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.

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.

Nick Stace OBE leads Howden's ambition to create commercially led, social and environmental change worldwide.

He brings extensive leadership experience across finance, consumer advocacy, and the nonprofit sector, having previously served as Head of Social Purpose and Sustainable Finance for Barclays UK and as Global Head of Sustainability Engagement. He has also been CEO of The Prince’s Trust and CEO of Saga Travel, and spent 15 years leading major consumer organisations in the UK and Australia, including Which? and Choice.

Nick’s public service includes board roles at the Financial Conduct Authority, the Payment Systems Regulator and the National Trust, along with founding three charities supporting young people. He has also worked in the Prime Minister’s Office, bringing government level insight to his cross sector leadership.

He currently serves as Chair of The Prison Reform Trust and The Conduit, and advises Rewired Earth and the UK Department for Business and Trade’s Strategic Advisory Group on Ukraine.

Currently Chief Sustainability Officer at Aviva. Claudine was previously the Director of Sustainability and Digital Strategy at Argent LLP for 3 years.

Claudine delivered the net zero carbon flights strategy at easyJet in her role as Director of Sustainability. Prior to this she set up the Group sustainability function at Sainsbury’s covering sustainable sourcing, operational waste and community activity as well as group charitable partnerships and overall development of group wide sustainability strategy and implementation.

Claudine was responsible for the sustainability strategy for The Crown Estate’s business. Claudine joined from SEGRO where she was Head of Sustainability. Prior to this she was Director of Corporate Responsibility at British Land where she was responsible for Group corporate responsibility policy, implementation and communication.

Before this Claudine was the Environment Manager at Honda (UK). Claudine is on the City Corporation Property Investment Board and was previously on the Board of Business in the Community (BITC) and the Mace Group Responsible Business Board and was Chair of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS) from 2015-2017. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Charlotte Kilpatrick is The Conduit’s reporter covering health, sustainability, and innovative solutions. She has written for many major publications including The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The Economist. Before joining the team, she worked as a business journalist reporting on intellectual property and insurance. Her special interests include access to medicine, and political behaviour.

Will is the CEO and Founder of GaiaSicura Ltd., an entity he setup following twelve years in traditional legal and insurance based roles in Italy and London. GaiaSicura is the world’s first specialist insurance broker dedicated to finding specialist solutions to the bespoke needs of nature regeneration projects, ranging from protecting assets to allowing scalability, fidelity, and security of project types across all types of nature regeneration and the associated entities involved. Will is also the founder and chairman of the Insurance Institute of London’s Nature and Sustainability Committee, a cross-sector committee looking to educate the specialty insurance markets on the challenges facing the industry, as well as its potential solutions that it can bring to bear. He also leads the Insurance Workstream for the FloodAction Coalition, creating scalable and replicable frameworks for Natural Flood Management projects and their financing both in the UK and globally. The son of a farmer and a passionate supporter of nature first principles Will is championing the drive for solutions that are net-positive for all and using his experience in the traditional insurance market to innovate ways to ultimately Secure a Future for Nature.

Lily Blacksell joined The Conduit in April 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, will be published by Bloodaxe Books in March 2026.

Antony Ireland is the founder of Better Insurance Network, a global community of insurance professionals driving sustainability best practices, implementation and innovation. Key achievements include the creation of the first dedicated online sustainability training programme for insurance professionals, which has been adopted by major carriers in the UK, Europe and Bermuda, and SUSTAIN Festival, a coordinated programme of events mobilising risk and insurance to build a more resilient and sustainable world. Prior to launching Better Insurance Network in 2021, Antony covered risk, insurance and asset management for 15 years as a financial journalist, editing trade publications and launching emerging markets titles in Asia, Africa, Latam and the Middle East.

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.

Dr Iain Willis is a Co-Founder and Director at TransZero, a climate-tech focused on supporting companies in global climate risk and resilience modelling of their physical assets. Officially launching in 2025, TransZero focus on quantifying the benefits of climate adaptation measures and how climate risk aggregates through company supply chains. Clients include retailers, asset managers, insurers, banks, international development projects seeking to quantify current and future risk at a property and portfolio level.

Prior to Co-Founding TransZero, Dr Willis has worked extensively in and around the (re)insurance industry, developing and analysing natural catastrophe models. This includes roles as Research Director in the Gallagher Research Centre (Gallagher Re), Managing Director of JBA Risk Management (JBA Pte, Singapore) and Product Manager at Corelogic. Dr Willis holds a PhD in natural hazards and a MSc in Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

Mhairi Sharp is CEO of UK disaster response charity, the National Emergencies Trust, which acts fast to raise funds for those affected by domestic emergencies, including floods, fires and terror attacks. After helping to found the Trust in November 2019, she led its Coronavirus Appeal, which launched in March 2020 and raised £100 million for those in need. The Appeal funded 15,000 charitable projects and reached 13 million people. Mhairi, who has over a decade of leadership experience in the charitable sector, private sector and the armed forces, was awarded an MBE in 2022 for services to the pandemic response.