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As the Director of ESG for Arsenal Football Club, Hannah leads the club’s environmental sustainability programme, driving initiatives that reduce emissions and promote sustainable practices. Under her leadership, Arsenal became the first football club in the world to have a net-zero target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative, ensuring its climate commitments align with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Since announcing this target, Hannah has built impactful projects, including upgrading over 9,000 lightbulbs at Emirates Stadium to LED and decarbonising the club’s main office. She has also led efforts to embed sustainability within the club’s culture, implementing training and policies for staff while engaging young people through Academy and Community programmes. Alongside the partnerships team, Hannah received the award for Sustainability Campaign of the Year at last season’s Sport Positive Awards for a club initiative that inspired supporters worldwide to score over 55,000 ‘green goals’ for the environment, reinforcing Arsenal’s commitment to leading sustainable change in football.

Alex spent over five years with Liverpool Football Club’s Partnerships team, where he bridged commercial strategy with sustainability impact. He drove revenue growth while advancing The Red Way, the Club’s award-winning sustainability programme.

Beyond LFC, Alex served as a trustee and now acts as commercial advisor to Pledgeball, a charity empowering fans, clubs and federations to address climate change and environmental sustainability. Pledgeball was named Grassroots Organisation of the Year at the 2024 BBC Green Sport Awards.

Ramiro Pazos has served as the sustainability leader at Racing Club since 2015. He is also the sports director of the consulting firm Proyecto Sustentable, where he develops environmental initiatives for the Argentine sports industry in general.

He has been working on sustainability-related issues in sports for ten years, with valuable experience in communications and sports management.

James is responsible for driving forward the club’s environmental sustainability and the community strategies, making positive impact across the organisation and advancing action across our staff, players, fans and in our wider community. 

For 20 years, John has worked in the sports events industry across a multitude of sports and events staged across the UK and the world.

John is currently the Event Director for the World Boxing Championships taking place in Liverpool this September, an event set to be the largest international boxing tournament in history, and aiming to set new standards for the sport in community and social engagement, whilst committing to show the global boxing community that these events can be delivered successfully whilst placing sustainability at the forefront of its planning.

Previously, John has worked across local and national government, as well as supporting dozens of national governing bodies to develop and delivery their major event hosting aspirations.

Dr. Sasha Sutherland is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization (RADO). In her role she manages teams in the 18 Caribbean RADO member countries to strengthen their anti-doping frameworks. She is also a lecturer at The University of the West Indies and serves as a Director of the Barbados Olympic Association Inc., where she is Chair of the Education Commission, a member of the Governance Commission and Sustainability Lead.

With a desire to increase awareness around issues of gender (in)equality, governance and doping in sport, she has published work on menstrual health, Sport for Development, sexism and sport impacts on girls and women, and gender and race in sport. She is also Chair of the Barbados Girls Cricket Club- the first of its kind in the Caribbean. Here she is committed, with her team, to provide safe spaces for girls to participate in and thrive in and through sport.

She is a former triple-discipline athlete of Lawn Tennis, Football and Hockey and enjoys Open Water Swimming who brings her knowledge of being athlete, administrator and academic together to inform the world in any way she can.

Theodore Keeping is a Climate Scientist who works for World Weather Attribution at Imperial College London.

He researches how highly impactful extreme weather is changing in severity and regularity in response to climate change with a focus on wildfires. Keeping’s work also investigates how intensifying extreme weather events are impacting human health, for example due to heat waves or smoke from wildfires.

Rodrigo Lois is a sports journalist from media group Globo (Brazil). He works as reporter and TV producer, specialised in international football. Rodrigo runs a section on the show “Redação”, from TV channel “sportv”, called “Clima em Jogo” (Climate in game). This section is about how sports, specially football, relates to climate change.

Rodrigo Lois has more than 15 years of experience covering the sports industry, mainly football. He was a TV correspondent in Berlin in 2014, for “sportv”. He has covered FIFA World Cups, Olympic Games and other sports great events. The journalist also did articles and lives transmitions about Chapecoense’s air tragedy, Covid-19 pandemic and burnings at Pantanal.

Having started his career in 2021 working alongside Southampton Football Club, Chris specialised in Scope 3 reporting and reduction strategies, focusing on away travel across multiple teams, a first for the club as part of its pioneering Halo Effect sustainability strategy, launched just months earlier. This work significantly advanced the club’s understanding of its carbon footprint and transition plans as part of its net zero goals. Following this, Chris transitioned into the golfing sector with the GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf, where he supported the sustainability journey of over 2,000 member clubs toward GEO Certification, while also strengthening relationships with national governing bodies. Today, Chris is the first-ever site-based Food and Beverage Sustainability Manager at a Premier League football club, working for Levy UK. In this role, he drives sustainability across stadium operations, aligning with the club’s decarbonisation and broader sustainability goals. His work spans a wide range of events hosted at the stadium, including football matches, NFL games, and concerts.