Professor Henrietta L. Moore is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Chair in Culture Philosophy and Design at University College London (UCL). A leading global thinker on prosperity Professor Moore challenges traditional economic models of growth arguing that to flourish communities, businesses and governments need to engage with diversity and work within environmental limits. Her work crosses disciplines, from social science to the arts to business innovation and she applies these different perspectives to inform research and policy at all levels.

In 2016 Professor Moore was made Dame Commander for the British Empire for contribution to social sciences, services to business, policy and the arts.

Kate Raworth is an economist focused on making economics fit for the 21st century. Her book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist is an international bestseller that has been translated into 20 languages, and was long-listed for the 2017 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. She is co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, working with cities, business, communities, governments and educators to turn Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action. She teaches at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and is Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Dr. Ndidi Nnoli Edozien chairs the boards of the Circular Economy Innovation Partnership (CEIP) Africa, Growing Businesses Foundation, and Afrikairos GmbH, Germany. She serves as ACCA Africa Advocacy Program’s Corporate Governance & Sustainability Committee Chair, and is an Executive Committee Member of the Club of Rome. She co-chairs the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) on SDGs, inaugurated by the Nigerian Presidency in 2017, and the Welt-Ethos Finance and Economy Research Group, which birthed its first ESG rating methodology 30 years ago. She was recognized as 2020 Sustainability Executive of the Year by Cemex Africa, and served as the Group Chief Sustainability and Governance Officer for Africa’s largest business – Dangote - until 2020. Prior to which, she served as faculty, teaching sustainability, ethics, and social entrepreneurship at the Lagos Business School and subsequently at the China European International Business School. She co-founded and serves on the Board of Directors for Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services, Boost Technology (Nigeria), Rising Tide Africa, and Vroom Africa. She is a Fellow of the Scaling Business in Africa Initiative at the University of Edinburgh, an alumnus of the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Wharton Business School and holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability & Governance from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Manjula started her career in M&A at Shell Australia, where faced with data indicating where the world
was going to be by 2050, she was compelled to pursue a career in social problem-solving in the not for
profit sector. From 2006 - 2015 she advised NGOs such as Oxfam and Amnesty International and was
Head of Philanthropy for Habitat for Humanity with an international portfolio of corporates, impact
investors, governments and foundations. She was also special advisor to the UN’s Global Partnerships
Forum in New York for the MDG and SDG agenda. Manjula founded World Wide Generation in 2016,
the G17Eco Platform in 2017 to accelerate the financing and delivery of the SDGs by 2030. By 2018
Manjula was appointed to the City of London’s Global Steering Committee for Sustainable Finance and
The Green Finance Task Force, and was invited by No10 Downing Street to pitch her sustainable fintech
strategy to the UK Prime Minister and the Cabinet. At the 2018 UN General Assembly, Britain’s PM
Theresa May, announced WWG as the Technology Partner to the global Sustainable Development
Capital Initiative which aims to unify the world with technology market infrastructure to unlock
sustainable finance, solutions and data at scale. Manjula was selected for Innovate Finance’s “Women In
FinTech Powerlist 2018”. She won the UKBAA’s “Best Led Female Investment award of the year”, was
voted “100 of the Most Influential Women in Blockchain” and selected on Fairforce’s independent “100
Green Board Member” list in 2020. The G17Eco Platform went live in July 2020 and is being scaled
globally. Manjula was selected to feature in a historical book to commemorate Britain's First Prime
Minister, The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales and the future leaders of Britain. Her work with World
Wide Generation was showcased for its innovation and identified as ‘trend-setter’ across industry.
www.worldwidegeneration.co

Professor Chukwumerije Okereke is the Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Development at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike and a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Reading and Oxford, UK respectively.  He is a globally recognized leading scholar on global climate governance and international development with expertise in climate justice, national green growth transition in Africa, climate adaptation and business climate strategies.

Professor Okereke was previously the Co-Director of the Center for Climate and Justice and Co-Director of the Reading University Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme.  He was also Director of the Center for Climate Change and Development at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Over the last 20 years, Professor Okereke has maintained an extensive high-impact engagement with national governments, businesses, and NGOs in Africa and led on several high-profile international projects on climate change policy, mainstreaming, and green economy transition in Africa including the UNDP funded Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) commissioned by the Committee of African Heads of State on Climate Change (CAHOSCC), the Analysis of the Adaptation Components in Africa’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDCs) commissioned by the African Development Bank and the Rwandan Green Growth and Climate Resilience Project, which was the first-ever national low-carbon plan in Africa.

Professor Okereke is the Coordinating Lead Author of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. He has served as Lead Author on other major global scientific assessment projects including the IPCC Special Report on 1.5degree global warming and the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC; the United Nations Environment Programme’s Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services Assessment. Professor Okereke is a member of the Steering Committee of the Earths Systems Governance Project and a leading member of the Global Earth Commission’s Safe and Just Transformation Working Group. He is the Co-Chair of the Earth Systems’ Climate Change Governance Task Force, Director of the Nigeria’s long term Deep Decarbonization Project and Co-Chair of the Africa-Europe platform for Sustainable Development thinkers.

Professor Okereke is a member of the editorial board of several highly reputed journals in the field including, Global Environmental Politics, Business and Sustainable Development, Earth Systems Governance, Environmental Research Letters, and International Studies Review.

Professor Okereke has published widely in the field, given a countless number of keynote speeches, and been interviewed by leading media houses in the world including BBC News, BBC World Services, France24, China Global Television Network, Channels TV, AriseTV, and several others.

Dr Amis is the Co-founder and Executive Director at the African Centre for Green Economy (African Centre), a leading non-profit think tank based in South Africa. The Centre’s mission is to champion an inclusive and just transition in Africa, through undertaking research and providing thought leadership.

Dr Amis has more than 15 years experience in the green economy sector in Africa and globally, and advices on a range of issues including climate finance, low carbon development, inclusive business models, public-private partnerships, corporate sustainability strategies, water stewardship etc.

Between 2016- 2017 Dr Amis was an Adjunct Professor, at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. He is currently an external examiner for the MBA programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He also serves on various Boards as a non-Executive Director, including the South African Renewable Energy Business Incubator (SAREBI), the Freshwater Research Centre, and the Table Mountain Fund (TMF).

Dr Amis holds an MSc and PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Ian Thomson is Director of Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business. He is also Convenor of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research.

Professor Ian Thomson is also a part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics.  This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, engineers, philosophers, linguists, economists, artists, writers, lawyers, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Mark has more than 20 years' experience at Board level and was recently appointed Non Executive Director at the global engineering consultancy Buro Happold. He has worked closely with the Executive Chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF) over the past five years on their Digital Economy global challenge, examining issues of responsible digital transformation, digital identity, and new digital business models. 

Mark is a member of Chatham House's finance committee; Chair of Leap, a charity specialising in helping young people understand the causes and consequences of conflict and sits on the Board of Newdea an open source trade and investment platform focussed on digital transformation in Africa. His previous Board roles include the Future Cities Catapult and Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brussels
 

In his former executive career, he was Global Head of Strategy at Accenture, His role included setting up Accenture’s sustainability practice. Mark also ran Accenture’s global macro-economic think-tank, the Accenture Institute for High Performance.

The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, set up and now runs Sancroft, a Corporate Responsibility consultancy working with blue-chip companies around the world on environmental, social and ethical issues.  Lord Deben is Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, Valpak Limited, and the Personal Investment Management & Financial Advisers Association. He was the longest serving Secretary of State for the Environment the UK has ever had (1993-97).  His sixteen years of top-level ministerial experience also include Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, Minister for London, Employment Minister and Paymaster General in HM Treasury.  He has consistently championed an identity between environmental concerns and business sense. 

Vaitea Cowan is one of the three cofounders of Enapter. Sebastian, Jan and Vaitea worked on the Phi Suea House in 2016, which became a lighthouse project for green hydrogen in Southeast Asia. In 2017, they cofounded Enapter and grew the team from 11 to 200 by 2021. Today, Vaitea heads Enapter’s communications and is based in the Berlin office. Vaitea is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Energy 2020. Among other awards, she supported Enapter in winning the inaugural Earthshot Prize “Fix Our Climate” launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation. Vaitea graduated with a Bachelors in Commerce from Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (Montreal). Her personal mission is to bring green hydrogen to the islands; and to hire more women along the way.

Kevin Kung is the co-founder and CTO of Takachar since 2018. From 2012 to 2017, Kevin built Takachar’s core technology as part of his Ph.D. research in the field of biofuels and renewable energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where through the support of the Tata Trusts, he travelled to India extensively and designed the technology to meet specific local needs. Prior to that, Kevin had six years of experience conducting engineering design in resource-constrained settings, including borehole restoration in Uganda, interlocking stabilized construction materials in Ghana, and renewable energy systems in Kenya and India. In 2015, Kevin co-founded a company (Safi Organics) in Kenya that produces carbon-negative, high-yield fertilizer from crop residues, improving farmers’ harvest yields by 30 percent. He helped grow the company to 10 full-time employees, 3,500 customers, and financial breakeven.

Olubanjo Olugbenga (Olu) is the Founder & CEO of Reeddi and a MASc (Master of Applied Science) Graduate of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Reeddi’s mission is to bridge the gap of accessibility through limitless and sustainable innovation. Reeddi’s award winning innovation, the Reeddi Capsule leverages its proprietary hardware-as-a service model to provide clean, reliable, and affordable electricity to individuals, households, and businesses operating in the energy-poor regions of the world.

Reeddi Capsule currently serves more than 600 combined households and businesses monthly in Nigeria and have been recognized by organizations including MIT, Stanford, Cisco, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer), and ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), World Energy Council, and the German Energy Agency.

The Reeddi Capsule was recently announced as one of Prince William's 1 million pounds prestigious EarthShot Prize 15 finalists. The Innovation was also recently named one of Time’s (Time Magazine) Best Invention of 2021.

Olu was awarded the John Wesley J. Hall Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto Black Graduation Celebration. He also received the University of Toronto 2019 Social Innovation Award. In addition, he was one of the ten outstanding entrepreneurs selected as a BP OneYoungWorld Advancing Energy Scholarship for his innovative approach to business and obsession with social & environmental impact.

Beyond his startup, Olu has proffered innovative solutions to companies and Industry leaders. He was awarded a Distinction Award by Fashion Zone in Ryerson University for his innovative solution proposed to Oxford Properties Group, Canada. 

Olu has a keen interest in using entrepreneurship for social and environmental impact. He was the former Co-chairs of the Massey College Entrepreneurship Committee and Massey College Community Service Committee.

A life mission he holds dearly, Olu constantly seeks to make a globally beneficial social, environmental, and economic impact with technology and market-creating innovations.

The Rt Hon. Lord Willetts FRS is the President of the Resolution Foundation. He served as the Member of Parliament for Havant (1992-2015), as Minister for Universities and Science (2010-2014) and previously worked at HM Treasury and the No. 10 Policy Unit.

Lord Willetts is a visiting Professor at King’s College London, a Board member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a Board member of Surrey Satellites and of the Biotech Growth Trust. He is Chair of The Foundation for Science and Technology. He is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and the Chancellor of the University of Leicester.

Lord Willetts has written widely on economic and social policy. His book “A University Education” is published by Oxford University Press. A second edition of his book on the Boomers and the young generation “The Pinch” was published in November 2019.

With more than 25 years of experience as policy maker for the Netherland’s government, Martin has worked in several policy domains, including environmental policy, nature policy, international biodiversity policy and green growth policy. Currently, Martin is the Executive Director and member of the Management Board of the Capitals Coalition, a global collaboration redefining value to transform decision-making.  
 
Martin is co-author of several national policy documents and has led public-private collaborative actions on natural capital in the Netherlands from 2014. In 2018 Martin initiated and is leading the Government Dialogue on Natural Capital that is now extending to all capitals. He is lead-author of the narrative publications Natural Capital for Governments: What, why and how (2019) and Natural Capital for Biodiversity Policy: What, Why and How (2021). Martin co-founded Business for Nature and is a member of the Coordination Group of this global business coalition that advocates for ambitious global policies to reverse biodiversity loss. 
 
Martin has master's degrees in forestry (Wageningen University, 1989) and History of Arts (Leiden University, 2012). 

Vonjy Rajakoba was appointed as Managing Director of Bosch UK on 1 December 2020.

Born in Madagascar, Vonjy went on to study International Business Administration in France where he received his
master’s in international business management degree from Aix-Marseille University and specialised in Cross Cultural
Marketing from Aarhus School of Business in Denmark.

After his studies, he held several senior Sales and Marketing positions across international organisations in the
consumer electronics industry. He joined Bosch in 2009, heading up the European sales organisation for Bosch
Sensortec before leading the worldwide sales team.

Before taking over his current position, Vonjy set-up and led the Bosch Power Tools business in Africa.
Vonjy is married and has two children. He is a keen sportsman, enjoys travelling and is passionate about social
entrepreneurship.

Career stages in the Bosch Group
2009
Director Sales EMEA, Bosch Sensortec, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
Vice President, Global Sales, Bosch Sensortec, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
Vice President, Bosch Power Tools Africa, Casablanca, Morocco
2020
Senior Vice President, Managing Director UK and Head of Bosch Professional Power Tools UK

Simon is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (DPVC) leading on Regional Engagement at the University of Birmingham, and Director of the West Midlands Regional Economic Development Institute (WMREDI) and City-REDI at Birmingham Business School, where he was Dean 2012-2016. He has held various roles, including: Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools, member of the ESRC Council and the GBS Chamber of Commerce Council. Simon is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA), the Chartered Association of Business Schools (C-ABS) and the British Academy of Management (FBAM).

In his DPVC role Simon leads on regional and civic engagement at the University, including its contribution in a ‘place-based’ industrial strategy.

In the past 5 years, he has been awarded over £15 mill in research funding, including internal university funding, a RED award from Research England and two major ESRC project awards. WMREDI was established in 2019 with a £5 million award from Research England (UKRI) together with funding from regional partners and matched funding from the university; a total package of over £11.5 mill. It builds on the work of City-REDI.

Simon’s research and consulting focuses on multinational firms, productivity, innovation, competitiveness and regional economic growth. As well as publishing in leading journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, Organisation Studies and Business History his research has featured in the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC Radio 4, and the New Statesman.

Ed is Executive Director of Strategy, Integration & Net Zero at the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).

Prior to WMCA, Ed was Director of Public Services and Communities at the RSA where he led an ambitious programme of work on people, power, place and inclusive growth. He previously led IPPR North for 9 years where he was a champion for devolution and much of the thinking behind the ‘Northern Powerhouse,’ working closely with several combined authorities in the north of England. Before that, Ed was an adviser to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government where he played a key role in developing the Sub-National Review (2007) and the Empowerment White Paper (2008).

Ed has a background in community engagement: he wrote Manchester’s first community engagement strategy, he was a founder of the national Participatory Budgeting Unit and he is the founder and chair of the Levenshulme Inspire community hub in inner-city Manchester. Ed is a qualified minister of religion in the United Reformed Church and he is part of the leadership team for his local congregation in Levenshulme.  Ed has been Chair of Involve since June 2019.