Jonathon Porritt

Jonathon Porritt is an eminent writer and campaigner on sustainable development. For the last 30 years, Jonathon has provided strategic advice to leading UK and international companies to deepen their understanding of today’s converging environmental and climate crises. He is also focused on intergenerational justice, supporting young people in their activities around sustainable development issues as they face a future defined by the twin crises of the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Emergency.

He is President of The Conservation Volunteers and is involved in the work of many other NGOs and groups. In 1996, he co-founded Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainable development charity, working with business and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future. Jonathon was formerly Co-Chair of the Green Party (1980-83) and Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90). He stood down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in 2009, after nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers, and served a ten-year term as Chancellor of Keele University (2012-2022).

Jonathon was awarded a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection. His latest book, Hope in Hell (Simon & Schuster, 2020, revised 2021) is a powerful ‘call to action’ on the Climate Emergency.

Satnam Rana-Grindley

Satnam Rana-Grindley is the Director for Communications - Corporate Brand in the Marketing, Communications and Insights team at the University of Warwick.

She worked at the BBC for 21 years as a Broadcast Journalist and Arts and Culture Correspondent, followed by 3 years at the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership where she set up and led the integrated marketing and communications directorate. She was also part of the Senior Leadership Team responsible for setting organisational strategy.

With a passion for strategic storytelling, Satnam has successfully transferred her journalism skills into leadership. She is passionate about the region, its communities and creating transformative outcomes that help build a better future for society.

Professor Ciaran Martin

Professor Ciaran Martin, CB, is a Professor of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, as well as a managing director at Paladin Capital and the holder of several other advisory roles in private sector cyber security. He writes and speaks frequently on cyber security in major outlets across the world, and was named on of the most influential people in European technology by Politico in 2022.

From 2014 until 2020 he set up and then led the United Kingdom’s world-leading National Cyber Security Centre, within the intelligence agency GCHQ on whose board he sat. This was the culmination of a 23 year career in UK public service which saw him serve in senior roles in national security, constitutional and economic policy.