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Adam Dorr

Adam Dorr is an environmental social scientist, technology theorist, and research fellow at RethinkX. His current work is focused on the disruption of the global energy sector by new energy generation and storage technologies, its intersection with similar disruptions set to unfold in the transportation and food sectors, and their combined implications for climate change. He completed his MS at the University of Michigan's School for the Environment and Sustainability and his PhD at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, where he studied environmental politics, policy, and planning around disruptive technologies.

Charmian Love

Charmian believes in the power of business as a force for good and has first-hand experience in what it is like to be an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur and a systempreneur. Charmian is Co-Founder and Activist in Residence at B Lab UK, where she supports the growth of B Corps across the UK (and beyond) and is Co-Chair of B Lab’s Global Climate Taskforce. Charmian is committed to helping accelerate the transition to a more regenerative, circular and inclusive economy. In her role as Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, Charmian is guiding the development of the Regenerative and Circular Economy Lab and designed and teaches a popular MBA course on this subject. Charmian also holds the role of Co-Director for the newly launched Oxford Climate Emergency Programme, has co-taught an Executive MBA course on Systempreneurship: Innovating for Impact, contributed to the core MBA class ‘Capitalism in Debate’ and is a regular tutor in the GOTO programme focused on equipping students with skills and tools to engage in system change. Linked to this focus on system change, Charmian is actively engaged in exploring ways to mobilise a ‘'Movement of Movements’ – connecting people and organisations who share a goal relating to the need for deep and transformational levels of change in our economy. Charmian is a member of the Sustainability Advisory Council at the ICAEW (because she truly believes that accountants will save the world), a member of the ‘Regenerative Business’ working group at the Institute of Directors (IoD), Co-Chair of the BAC’s NetZero Working Group and an Advisory Committee member for GARP’s (Global Association of Risk Professionals) Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate. She held the role of chair of B Lab UK for 5 years, was a founding trustee to the Future Fit Foundation and was on the UK board of the B Team until 2019. Charmian’s journey as an entrepreneur began with the creation of Volans, a change agency, co-founded in 2008 with John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan (and the second UK company to certify as a B Corp) where her clients included senior leadership teams from Nike, HP and Allianz. Prior to starting her adventure with the Volans team, Charmian was a consultant at BCG and Chair of the Flavelle Foundation. You can get a feel for some of Charmian’s thinking in pieces she has contributed to publications including HBR, Wired, Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Pioneers Post and The Guardian. She is also co-author of a range of reports and playbooks including; The Phoenix Economy, The Future Quotient, The Corporate Venturing Playbook, The A-Z Guide to Cocktail Careers, The Climate Emergency Playbook for Business and The Climate Justice Playbook Version 1.0. A proud Canadian, Charmian received her MBA from Harvard Business School and holds a degree in Art History from Queen’s University. She lives in Southwest London with her soulmate and her two wonderful rugby-loving boys. In her spare time, Charmian enjoys hosting ‘Hartigan Dinners’ and participating in open water swimming challenges.

Fiona Morgan

With nearly 20 years’ experience in the industry, last year Fiona joined global purpose-driven sports entertainment league SailGP to help make sustainability essential to the fabric of sport. Fiona was the mastermind behind the development of the SailGP Impact League where athletes race to win the ‘race for the future podium’ alongside the main competition – inspiring sustainability action on and off the water. Fiona has an exceptional track record of shaping social impact strategy and campaigns for some of the world’s most high-profile sports brands and talent. She was the driving force behind Sky’s corporate and social purpose team, The Bigger Picture, and led the Sky Ocean Rescue consumer campaign, which reached an awareness of over 50 million people across Europe and resulted in behavioral change among its customers towards plastics. Fiona is proud to be an Ambassador for Meaningful Business, an advisory board member at 17 Sport and Non-Executive Board Member of the Manchester Originals a team in the new Hundred tournament shaking up and growing the game of cricket.

Jarvis Smith

In Jarvis Smith two worlds collide with dynamic effect. On one hand a proud hippie, mystic, self-confessed tree-hugger and radical eco-warrior, Jarvis is also a thought leader, entrepreneur, speaker and renowned online retail businessman. His work gracing global publications, he now partners with and is advising brands including Natwest, HSBC, Deloitte, Citrix, the Parliament Trust, Octopus Energy, Yeo Valley and Weleda. It was in the middle of 14 years’ Shamanic training that Jarvis’ true awakening happened, during the filming of 2007 Channel 4 reality TV show ‘Dumped’. Shot on location on a Croydon landfill, the experience opened Jarvis’ eyes to the vast devastation human lifestyle waste was having on the planet. It was a realisation that was to lead to a lifetime’s work protecting the Earth. His first magazine GREEN was published with National Geographic from 2008, which then moved to The Guardian in 2010, evolving into the My Green Pod magazine from 2013. Co-produced with wife Katie Hill, it is now the world’s biggest ethical lifestyle magazine. Jarvis launched the P.E.A. (People Environment Achievement) Awards which, in its 11th year, is the UK’s leading sustainability awards and honours individuals and teams for their contribution towards sustainability. Spring of 2021 sees Katie and Jarvis collaborate with Jo Wood for the My Green Podcast, interviewing celebrities like Fearne Cotton about their ethical endeavours. Providing shoppers with a healthy, affordable retail space that is good for them, their children, their families and ultimately, the planet, Jarvis and Katie’s online eco-conscious store www.mygreenpod.com leads the field in ethical shopping. In the next decade Jarvis’ intent is to provide an ethical alternative to Amazon, with real purpose and proper values. As his message and impact spreads, so the My Green Pod project continues to grow in strength, reputation and effect.

John Elkington

John Elkington is an award winning world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief-pollinator of Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock the potential of their organisation. Volans tackles some of the world's most challenging problems, helping key actors move from the responsibility agenda through resilience to regeneration through strategic advisory work. John's thought leadership is brought to bear in Volans Inquiries including Project Breakthrough, Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry and the Green Swans Observatory. John has helped create and incubate movements including the B Team, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Global Reporting Initiative, and B Lab UK and he was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008, In 2009 John was named 4th in an international survey Top 100 CSR leaders, after Al Gore, Barack Obama and Anita Roddick. John has addressed over 1,000 conferences globally and has served on over 70 boards and advisory boards. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, the latest being Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.

Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson is Chief Executive of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) based in Perth. For the last 20 years Mike has been heavily involved in many aspects of climate change in Scotland, most notably helping establish Stop Climate Chaos Scotland in 2006, the largest coalition ever formed in Scotland. The coalition was instrumental in delivering the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, the Climate Justice Fund and the subsequent 2019 Climate Emissions Bill. He represented SCVO at the Climate Agora in Brussels in 2008, was an inaugural grant panel member of the Climate Challenge Fund, and the 2020 Business Leaders' Group and Chaired the Scottish Parliament Short life working on annual targets. He has held over 30 voluntary board roles, mostly for environmental bodies. He Chairs a leadership forum to try and turn his home city of Perth into the “Most Sustainable Small City in Europe”, Co-chairs the Farming 1.5C enquiry into achieving a net zero future for agriculture in Scotland, sits on the board of the transport charity Transform Scotland and is an advisor to government, business and various universities. He has developed a project to commission a book of climate related stories (Beacons) and another to produce a 2020 whisky to celebrate the Climate Change (Scotland) Act which was distributed to world leaders at Copenhagen COP15 and G20. Through RSGS and other roles he has also hosted or worked with many of the leading global figures in the climate change arena and for COP26 has helped produce a special magazine, a whisky for world leaders and a documentary film about Scotland’s Climate Journey. He is an Honorary Fellow of Scottish Environment Link and The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and has won a number of awards for his contribution to climate change including the 2009 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland award for the environment, the Scottish Green Award and the Green Energy award for Best Renewable Initiative in 2003. In 2020 he launched a qualification in climate solutions for business leaders, written with the University of Stirling Management School and University of Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation and the Institute of Directors Scotland which has now been taken up by 60,000 people across the public and private sectors, aimed at getting existing managers up to speed quickly with the challenge and solutions to climate change . Through his many voluntary roles he strives to promote joined up and cross sectoral thinking; proposing ideas and solutions, winning political and popular support for measures and helping in their delivery and promotion at home and internationally.