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Dr. Denise Ludlam

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Denise Ludlam joined Sport England in 2023 as Environmental Sustainability Strategic Lead, helping to drive Sport England’s sustainability ambitions and supporting the grassroots and community sport and physical activity sector to become more environmentally sustainable.

Denise has built her career in environmental sustainability, drawing on a strong scientific background and extensive experience across the public, charity and environmental sectors. She spent several years working in the protected landscapes sector, both in the UK and across Europe, helping to conserve and enhance some of the most valued natural environments.

Prior to joining the public sector, Denise worked in the charity sector, where she managed an urban nature reserve and led initiatives that connected people with nature while promoting conservation and environmental stewardship.

With a breadth of experience spanning environmental policy, conservation, stakeholder engagement and sustainable development, Denise brings valuable expertise to the sporting system. She is passionate about helping organisations and communities reduce their environmental impact and build a more sustainable future for sport and physical activity.

Julie Duffus

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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.

Claire Poole

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Claire is the CEO and Founder of Sport Positive, supporting the global sports industry to increase action and ambition on climate change, sustainability, biodiversity and environmental justice; through direct support, community creation, the annual Sport Positive Summit, Sport Positive Leagues and The Climate of Sport podcast.
Sport Positive Summit is the annual award-winning, leading global meeting place for sports effecting positive environmental impacts, in collaboration with UNFCCC and the International Olympic Committee. Sport Positive Leagues rank and highlight environmental sustainability efforts of top flight sports organisations, to drive industry progress.
In 2017 she was cited as doing ‘more than anyone alive to mobilize convocations for sustainability advocates throughout the sport world’ and in 2022 she appeared on Sport Business Journal’s ‘Influential Executives To Know in Sports Sustainability’ list. Her views and work have been covered by BBC Sport, Sky Sports News, The Mirror, BT Sport, Euronews, The Independent, Reuters, The Times, The New York Times, The Nikkei, The Japan Times, Forbes, The Athletic, Rouleur, Euractiv, Ecolospot and more. She is a frequent keynote speaker and chairperson at industry conferences.
Additionally Claire is an Advisory Board Member for Ecoathletes, Athletes of the World and The Sport Ecology Group; Advisory Committee Member for The Council for Responsible Sport’s Standard for Organisations and IWBI’s WELL Advisory on Sports and Entertainment Venues. She sits on the UEFA Environment Steering Group and is also part of the albert Sports Consortium, for sports broadcasters to tackle their environmental footprint.

Amy Munro

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Amy Munro is a sustainability strategist working across sport to drive social and environmental change. As Director of Foxall Munro, she supports organisations in developing sustainability strategies and delivering social impact projects, and is Co-Founder of The Toolbox, a free sustainability platform providing open-access tools and resources to accelerate action.

Amy’s background includes sustainability strategy development and implementation for high-performance sailing campaigns, including the British Challenger for the 35th America’s Cup and 11th Hour Racing Team ahead of The Ocean Race 2022–23. She also serves on the World Sailing Sustainability Commission and as a jury member for the DAME Design Awards.