networks, Foundation for International Law for the Environment
Letty Thomas is a philanthropy and nonprofit leader with more than a decade of experience in grant-making, network building, and social impact. As Head of Field Building & Networks at FILE (Foundation for International Law for the Environment), she works with partners to strengthen capacity, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing across the climate litigation field. Her career has spanned the humanitarian, criminal justice, and climate sectors, with a focus on developing funding programmes, supporting communities of practice, and supporting systemic change.
Alongside her role at FILE, Letty serves as a Trustee of The Movements Trust, which supports social movements and community-led initiatives working toward a more just, equitable, and sustainable future. She is passionate about the power of collective action and the role that strategic philanthropy can play in enabling organisations and movements to harness the power of the law and access justice.
Prof. Sir Andy Haines
Prof. Sir Andy Haines
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Andy Haines was Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine from 2001- October 2010 and was knighted for services to medicine in 2005. He trained in family practice and epidemiology and was a practicing family doctor for many years. He developed an interest in climate change and health in the 1990’s and was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on three occasions. He chaired several international initiatives including the Rockefeller /Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and was the co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Climate Change, Health and Sustainable Development. He currently co-leads the Pathfinder Initiative on health in the net zero economy, is the senior scientific advisor to the Pan-European Commission on Climate Change and Health and vice chair of the United Nations Independent Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War. He received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2022 and has co-authored many papers on health topics, including climate change and health.
Chris Naylor
Chris Naylor
Senior Fellow, The King’s Fund & Policy Lead, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
Chris is a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund and the Policy Lead at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. He leads The King’s Fund’s work on climate and health and has extensive experience on sustainable health care including as a consultant to the World Health Organization. In previous roles he has worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and the Public Health Foundation of India in Delhi.
Roger-Mark De Souza
Roger-Mark De Souza
Vice President, Environment, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Roger-Mark De Souza is vice president for environment at The Pew Charitable Trusts. In this role, he helps shape and lead a portfolio that works to conserve ecosystems and address critical threats to people and nature, including climate change and biodiversity loss.
De Souza joined Pew with more than 30 years of experience driving innovation and building social, economic, health, and environmental projects around the world, with a focus on empowering local communities. His work combines strategic insight with public and private partnerships to achieve scalable solutions for complex challenges facing the environment. De Souza’s extensive domestic and international experience includes influencing policy change in a nonpartisan manner, cultivating relationships with partners and donors, and co-developing large-scale initiatives.
Throughout his career, De Souza has served in senior leadership positions across multiple organizations. Most recently, he was the vice president of sustainable markets at Pact. His previous roles include chief movement building officer at Amnesty International-USA, president and chief executive officer of Sister Cities International, and director of global sustainability and resilience at The Woodrow Wilson Center. De Souza has also served in organizations such as Population Action International, Sierra Club, Population Reference Bureau, and World Resources Institute.
De Souza holds a bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish and a postgraduate degree in international relations from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago and a master’s degree in international development policy from The George Washington University.
Elhadj As Sy
Elhadj As Sy
Chair, Kofi Annan Foundation
Elhadj As Sy is a distinguished global leader in humanitarian work, global health, and international development. With more than 30 years of experience, he has held senior roles across UNICEF, UNAIDS, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other international organizations.
From 2014 to 2019, Sy served as secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), where he played a pivotal role in disaster response and humanitarian diplomacy. He currently chairs the board of the Kofi Annan Foundation where he led the Kofi Annan Commission on the Governance of Food Security.
He co-chaired the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a joint initiative of the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group.
His governance expertise extends to his roles as a governor at the Wellcome Trust, a board member for organizations such as Interpeace, The Power of Nutrition, the LEGO Foundation, and as Chair of Institut Pasteur de Dakar.
Sy’s leadership has also influenced climate adaptation, child welfare, and emergency preparedness. He has served as a commissioner for the Global Commission on Climate Adaptation and currently chairs the board of the African Child Policy Forum. His dedication to strengthening global health systems is further reflected in his role at the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for WHO’s Health Emergency Programme.
A Senegalese national fluent in English, French, and German, Sy continues to shape international policy and humanitarian response as chancellor of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, championing global health and resilience.
Shana Tabak
Shana Tabak
Senior Fellow & Director of Climate Mobility, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Shana Tabak is senior fellow and director of Climate Mobility at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Shana is an attorney and scholar with expertise in global migration, climate change, international law, and human rights. Her research examines the relationship between climate change and its impact on human habitability, as well as displacement. She lectures at Georgetown Law (Washington, DC) and Sciences Po (Paris) and is an affiliated scholar with Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration.
Previously, she led climate migration at Emerson Collective, taught at law schools and human rights clinics both in the US in Latin America, and founded a legal services nonprofit for migrants.
Belyndar Rikimani
Belyndar Rikimani
Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change
Belyndar is from Solomon Islands and has been part of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change since 2019. She holds a background in Bachelor of Laws and a Professional Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of the South Pacific and strongly believes that to have effective advocacy in Climate Justice there needs to be more emphasis in intergenerational equity and youth leadership from all levels.
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