Anna looks after Recommerce for Dr. Martens, having launched resale for the brand in the UK and most recently the US. With 13 years experience within sustainability, consulting, and strategy, Anna also brings her academic experience within mathematics, economics and finance to the retail sector, aiming to transform the industry to be more circular and sustainable. Currently based in the UK, Anna has worked across the US and Asia-Pacific to build new business models, and her passion in sustainability led to her founding two businesses, including a zero-waste milk alternative company.

Oliver Cupit is ZSL’s Head of Sustainable Business & Finance. He has 12 years experience working on responsible sourcing of forest-risk commodities, including provision of advice to companies on how to meet the EU Timber Regulation, forthcoming EU Deforestation Regulation, FSC certification requirements and various national regulations in Congo Basin and South East Asia. At ZSL, Oliver oversees the SPOTT ESG data project, ZSL’s consultancy service offering to the private sector and Nature-based Solutions portfolio of projects. Oliver has field auditing experience of timber product manufacturers, developing and delivering training courses on responsible sourcing, and has delivered services and training in the Solomon Islands, China, Malaysia and Vietnam, as well as across Europe. He holds an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Sustainable Tropical Forestry from Copenhagen and Padova Universities.

Robert Williams is the Procurement Director in AstraZeneca. As the Director of Sustainability in AstraZeneca’s Global Procurement team, he is working with the global supply chain to deliver AZ Sustainability goals. He leads on reducing Scope 3 emissions towards Net Zero, driving Responsible Supply Chain and supporting the Power of Diversity to inspire innovation. His main focus is on developing high performing supply chains to deliver truly sustainable business growth.

Robert is also the Vice Chair of PSCI Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative; lecturer in energy procurement for the Energy Institute; member of Durham University’s Energy & Industry Board (DEI)

Tim has spent his entire career working in biodiversity monitoring or management. He started his career in the forerunner of the Environment Agency as a Fisheries and Conservation Scientist where he developed the largest river biodiversity programme in the UK with fish, breeding birds and higher plants quantified along every river in Lincolnshire. He left this to found what is now the Institute of Environmental Assessment (IEMA) and after that to found and manage Operation Wallacea. Opwall is a sustainable way of funding biodiversity research and international research teams comprising 200+ academics and supported by paying students have produced 650 papers in peer reviewed journals. During the pandemic when expeditions were not possible then Tim developed a method with a large international consultation group for quantifying how a unit of biodiversity gain could be defined. Tim is currently CEO of rePLANET an organization that funds ecosystem restoration and protection using carbon and biodiversity credit funding at 25 sites around the world.

Brian O’Leary is executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, a U.S.-based trade association that disseminates information, creates and implements standards, and conducts research to benefit the book publishing supply chain.

Before being named to this role in 2016, O'Leary was principal of Magellan Media Consulting, which helped publishers improve how they create, manage and distribute content. In that role, O’Leary wrote extensively about issues affecting the publishing industry. With Hugh McGuire, he co-edited Book: A Futurist's Manifesto (O'Reilly Media, 2012).

O’Leary served as senior VP with Hammond Inc. and oversaw production and distribution operations at several Time Inc. magazines. O’Leary joined Time Inc. after earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also holds an A.B. in chemistry from Harvard College.

Liz is a chemical engineer with over 40 years of experience in leading environmental sustainability in industry. As environmental sustainability leader at Pfizer for 30 years and Teva for more than 4, Liz also helped form many of the pharma industry coalitions [e.g., PEG, PSCI] and has the unique perspective of customer and supplier. Liz had direct experience in all aspects of EHS risk and compliance, as well as environmental sustainability including product stewardship, [e.g., green chemistry, sustainable medicines, REACh, Pharmaceuticals in the Environment [PiE]] and responsible supply chain. Liz has broad experience with many governments [e.g., US, EU, Israel, Asia] many non-government organizations [e.g., WBCSD, BST, WRI, UNEP, UNDP].

Dr. Healy Hamilton is a biodiversity scientist with over 20 years experience in the development and application of species, ecosystem, and landscape data in support of resource management and conservation. She is trained in diverse disciplines, with integrative graduate degrees from Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, and extensive field experience in the tropical forests of Latin America and tropical coasts of Pacific islands. She began her post-graduate career as the founding director of an applied conservation science center within the California Academy of Sciences, a major natural history museum, leveraging spatial information from among the 20+ million specimens in the CAS collections. From 2013-2022, Dr. Hamilton was Chief Scientist at NatureServe, the world’s first biodiversity information network, where she led a staff with expertise in ecology, zoology, botany, and spatial modeling in the delivery of foundational information on the distribution and conservation status of species and their habitats. In 2023, she joined the Sustainable Forestry Initiative as their first Chief Scientist, where she is focused on developing and delivering data and tools to support SFI-certified organizations to achieve the conservation objectives of SFI standards. Dr. Hamilton is also a world expert on the taxonomy and evolution of seahorses and their relatives. She is a recognized science communicator whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, and KQED, among others. She has served as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the IUCN U.S. National Committee, an Honorary Fellow of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, a contributor to the IUCN Species Survival Commission for Seahorses and Pipefish, and a member of the Key Biodiversity Areas leadership committee. She is the past President of the Society for Conservation GIS, a Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership fellow, and a former U.S. Fulbright Scholar.

Matt Baehr is the Executive Director of the Book Manufacturers' Institute (BMI). He’s been the chief executive of the association since 2017. Matt has a long career in association management, primarily working with trade associations. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Catholic University in Washington, DC as well as graduate degrees from Ohio University in Athens, OH. He resides in Bradenton, FL where he enjoys soccer, cooking and spending time with his wife and 3 children.

Michael Wettstein has Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters in Graphic Communications Management from NYU.

His first job in the Graphic Arts was making screen printing in a shop in Madison Wisconsin. His professional life began at Simon and Schuster where he as a an Editorial Assistant and then moved into production. After a few years there he took a job in Customer Service at Phoenix Color and eventually moved into Sales. Presently he is a Major Account Manager at Lakeside Book Company running book component marketing and book component sales. He is fascinated by color management and just raised a puppy for the Guiding Eyes for The Blind in Yorktown Heights, New York.

With over a decade of experience within the sustainability space, Philip advocates for nature-based solutions to solve global resource management challenges, with a special focus on ending deforestation this decade. Through his past research and outreach, Philip has helped companies, financial institutions, and industry groups to benchmark corporate leadership in managing deforestation-related risks within global agricultural value chains. More recently Philip joined Everland’s Business Development team to focus on helping companies to meet their climate targets and support large scale forest conservation. Philip has an MS in Environmental Sciences from the University of Wisconsin and a BS in Environmental Studies from Dickinson College.

Joanna is an international expert in sustainable living & a respected voice in sustainable business.

She is Chief Sustainability Officer for the M&C Saatchi Group (the world’s largest independent creative solutions company) & Founding Partner of M&C Saatchi LIFE – a strategic creative consultancy making sustainable living mainstream. She is also NED at sustainable placemaking company Human Nature (designing & places that make sustainable living easy & attractive) & sits on P&G’s global sustainability advisory board.

With over 25 years’ experience in applying sustainability principles to projects ranging from household makeovers to multinational business strategies, Joanna brings confidence, humour, vision & clarity to the challenges of net zero, ESG & healthy, sustainable living.

Jake White trained at a regional commercial law firm and then moved into the City to practise intellectual property. However that didn’t suit hence he joined government where he had 10 very stimulating years in the Government Legal Service advising on a range of areas from outer space, State aid to nuclear energy. Jake left government to join the third sector in 2012 where he worked first with Friends of the Earth and most recently at WWF where he is head of legal advocacy.

He has a particular interest in equality and human rights and has worked with NGOs in the Middle East and for Britain’s equality and human rights regulator (the Equality and Human Rights Commission). He is particularly interested in exploring this intersection in his work including in relation, for example, in relation to the great forests of the world and the peoples that live in them.

As an Advisor at Shift, Francesca works with companies and financial institutions to support their implementation of the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs).

Francesca was previously Principal Consultant at Environmental Resources Management (ERM), where she led ERM’s UK human rights team, and global technical community on modern slavery and human rights. Francesca advised multinational companies to assess and address human rights risks, build internal capacity and develop and implement fit-for-purpose policies and management systems. She also worked closely with financial institutions including development finance institutions (DFIs), commercial banks, export credit agencies and private equity on assessing and managing human rights risks in accordance with international standards including the UNGPs, IFC Performance Standards and Equator Principles IV.

She has international work experience across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America including on-the-ground experience conducting stakeholder consultation, human rights impact assessments (HRIA), environmental and social due diligence (ESDD) and monitoring. Francesca is also experienced in designing and delivering training and capacity building on social performance, human rights and sustainable finance.

Francesca holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a MA in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University. She is from Trinidad & Tobago.

As an Advisor at Shift, Zuzana works with companies and other strategic partners to support their implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).

Prior to joining Shift, Zuzana worked as an independent business and human rights consultant, and as Principal Consultant at Labor Solutions, a social enterprise using technology to advance human rights throughout company value chains. In these roles, Zuzana supported businesses across different sectors to use worker voice tools and developed training content on effective grievance mechanisms in line with the UNGPs.

Prior to being a consultant, Zuzana was Head of Ethical Trade and Human Rights at Stella McCartney for over 7 years. In this role, Zuzana led the practical implementation of the UNGPs across the full due diligence spectrum and traveled extensively throughout the company’s sourcing regions in Europe and Asia. Here she gained hands-on experience working with suppliers, workers and local experts to identify root causes of human rights risks and design and deliver capacity building programs. This included carrying out stakeholder engagement, improving purchasing practices and encouraging company participation in collaborative industry programs. Zuzana has particular expertise in small, artisanal and informal fashion supply chains.

Zuzana holds a Master of Applied Human Rights from the University of York. In her thesis, she researched participatory approaches to addressing discrimination against the Roma minority population in Slovakia. Zuzana is a Slovak and British national.

Jade Saunders is the Executive Director of World Forest ID, an international non-profit, with the mission to build a global reference database of forest risk commodities including timber, to aid verification of species and harvest origin of products in global trade.

Jade has over 20 years of experience working on forest governance, trade and environmental crime, most notably as an Associate Fellow of the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House and as Senior Policy Analyst at Forest Trends. She has also served as strategic advisor to ForestMind and policy analyst at the European Forest Institute FLEGT Facility.

At World Forest ID, in addition to developing the organization's overall strategy, Jade's main focus is on overseeing the data science and machine learning workstream. She works closely with governments and industry on mainstreaming scientific testing for supply chain traceability and promoting the practical application of the World Forest ID reference database.

As Supply Chains Manager at the We Mean Business Coalition, Lydia Elliott works across supply chain climate action and net zero strategy. For the SME Climate Hub, a core initiative of the We Mean Business Coalition, Lydia works to enable large companies value chain action and helps to develop the tools that small and medium sized businesses need to take climate action.