The Earth Convention Live: Energy & Finance
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University. His bestselling books includeThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015), which was described as “not just the most important history book in years, but the most important in decades” (Berliner Zeitung) and, most recently, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (2023), which looks at the role played by climate, nature the environment since the dawn of time. It has been a major bestseller around the world, and was a Financial Times, Sunday Times, Le Point, Guardian Book of the Year, and The Times History Book of the Year.
Mike Berners-Lee is the founder and Director of Small World Consulting, which has been working on climate change since 2005. He thinks, writes, researches and speaks about sustainability and the big system changes needed to overcome the climate and ecological crises in the Anthropocene. He’s also a Professor at Lancaster University. His inspiring new book, A Climate of Truth, looks at the challenge from new angles.
Sophie Lawrence joined Rathbone Greenbank in January 2020. She is responsible for managing engagement activities on various ESG issues including biodiversity and nutrition, assessing the social and environmental performance of companies and conducting ESG and impact reporting for clients. She started her career at Barclays Bank in 2013 and most recently spent three years at KKS Advisors, a strategy consultancy in London where she led a team specialising in sustainable and impact investment. She holds an MSc from Imperial College London in Environmental Technology and a BSc in Geographical Sciences from the University of Bristol.
Siddarth Shrikanth, the author of The Case for Nature. He has an academic background in biology from Oxford and policy and business degrees from Harvard and Stanford, and is now based in London as a nature and climate investor at Just Climate.
Rosie Boycott is a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. For ten years she was chair of The London food Board, responsible to the Mayor of London for food policy in the City. She is a well known food activist with particular interest in food poverty, health, environment and agricultural sustainability. She is a trustee of the Food Foundation and Feeding Britain and chair of Veg Power. She was the co-founder of the feminist magazine Spare Rib and the editor in chief of three national newspapers: The Independent on Sunday, the Independent and the Daily Express.
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