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Andrew leads EY’s EMEIA Public Policy team which works with key stakeholders, including in Brussels, to strengthen the working relationship between the public and private sectors in policy and regulatory matters on topics such as sustainability, technology, corporate governance (including reporting and assurance) and skills. He is chair of the Research Advisory Board for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Corporate Governance Working Group of the European Contact Group whose members comprise the six largest accounting networks in the EU. He is vice-chair of the Corporate Governance Policy Group of Accountancy Europe and a member of (i) the Financial Capital Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network; and (ii) the Corporate Governance Committee of Business at OECD. He is the co-author of EY’s annual Long-Term Value and Sustainable Corporate Governance Survey and leads EY's Center for Board Matters in EMEIA – a team that curates content for company directors to support them in their important roles. He regularly writes blogs about the role of corporate governance in trust. He is an experienced charity trustee having spent eight years on the Board of Bliss where he chaired its Risk & Evaluation Committee for three years. He also co-developed the FT course "So you want to be a charity trustee?" He is a father of four and in his spare time likes cycling, cooking and making homebrew.
Tom is a founding Partner of Spayne Lindsay & Co. He is a Chartered Accountant and graduate of Manchester University and has more than 30 years investment banking experience, having worked for Flemings and Lehman Brothers, both in the UK and USA. Tom founded Spayne Lindsay & Co, with John Spayne, in 2004.
Councillor Paulette Hamilton, Cabinet Member Health and Social Care, Birmingham City Council (BCC). Councillor Hamilton has been a Labour Councillor in Handsworth Wood, since June 2004; and took up the position of Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care in May in 2016. Her interest in politics developed following active involvement in a number of health projects at local, regional and national level. In 2017 Councillor Hamilton visited India to establish the BINDI partnership in Pune. This project focused on developing policies and practices for healthier, sustainable food systems and has since evolved into the exciting Food Cities 2022 Learning Partnership. Under her leadership, the City of Birmingham has been elected to the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Secretariat. Councillor Hamilton is chair of Birmingham’s ‘Healthier Food City Forum’ to encourage practices that enable Birmingham’s citizens to make healthier, sustainable food choices.
Essie is the CEO of Big Change – a charity acting as a catalyst for system change in how we support the next generation. Essie leads Big Change’s work backing pioneering people and projects who are rethinking how we can set up all young people in the UK to thrive in life, not just in exams. It takes a collective approach, activating a network of global and national partners to make change around its “10 hopes for change” a reality, and looking at the intersections between education, health, wellbeing and the future of work.
Essie’s focus has been on change and transformation in different iterations throughout her career. Building on her background in psychology as the field shifted from fixing problems to understanding human thriving, she spent 10 years advising a network of 500 leading global businesses on best practice in leadership and approaches to drive change in how they engage their employees and create positive impact with the communities and societies they operate in. Essie is a qualified business coach and a big believer in supporting the people in all parts of the system to make change a reality.
Dr. Mehroosh Tak is a lecturer at Royal Veterinary College. She is an applied economist researching how to make food systems sustainable and nutritious. Mehroosh has a background in international development as a monitoring and evaluation expert. She is passionate about making economics language accessible to the public and diversifying the discipline. She sits on the Board of Trustees for two UK charities: Economy and Rethinking Economics.
Pat Biggers is a Portfolio Manager and Director at Lazard Asset Management in London. She is a Trustee of Morgan Stanley’s Global Impact Funding Trust and Chair of the Impact Evaluation and Monitoring Committee. Pat also serves on the Advisory Board of the Mayor’s Fund for London. Previously she was an adviser for the Mayor’s Fund’s “Kitchen Social” project addressing children’s holiday hunger, and also has been an active volunteer for several food rescue/redistribution projects. Pat currently volunteers for the Ukraine Welcome Centre, and a is member of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment’s "Advance" stewardship initiative on human rights and social issues.
Charles is a population biologist with broad interests in science and the interplay of science and policy. He has spent his career at Oxford University and Imperial College and is currently Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Population Biology at Oxford. His research has involved experimental and theoretical studies in population and community ecology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology. He is particularly interested in food security and leads the Future of Food Programme at Oxford. He chaired the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government Office of Science’s Foresight project on the Future of Food and Farming, and was until 2021 chair of Defra’s (the UK’s farming and environment ministry) Science Advisory Council.
Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985. Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-); and Co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity. He is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award; the Harvard Lown Professorship (2014-2017); the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health (2015); and 19 honorary doctorates. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years.
He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Professor Marmot is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Baroness Rosie Boycott is a member of the House of Lords and has had a long and distinguished career as a journalist, publisher and author, including having been the editor of several national newspapers in the UK.
In 2008 she was appointed as Chair of the London Food Board to advise the Mayor of London on sustainable food policy implementation in the capital. In October 2016, the new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, asked Rosie to lead the development of a new London Food Strategy to help the food system to work better to meet the needs of everyone who lives and works in London.
In 2018 Rosie became a member of the House of Lords after leaving the London Food Board and she continues to write regularly and speak all over the world about the role of cities, and the importance of food in combating hunger and food insecurity, improving health, tackling childhood obesity and helping to reduce carbon emissions contributing to climate change.
Laura Sandys founded The Food Foundation in 2014 as an independent policy think tank to challenge the current food system and how it was impacting the public’s health, and the affordability of healthy food, particularly focused on lower income families – here and aboard.
Former Deputy Chair of the Food Standards Agency, she has been a long-standing campaigner on food issues, focused on system wide solutions and evaluating success through real public outcomes. She is an active contributor to public policy in climate change, energy policy and resource management accelerating action towards a net zero economy.
Previously she was an MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Energy & Climate Change Minister. Described by The Times as “one of the sanest of all MPs” and by Conservative Home as “lateral-minded, original and free-thinking”, she has brought her political and business experience to calls for innovation in food systems policy.
