Speakers

Our high-quality speakers are essential to ensuring our events engage audiences and provide relevant, up-to-date and innovative content for our delegates. If you are an innovator or influencer in your field, or know someone who is, please apply below.

Susan Acland-Hood

Permanent secretary at the Department for Education

UK Government

Mark Adom-Asamoah

STEM adviser to the ministry of education

Government of Ghana

Sam Barratt

Chief of the Youth, Education and Advocacy Unit

UN Environment Programme

Martin Baxter

Director

Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment

Phil Beach

Chief executive

Energy and Utility Skills

Joe Billington

Deputy director of sustainability and strategic projects at the Department for Education

UK Government

Tracy Black

Regional director (Scotland)

Confederation of British Industry

Charlotte Bonner

CEO

EAUC

Grace Breen

Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager

The Prince's Trust

Jean-Christophe Carteron

President

Sulitest

Chris Cooper

Global lead for technical and vocational education and training

British Council

Rachel Cooper

Strategy director

Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education

Emma Deraze

Senior data scientist

THE

Joy Egbe

Chief impact officer

Newdigit Technologies

Teresa Frith

Senior skills policy manager

Association of Colleges

Rebecca George

Skills business adviser

UK Government

Robert Godfrey

Co-founder

Treeconomy

Ben Goodwin

Director of policy and public affairs

Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment

Robert Halfon

Minister of state for skills

UK Government

Judith Herbertson

Head of the Girls’ Education Department

UK Government

Neil Hewitson

Director

KPMG

Gillian Keegan

Secretary of state for education

UK Government

Paul Kett

Senior Adviser and Global Director, Education and Skills

PwC

Julia King

Incumbent chair

Carbon Trust

Louise Kingham

Senior vice-president (Europe) and head of country

British Petroleum

Armando Leal

the Co-founder and Managing Director

Eutechtics

Jonathan Ledger

TVE and training skills and professional bodies specialist in the Department for Business and Trade

UK Government

Shelagh Legrave

Further education commissioner

UK Government

Michael Lewis

CEO

Uniper

Polly Mackenzie

Chief social purpose officer

University of the Arts London

Clare Martin

Curriculum lead

NatWest

Rahman Mogaji

National project manager of the Vocational and Enterprise Skills Development management system

Government of Nigeria

Sein Ó Muineacháin

Data science manager

Darius Oguto

Director of higher education for the Ministry of Education

Government of Kenya

Christine Özden

Global director of climate education

Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Liz Price

Deputy pro vice-chancellor of sustainability

Manchester Metropolitan University

Deepak Rai

Vice-president

Skill Council for Green Jobs

Dave Reay

Executive director of the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

The University of Edinburgh

Debra Rowe

President

U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development

Misato Sato

Deputy director of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

London School of Economics and Political Science

Andreas Schleicher

Director of education and skills

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Steve Smith

International education champion

UK Government

Tim Sowula

World Summit Series editor

THE

Graham Stuart

Minister of state for energy security and net zero in the Department for Education

UK Government

Jaime Toney

Co-founder and director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions

University of Glasgow

Maria van Veldhuizen

Project manager

Global Women's Network for the Energy Transition

Alex Veitch

Director of policy

British Chambers of Commerce

Will Wale

DfE youth focal point

Students Organising for Sustainability

Eliot Whittington

Director of policy

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Beccy Wilson

Environmental consultant

Arup

Neil Wilson

Environmental Accounts and Surveys team

Office for National Statistics

Judy Ling Wong

Honorary president

Black Environment Network

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