Matthew is Chairman of Freuds Group, the international public relations and marketing company he founded in 1985.​  He is a director of the Sustainable Development Goals and has been a trustee of Comic Relief​ for over 30 years.

He is also an Academy Award winning producer.

Stuart leads Google.org's Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships, focusing on relationships with organisations including UN agencies, alongside global grantees including Wikipedia, Web Foundation and Project Everyone. Previously he led Google’s strategic corporate philanthropy in the area of Online Safety, working with civil society organisations developing online and offline responses to support people with adapting and responding to changes in technology. Before joining Google in 2014 to lead Employee Engagement for giving and volunteering in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Stuart was Chief Executive of Irish NGO Business to Arts from 2007 to 2014, a role that included the establishment of Ireland’s only home-grown crowdfunding platform fundit.ie in response to the fall in funding during the financial crisis.

As President and Chief Operating Officer, Jennifer is responsible for the overall strategic and operational growth trajectory of the (RED) organization. She oversees the short and long-term priorities that continue to build the (RED) brand and generate critical and sustainable funding and awareness to help end the AIDS and now COVID pandemic. She drives the successful relationships with (RED) partner brands including Apple, Bank of America, Beats by Dre, LVMH, Salesforce, Starbucks and others—brands who have helped generate nearly $700 million for the Global Fund, impacting over 245 million lives. Prior to joining (RED) in 2008, Jennifer was a Senior Partner at Ogilvy Worldwide, responsible for overseeing the global IBM and American Express accounts.

Joe Cerrell, managing director for Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia (EMEEA), is based in the Gates Foundation’s London office, which he opened in 2010. In this role, Joe oversees the foundation's government relations, policy, communications and partnerships with 16 countries across the EMEEA region. His team seeks to increase engagement in the foundation’s global health and development priorities, and drive progress on global health issues through partnerships with governments and other non-state actors. Since joining the foundation in 2001, Joe has held a number of roles, including director for donor government relations and director of Global Health Policy and Advocacy. Prior to his time at the foundation, he served in a variety of senior roles in government and strategy consulting practices, including positions in the Clinton White House under former Vice President Al Gore and at APCO Worldwide.

Polly Sumner is the Chief Adoption Officer at Salesforce, where she’s responsible for customer success and ensuring that each and every customer gets maximum value from products and services. Polly’s move to Salesforce in 2008 followed a 20-year career in executive management in the technology industry.

Before joining Salesforce, Polly was a consultant to Warburg Pincus focusing on the
telecommunications, financial services and technology industries. Polly was President of Global Services at Telcordia. She also served as President and CEO of Alphablox, an early pioneer in web-based analytics for global enterprises. IBM purchased Alphablox in 2004.

Polly also held several different positions at Oracle from 1987 to 1999, including vice president and senior vice president roles in sales, alliances and industries. Earlier in her 40-year career in the technology industry, Polly also worked at McDonnell Douglas and IBM.

Dr Celine Herweijer joined HSBC as Group Chief Sustainability Officer in July 2021, and is a member of HSBC’s Group Executive Committee. She is also co-chair of the HSBC Holdings ESG Committee and responsible for the ongoing development and execution of the Group’s Sustainability Strategy. Outside of HSBC Celine serves as Co-Chair of the We Mean Business Coalition and a trustee of BLUE Marine. Previously, Dr Herweijer worked as a Partner at PwC, where she held global leadership roles including acting as PwC’s Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader for a decade. Celine is a NASA Fellow and holds a PhD in Climate Modelling from Columbia University, New York.

Patty O'Hayer joined Reckitt Benckiser in 2013 following numerous positions at Unilever and Plan International and currently heads up RB’s Global Communications and Government Affairs.

Since joining RB, Patty has helped the company navigate the comms challenges through a period of intense growth that saw RB acquire several household names, including Woolite, Mucinex, Enfamil, Durex, Clearasil and Calgon into its portfolio.

Samantha Barry is Glamour’s global editorial director for the Americas. She oversees content, development, and consumer experiences across the title’s digital, social, and video verticals for Glamour.

During her tenure, Barry has transformed the annual Women of the Year Awards into an inspirational celebration, championing Glamour’s diverse community of women - leading Glamour to reach record-breaking monthly audiences, and growing video content across platforms.

Prior to joining Glamour, Barry served as global head of social media at CNN. She spearheaded the organization’s 2016 election coverage across social platforms, which received the first-ever Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in social media.

Inna Modja is a Malian-French artist, filmmaker, and global advocate for social, gender, and climate justice. In her 15-year tenure as an activist, she has dedicated herself to fighting female genital mutilation, and climate change. Passionate about social, gender, and climate justice, she's a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, trying to do her part in finding solution to fight against desertification & drought, and tell the stories of the communities living on the frontline of climate change.

She took part in the creation of the documentary, "The Great Green Wall", in which she starred and served as an executive producer. The documentary showcases Africa's efforts to restore degraded landscapes in the Sahel and control desert expansion, aiming to alleviate food insecurity, conflict, and forced migration. She considers it a privilege to have had the opportunity to contribute to this project.

She also co-founded Code Green, a  non-profit harnessing the power of art, technology and web3, to support social & climate justice. With Code Green, Inna and her team are exploring the potentials of blockchain, aiming to help artists, communities, and collectors contribute to Earth's healing and green justice.

Sophia Kianni is an Iranian-American activist studying Science, Technology, & Society at Stanford University. She is the founder and executive director of Climate Cardinals, an international nonprofit with 9,000 volunteers in 40+ countries working to translate climate information into over 100 languages. She is the youngest person to ever serve as a United Nations advisor. She has sat on boards and advisory councils for The New York Times, Web Summit, Environmental Media Association, Inkey List, Ashoka, American Lung Association and Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation.

Sophia has amassed a following of over 200,000 across social media platforms and her work has been featured in news outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Vogue, Business Insider, BBC, NPR, ELLE, The Guardian, NBC, and even on the front page of The Washington Post. She was previously a fellow with PBS NewsHour and has written for news outlets such as TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, MTV News, Cosmopolitan, and Teen Vogue. She is a prolific public speaker and has spoken at universities across the world including Columbia University, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge University, and Harvard University. She won the TED global idea competition and her debut TED Talk has 1.5+ million views.

She has been named VICE Media's youngest Human of the Year, a National Geographic Young Explorer, among Business Insider’s Climate Action 30, one of Teen Vogue's 21 under 21, and a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree.

Nathan Méténier is a 23-year-old climate justice & LGBTQI2S+ activist. Nathan was one of the seven members of Antonio Guterres’ Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change from 2020 to 2023. He is a 776 Foundation fellowship where he works at mobilising funding and resources at scale to youth climate justice movements worldwide, supporting the coordination of the new Youth Climate Justice Fund initiative. In 2019, he founded Generation Climate Europe - the largest coalition of youth-led networks on climate and environmental issues at the European level. Nathan was also the co-chair of the youth pre-COP26 and is a former Board member of the European Environmental Bureau and Youth and Environment Europe. In 2020, he was nominated with five other young European for the “Young European of the Year 2020” award. He graduated from Sciences Po Grenoble in France and completed a masters degree in environmental policy and regulation at the London School of Economics. Nathan is based on the unceded territories of so-called British Columbia.

George Richards is the Director of Community Jameel, an independent, global organisation advancing science and learning for communities to thrive. Prior to becoming Director in 2020, George led strategy for the organisation from 2015, and was head of heritage programmes at Art Jameel, the arts and culture organisation, with responsibility for initiatives in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and beyond, sustaining traditional cultural practices, supporting architectural preservation, and digitally recording heritage.

An Arabist specialising in the archaeoastronomy of pre-Islamic Arabia, George has undertaken field expeditions to document cultural heritage on behalf of the British Library and the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, and has served as the special rapporteur for cultural heritage to the Kurdistan Regional Government; a specialist assessor to the British government's Cultural Protection Fund; and a senior fellow at the Iraqi government's cultural heritage commission, Iraq Heritage.

George studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Isfahan and took a First in Arabic and Persian from Edinburgh in 2003. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a trustee of The Prince's Foundation.

Steve is a senior advisor bringing over three decades experience of business leadership in EY at national and international level encompassing sustainability, business growth and transformation.  His primary focus is helping leading companies and governments around the world to create value from sustainability and accelerate their transition to a lower-carbon future. As EY Global Vice Chair for Sustainability from 2020-23, Steve led the EY organisation’s overall sustainability and climate change strategy globally. This included launching the organization’s environmental sustainability strategy which was a first for the industry in targeting net zero through a 40% reduction in absolute GHG emissions by 2025 across scope 1, 2 and 3, against a 2019 baseline. A seven-point plan targets integrated decarbonisation, including emissions linked to energy, travel, procurement, buildings and client work. Since 2021, EY has been carbon negative effectively removing more carbon from the atmosphere than EY emit.

Steve was previously EY UK & Ireland Regional Managing Partner, and Chair of EY UK, leading the US$3.5b business and its 17,000 employees. During his nine-year tenure he drove an inclusive and green growth strategy, doubling its revenues from £1.3b in FY11 to £2.6, in FY20. During this time, 8,000 jobs were created in the UK, more than half of which were outside of London. He originally joined EY in 2005 and has nearly 30 years of client and consulting business experience in various sectors including pharmaceuticals, oil & gas and public services.  

Steve was a member of the Business Advisory Group to both Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May and was also the UK Government’s Business Ambassador for the professional services industry during this time. He was part of the business delegation on the Prime Minister’s Trade Missions, including visits to Russia, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and China. He was a founding co-chair of the S30, a group of 30 Chief Sustainability Officers from some of the world’s leading businesses. The S30 was launched in 2020 in collaboration with the Sustainable Markets Initiative, a leading global sustainability program which has been championed by His Majesty King Charles III.

David Shukman is a speaker, moderator and consultant on climate change and sustainability.

For nearly twenty years, he led the BBC’s coverage of the environment with pioneering live broadcasts from the Amazon to Antarctica.

Described by Sir David Attenborough as “a leader in raising awareness about the climate emergency”, he’s reported from no fewer than 11 of the UN’s climate COPs.

He’s renowned for clearly explaining complex science and for highlighting human impacts such as how flooding damages women’s health in Bangladesh and causes nightmares for children in Vietnam.

David has also witnessed the rise of renewables, reporting from offshore wind farms and solar panel factories, highlighting the potential for green jobs in the transition to a healthier, safer world.

He’s given keynotes to sectors as diverse as pensions, shipping and consumer goods, chaired high-level events at UN conferences and shared his insights with CEOs and students.

A Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, David is also an adviser to Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the author of a book on his climate reporting, ‘An iceberg as big as Manhattan’.

HRH Princess Eugenie has been working against modern slavery since 2012. She helped set up Key to Freedom, a social enterprise initiative that supports and facilitates a route to market for products made by the survivors of trafficking at the Women’s Interlink Foundation.  

Princess Eugenie has worked across the board with leaders in the fight against modern slavery: she has visited survivors with the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women and the Salvation Army; she has spoken with world leaders at Nexus Global Summit and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Alliance; she has worked with the McCain Institute, has hosted a roundtable for the US Ambassador-at-Large for Combating Trafficking in Persons and she is a Patron of Anti-Slavery International.

Currently, Princess Eugenie works for Hauser & Wirth as a Director. She supports various charitable organisations such as Tate Modern and The Serpentine and holds various Ambassador and Patron roles at charities including Blue Marine Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust, the European School of Osteopathy, and the Elephant Family.

Larry Di Rita leads Bank of America’s global public policy team, which includes federal, state, and international government relations, as well as the policy analysis and insights team. He also leads the environmental strategy team, working with the lines of businesses and other partners to help meet Bank of America’s sustainable finance and related objectives. Larry also serves as President, Greater Washington DC of Bank of America, leading a team of 2400 from across the company’s lines of business and support functions.

Larry holds a bachelor’s degree from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Before joining Bank of America in 2006, Larry was in public service. His last government assignment was as Counselor to the Department of Defense. A U.S. naval officer prior to his civilian public service completing active duty in the Directorate of Strategic Plans and Policy, The Joint Staff. Larry is a director of The Rumsfeld Foundation and of the U.S. Navy Memorial, and is on the board of advisors for the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council, The Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Fund, The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. and the Greater Washington Board of Trade.

Richard Curtis is a film writer and director, responsible for films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Mr Bean, Love Actually, and most recently About Time and Yesterday. In the other half of Richard’s life he is co-founder and vice-chair of Comic Relief. He has created the fundraising event Red Nose Day, in which he co-produced 16 live nights for the BBC since 1988 and the charity has made over £1.3 Billion for projects in the UK and internationally during that time. In 2015, he helped bring Red Nose Day to the United States with the partnership of NBC and Walgreens - where it has so far raised nearly $150 million to help children in the USA and round the world.

Dr Kerry is the WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health and co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health (Seed), a non-profit organization focused on health systems strengthening and transformation through long-term investments and training of the health workforce. Under her leadership, Seed has helped educate more than 34 000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in seven countries, helping to improve health care for more than 73 million people.

She has spoken and written about the effects of climate change on human health and health systems and the need to integrate a health-centered response into climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. Dr Kerry is supporting the COP28 Presidency to shape the first-ever COP Day of Health and leading efforts to build advocacy around the impact of climate change on health and ensure equitable and just climate action.

She is a critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and is the associate director of partnerships and global initiatives at the MGH Center for Global Health. She directs the Global Public Policy and Social Change programme at Harvard Medical School, focusing on links between security and health. She is the mother of two children.

Dr. Adanna Steinacker is a seasoned professional whose career spans multiple domains, including medicine, entrepreneurship, and digital creativity.

Following her tenure in clinical practice, she pioneered the establishment of 'House of Adanna,' a global, community-led brand committed to uplifting women.

Over the past ten years, Dr. Steinacker has leveraged her vibrant personality and innovative spirit to emerge as an early adopter in the social media realm, garnering a community of nearly one million followers across various platforms.

In her capacity as a digital creator and influencer, she has fostered an official partnership with YouTube through her brand, House of Adanna. This collaboration will see the release of a YouTube-exclusive 20-episode series in 2023, titled ‘Women’s Empowerment X Sustainability.’

Apart from her digital exploits, Adanna serves as an ambassador for several international brands, championing their initiatives towards achieving brand recognition and sustainability targets.

As a top-tier creator on YouTube, Google acknowledges her contributions by appointing her as a delegate at prestigious global conferences like the Conference of the Parties (COP), and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

A public servant and campaigner at heart, Sara’s career has spanned the The White House, 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.

Sara has more than two decades of experience in strategic communications, politics, policy, and as an advisor to corporations, advocacy organisations and high-profile individuals. She has a proven ability to lead and thrive in highly scrutinised environments, deliver impactful campaigns across a global audience, and execute specialised partnerships and stakeholder engagement.

Sara recently led Buckingham Palace’s events and initiatives for the 2022 celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. She currently consults on a portfolio of clients and campaigns.

Tola St. Matthew-Daniel, Founder of Kairos & Tola, is a strategic visionary and results-driven advocate for culture-conscious development, inclusive growth, and sustainability.

Following a successful, award-winning 20-year career in strategic communications holding senior executive roles at global agencies including Freuds Group, Ogilvy, Thatcher + Co. and Weber Shandwick, she launched Kairos & Tola in 2023 with the mission of building better, mutual, and more trusted partnerships with innovators and industry shapers primarily from Africa, the diaspora, indigenous communities, and the global south.

A senior advisor on Goals House since its inception in 2019, she specializes in fostering global partnerships and building influence to drive positive social impact. Her track record of orchestrating impactful initiatives at prestigious events worldwide includes Davos, UN General Assembly, World Bank/IMF Meetings, SXSW, COP, CHOGM and others. Through I See Culture, a traveling insights and engagement platform, she also centers culture at the heart of sustainable development strategies, encouraging deeper dialogue, insights and connections that help accelerate strategic business and sustainability goals. Currently, she also serves on the board of Fauna & Flora International (US & UK), a renowned international conservation organization under the patronage of HRH Prince William.

Tola is a global citizen by nature and nurture, having lived, studied, and worked on three continents – Africa, Europe, and North America – visiting more than 80 countries. She is a proud alumnus of Drexel University and Sciences Po Paris, L'Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Paris.

Co-host of the award-winning podcast An Idiots Guide to Saving the World, Gail thrives on collaborating with organisations through high level meetings and seminars within the climate and nature space.

After a career spent in advertising and the BBC, culminating as the CEO of creative agency Fallon, Gail co-founded Project Everyone with film-maker Richard Curtis, to launch the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

In 2019, Gail also founded Project 17, a strategic communications consultancy focused on helping brands, businesses, and the investment sector to realign to the Global Goals framework and drive systems level change.

She is also the co-founder, co-chair, and event host at the prestigious Goals House event space.