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.

Kyle Jardin is a print, printed packaging and graphic communications industry economic and market research specialist. He has more than 25 years of experience in economic analysis and industry market research.

Kyle has led the modernising of BPIF’s Printing Outlook research report. Kyle’s economic research and analysis has been an invaluable asset to help represent the UK’s printing industry as we deal with the wide-ranging impacts of Covid-19 and change resulting from Brexit.

Mr. Lim Pheck Wan, Richard has over 25 years of experience in the printing business and has held several senior positions in printing companies in Asia.

He is currently the Chief Operations Officer of Hung Hing Printing Group Limited. He's responsible for the day-to-day operations and execution of the Book and Package Printing’s business and supervises its factory operations in China and Vietnam. Richard also oversees the Paper Trading business of the Group.

Stephen Lotinga is Chief Executive of the Publishers Association, joining in 2016.

Stephen’s career has spanned the private and public sectors including previously as Director of Communications to the Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg, and Deputy Director of Communications for the Government.

Dr John Williams is a globally recognised expert in bioplastics. He is currently CTO at Aquapak and is a Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Kresse Wesling, CBE, is a multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur. After first meeting the London Fire Brigade in 2005, Kresse launched Elvis & Kresse, which rescues and transforms decommissioned fire hose into innovative lifestyle products and returns 50% of profits to the Fire Fighters Charity. The company now collects 12 different waste streams and has several charitable partnerships and collaborations across industries.

Stephanie manages the Book Chain Project and oversees all of its workstreams. She also supports various clients in publishing among others sectors including pharmaceuticals and FMCG.
She has a background in marine biology and oceanography where a passion for sustainability and environmental protection arose whilst studying the topic of climate change. Her work interests lie in supply chain, forestry, data analysis, and reporting. Before joining Carnstone, she completed an MSc in Environmental Technology.

Adjunct Professor Tero Mustonen is based in the village of Selkie, North Karelia, Finland. He is a geographer and a Lead Author for the IPCC AR6 (Europe, Arctic). He is also a professional winter seiner (fisherman). Mustonen leads the Landscape Rewilding Programme that is positively influencing over 28.000 hectares of lands, waters and peatlands in Finland.

Will is the driving force behind the DIMPACT project, which aims to take the complexity out of calculating the carbon emissions of the downstream value chain of digital media content. It brings together 14 global media companies and world-class researchers from the University of Bristol. Will has a background in engineering, where he gained experience engaging communities in the planning, design and management of large infrastructure projects.

As Sustainability Lead for Hitachi Europe, Helen Grundy is responsible for development and implementation of strategy covering both sustainability and the environment.
Working closely with Hitachi’s Sustainability Division in Tokyo Helen was part of a team developing Hitachi’s SDG strategy and is now responsible for embedding the strategy within Europe. Currently, she is part of Hitachi’s team focussed on communication and engagement activity linked to Hitachi’s Principal Partnership to COP26 and using this to drive internal direction.

Steve has managed the Secretariat of the UN Global Compact Network UK since 2008, connecting UK companies and other organisations in a global movement dedicated to driving corporate sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals. He also chairs the UN Global Compact’s Global Network Council and sits on the UN Global Compact Board.