With a background in aerospace engineering, three world records in cycling, and a triathlon championship title, Kate is currently doing Climate Cycle – a 3,000 mile, 90 day cycle on a hand-made bamboo bike across the length and breadth of mainland Britain, visiting sustainability projects, to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Find out more and support here: https://katestrong.global/climatecycle/
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Seán McCabe
Seán is the Climate Justice Officer with Bohemians – a first in the world of football. In this role, he is working with the club to design climate responses that can be both led by and empower the club’s fans and their communities. He also works as the secretariat member with responsibility for strategy with the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative – a global coalition of organisations working to secure children’s right to a safe and healthy environment.
Over the past year, he has supported the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in the development of authoritative guidance to States on the protection of children’s rights with respect to the environment and climate change. Previously he worked with the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, in seeking to advance climate justice within the UN system and subsequently authored The People’s Transition: Community-led Development for Climate Justice with the European Foundation for Progressive Studies and the Think Tank for Action on Social Change.
The People’s Transition is a participative decision-making model that views climate action as an enabler of local development and gives people and communities ownership of the transition to zero-carbon societies to tackle inequality and raise standards of living through the delivery of climate solutions. He has worked with the Environmental Protection Agency in Freetown, Sierra Leone and with communities facing extreme poverty in Kolkata, India.
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Gemma Morgan
Gemma is the Category Director for Beverages at Danone UK & Ireland. She leads Danone’s portfolio of beverage brands in the UK, which includes evian, volvic and Harrogate. She joined Danone Waters UK&I in 2017 to head up the evian marketing team. She began her marketing career in Danone’s Dairy Division in the UK working on the Activia and Actimel brands. She later moved to Canada leading the Naya brand relaunch for Danone Naya Waters, then returned to UK to lead communications on Activia. In 2010 she moved to Johnson and Johnson, where as Global Senior Marketing Manager she led strategy, communications and innovation for the Cough Cold franchise. She returned to Danone in 2017 and took up her current position in 2021.
Jana Janotova
Jana joined the newly established Sports for Nature team at IUCN in mid-2023. As Engagement Officer, she is responsible for building and managing relations with and between the wider sports and nature conservation communities and helping develop sports’ capacity to champion nature and contribute to its protection and restoration.
Jana came into the role with a rich sustainability-and-sports expertise and capacity building and training experience having worked on sustainability, public affairs and international relations in the Olympic movement (Czech Olympic Committee and the European Olympic Committees EU Office) for the last decade.
In her career, Jana has had the privilege to lead or co-manage several exiting projects and initiatives, including the “As Sustainable As Possible” project, which helped three National Olympic Committees develop and implement sustainability strategies, and the Czech Olympic Committee’s Master of Public Administration programme on Sport Diplomacy. She is also a member of the European Olympic Committees Sustainability and Active Society Commission.
Kate Chapman
With over 20 years’ experience as a sustainability consultant, mainly within the sports and major events sector, and a parallel career developing purpose, leadership, culture and values in business, Kate knows what actually works when it comes to developing and implementing sustainability strategies, and how to embed them within an organisation.
Kate has worked in sport sustainability for the Royal Yachting Association, The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and for the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). She has been working with London Marathon Events since 2013 – at first as an external Sustainability Advisor to the RideLondon cycling event and from 2018 helping LME to develop and implement its sustainability strategy. Kate has recently joined LME permanently as Head of Sustainability, working across LME’s portfolio of running, cycling and swimming events to help deliver on an ambitious sustainability strategy. She also plays a key role in the MSO (Mass Participation Sports Organisers) group – driving collaboration on environmental sustainability throughout the mass participation industry.
Alongside her work with sport, Kate has supported over 100 companies across a wide range of sectors with B Corp certification. B Corps are companies that demonstrate the highest levels of positive social and environmental impact.
And yes – she has run the London Marathon – slowly!
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Kelli Jerome
For nearly fifteen years Kelli has been helping to inspire, support and champion sustainability and climate action in and through golf. As Executive Director of the GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf, she manages organisation operations and the effective development and delivery of programmes and services to meet global stakeholder needs and the overall strategic vision for golf courses, tournaments, players and associations. Prior to joining the sport and sustainability movement, Kelli was at Microsoft’s Seattle headquarters in product management and strategic relations.
