Student and alumni news and achievements
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December 2025: Postgraduate Alumni Sabrin Rahman, Jaison John, Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, and Alfonso Senatore honoured in the Top 100 Middle East "Energy Addition" Sustainability Voices 2026 list.
October 2025: Postgraduate Alumni Beth Knight, Cristiane Lourenço, Dana Haidan, Elisa Moscolin, Jaclyn Kaminski and Jessie Soohyun Park honoured in the Change Leaders 2025: Top 100 Corporate Impact Leaders list of 100 corporate leaders redefining the role of business in building a better world.
December 2024: MSt Sustainability Leadership alumni Sabrin Rahman and Caitin Liebert honoured in the Fin-Erth 2024 list of 101 leading women in climate. The list shines a spotlight on women across the globe focused on unlocking climate and sustainability solutions.
May 2023: Laura O’Donohue, PG Diploma alumni, is honoured at the Audubon’s Women in Conservation Luncheon with Rachel Carson Award celebrating the legacy of female leadership in conservation.
September 2021: Tor Burrows, PCSB alumni and Executive Director - Sustainability & Innovation at Grosvenor, is named Sustainability Executive of the Year in the BusinessGreen Leaders Award 2021.
January 2021: Abigail Herron, MSt alumni & Global Head of Responsible Investment at Aviva Investors, received the award for the best Master’s thesis for her research into “antibiotic resistance as a frontier topic in responsible and sustainable investment” at the FIR-PRI Finance & Sustainability 2020 Awards.
September 2020: Herman Bril, Director of Investments at a Global Pension Fund and MSt Sustainability alum, has co-edited a book entitled ‘Sustainable Investing; A Path to a New Horizon’.
June 2020: Katerina Fragos is an alum of the Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership and has been recognised by Green Biz as one of their 30 under 30 workers, who are making strides in their sustainability efforts.
June 2019: Abigail Heron, Head of responsible Investment Engagement, Aviva Investors, listed in top 10 contributors making a positive contribution to sustainable investment according to Independent Research in Responsible Investment Survey 2019.
Abigail is alumni of PCSB and a current MSt SL student.
November 2018: Congratulations to Laura Hannigan, IDBE Master’s graduate, for jointly winning the NextGen Rising Star London and SE Category at the British Council for Offices BCO NextGen Awards Ceremony recently.
The British Council for Offices (BCO) is Britain's leading forum for the discussion and debate of issues affecting the office sector. Their mission is to research, develop and communicate best practice. Laura is an Associate at AKTII.
October 2018: IDBE Master’s Graduate, Tanya de Hoog, receives University of Wollongong Alumni Award for Professional Excellence
Tanya de Hoog, CEng, FIStrutE, MIEAust, co-founding director of Thornton Tomasetti’s London office, has received the Alumni Award for Professional Excellence from the University of Wollongong (UOW) in New South Wales, Australia. The award was presented at the university’s Fellowship and Alumni Awards dinner on October 11. The UOW Alumni Award for Professional Excellence recognizes outstanding former students and their contributions to their professions, communities and the advancement of society.
Tanya has more than 20 years of experience in the structural design of a variety of building types across Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australia. Some of her notable projects include the redevelopment of the Number 1 Court at The All England Lawn and Tennis Club in Wimbledon, U.K.; the 65,000-seat Basrah Sports City in Iraq; and the award-winning Windmill Hill Archive and Study Centre in Waddesdon. de Hoog recently launched the firm’s Doing Good Business initiative, which looks to utilize the firm’s core services and innovative approaches on projects that have a lasting positive impact on communities.
Tanya is a founding and steering committee member of The Equilibrium Network, a multi-disciplinary network of professionals working to address gender inequality in architecture, engineering and construction professions.
In 2014, de Hoog was named a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, the most senior grade of membership within the organization. She was also a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Teaching Fellow for the IDBE Master’s Programme from 2012 to 2013, a distinguished position appointed by the University of Cambridge.
May 2018: MSt in Sustainability Leadership alumnae, Shameela Soobramoney (formerly Ebrahim) has been elected Chair of the World Federation of Exchange’s Sustainability Working Group.
Shameela is a Senior Manager: Group Strategy & Sustainability at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited.
Februray 2018: MSt student Alastair Marke is the editor of a new book on Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains.
January 2018: MSt Student Steven Day spoke at TEDxBrighton on renewables.
Steven Day, Partner at Pure Planet and a student of the Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership recently spoke at TEDxBrighton on the role of the community in building Pure Planet as a for-purpose business and how business can be used to do good for consumers, wider society and our environment.
Watch Steven's TEDxBrighton talk here.
November 2017: IDBE student, Nathalie Baxter named one of the RIBA Journal 2017 Rising Stars cohort
Nathalie Baxter, Project Architect at Faulkner Browns Architects and a student of the Master of Studies in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE), has been named one of the RIBA Journal Rising Stars for 2017.
March 2017: MSt Alumna Amie Shuttleworth named as an inspiring woman in sustainability by Bioregional
Amie Shuttleworth, Global Head of Sustainability, has been named in Bioregional’s list of ’12 inspiring women in sustainability’ to celebrate International Women’s Day 2017.
December 2016: MSt Alumna Natasha Walji named one of Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women for 2016
The Women's Executive Network (WXN) has released it list of Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winners, which includes MSt Alumna, Natasha Walji, Head of Industry, Branded Apparel, Google.
MSt Alumnus Ravi Fernando has recently published a new book called ‘Strategic Corporate Sustainability: 7 Imperatives for Sustainable Business’.
The book outlines why global warming, the depletion of natural resources, and pollution should be everyone's concern. He explores seven imperatives for sustainable organisations and illustrates how businesses can improve returns on capital by investing in sustainability-led differentiation and innovation.
Ravi graduated from the Master’s in 2014 and is the Operations Director at Malaysia Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. He teaches strategic corporate sustainability on the INSEAD /Cedep AMP/MBE, European University, Deusto & Universtat of Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and University of Colombo MBA programmes.
July 2015: Andrew Zaloumis has been named the winner of the WWF Living Planet 2015 Award.
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