We are delighted to introduce the independent judging panel for the GSL Global Goals competition. Each member of this years panel has been specially selected on the basis of their global experiences and/or a knowledge of sustainable development. They represent a wide range of specialisms and bring a wealth of personal and professional experience to the panel.
Pamela Collins leads Conservation International’s work on Nature and the Global Sustainability Agenda, where she seeks to bridge the gap between what we know about connections between nature and human well-being and what we do when we implement sustainable development projects on the ground. Before that she was a AAAS Fellow at the Institute for Water Resources of the US Army Corps of Engineers, where she advised leadership on topics from ecosystem restoration to green infrastructure.
Clare is a Senior Citizenship Manager at Barclays and has a passion to help social entrepreneurs drive growth in their businesses, trying to remove the divide between profit and purpose. She has been at Barclays for 17 years and works on charity partnerships and designing a strategy and opportunities to engage 22K colleagues in volunteering activities across the UK. Barclays specific focus is around engaging broader society in building enterprise and employability skills which is delivered through their LifeSkills programme. Clare is a Trustee of Friends of the Nest Kenya.
Manjula founded World Wide Generation (WWG) and the G17Eco platform in 2016, as a global platform bringing together governement, business and civil society to deliver the UN’s Global Goals by 2030. Since then WWG has been selected, incubated and backed by the British Government and Manjula was selected by the Department of International Trade’s Global Entrepreneur Programme. She serves on the City Of London’s Global Steering Committee for Sustainable Development Finance, to help strategically position London as the sustainable development finance capital of the world.
Claudio is Managing Director of UK & Ireland Financial Services Strategy practice lead. He specialises in Strategy and Business Transformation in Financial Services with focus on helping organisation adapting business models to the new digital economy. Before taking on this role he was CEO Retail & Business Banking Division for large UK bank in Spain, Italy and Portugal. He has also held a number of CFO roles at Country, Regional and Divisional level working for a number of Global Financial Institutions.
Dr. Margot A. Wood is the Global Sustainability Lui-Walton Fellow at Conservation International (CI) where she leads research on supply chains and their impacts on commodity driven deforestation. Dr. Wood works with Trase (Transparent supply chains for sustainable economies), through the Stockholm Environment Institute and Global Canopy, and most recently mapped the Colombian coffee supply chain. Dr. Wood supports CI’s Center for Environmental Leadership in Business on their corporate sustainability projects. While at Texas A&M University, Dr. Wood directed a multi-year EarthWatch citizen scientist research project in Costa Rica on mammal use of biological corridor and PES properties.
Graduating from Bristol University, Mark has practised as a barrister since 1986, specialising in crime, financial crime, professional discipline and sports law. He took Silk in 2006, has sat as a Recorder since 2004, and is a member of the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Commission. Mark is a Governor of Wellington College, a Governor of Amesbury School, and a Trustee of the Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation, these roles providing him with the good fortune to follow his passions of education and cricket.
Alison is a creative communications expert with a specific focus on children and education. She has worked extensively with some of the world’s most recognised brands (PepsiCo, Unilever, Nestlé) before partnering in the creation of a children’s learning programme to encourage global citizenship in K6 students. Since 2014 Alison has led the creation and delivery of the World’s Largest Lesson, a programme delivered in partnership with UNICEF, to build understanding for the UN Sustainable Development Goals and inspire social activism in students. She has brought together United Nations agencies, NGOs, high profile figures such as Sir Ken Robinson and Malala Yousafai and the educator community, to introduce thousands of educators and millions of students to the Global Goals in over 130 countries.
Kevin is passionate about enabling young people to achieve their full potential. He is Chief Executive of City Year UK, which supports 16-25 year olds to undertake a year of social action as student success coaches in schools, supporting pupils from disadvantaged communities to succeed in learning. Over the course of their City Year, they also have the opportunity to develop as leaders, with the passion, values, experience and skills to lead transformational change in their communities. Kevin was recognised earlier this year in the UK’s Social Entrepreneur Index, having previously founded and grown organisations including ThinkForward, the Young Lambeth Cooperative and the Centre for Youth Impact.
The Eden Project is an ambitious educational charity and visitor centre which aims to connect us with each other and the living world, exploring how we can work towards a better future and demonstrating the importance of plants to people and to promote sustainable use of resources. Sam leads all of Eden’s work with schools, young people and their teachers and has done so since 2010. She’s been a member of Eden’s Education Team since the project opened in 2001. Following a first degree in Natural Science at Jesus College, Cambridge, she qualified as a primary school teacher, with science specialism, in 1997 and has worked in schools in Bristol, Cornwall, Karachi and South Africa.