Will Day

Will is Sustainability Advisor to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Chairman of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), a non-profit company bringing together private sector and NGO member organisations to pursue the Millennium Development goal for water and sanitation in the poorest parts of the world.

Jon Duncan 

Jon Duncan leads the Responsible Investment programme at Old Mutual Group. The RI programme is focused on driving the systematic integration of material environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues across the Group’s c£360 billion of fund under management.

Malcolm Gray 

Malcolm is a passionate sustainability professional with a particular focus on investment, impact and sustainability. In September 2015, he stepped away from full-time corporate life, having spent the past 16 years working for Investec Asset Management in a number of senior roles, most recently as Global Head of ESG and Portfolio Manager of a number of South African and African Funds.

Mashudu Ramano 

Mashudu is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of the Mitochondria Energy Company. Mashudu is an entrepreneur in transition to sustainable entrepreneurship, an aspirant futurist and an adherent, advocate, agent, promoter and student of sustainability, symbiotic existence and transdisciplinary studies and director of companies with extensive experience in listed and unlisted companies in South Africa.

Richard Calland

Richard Calland has thirty years of experience in law, politics and sustainability. As a member of the London Bar he practiced law for seven years before coming to South Africa in 1994, where he is now based at the University of Cape Town (UCT) as an Associate Professor in Public Law and as a part of the academic leadership of its SDG initiative.

Anton Cartwright

Anton is director of Econologic where he has completed contracts for the World Bank, The European Union, DfID, WWF, local and international companies, NGOs and local governments. He is the founder of the Promoting Access to Carbon Equity (PACE) centre, which enables small-scale renewable energy and energy efficiency projects to benefit from carbon market investments. He is an associate of the Stockholm Environment Institute. 

Vanessa Otto Mentz 

Vanessa offers over 20 years’ international business experience and skill; developed at senior levels in the following sectors: financial services (particularly insurance), retail, energy and manufacturing blue-chip firms in South Africa, the UK and Europe. Vanessa participates asctively in the global sustainable insurance movement and sits on the Board of the UNEP FI PSI (principles for sustainable insurance) and the management committee of ClimateWise. 

Hélène Smit 

Hélène is a specialist in depth facilitation, psychological conflict resolution and psychological literacy in individuals and groups in organisational settings.  Specifically, she is skilled in helping small and large groups deal with seemingly intractable and chronic conflicts. In 2013, Hélène established The Depth Leadership Trust, a non-profit organisation that aims to develop and promote understanding of depth psychology amongst leaders, organisations and civil society. 

Lebo Nke 

Lebo Nke leads partnerships and advocacy efforts at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator where she engages with Harambee’s partners across the private, public and social sectors. Lebo brings 18 years of experience in organisational change management, having worked at Accenture and De Beers Group before serving as the Managing Director of Converse Consulting and Management Services, which was acquired by Ernst & Young. 

Justin Smith 

Justin Smith is head of the Business Development Unit at WWF South Africa, overseeing business partnerships, marketing and fundraising activities for the organization. Justin was previously employed at Woolworths Holdings leading the Good Business Journey (Sustainability Programme) - responsible for the strategy, structure and integration across the business to deliver it’s over 200 targets in transformation, social development, environmental issues and climate change across its African and Australasian businesses. 

Jonathon Hanks 

Jonathon is Managing Director of Incite, a leading consultancy that offers advisory services with an advocacy edge, focusing primarily on emerging markets. He has been working on sustainability issues since the early 1990s, when he was involved in some of the pioneering corporate initiatives in South Africa, assisting with the country’s business input to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

Bongiwe Mbunge

Bongiwe Mbunge is a Partner at Mazars where she leads the Business Sustainability Strategy & Human Resources Advisory, a qualified accountant with 10 years of external auditing. Bongiwe heads up Mazars Academy, a niche learning division in Corporate Governance, Taxation, tailored CPD training for executives and Business Continuity. Bongiwe is extensively involved in Mazars’ Group strategy for business growth of the African continent as an Integration Officer. Bongiwe specialises in business strategies, value creation, focused unique value propositions through engagements of business with their key stakeholders. Bongiwe is a member of Mazars South Africa’s National Governance council, which is a body responsible for oversight of the national practice in South Africa. Mazars African Middle East region’s diversity strategy is championed by Bongiwe.

Bongiwe has experience as a non-executive director for certain non-profit organisations where her passion aligns.