Who Delivers the Programme?
The Programme is developed by the Cambridge Programme for
Sustainability Leadership.
Attending a Climate Leadership Programme Seminar offers an
unrivalled opportunity to share, debate and learn from experts in
the fields of climate change science, business and policy, and
draws on the resources of expert members of the Core Faculty and a
number of leading international external contributors.
The Faculty
The Faculty consists of business leaders,
academics and other leading thinkers with a personal commitment to
tackling climate change who, by virtue of their track record and
experience, are credible witnesses for the business case for
action. They are experienced facilitators who contribute to and
encourage debate and discussion during the Seminar and guide
delegates in group work, focus workshops and syndicate sessions.
Three or four Faculty members drawn from the
Programme Faculty pool are invited to join each
seminar:
Richard
Burrett is an independent consultant advising on
sustainability issues with a focus on the finance sector. He spent
over 25 years working in international banking. After an initial
period with NatWest he joined ABN AMRO Bank in 1988. In the early
1990s he was asked to set up their Project Finance Group in London
where he gained wide experience of working on structured and
project financing in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Following positions as Head of Structured Finance and Head of
Corporate Banking for the UK he assumed the role of 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.
Catherine Cameron is a Director of Agulhas:
Applied Knowledge, a consultancy company specializing in
sustainable development. As an experienced policy analyst,
economist and evaluator with over 22 years experience she occupies
a unique position in the space intersecting the public and private
sectors and civil society, working in sustainable development via a
range of means. Over the last three years she has worked
particularly in the area of climate change, having been a member of
the core team producing the Stern Review of the Economics of
Climate Change. Over the last year she has led a team advising
UNICEF UK and UNICEF NY on changes to their policy, programmes and
fundraising in response to climate change.
Tommy Garnett
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.
Dr
Stephen Peake 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. He is a regular contributor to BBC
radio programmes on environmental issues. He presented the
BBC-produced video "Shanghai Boom" on the energy options facing
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.
Dr Emily Shuckburgh is a
fellow of mathematics at Darwin College and a Natural Environment
Research Council research fellow based at the British Antarctic
Survey. She is a climate science expert who has worked at
Ecole Normal Superieure in Paris and at MIT, as well as at the
University of Cambridge. Her research concerns atmosphere and ocean
dynamics and she is currently focusing her efforts on understanding
the circulation of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. She has an
active involvement with the media, regularly contributing to
discussions of climate change and other environmental issues on
radio and television. She is 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 Stacey is
a Partner at Earth Capital Partners (ECP), a specialist private
equity investor in clean technology, renewable energy and
sustainable agriculture. He has responsibility for Sustainability,
including Policy and Sustainable Investment Guidelines, the ECP
'Earth Dividend' (a measure of an investment's contribution to
Sustainable Development), and the evaluation of acquisition and
investment opportunities. James is a member of the ECP Investment
Committee and Sustainability Council, an external advisory panel
which provides direction and oversight to the ECP Sustainability
Strategy. James is an environmental engineer, who has worked in the
environmental sector since 1992. Prior to ECP, James was 'Head of
Sustainable Business' at Standard Chartered Bank. There he had
responsibility for environment and climate change strategy and risk
management; 'sustainable finance' product development, including
Standard Chartered's Clinton Global Initiative commitment to
finance USD8-10bn of new renewable and clean energy projects; and
the integration of sustainability issues into global lending
criteria, client and broader stakeholder engagement.
Calliope Webber is a Director of Greengold Ltd,
She is an independent advisor on energy, carbon mitigation and
sustainable business. She has over 10 years experience and a track
record of successfully delivering solutions in the ‘green’ energy
and business development arena. Her career in the international oil
and gas industry gained in Shell, Amoco and BP spans technical,
commercial and joint venture leadership. In 1999, she was policy
advisor to BP’s Gas and Power stream leading to the first trade in
the company’s internal emissions scheme. From 2003-2006, she was
seconded by BP to the World Bank’s energy policy division as an
advisor to the core team of the Global Gas Flare Reduction
Partnership. Within this partnership, carbon finance capability and
projects were developed, notably in Nigeria and Russia. She
returned to BP for two years - delivering direction and advice to
Business Units on creating the business case and plan for carbon
mitigation projects, carbon finance opportunities, emissions
trading and business development. In 2008, Greengold Ltd was formed
as a vehicle to offer practical solutions to the business community
on the paradox of delivering business value together with climate
and energy strategies.
Expert Contributors
A range of specialists and practitioners with
experience of the issues are also invited from business, civil
society, academia and government to contribute to the Programme.
Contributors for the 2009 seminars included:
James Alexander, CEO GreenThing &
Co-Founder, Zopa
Ramon Arratia, European Sustainability
Director, InterfaceFLOR
Robert Bell, Managing Director, and
Heather Haydock, Knowledge Leader on Climate
Change Policy, AEA Technology
Matt Bell, Director of Campaigns &
Education, CABE
Tony Juniper, Former Executive Director,
Friends of the Earth
Dr Melissa Lane, Senior Lecturer, University of
Cambridge
Ken Livingstone, Former Mayor of London,
Greater London Authority
John Sample, Energy Analyst, Shell
International
Andy Wood, Managing Director, Adnams
Brewery
"Overall one of the
best climate change related courses I have attended both in terms
of how it is set up and the general sense of optimism/practical
solutions delivered."
James Grugeon, Managing
Director Cool nrg UK