Confirmed Speakers…
Jacqueline Novogratz on moral leadership
Founder and CEO of Acumen and best selling author of Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World. She sits sits on the Advisory Councils of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Oxford Said Global Leadership Council, the NYU Stern Center for Human Rights.
Kate Raworth on Doughnut Economics
A renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. Kate is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Kate co-authored UNDP’s Human Development Report, and is a senior researcher at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.
Geoff Mulgan on social innovation and intelligence
Geoff is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at UCL, previously CEO of NESTA, the UK's innovation foundation. He has written many books, the most recent 'Another World is Possible' - on reviving social & political imagination
Phoebe Tickell on moral imagination
Phoebe is a systems thinker developing methodologies and approaches suited for a better world. Phoebe has been a scientist, educator and systems entrepreneur.
Stephen Kinnock MP on fixing systems
Stephen is a Labour MP and has been shadow Minister for Immigration since 2022. Prior to his parliamentary career he worked for the British Council in Russia and Sierra Leone, the World Economic Forum and the Global Leadership and Technology Exchange.
Fran Perrin on progressive philanthropy
Founder and Director of the Indigo Trust and co-founder of 360Giving and a Board Member of New Philanthropy Capital and The Sainsbury Archive. In 2012, Fran was named Philanthropist of the Year by Spears and in 2016 jointly received the Open Data Institute’s first ‘Women in Data’ award.
Per Heggenes on climate and refugees
Since becoming the IKEA Foundation’s first CEO in 2009, Per has presided over the Foundation’s evolution into a global, grant-making philanthropy that funds programs in more than 45 countries. He serves on the advisory board of the Refugee Studies Centre at University of Oxford.
Nicki Grono on non profit leadership
Nick is the inaugural CEO of the Freedom Fund, an ambitious effort to mobilise the knowledge, capital and will needed to end modern slavery. It works with 100 frontline partner organisations around the world, and has liberated over 20,000 people directly from slavery. Nick also chairs the Jo Cox Foundation. Previously, Nick was the CEO of the Walk Free Foundation, and Deputy President of the International Crisis Group.
Workshop Leaders…
Johanna Brenninkmeijer on impact investing
In a career spanning asset management, retail, and philanthropy, Johanna was the first female partner (owner) of COFRA Holding - her family’s six-generation enterprise. Johanna is Investment Director for Anthos Family AM and active within Porticus, the family philanthropy organisation, whose purpose is to create a sustainable future where justice and human dignity flourish.
Emily Bolton on supporting the power and leadership of communities
Emily Bolton is the founder and CEO of Our Future, designed to provide citizens with the resources and networks they need to build a brighter future where we all benefit from the transition to a green economy. Emily was part of the founding team and latterly executive board member at Social Finance.
Louisa Brassey on intergenerational philanthropy
Louisa is a Co-Founder at Greenwood Place, sits on the advisory board of impact investment fund, Impact Bridge and serves as a member of Heineken NVs Sustainability and Responsibility Committee. She is also Chair of her family foundation, the Lucille Foundation which focuses on community development and climate and conservation.
Ian Quest on artificial intelligence
An engineer by background, Ian had a rich career in consulting, helping get complex engineered products to market more quickly and efficiently. Throughout this, Ian made extensive use of available data and coming to philanthropy a few years ago, her has done the same. With AI now developing at pace, Ian is fascinated by what this might mean for the charitable sector where achieving more with less is so crucial.
Dimple Sahni on impact investing strategy
Dimple is the Managing Director of Impact Funds at Anthos Asset Management.
Ana Morales on financial advisors
An activist and strategic philanthropist, Ana, has worked for over 20 years in violence prevention, education, and poverty eradication, with particular emphasis in Latin-America. She is a Founding Member of Maverick Collective and a Board Member of Glasswing International, Born in Mexico, Ana lives in London.
Edward Kessler on refugee integration and policy influencing.
Edward is President of the Woolf Institute and a leading thinker in interfaith relations and convenor of the Commission on the Integration of Refugees.
Rebecca Gowland on tax
Patriotic Millionaires is a nonpartisan network of British millionaires, from multiple industries and backgrounds from across the UK. It delivers a single mission - to leverage the voice of wealth to build a better Britain by changing the system to end extreme wealth and make those with it make their fair and proper contribution.
Jen Hooke on sustainability
Jen is Ceo of the Foundation Thirty Percy, an organisation that by design seeks to address challenges and collaborate differently. She will share how she has integrated Doughnut Economics into the Foundation.
David Graham on law, campaigns & public interest journalism
David is a disruptor who does not usually take no for an answer. His small foundation Changing Ideas seeks to kickstart ideas and achieve impact through risky philanthropy at the intersection of public interest journalism, law and campaigning - all rooted in social justice.
Sarah Teacher on investing endowed funds
Sarah is Executive Director at the Impact Investing Institute, where she leads on sizing the UK impact investing market, place-based impact investing and encouraging charitable endowments to allocate for impact. Previously she worked at the intersection of social impact, sustainability and private capital.
Sonal Shah on grant making
Sonal Shah is a Partner at Greenwood Place. Previously, she was Chief Executive of The London Community Foundation. Under her leadership, the Foundation was transformed into a leading London grant maker investing £5 million a year into social issues across the capital.
Anna Karin Levin on working with FAs
Anna is a former investment banker with 10 years in customer-facing roles for industry-leading financial institutions in the financial services industry. She now works with The Beam Network, supporting female wealth owners engage with their financial advisors.