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Our Trustees

Forum for the Future is a registered charity (Charity No. 1040519), and our trustees are legally responsible for all of our activities. Like many other charities, we are also incorporated as a registered limited company.

You can read all of our Annual Report and Financial Statements here.

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Andrew Winston

Andrew Winston

Andrew is a globally recognized expert on how companies can navigate and profit from humanity’s biggest challenges. His book, The Big Pivot, was selected as one of the "Best Business Books" by Strategy+Business magazine. Read more

Published: 25th June, 2019

Author: Carolina Altenburger

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Anita Tiessen

Anita Tiessen

Anita has worked in international development and human rights for more than two decades, and is a trustee/advisory board member for organisations working in the children, human rights and social policy sectors, including for the Children’s Commissioner for England. Read more

Published: 18th June, 2018

Updated: 4th July, 2019

Author: Madeleine Wild

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Charlotte Ersbøll

Charlotte Ersbøll

Charlotte joined the board of Forum for the Future in 2019. She is a senior advisor to the United Nations Global Compact, and a partner in Hansen & Ersbøll Agenda. Read more

Published: 25th June, 2019

Author: Carolina Altenburger

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Fiona Thompson

Fiona Thompson

Fiona is a board member of several not-for profit organisations in the international development, education and arts fields, including Vice-Chair of CARE International UK, and governor of a further education college Read more

Published: 18th June, 2018

Updated: 4th July, 2019

Author: Madeleine Wild

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Heather Grady

Heather Grady

Heather is a Vice President in the San Francisco office of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and leads the organization’s strategy and program development in global philanthropy, including collaboratives and research. Read more

Published: 25th June, 2019

Author: Carolina Altenburger

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Jonny Wates

Jonny Wates

Jonny sees sustainability as a key to the long term resilience of organisations, humanity and the planet itself. He is a fourth generation owner of the Wates Group, where the common cause of the owners is to hand on a stronger enterprise to the next generation. Read more

Published: 25th June, 2019

Author: Carolina Altenburger

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Laura McGonigal

Laura McGonigal

Laura leads on the sustainability agenda for the Ecover and Method brands in Europe. She has a passion for systems change and believes in the power of brands to make the world a better place. Read more

Published: 25th June, 2019

Author: Carolina Altenburger

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Noa Gafni

Noa Gafni

Noa is the Founder and CEO of Trust Collab. Noa began her career as an entrepreneur, founding a social network for women in 2005. She then joined the founding digital team at Hearst Magazines as Head of Social Media. Read more

Published: 25th June, 2019

Author: Carolina Altenburger

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Rita Clifton CBE

Rita Clifton CBE

Rita is a portfolio chair and non-executive director of leading businesses and in the non-profit sector. She is joining Forum for the Future as Chair of the Board of Trustees on 1 December 2020. Read more

Published: 25th November, 2020

Updated: 21st December, 2020

Author: Maria Powazka

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Volker Beckers

Volker Beckers

Volker has built up more than 20 years’ senior experience within the utility industry and has a comprehensive knowledge of European energy markets. He was Group CEO, RWE Npower plc until the end of 2012. Read more

Published: 18th June, 2018

Updated: 10th July, 2019

Author: Madeleine Wild

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    Terms of Reference: Communications & Content Marketing Consultant

    The School of System Change is seeking a freelance Communications & Content Marketing Consultant on a part time basis to lead the development and publication of compelling content that helps drive recruitment for the School’s 2021 programmes.

  • Business risk and the pandemic: Insights from sustainability leaders

    Business risk and the pandemic: Insights from sustainability leaders

    Oriana Brine, Senior Sustainability Strategist, examines the importance of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) in how organisations responded to the pandemic, and what we can learn from this to create future-fit businesses.

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    Sustainable mobility in 2021 & beyond: three dynamic areas & how to intervene systemically

    As we swiftly close the door to 2020, and look forward to 2021, I took time to look broadly at the present and future of mobility systems and sustainability.

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    The Five Capitals - a framework for sustainability

    The Five Capitals Model provides a basis for understanding sustainability in terms of the economic concept of wealth creation or ‘capital’. Any organisation will use five types of capital to deliver its products or services. A sustainable organisation will maintain and where possible enhance these stocks of capital assets, rather than deplete or degrade them.

  • Reinventing the way the world works.

    Reinventing the way the world works.

    Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit. We specialise in addressing critical global challenges by catalysing change in key systems, from food to apparel, energy to shipping. We do this by convening transformational collaborations to drive change, by partnering with organisations to help them lead by example, and by building a global community of pioneers and change makers.

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  • Sustainability and system change

    Sustainability and system change

    Climate change, malnutrition, inequality, poverty, ecological degradation. The global challenges we face are so urgent and tricky that we need a solution to match their scale and complexity. This is where system change comes in. We use systems thinking to understand the web of interrelations that create complex problems, anticipate unintended consequences, and identify how and where to take action to meet the SDG goals.

  • What is a sustainable business model?

    What is a sustainable business model?

    What is a sustainable business model? The term signals the need to go beyond innovating products or services, and change the fundamentals of how a business makes money.

  • Pioneering sustainability strategies

    Pioneering sustainability strategies

    Leadership in the 2020s is about your organisation’s ability to positively influence its operating context. We help you to understand the opportunities, and then how to unlock them.

  • Protein Challenge 2040

    Protein Challenge 2040

    The Protein Challenge 2040 is the first global coalition of its kind, aiming to tackle the question: How do we provide up to 10 billion people with enough protein in a way that is healthy, affordable and good for the planet?

  • Fashion Futures 2025

    Fashion Futures 2025

    Working with Levi Strauss and Co using futures techniques to develop global scenarios for a sustainable fashion industry.

  • What is Net Positive?

    What is Net Positive?

    We reinvent strategies for a 1.5°C world. Our Net Positive approach helps business put back more into society and environment than it takes out. Unilever’s pioneering commitment to eliminate fossil fuels from its operations and directly support the generation of more renewable energy than they consume was driven behind the scenes by Forum.

  • Become a system change agent

    Become a system change agent

    Learn more about upcoming programmes and express your interest.

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