Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of major power and industrial companies, investors, environmental NGOs and experts working out achievable pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C by 2040 while stimulating economic development and social progress.

He was chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking until January 2019, where he remains a Senior Fellow. He is Chairman of Chubb Europe and on the Advisory Board of Envision Energy, a Shanghai-based group focussed on renewable energy, batteries and digital systems.

From 2008-2013, Lord Turner chaired the UK’s Financial Services Authority, and played a leading role in the post crisis redesign of global banking and shadow banking regulation.

Lord Turner has held high profile roles in public policy: he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000); chairman of the UK Low Pay Commission (2002-2006); chairman of the Pensions Commision (2003-2006); he was the first chairman of the Climate Change Committee (2008-2012) an independent body to advise the UK Government on tackling climate change. The recommendations set out in their first report “Building a low-carbon economy” were adopted in 2009.

He became a cross bench member of the House of Lords in 2006.

Amongst his business roles, Lord Turner was at McKinsey&Co (1982-1995); was Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe (2000-2006) and a Non-Executive Director of a number of companies, including Standard Chartered plc (2006-2008).

He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Financial Studies (Frankfurt) and a Visiting Fellow at the People’s Bank of China School of Finance, Tsinghua University (Beijing). He writes regularly for Project Syndicate, and has published “Between Debt and the Devil” (Princeton 2015), and Economics after the Crisis (MIT 2012).

He is a Trustee Emeritus of the British Museum, honorary fellow of The Royal Society, and received an Honorary Degree from Cambridge University in 2017.

Alyssa Gilbert is the Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London where she leads Imperial’s climate change and sustainability innovation activities, linking innovative students, staff and alumni to opportunities to make a difference. She is the Director of Undaunted, a collaborative activity between Imperial and the Royal Institution that is seeking to create a home for climate innovation in London, supporting successful creation and scale up of businesses that tackle climate change. Alyssa is also the co-chair of the UK Universities Climate Network, which brought together academic expertise on climate change ahead of the international negotiations in November 2021. Previously Alyssa was the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Prior to joining the university, she worked at a specialist energy and climate consultancy for nearly 12 years on a range of climate change mitigation and adaptation topics. Alyssa has worked with the UK and many other national governments and at an international level. She has also been a member of the Natural Environment Council’s Advisory Network.

Ms. Amina J. Mohammed is the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Mohammed served as Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria where she steered the country’s efforts on climate action and efforts to protect the natural environment. Ms. Mohammed first joined the United Nations in 2012 as Special Adviser to former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the responsibility for post-2015 development planning. She led the process that resulted in global agreement around the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Ms. Mohammed began her career working on the design of schools and clinics in Nigeria. She served as an advocate focused on increasing access to education and other social services, before moving into the public sector, where she rose to the position of adviser to four successive Presidents on poverty, public sector reform, and sustainable development. Ms. Mohammed has been conferred several honorary doctorates and has served as an adjunct professor, lecturing on international development. The recipient of various global awards, Ms. Mohammed has served on numerous international advisory boards and panels. She is the mother of six children and has four grandchildren.

Andy has been in leadership roles in climate action over two decades. He is Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Climate-KIC, Europe’s climate innovation agency, responsible for the group’s overarching strategy, its financial sustainability, and delivery of its global impact. Climate-KIC implements a place-based ‘learning by doing’ innovation model that mobilises public and private finance and investment funds to implement and test suites (portfolios) of coordinated innovations to produce the actionable intelligence and scalable solutions needed for meeting ambitious climate targets. Previously, Andy was the founding director of the award-winning Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), a leading low carbon innovation centre, and co-Director of ClimateXChange, Scotland’s Centre of Expertise on Climate Change to support policymakers. Earlier in his career, Andy traded carbon and green fuels in Europe and Asia and developed European renewable energy supply chains. Andy is an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh and has a PhD in Climate Change.

Barbara Rambousek is the EBRD’s Director for Gender and Economic Inclusion. She established the Bank’s approach to integrating economic inclusion into its mandate to address inequality through private-sector investment and policy engagement. Her focus is on creating equitable access to employment and skills, entrepreneurship and finance, as well as key infrastructure services, reflecting the specific needs of women, youth, aging populations, migrants and others.   Ms Rambousek has 20 years of leadership experience in the design and delivery of multisectoral inclusive development programmes and strategies in central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia and the United Kingdom.

Beverley Gower-Jones is Managing Partner at Clean Growth Fund, a venture capital fund that she founded in 2020 to invest in UK-based innovations that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Beverley is also CEO of Carbon Limiting Technologies, a specialist early stage clean tech incubator that she started in 2006. Beverley is a thought leader in early stage cleantech investments and specialises in accelerating innovation to market and scaling companies. Her ambition is to create a better, more sustainable world and firmly believes this will be achieved with tech innovation playing a transformative role in the global economy. In 2023, Beverley was bestowed an OBE by His Majesty The King (Charles III) for services to Net Zero innovation and that same year was awarded Net Zero Leader of the Year at the Edie Awards. Beverley influences at government level as a founding member of the Cleantech for UK coalition and an independent member of the cross-government Net Zero Innovation Board chaired by Dame Angela McLean. In Beverley’s earlier career, she was a founder and Vice President of Shell Technology Ventures and was instrumental in Shell’s technology venturing strategy. With over 30 years’ experience in the international energy sector, Beverley is a Fellow of the Energy Institute. She holds a BSc in Mining Geology from University College Cardiff.

Charlotte Kan is a business journalist & editor specialising in finance, disruption, tech & thought leadership (ex-Bloomberg TV, S&P, Euronews, RTL etc.) reporter, presenter and moderator of international conferences and events, media and presentation coach.

David Saddington heads up the Sustainable Supply Chain team in the UK Governments new International Forest Unit – a joint team between the FCDO and BEIS. After leading the COP26 Nature Campaign and securing a historic commitments from heads of state and business leaders on halting & reversing deforestation David now leads the team to deliver commitments to green international trade in forest risk commodities like palm oil, soya and cattle. This includes overseeing the delivery of the Forest, Agriculture & Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue Roadmap which the UK co-chairs with Indonesia and business action on scope 3 emissions linked to land use. Prior to joining the UK Government David has worked for many years in international climate change as a consultant to help Government and businesses develop strategies to cut emissions, including working for the UNFCCC to develop the Paris Agreement. He is also a Goalkeeper for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UK Board member of Nile Rodgers’ We Are Family Foundation to support young changemakers and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Bevis Watts became Chief Executive Officer of Triodos Bank UK Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Triodos Bank N.V., in May 2019. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Triodos Bank UK for three years, having previously been Head of Business Banking at Triodos for almost five years.

Bevis has always worked for values-led organisations, and before Triodos was Chief Executive of Avon Wildlife Trust and Head of Business Support at The Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP).  He has held numerous Directorships and Trusteeships and was a Board member of Bristol 2015, the delivery company for Bristol European Green Capital 2015, inaugural Chair of the West of England Nature Partnership, and he was elected to represent Local Nature Partnerships at a national level on the ESI Funds National Growth Board (2013-2015).

Bryony leads the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge (IDC), which forms part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). IDC is a £210m programme with £261m match funding from industry, designed to deploy low carbon technologies and enabling infrastructure in heavily industrialised regions of the UK. Bryony was previously Head of Technology at Costain, with responsibility for the identification and development of new technology. She was a member of BEIS’ CCUS Cost Challenge Task Force, a Director of the CCSA (where she co-chaired the Technical Working Group) and chair of the Independent Advisory Panel for the UKCCSRC.

Elena Avesani is Head of Global Sustainability Strategy at Oracle. Elena drives Oracle’s sustainability programs and pioneers technology solutions to address social and environmental challenges. For two years in a row, Sustainability Magazine has listed Elena Avesani in the Top 100 Women in Sustainability. Under Elena’s leadership Oracle has been recognized by Sustainalytics’ newly released 2023 Top-Rated ESG Companies List and the 2022 SEAL Business Sustainability Award. Elena responsibilities are focused on two key pillars: First, decarbonizing operations and embedding sustainability into everything Oracle does internally. Second, developing tools that enable Oracle customers to do the same, accelerating their transition to net zero. In her 25 years at Oracle, Elena has held numerous leadership positions in product management, consulting, and enterprise applications. Elena holds a master’s degree in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University, New York, and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Politecnico of Milan, Italy.

Emma Pinchbeck is the Chief Executive of Energy UK, a position that she has held since July 2020. She is an expert in whole-economy decarbonisation and the energy transition. She also holds several board advisory positions. Emma has two children and shares childcare with her husband. She is passionate about efforts to improve diversity in the energy industry. From 2016-2020, she served as Deputy CEO of the trade body Renewable UK, in which role she also sat on the Board of Scottish Renewables. Prior to this, Emma was Head of Climate Change at WWFU-K. She has an MA from the University of Oxford.

Graham Stuart was appointed Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 7 February 2023.

He was previously Minister of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 6 September 2022 to 7 February 2023.

Graham was the Minister of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office from 7 July 2022 to 6 September 2022.

Graham joined the Department for International Trade in January 2018 as Minister for Investment, and he was Minister for Exports from February 2020 until September 2021.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness in 2005.

Graham was born in Carlisle. He attended school in Scotland before going to Selwyn College, Cambridge to read philosophy and law. At Cambridge he chaired the Cambridge University Conservative Association, and founded ‘What’s On in Cambridge’.

After university Graham developed a successful career in publishing, and was a member of Cambridge City Council from 1998 to 2004.

Hamish leads the sustainable finance team at EcoAct, working with banks, insurers, institutional investors, and operating companies on climate change risk management, target-setting, and net zero aligned investment strategy. In 2014, he launched the legal programme at the Asset Owners Disclosure Project and more recently supported the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment on a number of their flagship climate programs, including the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance and the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero. He holds a Juris Doctor degree in law from the University of British Columbia and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Harry Boyd-Carpenter is the Managing Director, Climate Strategy and Delivery at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He took up this role in April 2021. Mr Boyd-Carpenter is responsible for coordinating the EBRD’s work across the green economy and climate agendas, with the overall goal of meeting the Bank’s commitment to achieve a green finance ratio of at least 50 per cent of annual investment by 2025. He leads a group that drives climate and green financing, policy and analysis across all economic sectors and financing instruments, as well as representing the EBRD in climate and sustainable finance forums. Mr Boyd-Carpenter is a British national and joined the EBRD in 2005 in the Office of the General Counsel. In 2008 he transferred to the then Power and Energy Utilities team in Banking, before becoming Director, Head of Energy EMEA in 2017 where he led the Bank’s investment activities in the energy sector in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Before joining the EBRD Mr Boyd-Carpenter was an Associate in the project finance team at Allen and Overy LLP and also worked for the European Agency for Reconstruction in Pristina. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford.

Heather Buchanan is the CEO and co-founder of Bankers for Net Zero, an initiative that brings together banks, businesses and regulators to support the financial sectors transition to net zero in the UK. She has extensive experience advising Government, trade bodies and civil society on the commercial relationship between banks and their customers. In 2021, Bankers for Net Zero was announced as the UK Country Chapter of the UN Convened Net Zero Banking Alliance, the first initiative of its kind in the world, to provide the bridge between the high level commitments that banks have made and implementation on the ground. The initiative brings together banks, businesses, policymakers and regulators to define and implement the interventions needed to accelerate the UK economy’s transition to net zero.

James oversees CISL’s innovation portfolio and corporate relations, communications and marketing functions.

James joined the Institute in 2014 from Friends of the Earth where he set up a Business Engagement and Innovation team to develop new ideas, business partnerships, networks and alliances. In this role he worked across environmental campaigns and programmes on climate and energy, food, resource use, nature and biodiversity.

He previously held a variety of senior commercial roles at Vodafone UK developing strategic partnerships and new routes to market in the IT channel. In 2011 he worked for 6 months setting up sustainable agriculture projects in high altitude communities in the Peruvian Andes. James holds a BSc (Rural Estate Management) and a Master’s in Leadership for Sustainable Development.

Jason is a Circular Economy specialist with two decades of applied and academic experience pioneering the approach in the US, UK, EU and Australia via his company, gDiapers. gDiapers was the first consumer product to receive the coveted Cradle to Cradle product certification in 2007. Cradle to Cradle is a foundation element of the Circular Economy. In 2005 the original gDiapers product established an entirely new category of nappy, the hybrid, featuring an outer pair of washable pants and an insert that was absorbent and home compostable. Last year the company developed a next generation 100% commercially compostable baby nappy and service for the Global South that fully embraces the Circular Economy approach. gDiapers was an early member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CE 100. gDiapers published “A Circular Economy for nappies and how to implement it locally” with the Foundation. Jason is concurrently pursuing a PhD at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS. His focus is on sustainable consumption practices. Jason is also interim Chair of Circular Australia, the country’s peak Circular Economy body, advising the Australian Government on their Circular Economy policy approach.

John is the Chief Executive of the UK Infrastructure Bank and the former Group Chief Executive of HSBC.

During his 30 year career with HSBC he built a range of skills in wholesale banking, retail banking, and Treasury and risk management. He represented HSBC in 9 countries, spending much of his career in Asia. He progressed through the roles of Group Treasurer, Deputy Head of Global Markets, Chief Executive of HSBC Asset Management, and Chief Executive of Retail Banking and Wealth Management before being appointed Group Chief Executive, and Chairman of The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

John was a member of the International Business Council and Climate Finance Leadership Initiative of the World Economic Forum. He also served as a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and was a Global Commissioner of the New Climate Economy. John was appointed a Member of the Independent Review Panel on Ring-Fencing Legislation and Proprietary Trading by HM Treasury in the UK in January 2021, and served as a Member of the Panel until his appointment as Chief Executive of the UK Infrastructure Bank in September 2021. John is a Non-Executive Director of SEB, and sits on the Global Advisory Board of MUFG.

Chair Green Alliance, Chair Government’s Energy Digitalisation Taskforce, Non Executive Director SSE Transmission, Highview Power, Ohme & Energy Systems Catapult.

Laura leads Weber Shandwick’s Corporate Enterprise division, overseeing and providing strategic counsel on global communications challenges for senior clients across industries.

Working extensively on sustainability and corporate responsibility campaigns, her work supports clients to protect reputation, communicate sustainability journeys and drive impactful change for clients, customers and stakeholders.

Lucy Yu is CEO at Octopus Energy’s Centre for Net Zero, a research unit leading pioneering research to make the future energy system a reality. Lucy has nearly two decades of experience building tech ventures and developing tech policy and regulation for the UK government, European Commission, and the UN. She has led operations, commercial, policy and research functions for several high-growth, globally-renowned tech start-ups including two unicorns. Lucy has been named a Financial Times Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leader in tech (2019) and one of Diversity UK’s Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech (2021). Lucy’s work has focused on sustainability and renewable energy; future mobility and the built environment; artificial intelligence; open data and open source; regulating high risk technologies; and the social impact of disruptive technology. She has written extensively on these topics for the tech press and peer-reviewed journals, and has spoken widely including for Wired and SLUSH. Her previous roles include executive positions at SwiftKey (exit Microsoft); Cucumber (exit SmartBear); Five (autonomous vehicles); Voi Technology (micromobility); and policy roles at the Cabinet Office, Department for Transport, International Telecommunication Union, and the UK government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). She is a Non-Executive Member of the Board at the Connected Places Catapult and E3G; an Associate Fellow of Technology and Public Policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change; former tech sector representative on the City of London Transport Strategy Board; a Director at the Institute for Ethical AI and Machine Learning; and has previously served as a Non-Executive Director of Ada – the National College for Digital Skills. She is a trained scientist and holds a degree from Imperial College specialising in computational and physical chemistry.

Mark Watts is Executive Director of C40 Cities, a network of the mayors of nearly 100 of the world’s largest and most influential cities, dedicated to delivery science-based and inclusive climate action. C40 cities represent 25% of global GDP and hundreds of millions of residents. Mark was appointed in 2013 by then Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, and has subsequently served the mayors of Rio, Paris, Los Angeles and, currently, Sadiq Khan – Mayor of London, in their capacity as elected Chairs of C40. Under Mark’s leadership C40’s team has grown from 30 to over 300 and C40 has focused on showing through city leadership how the world can halve global carbon emissions by 2030, while creating millions of good green jobs and reducing inequality. Prior to joining C40, Mark was a director at the radical design and engineering firm, Arup, and before that was transport and climate adviser to the Mayor of London, in which capacity he was described by the London Evening Standard as “the intellectual force behind Ken Livingstone’s drive to make London a leading light of the battle against global warming.” Outside of work he can usually be found running up a mountain, or getting excited about a new band.

Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol was elected in May 2016 and re-elected in May 2021. He is a Yale World Fellow and graduate of Operation Black Vote who has worked and studied in the UK and the US. During his first term, he has overseen the building of almost 9,000 homes, founded a city-owned housing company and embarked on the largest council house building scheme for over 35 years. With an ambition to build a more sustainable, inclusive and fairer city he has developed the One City Plan for Bristol and is leading the city’s response to both the climate and ecological emergencies.

Mat joined the leadership team at OVO as Chief Commercial Officer in 2023 with key responsibilities for driving forward energy efficiency and carbon reduction in the home through technology such as electric vehicles, heat pumps and solar. Mat is responsible for driving progress to zero carbon living and Home Services acceleration. In his first few months at OVO, Mat launched Charge Anytime – a smart charging, intelligent electric vehicle plan helping customers cut costs. The division further supports OVO’s commitment to reach net zero by 2035.

Mat brings a wealth of experience in high growth businesses – the online car buying platform heycar as Group Chief Commercial Officer and as Local Heroes Director at Centrica where he led the scale-up of Local Heroes.

Nick Mabey is a Founding Director of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) and E3G’s co-CEO. In addition to his leadership role, Nick works on issues of climate diplomacy and foreign policy, macroeconomics and the security implications of climate change and resource scarcity.

Nick is a regular commentator and public speaker on climate change in the global media and is active on Twitter at @mabeytweet. Selections of Nick Mabey’s thought leadership and activities from throughout his career can be found at www.nickmabey.org.

Nick was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee honours list in 2022 for services to climate change and support to the UK COP26 Presidency.

Nick founded London Climate Action Week in 2019 which has grown to be one of the largest global climate change festivals. Nick Mabey currently chairs the LCAW Steering Group LCAW.
Nick undertakes a range of other roles including advising the UK COP President as a Friend of COP26, a London Sustainable Development Commissioner, a trustee of Ashden, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy Transition.

Before co-founding E3G, Nick was a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit leading cross-government work including on climate change, fisheries, countries at risk of instability and organised crime. Nick also worked in the UK foreign ministry helping establish a new Environment Policy Department and climate diplomacy network. Nick was seconded to the FCO from WWF-UK where he worked as Head of Economics and Development. This followed research at London Business School on the macroeconomics of climate change and lead authorship of “Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming” (1997).

Nick has a degree in mechanical engineering from Bristol University and a Master’s Degree in Technology and Policy from MIT. He began his career working in the UK electricity industry for GEC and PowerGen.

Outside work Nick is an avid reader of history and practices Chen Style Tai Ji Quan.

Nik Gowing is Founder and Co-Director of Thinking the Unthinkable – an independent project helping leaders understand the threats and opportunities in the new era of radical uncertainty and disruption. The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed all the project’s alerts to leaders since 2014.

In 2016 Nik co-authored (with TtU Co-Director Chris Langdon) the book “Thinking the Unthinkable”. Their work is based on hundreds of top level confidential interviews and conversations with corporate and public service leaders, plus hundreds more conversations with a new generation of aspiring leaders.

Thinking the Unthinkable reveals candidly why so many leaders face new difficulties identifying what looms in the disruptions of the “new normal” which started emerging in 2014 then exploded in 2020 with COVID-19 and the deepening climate emergency.

Nik Gowing was a main presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented ‘The Hub with Nik Gowing’, BBC World Debates, Dateline London, plus location coverage of major global stories.

Orren Shalit is a Solution Architect at ClimateView, a Swedish climate action technology company, helping cities plan, manage and fund their transition to net-zero. In his role, Orren runs workshops and devises solutions to help cities make faster progress. An expert in innovation systems, Orren has long been an advisor to some of the Nordic region’s largest organisations in their pursuit of innovation and digitalisation projects.

Pascal brings a passion for science and medicine as well as significant experience in established and emerging markets, strength of strategic thinking, a successful track record of managing change and executing strategy, and the ability to lead a diverse organisation. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Roche’s pharmaceuticals division from 2010 to September 2012 and, prior to that, Chief Executive Officer of Genentech, a biologics business, where he led its successful merger with Roche. Pascal joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1986 and has worked in senior management roles in numerous major companies around the world. He is a doctor of veterinary medicine (École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, Maisons-Alfort) and holds an MBA from HEC, Paris. Pascal serves on the Board of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, which was convened by King Charles III in his previous role as the Prince of Wales. Pascal received a British knighthood for services to UK life sciences and leadership in the global response to the COVID pandemic in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022.

Raman is the CEO of OVO, the UK’s third largest energy supplier with a mission to power human progress with clean, affordable energy for everyone.  Raman is the co-sponsor of OVO’s Inclusion and Diversity initiative: OVO Belonging which aims to build a truly inclusive culture at OVO. The company recently won Diverse Company of the Year at the National Diversity Awards.

Prior to OVO, Raman was the Head of Digital Bank for HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management in the UK and Europe. As a member of the Executive Committee, he led innovation, new digital ways of working, risk management and the design, development, deployment and commercialisation of digital platforms, products and channels within the UK and Europe.

Before HSBC, Raman worked in consumer tech as VP at HouseTrip and Director of Strategy at Expedia for EMEA. Earlier in his career Raman worked as a management consultant at Bain as well as an advisor to governments and international development agencies on urban governance and planning.

Raman is a Trustee at the Business in the Community, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Randolph is Global Head of Clean Power Systems as HSBC. He leads and supports on key sustainability initiatives including HSBC’s Net Zero investment strategy, client transitions, and the development of sector targets and pathways. Randolph also works closely with colleagues in the front line to support clients with their energy transition and to identify opportunities to finance clean energy. He has joined HSBC from the UK Energy Networks Association, where he was Director of Innovation & Electricity Systems and led work on energy transition, digitalisation, engineering, innovation, low carbon technologies and energy resilience. Previously he worked on the design and development of renewables and electricity grid projects.

Randolph is part of the World Energy Council’s Future Energy Leaders and participates in a range of energy and climate related advisory groups, including the UNDP Energy Governance Board. He has an M.Phil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and brings deep expertise in renewables, electric vehicles, storage and the electricity grid – technologies at the heart of the Net Zero energy transition.

Her Excellency Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak is a United Arab Emirates native who for more than twenty years has supported her country’s efforts to realize a more sustainable future while spearheading progressive environmental protection, species conservation, and global climate action. She was elected President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it, in September 2021. She is the second woman to lead the organization in its 75-year history and its first president from West Asia. Her Excellency Razan Al Mubarak serves as UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the leadership team of COP28 Presidency, which will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 12, 2023. Her diverse experience leading the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, the largest environmental regulatory agency in the Middle East, the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, an international philanthropic organization supporting species conservation projects worldwide, and Emirates Nature – WWF, an Emirates-based NGO focused on citizen engagement, and Chairwoman of International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), earned her recognition as one of the top 100 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum in 2018.

Shirley Rodrigues was appointed as London Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy in October 2016. Previously she oversaw a global climate change grants portfolio at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) developing their cities and climate strategy, and in other senior environmental roles has devised and delivered a range of environmental policies and programmes in London, nationally and internationally.
She is now working to deliver the Mayor’s vision of making London greener, fairer and healthier through implementing his London Environment Strategy. This includes ambitious programmes to reduce air pollution across London, including the implementation of the world’s first Ultra Low Emission Zone, and greening and rewilding the city. Her key focus is on working to ensure London’s economic and social recovery from the impacts of Covid-19 is a green and fair one by tackling the climate and ecological emergency with the ambitious aim for London to be a net zero carbon city by 2030.

Toddington is a second-generation solar energy and energy storage professional, whose parents pioneered some of the world’s first commercial deployments of solar energy and battery storage systems around 45 years ago. He has spent virtually his entire career focused on delivering sustainable energy solutions, including creating five successful sustainable energy and low carbon businesses which he has led as CEO over the last 20-years. Prior to founding GRIDSERVE Sustainable Energy Ltd, Toddington was co-founder and CEO of BELECTRIC UK (2010 & 2011 solar world market leader), responsible for the development, construction and financing of c.350 MWp of utility scale solar farm & solar rooftop projects, including a 3.5MWp 20-acre solar rooftop project for Rolls-Royce. Toddington created GRIDSERVE to #deliver sustainable energy and move the needle on climate change. GRIDSERVE’s first major success was winning the highest price battery storage enhanced frequency response contract with National Grid, where GRIDSERVE was awarded one of only seven successful contracts out of 208 tendered. Since then GRIDSERVE has grown from strength to strength. In 2019, against the odds of a year dominated by Brexit, GRIDSERVE pushed through, pioneering and delivering the UK’s largest and most technically advanced hybrid solar projects, becoming the UK solar energy and technology market leader. In 2020 a year dominated by the global pandemic, and the country locking down multiple times, GRIDSERVE persistently and safely managed to open the UK’s first Electric Forecourt®, powered by solar energy and battery storage projects, designed to provide the best possible charging experience for electric vehicle drivers, and assist the uptake of net zero carbon electric vehicles in the earliest possible time frames. This was also supported with the launch of a new electric vehicle solution leasing business, GRIDSERVE Car Leasing to further support the transition. In 2021, GRIDSERVE’s presence in the charging space accelerated when acquiring the UK’s biggest existing charging network from Ecotricity. GRIDSERVE invested millions of pounds to upgrade the newly-named GRIDSERVE Electric Highway network with new charging technology, contactless payment, real-time mapping as well as reducing pre-authorisation fees. The replacement of chargers was only the first step as the GRIDSERVE Electric Highway continues to expand to meet the needs of the electric vehicle market today. In 2022, GRIDSERVE opened over 100 High Power chargers across a new network of Super Hubs and a new Electric Forecourt® in Norwich. From Swansea and Burton-in-Kendal to Wetherby and Exeter, new 6-12 bay 350kW-capable High Power chargers have been installed to support long distance travel throughout the UK. In 2023, the pace continues with 10 new Super hubs so far and many more to come.

Vasilka is the Global Head of Solutions Structuring at HSBC’s Global Trade and Receivables Finance. She heads up a team of expert structurers, who work with clients on working capital optimisation solutions. She also works closely with clients on their ESG transition strategies and led the first Sustainable Supply Chain finance deal at HSBC. She is a sector experts covering clients in the clean technology industry. Previously she has worked in the leasing industry whereby she was responsible for developing financing solutions for new clean technologies, with focus on renewables and energy efficiency projects.