Libi Newell is Head of Corporate Sustainability within the Sustainable Golf team at The R&A. Libi directs the organisations work across operational sustainability and leads development and implementation of The R&A’s Greenlinks programme for sustainable championships, embedding meaningful action within The AIG Women’s Open and The Open, focused on themes of low carbon, circular economy, social value and nature protection. Recognising golf’s intrinsic relationship with the natural environment, and the responsibility and opportunities that poses biodiversity is a core focus of The R&A’s Sustainable Golf teams global work.
With a background in conservation and master degree in Ecotourism Libi has now worked in sustainability in sport over the past 12 years Libi’s previous experience includes the Olympic and Commonwealth Games as well as supporting a range sport organisations as a freelance consultant prior to joining The R&A at the end of 2022.
