2024

At Sky Charlotte leads on embedding human rights considerations across our business, supply chain, with partners and as a sports broadcaster. With Sky as a founding member, Charlotte has been on the Advisory Council of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights and TV Industry Human Rights Forum for over five years. Previously working in responsible sourcing and sustainability reporting at Sky, and before that at Aviva leading community partnership’s including climate resilience programmes – Charlotte’s experience spans climate action and human rights, and increasingly on opportunities to support just and equitable transitions.

Since 2014 Luca is Founder & CEO at Right Hub Società Benefit, an Italian consulting company providing to any kind of organization, regardless the industry, a wide range of sustainable management services (ESG Strategy, Sustainable Supply Chain, Social Procurement and Supplier Diversity, Work Inclusion of People with Disabilities, Carbon Footprint, Sustainable Management of Events ISO 20121, Sustainable Management of Tourism Facilities ISO 21401, Environmental Management ISO 14001, Ad-hoc Sustainable Management Framework).

Luca has been co-Founder and co-Chairman of the not-for-profit Italian organization “Acquisti & Sostenibilità”, a unique organization established in 2007 to inspire sustainable and responsible procurement, supply chain and business practices across Italian enterprises.

More than 15 years of experience in design and implementation of sustainable supply chains and more than 10 years in sustainable management of events.

A highly respected professional in his field, Luca has 30 years of procurement and supply management experience. He has served numerous national and multinational organizations in different industries, including Esa Elettronica, Gewiss, Vemer, Black & Decker Power Tools, Riello Group, GlaxoSmithKline and Gruppo Montepaschi.

His procurement activities, involving both production and non-production materials and services, have spanned several market sectors, including electronic devices; residential and industrial electrical networking products; air conditioning and heating systems; electric power tools; pharmaceuticals and banking.

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.

Hugo founded Carbon Responsible in 2012 and his experience in carbon reporting and management began in 2006. He has delivered award-winning technology solutions for reporting of emissions and developed the world’s most advanced global emissions reporting tool.

His career as both an Executive Chairman and CEO in leisure and technology businesses has seen him successfully develop, transform and build companies to deliver shareholder value through a focused approach to converting vision into action.

James Beale is sustainability manager at Brentford FC, a Premier League football team based in west London. James is responsible for implementing the club’s environmental sustainability strategy focusing on five pillars: governance, climate, circularity, nature and engagement. Prior to working at Brentford, he was with Deloitte’s sustainability team for eight years, primarily working in the sports business group to advise sports organisations on all areas of sustainability

Andy is passionate about the opportunity the sport and physical activity sector has to become more environmentally responsible and a beacon of positive change.

Andy has worked across Sport England’s environmental sustainability portfolio for the past 2 years: developing insight on what’s needed to create the conditions for change; putting inequalities and inclusion at the heart of the plans; delivering sector support to inspire and enable action; and shaping Every Move, Sport England’s environmental sustainability strategy and action plan. This sets out a roadmap for a positive and regenerative sport and physical activity ecosystem championing environmental sustainability and enabling greater opportunity for all people to participate in sport and physical activity, now and in the future.

Starting his career in the non-profit practices at Deloitte and Accenture, then leading a B Corps and most recently influencing national health & wellbeing policies at Sport England – Andy has worked across the sport, health and sustainability sectors for 20 years in finance, strategy and advocacy roles supporting organisations to drive their strategies through a focus on people, planet and prosperity.

Daniel Cade is a leading expert in responsible decision-making with 15 years of international experience in sustainability and ESG. As a consultant for World Taekwondo, he has developed and coordinated the implementation of their sustainability strategy and recently produced their first sustainability report. Through his consultancy, Responsible Sport, Daniel advises on strategic sustainability practices and emphasises education to drive impactful change. He is also the creator of the Sustainability in Sport Online Course, developed in collaboration with Global Sustainable Sport.

Briony Latter is a climate change researcher focusing on people and society. She is a Research Associate at the UK Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) at Cardiff University where she recently completed a PhD. She has worked across freelance, organisational and academic research roles and has a background in the creative industry and communications.

Her work covers public engagement, social transformations across different sectors and scales, and arts, culture and sport. This has included projects about sustainable audience travel to live music events, co-design research with older people about healthy ageing, climate conversations between hairdressers and clients, and low-carbon culture and practices in universities. Briony is also the Environmental Officer for the Welsh Fell Runners Association (WFRA), where she has set up their Environment Awards and created climate and environmental guidance for the fell running community.

Sander van Stiphout is leading the innovation and advisory departments of the Johan Cruijff ArenA and is part of the stadium’s Management Team for many years.

What drives Sander is to contribute to a sustainable stadium with great fan engagement. Sustainability does entail ESG as well as financial sustainability to be able to continuously adapt to changing demands of any kind.

To achieve tangible goals for the stadium and its main stakeholders Ajax, KNVB and the City of Amsterdam he drives innovation among ecosystem partners such as large corporates, government, knowledge institutes, SME’s and start-ups, using the stadium as a field lab.

Sander has worked on stadium projects worldwide and was involved in projects related to all recent major tournaments, such as the Russia and Brazil World Cups. Sander was special stadium operations consultant to the Qatar Supreme Committee in relation to the FIFA World Cup 2022 preparations. Currently he serves as an advisor to the French Ministry of Finance supporting the operations tender of the Stade de France.