James is a partner at SystemiQ and Chairman of the Overseas Development Institute. He is also an adviser to the Climate Bonds Initiative and Carbon Tracker, and a trustee member of the UK Green Building Council. Previously, he was a non-executive director of Solarcentury and co-founder and chairman of Climate Change Capital (CCC), which grew to be a thriving banking business employing 150 people with $1.5 billion under management. Whilst at CCC, James was named Leader of the Year 2013 at the BusinessGreen Leaders awards.

After starting his career at Google, Sam led the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), a not-for-profit research body to become the first and only organisation in the world to rank the world’s largest listed companies by their greenhouse gas emissions and disclosure. In 2014 he co-founded Engaged Tracking to commercialise the work of the EIO. Sam is author of Environmental Tracking 3.0 and serves on the Board of a human rights NGO. He also mentors several other young companies in the climate change sector. Sam holds a first class degree in French from the University of London Institute in Paris.

Brigitte is an expert in strategic business development, with more than fifteen years experience of innovation in finance. She has developed new companies, products and services for a number of FTSE100 companies in Europe and the United States. She is a passionate advocate of creating great working environments in companies, a practicing coach, and an environmentalist. Brigitte speaks five languages, holds an MBA from Insead and a degree in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Cass Business School.

Jonathan has over a decade’s worth of expertise in portfolio risk modelling. Before co-founding Engaged Tracking, he completed the development of a global multi-asset class portfolio risk model at Credit Suisse. He has worked at investment and trading houses across four continents. Jonathan holds an MSc in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University and a BSc (Honours) in Physics and Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. He is currently completing an executive PhD in Finance at EDHEC Business School, the leading business school for index-related financial research.