2022

With over 15 years of experience in energy and sustainability roles for high street brands such as Sainsbury’s, Starbucks and WeWork, Jaz brings a wealth of knowledge covering topics such as energy management, waste reduction, sustainable packaging, behaviour change and social impact. In 2015 she was awarded a Royal Honours by King Charles III for her services to the sustainability sector. Jaz volunteers much of her time as a STEM Ambassador to help raise the awareness of energy/engineering careers, helping to create a pipeline of future energy professionals.

As Director, Social Responsibility & Sustainability for the NBA, Annie Horn leads the league’s environmental sustainability efforts internally and across NBA teams, venues, players, partners and its affiliate leagues. Horn led the NBA becoming the first professional sports league in North America to sign the UN Sport For Climate Action Framework, aspiring to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2040. Horn also spearheaded the NBA’s first baseline carbon footprint analysis and the public disclosure of its carbon emissions in 2023, including Scopes 1, 2, and 3 emissions. She launched the league’s internal NBA Green Working Group, growing to represent 29 internal departments with collaboration across all 18 of the NBA’s international offices.

Prior to the NBA, Horn began her career in Cape Town, South Africa – working for a non-profit organization that leveraged soccer as a tool for HIV/AIDS prevention. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Emory University where she played soccer for four years. During college, she founded Think Pink, a campus-wide initiative to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. Horn is passionate about the intersection of sport and social impact, health and wellness, and taking small steps to be more environmentally conscious.

Holding the first ever Chief Purpose Officer title in global sport and entertainment, Fiona joined SailGP in 2020, to establish the world-recognised, and award-winning, Impact League – sport’s first Podium for the Planet.

A dynamic, industry-leading Boardroom NED and advisor, with unstoppable energy to drive impactful change alongside business growth. Fiona has over 20 years’ experience impact to shape some of the world’s most high-profile sports brands and organisations – from London 2012, Westfield, SAP, Omnicom and IMG, through to athletes such as Lewis Hamilton, David Beckham and Chris Evert.

She is the pioneer behind recent initiatives across Sky’s corporate and social purpose team, with campaigns such as Sky Cycling/Team Sky and Sky Ocean Rescue – reaching over 50 million people across Europe.

A passionate advocate for using sport as a platform for good – and igniting this passion in others – Fiona is a proud ambassador for Meaningful Business, a non-exec board member at Manchester Originals Hundred team, a member of the British Paralympic Association Social Impact Committee and a founding member of Sports Pro New Era female sports mentoring program.

Jamie’s thirteen-year rugby career saw him captain his country on the international stage. He has played fifty-nine international sevens tournaments for Scotland and is their second highest try scorer of all time. He won Twickenham Sevens back to back in 2016 and 2017, has been to two Commonwealth Games and two World Cups and is a European Games silver medalist with Team GB. He has also played for Cambridge University in the Varsity match.

Alongside playing, Jamie is a leading voice in the sport and sustainability space. He co-wrote a letter to World Rugby demanding environmental action signed by hundreds of professional players and gaining international media attention. He then worked with his own union to galvanise sustainability action and helped set up an ESG group which baselined current activity and workshopped sustainability aims from which to write a sustainability plan. Jamie’s research at Cambridge University has focussed upon sport’s role in influencing the uptake of sustainable technology amongst fans in the transition to a net zero economy, and he has used his platform to speak about sport’s responsibility in light of the climate crisis and the positive impact it can and should be having.

He has spoken at COP28, Global Sports Week, Sport Positive, COG-X, and at the Hong Kong sustainability summit. He has also spoken on podcasts such as High Impact Athletes, Emergency on Planet Sport, the ESG engagement podcast and has co-presented an hour-long BBC radio show on sustainability at the Rugby World Cup. Jamie has picked up awards as the International Olympic Committee Sustainability Ambassador award winner, Mastercard’s Future XV of those shaping the future of rugby, and is sustainability ambassador for Scottish Rugby and the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Jaime is the Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion Manager at World Rugby, the global governing body for rugby union. With over 15 years experience working in international sport relations, development and sustainability, previous roles prior to joining the international federation included event management and government administration. A passion for sustainability, collaboration and the transformative power of sports, particularly rugby, have all helped motivate Jaime across a wide range of professional and personal objectives and achievements.

His playing boots have been swapped for coaching ones and when not on or at the side of the pitch, he can be found out and about in nature or eyeing up the next gardening task on the list.

Barbara leads the sustainability agenda of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), the governing body for motorsport. She drives global, sector-wide sustainability efforts for the FIA internally, its 245 sport and mobility member associations, and 7 world championships (Formula 1, WRC, RX, WEC, Karting, W2RC, Formula E).

Since joining the FIA in 2017, Barbara has developed the first gender equality programme of the sport (FIA Girls on Track) and the Environmental Strategy 2020-2030. Recently, she led the FIA’s inaugural participation in the UN Conference on Climate (COP), defining the Federation’s role in accelerating a just transition towards a net zero transport sector.

With 9 years of experience in sustainability, Barbara holds a MSc in Environmental Management from Oxford Brookes and a BA in International Relations from the University of Geneva. In 2021, she became an alumna of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

General Manager at Real Betis Balompié Foundation since 2018, with experience in policy design, institutional coordination and field interventions in Asia, Central America, Europe, and United Nations global events. Specialising in environmental issues, sports, youth employment, social inclusion of vulnerable groups of people, within the framework of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Kim Wilson is Director of Sustainability at McLaren Racing. Since joining the team in January 2022, Kim has built and directed the team’s strategic sustainability programme. Under Kim’s guidance, the team is now focused on clear sustainability goals falling into four key pillars: Net Zero, Circular Economy, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Health & Wellbeing.

Kim trained as a chartered accountant at KPMG and has built her career on the solid foundations of this experience as a sustainability assurance provider, consultant and in-house specialist. Kim held leadership positions in sustainability with ERM and EDF UK prior to joining McLaren.

Julie is an experienced sustainability professional with a particular focus on challenging strategies, management and strategic social, environmental, economic and ethical advice for a wide variety of international projects. She has led teams in several offices and oversees initiatives in other areas where innovative solutions are provided to resolve particularly challenging strategies and projects. She has worked on numerous projects abroad including in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Oceania, North America, South America and the Bahamas.

Julie has worked, and continues to work, on a series of high-profile and complex bespoke corporate strategies, as well as more specialised research-focused projects, where her ability to protect and enhance a strategy or policy as well as co-ordinate and review a wide range of technical inputs linked to an aptitude to both lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams, has promoted and then successfully delivered such projects.

Julie has facilitated workshops and been invited as a guest speaker at international conferences and has facilitated strategic meetings with government officials, NGOs and opinion formers. She works as an existing relationship manager with UN Agencies and has a thorough understanding of how societies and their institutions, economies and environments interact to influence sustainable development and the adaptability of livelihoods and communities to both environmental and political change.

Julie has a particular focus on leading the delivery of net zero strategies within highly complex environments and organisations.