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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Read more at: Richard Hardyment

Richard Hardyment

Richard Hardyment has over 15 years of experience advising and assessing companies on responsible and sustainable business practices. He is currently at the Institute of Business Ethics, where his work focuses on the intersection of markets, morals, and measurement.


Read more at: Professor Shruti Kapila OBE

Professor Shruti Kapila OBE

Shruti Kapila is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Cambridge, Director of Studies at Corpus Christi College and Co-Director of Global Humanities Initiative. Her most recent book Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age (Princeton University Press, 2021 and Penguin Random House India, 2021) has received praise as a ‘ground-breaking’ book that is tipped to ‘globalise’ the field of political thought. She was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours in 2024 for services to the Humanities.


Read more at: Dr Marc Kahn

Dr Marc Kahn

Dr Marc Kahn is Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer at Investec. Prior to joining Investec in 2008 he led a management consulting firm specialising in large scale change initiatives and executive development. He is a chartered business coach, clinical psychologist, author and teacher. Marc draws on complexity sciences and systems theory in his work and maintains that twentieth century industrial models of organisation are defunct. He lives in London.


Read more at: Dr Jan Rosenow

Dr Jan Rosenow

Dr Jan Rosenow is a leading expert in energy policy, with over 20 years of experience. He has research associations with Cambridge, Oxford and Sussex Universities as well as FU Berlin, managing energy policy initiatives across Europe.


Read more at: Peter Handley

Peter Handley

Peter has over 40 years of professional experience in the European Commission and in the UK Civil Service. He draws on his broad expertise in strategy, communication, management and international relations to advise on sustainability and resilience matters and to develop appropriate strategies.


Read more at: Dr Dina Khalifa

Dr Dina Khalifa

Dina is an experienced academic in the areas of luxury branding and marketing with more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in both the UK and Egypt.


Read more at: David Cembrero

David Cembrero

David holds a Ph.D. in Business and Territorial Competitiveness from University of Deusto, an MBA and an MSc in Finance from University of the Basque Country, and completed a Bachelor in Business Administration at San Pablo CEU University. He has more than 12 years of experience in innovation, competitiveness and sustainable development both in academia and in international consulting.


Read more at: Karen Hamilton

Karen Hamilton

Karen brings over 30 years’ leadership experience in sustainability, innovation and business, most recently as Unilever’s Global VP Sustainability.  She is passionate about helping leaders integrate sustainability into strategy and culture to drive change. 


Read more at: Kate Wolfenden

Kate Wolfenden

Kate is Co-Founder of 103 Ventures, a specialist climate-action consultancy focused on systems and transformational change. She is a Senior Associate at Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. 

The mission of 103 Ventures to become a precise toolbox for intervening in any industrial system to accelerate positive change. Kate delivers on this mission through several 103 in-house tools /programmes designed to contribute to building a sustainable and resilient society by 2050.
 


Read more at: Pablo Salas Bravo

Pablo Salas Bravo

Dr Pablo Salas Bravo is Senior Economist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group. Before joining the IFC, Dr Salas was the C-EENRG Deputy Director and held the position of Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow in Radical Innovation and Disruption at CISL, University of Cambridge. He is an Economist and Electrical Engineer by training, with degrees from the University of Cambridge (PhD in Land Economy), the University of Hamburg (MSc in Economics) and the University of Chile (Electrical Engineering).