Hattie Park is the Sustainability Manager at Wimbledon, leading their Environment Positive strategy. She is an environmental sustainability specialist with fifteen years’ experience developing and delivering corporate sustainability strategies. At Wimbledon she is involved in everything from integrating sustainability within long-term regeneration plans and emission reporting, to delivering Championship-specific initiatives. She joined the AELTC in February 2019 after 9 years as sustainability manager at the BBC.
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Julia Pallé
Julia Pallé is a leading expert on sustainability in motorsport and the international elite sport industry. As Sustainability Director at the world’s first all-electric motor racing series, Formula E, Julia certified the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship net zero carbon since inception, the first sport in the world to achieve the standard.
Julia is also Sustainability Advisor for Extreme E, the all-electric SUVs series, bringing electric racing to some of the most remote corners of the planet to highlight the climate change challenges faced by different ecosystems. Widely recognised as a leader in sustainability in global sport, Julia is a regular speaker at major events and conferences including COP26, Bloomberg, Sport Positive Summit, and FIA Smart Cities. Her industry roles include President of Sports and Sustainability international (SandSI), an international association of sustainable experts working to broadening and harmonising the international sport and sustainability movement. Before joining Formula E and defining the sustainability strategy, Julia was sustainability executive at Michelin Motorsport. Her primary area of research has focused on Business & Sustainability, Change Management and Project Management especially in Motorsport.
David Garrido
David Garrido is a Sky Sports presenter with almost 25 years’ experience in the industry, and he is widely considered one of the leading communicators and content-makers for sport and sustainability in the UK and Europe. His documentary, ‘Football’s Toughest Opponent’, explores the relationship between the biggest sport in the world and the climate crisis, and his ongoing episodic series, ‘Playing For The Planet’, profiles elite athletes and their journeys in climate action. Recent guests include British men’s tennis number 1 Cam Norrie, Premier League footballer Ben Mee, double Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills and marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge.
Katie Cross
Katie is founder and CEO of Pledgeball, a research-backed charity that supports sports bodies to engage fans on environmental sustainability and climate change. Working with stakeholders across the sports community, from clubs, County FAs and leagues to the Lawn Tennis Association and Football Supporters’ Association, Pledgeball effectively mobilises fans and players to make pro-environmental choices resulting in a reduction in emissions on game day and beyond.
Iris Albulet
Iris studied an MA in History and Sociology of the Middle East at the University of Erfurt (2019 to 2022) and the University of Saint Joseph in Beirut as well as an MA in Peace and Conflict Management at the University of Haifa (Topol Fellow) from 2018 to 2019. She is a passionate footballer who is responsible for social media, communication and workshop delivery for Spirit of Football’s “One Ball, One World” project. She especially likes to deliver workshops that inspire people and organisations to take sustainable action and to use social media to communicate participants’ stories and ideas. She co-led Spirit of Football’s global sustainability project “One Ball, One World” which took The Ball across 21 countries in 13 months – learning about and advocating for climate action.
Chris Broadbent
Chris Broadbent has worked in senior roles in Olympic sport for 25 years. He is Founder and CEO of Planet Earth Games Trust, a UK-wide charity on a mission to inspire people to active and sustainable lives through the power of sport and physical activity. The charity has collaborated with scores of UK Sports Governing Bodies, professional sports clubs, non-profits and sustainable businesses to engage tens of thousands of people in community, education and workplace settings. Planet Earth Games has worked particularly closely with Youth Sport Trust, School Games and Association of Colleges, which led to the charity collecting the BASIS Sustainable Sports Award for Education in 2022. They are set to launch a new community plogging programme in November 2023.
Lydia Carrington
Lydia Carrington is Sustainability Manager at Warwickshire County Cricket Club who leads Edgbaston Stadium on the venues sustainability strategy and targets. Through educating and inspiring change, she takes pride in encouraging interaction and engagement amongst spectators, fans and staff, whilst driving down the environmental impact of the Stadium’s emissions through the use of new technologies and verified data.
She has led Edgbaston Stadium to become the first cricket ground in the UK to gain the ISO20121 accreditation, highlighting their commitment to Sustainable Event Management. She also led the planning and delivery of the UK’s first sustainable international cricket matchday, the Go Green Game, held in September 2023. The event aimed to reduce operational emissions, whilst engaging and educating spectators and viewers from around the world using the sports industry platform.
Frank Lawley
Frank Lawley is Head of Corporate Partnerships at UNICEF UK, leading the partnerships team, with a focus on strategic relationships with the private sector. Previously Frank was Head of Sport at UNICEF UK, responsible for partnerships that increased the social impact of sports organisations, delivering purpose-led campaigns and empowering children through sport. Frank has worked on some of UNICEF’s high profile climate change and sport partnerships, including UNICEF’s global partnership with Formula E.
In addition to partnerships, Frank works with UNICEF UK’s sports ambassadors and high-profile supporters, creating and delivering activations with the likes of Marcus Rashford, Gareth Bale and Chris Hoy to raise awareness of UNICEF’s work for children. Previously Frank worked at the British Red Cross where he set up their first sport engagement strategy.
Jenny Hughes
Jenny is an Associate Director at Nature Positive. She works with businesses and organisations to design, develop and deliver sustainability strategies to leave a positive legacy for people and planet. Jenny was previously the recipient of the BusinessGreen Leaders Award for “Young Sustainability Executive of the Year”. With a background in Geography and a master’s in environmental management, Jenny has ten years’ experience in different sectors, including sports and leisure, the built environment, energy, construction, and hospitality. She brings experience advising on a range of sustainability topics including biodiversity, social value, and climate change.
Current and recent projects include working with a UK sports and leisure organisation to develop their sustainability strategy, a biodiversity impact assessment for a construction company, developing an ocean strategy for a multinational business, and supporting RSK group to develop their sustainability strategy. Nature Positive is part of the RSK Group of companies, formed of more than 200 environmental, engineering and technical services businesses and a global leader in the delivery of complete sustainable solutions.
Jim White
Jim is a Principal Consultant for Nature Positive, part of the RSK Group, who works to integrate sustainability into the heart of the organisations he works with. Having worked across multiple sectors, including sports and leisure, construction, manufacturing, travel and chemicals, he understands the environmental issues that are material to business and has a particular passion for seeing nature rise up the corporate agenda. Jim has experience developing both corporate and project level sustainability strategies and targets, with a focus on proactive, tangible actions to generate positive change. In the sports sector he is currently working with Charlton Athletic Football Club and Cardiff Rugby to support their sustainability ambitions.
Nature Positive is a management consultancy filled with a unique combination of environmental, sustainability and business specialists, and part of the RSK Group of companies. The RSK Group is formed of more than 200 environmental, engineering and technical services businesses and a global leader in the delivery of complete sustainable solutions.