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Sustainable Futures brings together leaders from business and finance, academic experts and decision makers from the world’s largest organisations to help solve one of the most disruptive challenges facing global business today.
This year’s conference, Sustainable Futures: business value from sustainability, held in partnership with the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, looks to the resilience, efficiencies and commercial opportunities available to organisations taking the lead on sustainability.
Presented by Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge and author, the keynote will speak to ‘The art of uncertainty: planning for a future that is hard to imagine’.
Business insights will be shared by sustainability, finance and risk experts from a range of major global brands with panel sessions and workshops to explore fresh thinking as well as practical and actionable content.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority.
He is a regular media commentator on statistical issues, and was very busy over the Covid crisis. His bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, was published in 2019, and The Art of Uncertainty in 2024.
His career highlights include appearing on Desert Island Discs in 2022, and in 2011 coming 7th in an episode of BBC1’s Winter Wipeout.
Chris Allen, Decathlon UK’s Sustainability Leader and Head of Circular Economy, has over 15 years experience at Decathlon across retail, commercial and sustainability management. For the past three years, he has led sustainability efforts, specifically building circular economy initiatives. Previously, as Head of Outdoor, he shaped strategy and customer experiences. With a degree in Sport Engineering, Chris is passionate about sustainability, outdoor adventure, and making sports more accessible through responsible business practices.
Kuram is a passionate environmentalist and a chemical engineer, experienced in fire safety, energy, environmental and quality management. His role as Head of Sustainability on Mitie’s Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) account involves strategically leading and accelerating the delivery of the sustainability agenda for his client DWP. He is responsible for overseeing all sustainability related aspects such as strategy development and implementation, monitoring and reporting, ensuring best in class environmental compliance, and steering key sustainability and net zero initiatives.
Fran is the Head of Sustainability at Greencore – one of the largest convenience food manufacturers in the UK, providing Convenience food solutions to all the major retailers, coffee outlets and convenience stores. She has a background in economics, finance and change management before moving into the sustainability space three years ago. Fran is a change specialist and is passionate about integrating sustainability into core businesses strategy and operating model.
Nadja Koerner is Global Head of Sustainability at Coty. She leads the company’s sustainability transformation and climate strategies, alongside, climate strategy & transition planning, while also being responsible for reporting and building governance frameworks, to ensure that environmental impact is integrated into the business.
With more than 15 years of global experience in consumer goods, healthcare, sports and beauty, Nadja turns ESG challenges into business opportunities.
Nadja’s background in driving brand growth, consumer engagement and operational efficiency powers her approach to create lasting environmental and social impact.
Tom leads the Group’s environmental strategy as well as sustainability innovation projects. Before joining Hilton Foods in 2021, he ran his own consultancy specialising in improving public understanding of the carbon footprint of food and worked at Jaguar Land Rover. In addition to his work with Hilton Foods, he was Head of the UK’s Youth Delegation to G20 Brasil 2024 and is an Associate at Oxford Net Zero.
Sam is the Impact Tools Lead at Textile Exchange and oversees the development of the of the organization’s Impact Tools. Her work focuses on creating the tools which help the fashion and textile industry address climate and nature impacts arising from fiber and raw material production.
Prior to Textile Exchange, Sam was a Senior Manager at Burberry where she led ESG reporting and disclosure. Sam has also held roles at the European Institute for Innovation in Sustainability and has been a mentor to sustainability focused start-ups.
Madeleine’s academic background in environmental science and sustainable agriculture coupled with her career in the FMCG industry working for a range of FMCG branded and non-branded businesses including Jordans & Ryvita, Allied Milling & Baking initially as a buyer before becoming the Head of Sustainable Procurement for Britvic Soft Drinks has provided her with unique insight and experience into the opportunities and challenges in delivering a sustainable business. Madeleine also led the climate action programme for the global sustainability NGO Wrap, where she led a large technical team driving progress on improving greenhouse gas data collection & applicability, developing collaborative initiatives on net-zero and water stewardship. Moving out of industry gave Madeleine a fresh perspective on the global challenges facing the food & drink supply chain and the significant steps needed to change the dial. Recently the excitement of the food & drink industry persuaded her back and she is currently working as the Head of ESG.
Katharine oversees ABF Sugar’s ESG sustainability strategy. She is responsible for ABF Sugar’s global ESG strategy and delivery of global targets. In 2018, Katharine launched ABF Sugar’s sustainability approach, Global Mind, Local Champions with ambitious 2030 Commitments that reflect what customers and communities care about in the end to end sugar supply chain.
Katharine has worked in both the private sector and non-governmental sector. She started her career at Dennis Publishing working in sales and strategy for the IT Group, later joining Reed Elsevier and ExCeL London in the travel industry, finally ahead of joining ABF Sugar she worked for Christian Aid. In this role she lead the policy and advocacy strategy on themes such as climate change, tax, ethical sourcing, human rights and the role the private sector plays in development globally.
Michael Wilkins is currently Executive Director and Professor of Practice at the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial Business School, London. With 30 years of expertise in sustainable finance, corporate and infrastructure credit analysis, project finance, structured finance and carbon markets, he is a recognised senior sustainability finance professional.
Until recently Michael held senior roles at S&P Global Ratings and served as a Visiting Lecturer at Cambridge University. As a Certified Credit Analyst (S&P/NYU), Executive MBA graduate, and a post-graduate in Carbon Finance & Analytics, he actively contributes to global initiatives, including the GARP Sustainability & Climate Risk (SCR) Advisory Committee and the City of London’s Transition Finance Council working group on credibility & integrity.
Danny is Chairman and a founder member of Risilience. He is an authority on managing risk in business and has published widely in his capacity as professor of Operations Research at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, where he also founded the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies for which he is Academic Director.
Danny’s interests in business risk include identification and management of systemic risk, risk aversion in investment, economic equilibria models and optimisation methods.
Andrew is CEO and a founder member of Risilience. He is responsible for the overall business success and direction of the company, and was the main architect behind the models and analytics that go into the Climate Risilience™ and Enterprise Risilience™ platforms.
Andrew has previously been one of the early-stage innovators of the catastrophe modelling industry for insurance, where he has created and brought numerous analytics products to market.
Andrew is one of the founder members of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, where he maintains a position as Chief Scientist.
Angela Brown recently joined the Risilience team as Chief Product Officer overseeing the company’s development activities including product management, modelling, and engineering. Angela has nearly 20 years of experience working across the Financial Services and FinTech space with much of that time spent in product strategy and development roles including her most recent role as the Global Head of Products for Moody’s ESG Solutions. During her career she has covered a range of technologies and content domains including fundamentals financial data, credit risk, climate analytics, esg data and scores and sustainable finance.
Oliver is VP of Climate Risk at Risilience, where he leads the research and model development practice related to climate change, sustainability, and natural capital risks.
He has been instrumental in developing Risilience’s science and quantitative models to assess financial risks to businesses from environmental risks. Oliver is passionate about empowering organisations with innovative analytics to address the double-materiality of environmental risk and support net zero business transformation.
Previously in his role at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, Oliver’s research focused on quantifying the economic impacts of natural catastrophes and emerging risk scenario development for enterprise risk management.
He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Risk, majoring on physical climate change risk and natural hazard models, and a BSc in Physical Geography from Durham University.
Andy is our Climate Policy Lead at Risilience, with a focus on the policy response to climate change and its impacts on transition risk.
Before joining Risilience, Andy was based in the Cabinet Office where he worked on the negotiation strategy for the UK’s Presidency of COP26. Prior to this, Andy worked in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on energy security and decarbonisation policy. Before entering the Civil Service, Andy worked in a range of environmental- and renewables- focussed roles, including consultancy, and in planning and development at Lightsource BP.
Andy holds an MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy from SOAS, University of London. He also holds a BA (Hons) in German and Dutch and an MA in Town and Regional Planning, both from the University of Sheffield.
Mary is Director of Nature Risk Analytics at Risilience. She leads research activities and model development focused on the dual climate-nature challenge. Mary is responsible for developing modelling solutions that support clients to speak to the demands of a diverse range of nature-related regulatory drivers.
Prior to joining Risilience, Mary led a team at Deloitte focused on delivering bespoke climate and nature risk modelling work. She was responsible for coordinating model development for a range of industries with a range of unique climate and nature risk concerns.
Rob has a background in the physical and social sciences and holds a PhD in public-private partnerships in carbon sequestration projects, which focused on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. Prior to working at Risilience, he led a regional sustainability programme at the University at Sheffield, creating and sourcing funding for cross-sector sustainability projects in the South Yorkshire region.
Rob also holds a MSc in Environmental Change and International Development from the University of Sheffield and BSc in Physical Geography from Newcastle University.
Thomas is SVP Product at Risilience and is responsible for the overall strategy and commercial success of the Risilience product suite. He also leads the data science and model development team. In this role Thomas defines the product strategy and roadmap and, working closely with the development teams, manages the end-to-end development lifecycle.
Prior to joining Risilience Thomas worked at Guidewire Software where he led the European Predictive Analytics and Risk Consulting team. Thomas spent seven years at Risk Management Solutions (RMS) in a variety of client-facing and product-management roles.
Thomas holds a BSc (Hons) from the University of Leeds in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics.
Scott heads the Model Development Team. He is responsible for the full scope of product related R&D activity including modelling, data science, data acquisition and corporate finance.
Before joining Risilience, Scott was Chief Economic Advisor to the Environmental Commissioner of the New Zealand government. Prior to that he was Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and was an invited member of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative. He was instrumental in raising early awareness on the importance of sustainable finance and worked to establish the Climate Measurement Standards Initiative to standardize climate reporting across the financial sector in Australia.
Dr Sam Vosper leads the Transition Planning and Environmental Consulting unit at Risilience. He draws on a wealth of experience in both economic modelling and environmental accounting to drive meaningful and strategic decarbonisation for a number of organisations.
Sam holds a PhD in Climate Economics from the University of Cambridge where he continues to support current environmental research. Prior to joining Risilience, Sam worked on national climate policy and reporting for developing states, including South Africa and Swaziland.
Join sustainability and financial leaders from the world’s largest organisations to learn how these companies are addressing transition risk and building business value from strategic sustainability. Sign up for your place at this year’s event.
At Risilience, our award-winning technology applies the research frameworks pioneered by our conference partner, the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
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