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.

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.