Tom is Senior Sustainable Business Manager at Vodafone Group. Tom is responsible for Vodafone’s global external sustainability reporting and communications as well as leading Vodafone’s approach on enabling customers to reduce their environmental impact. Prior to joining Vodafone, Tom led sustainability reporting and governance at SABMiller (the world’s second largest brewer).

Candida is a sustainability, business and human rights expert with 15 years experience working with NGOs, governments, consultancies, and companies to improve working conditions in global supply chains. She has experience in leading cross-functional, international teams to design and implement high-impact programs that mitigate risk for business and deliver positive change for workers. Candida also has hands-on direct field experience globally, including the UK, Italy, Mexico, US, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Peru, India and Thailand.

Rabiya joined Migrant Help in 2018. She is the Director of Modern Slavery Victim Care and Refugee Resettlements services responsible for the management and development of Migrant Helps victim support contracts across the UK.
Before joining Migrant Help, Rabiya spent many years setting up and managing the Victim Support Contract across England and Wales and working with subcontracted partners to deliver support services to victims of modern slavery. She has over 10 years’ experience developing and managing services to victims of trafficking and modern slavery.

This includes technical advice and oversight, internal capacity building and pursuing strategic priorities. She manages the GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub, a five-year, £18M project, funded until 2024. It is the first research hub of its kind – bringing together over 50 organisations from 15 different countries to help make trade in agricultural commodities, wildlife and wild meat sustainable for people and the planet. Lisen has led projects on topics including sustainable infrastructure, spatial planning, REDD+ safeguards and multiple benefits aspects of forest management, climate-smart agriculture, and interactions between land tenure and climate change policy. She is an ecologist by training.

Sami Oksa is working as Director in UPM Fibres Business area. He is based in UPM headquarters in Helsinki and responsible on sustainable forestry related issues in all UPM wood sourcing areas. Sami has a long career in UPM that covers climate, biodiversity and social aspects of wood sourcing and forestry.

Sharon supports improved corporate performance regarding nature and biodiversity, working with a range of industry sectors and government institutions around the world. Sharon oversees a portfolio of work on nature related metrics, targets and data for business, with a focus on their application within a supply chain context. Sharon has over 20 years of experience in international conservation, an MSc in Applied Ecology and Conservation, and a PhD in the field of Conservation and Development.

Simon is a Senior Editor at Nature Ecology and Evolution, one of the world’s leading scientific journals publishing research, comment and opinions on all aspects of ecology, evolution and conservation science. He has previously acted as locum Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience, and worked as an editor on a number of other journals published by SpringerNature in ecology, plant science and genetics. He has a PhD in insect ecology from the University of Leeds, and research experience on a broad range of lab and field projects ranging from fungal biology to the evolution of development

Ashley Gordon is Publishing Market Development Manager for the Page Wide Industrial Division of HP Inc. Prior to joining HP, she founded Mockingbird Consulting in 2010 to provide strategic guidance on digital book production and distribution to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the trade and education markets. Past clients and projects include the National Association of College Stores’ Textbook Affordability Conference and POD initiatives, Cengage, RedShelf, SIPX, FlatWorld, Library For All, and On Demand Books, among others.

Stephanie is a Senior Partner at Carnstone, a management consultancy specialising in sustainability. She has worked across various sectors including publishing, retail and pharmaceutical industries. She has led elements of the Book Chain Project for the last 6 years and has been the project lead for the last 3. 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.

Lara White is the Senior Programme Advisor for the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Migration, Business and Human Rights in Asia programme where she works with programme management, country office teams and senior management to provide strategic direction on how best IOM can promote ethical recruitment, decent work, and safe migration in the region.
Prior to this, Lara worked in Afghanistan where she led IOM’s migration management division and served as the key focal point for the evacuation and settlement of national staff. Previously, Lara was the senior specialist for labour migration and development in Asia and the Pacific as well as in IOM’s Headquarters in Geneva, where she served as the organization’s primary liaison with the private sector and governmental, intergovernmental or civil society stakeholders on improving migration governance. Her key areas of focus were socioeconomic response and recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic, improving development outcomes of labour mobility in the region, and the protection of migrant workers’ rights throughout the labour migration process, including the promotion of ethical labour recruitment and decent work for migrant workers. Before joining IOM, Lara worked for the Government of Canada and the US Government, bringing with her extensive experience in policy development and implementation of labour market programs such as the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and Canada’s Employment Insurance scheme.