Responsible Business Summit

Who’s making change and who’s faking it?

Special guests

Alan Jope CEO, Unilever; previously President of Unilever’s Personal Care business
Alexander Stafford MP for Rother Valley and a member of the BEIS Select Committee; previously worked for WWF and Shell
Alice Steenland Chief Sustainability Officer at Dassault Systèmes and member of the Advisory Board for the impact fund at Giant Ventures
Amanda Mackenzie CEO of Business in the Community and Non-Executive Director of Lloyds Banking Group
Ashish Prashar Senior Director of Global Communications at Publicis Sapient and member of the Advisory Council at the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice
Chuka Umunna Executive Director & Head of ESG at Edelman, and former MP
Claire Perry Managing Director for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development; and former Climate Change Minister where she successfully bid to host the UN’s 2020 Climate Change Conference known as COP26
Dave Lewis Former CEO of Tesco; appointed chair of the Board of Trustees at WWF and co-chair of the Prime Minister’s Business Council for Retail Consumer and Life Sciences
Josh Silverman CEO of Etsy; previously President of Consumer Products and Services at American Express, CEO of Skype, and CEO of shopping.com
Katie Dash Head of the CBI’s Everyone’s Business campaign; co-chair of the CBI’s BAME Network; formerly at the Institute for Government and the Scottish Government
Michelle Prance Financial Services Market leader, Capita Consulting
Mona Sutphen Former Deputy Chief of Staff under President Obama
Nita Clarke Director of the Involvement and Participation Association and co-chair of the Employee Engagement Task Force
Rob Gardner Investment Director on the executive board for St. James’s Place and author of the children’s book Save Your Acorns which teaches children how money works
Simon Woolley Founder and Director of Operation Black Vote and the Advisory Chair of the UK Government’s Race Disparity Unit
Steve Murrells CEO of Co-op Group where he has overall responsibility for all the Co-op’s businesses - Food, Funeralcare, Insurance, Legal Services and the newly launched Co-op Health

Our team

James Harding Co-Founder and Editor
Alexandra Mousavizadeh Director of Tortoise Intelligence
Giles Whittell Sensemaker Editor
Liz Moseley Member’s Editor
Alexi Mostrous Editor
Luke Gbedemah Data Journalist