Who Delivers CLP?

Aris joined CPSL in May 2011 to work with the Executive Programmes team. His primary responsibility is acting as the Programme Development Director for The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme and the Climate Leadership Programme. Prior to joining CPSL he was a Senior Principal at the NGO think-tank, AccountAbility, where he worked with the private sector and international institutions on sustainability strategies and initiatives. Aris started his career as a news editor and correspondent in Greece and later joined a small brokerage firm before eventually moving to the UK to work for a health charity. He is a trained economist and journalist and holds an MSc in international money and banking from the University of Birmingham.

aris.vrettos@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Jemma Cobbold joined CPSL in 2000 having worked previously in the retail and software industries. She has provided programme and event management support on a number of CPSL's programmes and is currently a Project Manager working on The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme and the Climate Leadership Programme. Jemma holds a degree in Psychology and Drama.

jemma.cobbold@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Han Hutton joined CPSL's marketing team in March 2007 to work on Al Gore's Climate Project. Since then he has worked on various projects including The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme. Prior to joining CPSL, Han worked for Borders Books & Music in various roles including events management and marketing. Han holds a BA (Hons) in Art History and enjoys riding and restoring old motorcycles.

han.hutton@cpsl.cam.ac.uk

Imoni is based in Paris as the International Finance Corporations Special Representative, Europe, with responsibility for managing IFC’s relationships with Western European shareholders and donors, business development with, and relationship management of, European companies, as well as building partnerships with other stakeholders in Europe.

Previously, within IFC, Imoni was Country Manager based in Accra, Ghana, with responsibility for the coordination of IFC’s strategy and business in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Republic of Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone and Togo. Prior to joining IFC, from 1989 to 1993, she was a Chartered Civil & Environmental Engineer with Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Southern Water plc. Imoni serves as a Trustee on the Board of the Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation in Ghana and was previously a Trustee on the African Training and Management Services Foundation, The Netherlands.

Richard Burrett spent over 25 years working in international banking. After an initial period with NatWest, he joined AMRO Bank in 1988, where he gained wide experience of working on structured and project financing in the energy and infrastructure sectors, becoming Managing Director and Global Head of Project Finance in 2001. In this role he was instrumental in the development of the Equator Principles, creating a market recognised standard for the management of environmental and social risk within project financing. He started to work directly on ABN AMRO's award-winning sustainability agenda in 2004, becoming Global Head of Sustainability before leaving the Bank in May 2008. He is a Partner at Earth Capital Partners LLP, a sustainability-focused investment group, and a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. He is a Board Member of Forest Renewables, developing the renewable energy potential of Scotland's national forest estate, and also a Board Member of Forest Trends, a Washington-based organisation promoting market-based approaches to forest conservation. He is Co-Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative and leads their Biodiversity and Ecosystems workstream. He holds a BA in German and a MBA from Durham University and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Catherine is a Director of Agulhas: Applied Knowledge, a consultancy company specialising in sustainability with a particular focus on climate change, fragile states and governance. As an experienced policy analyst, economist and evaluator with over 24 years' experience, she occupies a unique position in the space intersecting the public and private sectors and civil society, working in sustainability via a range of means including developing standards and products, policy development and analysis, problem analysis, impact assessment, promoting learning and behaviour change.

Catherine leads on work in climate change, having been a member of the core team producing the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change in 2006. Since then she has led teams delivering change across the board in policy, programming, product and standard development with a focus on improving climate resilience. She works with companies, third sector, multilateral development banks and donors on issues including promoting climate smart behaviour, climate resilience in the supply chain, food security, benchmarking competitors, product development, behaviour change and green growth.

Tommy is the founder and Regional Director of the Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA), with country programmes in Sierra Leone and Liberia since 1996 and 1997 respectively. Since 1992, he has travelled extensively in West Africa, studying the nature, extent, and causes of environmental problems in the sub-region. For four years (2003-2007) he was a member of the UN Panel of Experts on Liberia, monitoring the socio-economic and humanitarian impacts of timber and diamond sanctions on Liberia, while also assessing the environmental consequences of unregulated natural resources extraction in Sierra Leone and Liberia, after civil conflicts.

Since 2006, Mr Garnett has served as the West Africa Chair of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. EFA hosts the secretariat of the Green Actors of West Africa Network which Mr Garnett was instrumental in creating, and is its current coordinator.

Adriana is the Advisor to the Board of Government of the National Statistical and Geographical Information Office in Mexico. She is a specialist in environmental policy with solid experience in the design and implementation of positive environmental practices and policy at the crossroads of government, business, and academics.

Trained as an economist, she has contributed to political and legislative change, as well as infrastructure development, in Mexico, in areas such as waste management, climate change, air quality, environmental regulation and the environmental performance of local governments.

Stephen is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Technologies at the Open University. At the University of Cambridge, Stephen is a Fellow of the Judge Business School where he teaches a range of environment-related courses, including Climate Leadership to the MBAs. He is a contributor to the Cambridge International Science Summer School. Originally a physicist, Stephen is an enthusiastic teacher, researcher, consultant and facilitator with nearly 20 years' professional experience as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London (including a period with Shell International Petroleum Company); as an analyst at the International Energy Agency within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris; and as a official with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany.

Stephen is a regular contributor to BBC radio programmes on environmental issues. He presented the BBC-produced video 'Shanghai Boom' on the energy options for China and was part of the Open University's team of academic consultants advising on the BBC's Climate Chaos season of programmes. As a consultant, he regularly helps facilitate senior management teams in problem identification and creative ideas generation around environmental and health care issues.

Charles is a founder member of The Robertsbridge Group and is an advisor on climate and sustainability. He has been Chair of the Board for the Triodos Bank Renewable Energy Fund since 2004. Between 2004 and 2008, he was a Special Advisor on Climate, Environment and Sustainability for The Mayor of London, as well as a Board Member of the London Development Agency and Chair of its Health and Sustainability Advisory Group. He was a member of the UK Government's Roundtable (and Commission) for Sustainable Development for ten years. Formerly Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (1993 to 2003), Charles led its transformation into its becoming the UK's most effective campaign organisation for several years. Previously, he has worked on a variety of environmental research and investigation projects in Brazil, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Nicaragua and Nigeria.

Emily is a fellow of mathematics at Darwin College at the University of Cambridge and is a Natural Environment Research Council research fellow based at the British Antarctic Survey, where she is Head of the Open Oceans research group at the British Antarctic Survey. She is a climate science expert who has worked in France (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) and in the US (MIT). Her research group studies the polar oceans and their impacts on global climate and sea level rise. Her personal research interests concern atmosphere and ocean dynamics and she is currently focusing her efforts on understanding the circulation of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and the ways in which it is responding to and influencing climate change. Emily lectures on climate science in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She is actively engaged with communicating climate science to policymakers and stakeholders. Emily is the editor of a recent book entitled Survival, which considers many of the challenges to human survival, now and in the past, including the threat to human societies posed by climate change.

James has a career background in mergers and acquisitions, finance, and corporate strategy, with a focus on the evaluation and management of commercial opportunities and risks of environment and sustainability issues.

James is currently a Partner at the sustainable infrastructure asset manager, Earth Capital Partners LLP (ECP), with responsibility for ECP's sustainable investment strategy. Prior to ECP, he was Head of Sustainable Business at Standard Chartered plc, where he had group-wide responsibility for a commercial strategy covering new products and revenue lines (including the launch of a US$10bn clean energy finance business), risk management, operating efficiencies, and key stakeholder relations. Previously, James was Head of KPMG's Sustainability Consulting Practice and Environment M&A Advisory business. James began his career as an environmental engineer.

James is a Non-Executive Board member of Gold Standard and a member of the BBC's independent Sustainability Advisory Board; he sits on the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance (UKSIF) Leadership Committee, and is a CPSL faculty member.

Gillian develops strategies for managing change for sustainability, through effective communication, stakeholder engagement, facilitation and coaching. She works with individuals, leaders, senior teams, organisations, stakeholders, and sources of finance, often establishing effective partnerships and collaborations. She has spent four years running a successful independent consultancy in sustainability, focused on engaging the private sector to sustainability issues, and influencing policy development, working at the interface between business, government and the NGO sectors.

She has also been a Senior Associate of CPSL. She was the facilitator and secretariat for the P8 group - a climate change initiative with the pension fund sector – and for CPSL’s Banking and Environment Initiative; both on behalf of HRH The Prince of Wales. She is still a member of the CPSL teaching faculties for the University of Cambridge. Gillian has also advised the UK government on the development of its REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) strategy, and worked with WWF, The Climate Group, Tomorrow’s Company and Forum for the Future.

Gillian also provides leadership communications consultancy and coaching to corporate and voluntary sector clients. Previous to establishing her independent consultancy, she spent twenty years in corporate communications and reputation management, specialising in leadership and internal communications, stakeholder engagement, change initiatives, and brand identity. She has worked both as a senior consultant, and in-house roles, latterly as Managing Director, Global Head of Internal Communications at Deutsche Bank. Gillian holds an MA in English Language and Literature from University College, Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the arts, manufactures and commerce, (FRSA), and a senior member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Stefan (BA LLB) resides in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a qualified lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and trainer. He is currently CEO and founding director of SouthSouthNorth Group, which has played a leading role in climate change issues since 1999. In addition he facilitates various large projects, notably the South African Cabinet Mandated Long Term Mitigation Scenario Planning Project (LTMS). Stefan has assisted in the establishment of Designated National Authorities (DNA’s) in South Africa, Ghana, Namibia and Mozambique. He has led the facilitation of projects within the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s Sustainable Communities Program, applying development facilitation technologies which he has developed over the last 15 years. Stefan is a director of Energy Transformation cc which develops climate change projects for the private sector.