This is Rowan. He joined us in 2001 and has since held a number of senior roles at Tate & Lyle from strategy, corporate affairs and communications to HR and company secretariat. He became our EVP, Corporate Affairs, in November 2014.

With over 20 years of Tate & Lyle experience, Rowan has a deep knowledge and understanding of our company and industry. Rowan and his team are responsible for our global external and digital corporate communications, our global government and community relations and bringing our purpose of Transforming Lives Through the Science of Food to life. Rowan also leads the company’s sustainability programme. Prior to joining Tate & Lyle, he worked for The Royal Bank of Scotland, National Westminster Bank, Linklaters and Deloitte.

A History graduate from York University, Rowan is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.

Rowan is partial to a prawn cocktail, should it feature on the menu!

Karen joined FDF in December 2021. Prior to this, she was the Chief Executive of the Scotch Whisky Association for four years, representing the Scotch Whisky sector in the UK and export markets worldwide. 

Before joining the SWA, Karen was a diplomat in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for 16 years, where she held a variety of posts in London and overseas, including as British Ambassador to Morocco and Counsellor to the British Embassy in Washington.  She was also posted to the UK’s Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and to the British Embassy in Baghdad.

In London, Karen served in the Cabinet Office and for the Joint Intelligence Committee, as well as in several roles in the Foreign Office. Before joining Government, Karen was a lawyer at Clifford Chance, working in London and Hong Kong. Karen is an Adviser to the UK Government’s Board of Trade.

With a double academic background of agricultural engineer and human nutritionist, Simon Bonnet has always worked to transform the food value chain through the development of healthier and/or more environmentally friendly products, whether through experiences within the innovation, nutrition or marketing departments of different agri-food companies. After more than 10 years with the Bel Group, he has now returned to his first love and is in charge of the transformation towards a more sustainable dairy upstream as Global Milk Purchase Director for the Bel Group. Its mission is to implement the transformation and transition towards a more sustainable dairy upstream according to the Global Charter co-constructed and co-signed with WWF in 2018. On the 9 dairy basins where Bel operates, his main objective is today to ensure a fair and trustful collaboration with the dairy farmers to ensure the resilience of milk supply while reducing its contribution to climate change. 

Helen farms in a family partnership on a mostly tenanted organic farm in Wiltshire with dairy, beef, pigs, cereals, agroforestry and small scale horticulture. Her products are sold through the Helen Browning’s Organic brand in retailers as well as through her hotel and restaurant/pub on the farm.

Her book ‘PIG; tales from an organic farm’, written with her partner Tim Finney, tells more about the trials and tribulations of their farming and food life.

She has been Chief Executive of the Soil Association since 2011, after a long involvement with the charity in a variety of exec and non-exec roles. Prior to rejoining the Soil Association, Helen was Director of External Affairs for the National Trust.

She is currently a Commissioner and trustee of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission and has had a number of roles in agri-politics over the years, including the Government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (‘the Curry Commission’), chaired the England Animal Health and Welfare Implementation Group and the Food Ethics Council. Helen was awarded an OBE in 1998 for her services to organic farming.

David created 600 strategy to help purposeful businesses find their missions beyond profit, and organise themselves to deliver. Having worked with a range of landowners across the UK, he sees the potential for well-managed land to meet society’s needs for food, fibre, timber, biodiversity, climate and more. But it takes effort from land managers, who also need a fair reward for their work.

David has a PhD in ecology, an MSc in environmental management systems and is a Chartered Environmentalist. He’s a Trustee for the John Lewis Partnership Foundation and chairs their Nature Fund Committee, and is a Trustee for the National Park City Foundation.

Tim Fitzgerald was appointed American Seafoods’ first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2021. In this role he oversees all aspects of the company’s sustainability strategy, including initiatives on carbon accounting and decarbonization, optimization of packaging and operational waste, technology innovation and ESG reporting. Prior to joining American Seafoods Tim spent nearly two decades with Environmental Defense Fund’s Oceans Program, leading their global engagement with the seafood industry, investors and multilateral organizations. He is an insufferable ocean optimist and sucker for cool gadgets.

Elaine joined the British Nutrition Foundation in 2022. Previously, Elaine was Chief Executive of The Drinkaware Trust, and prior to that, Director, External Affairs at The Children’s Society. Elaine is a former trustee of learning disability charity, Mencap, and is a trustee of the drug and alcohol treatment charity, Change Grow Live.

Previously, Elaine’s career included senior marketing and commercial roles with Nokia, Cadbury Schweppes plc, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, The Coca–Cola Company, Beiersdorf AG and Boots plc. She has worked in markets across the globe and lived in Europe and the USA. 

Throughout his academic and professional career, Dominik has been devoted to creating more sustainable farming systems through developing and delivering innovations and concepts that are aligned to the concept of Regenerative Agriculture.

His expertise in strategy and programme development, structure and implementation allowed him to direct multinational programmes with diverse partners. A particular objective was to integrate farmers into regenerative value chains and to deliver innovation to increase their productivity and resource-use efficiency. This included the development of carbon credit schemes to monetize a shift to more sustainable farming, value-chain partnerships to diversify agricultural production into more resilient crops, and methodologies to better quantify the impact of farming across the main pillars of sustainability.

Dominik lectures on Sustainable Agriculture in various Swiss Universities and acts as an advisor to several multilateral organisations to direct their investment towards creating more regenerative and resilient farming systems.

David, who was Senior Technical Manager at Winterbotham Darby (now part of the newly formed Compleat Food Group) brings with him over 20 years of experience working in the food production industry. Previous roles include Senior Business Development Manager at Oritain; Head of Technical Supply Base at New England Seafood, and he also spent over eight years at Sainsbury’s in various technical roles.

David will be leading on the development and delivery of The Compleat Food Group’s new ESG strategy, as the newly formed group seeks to create great quality, tasty food in a sustainable way that delivers a positive impact on the world..

Ivo Mulder leads UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit (CFU) which focuses specifically on the need to transition to sustainable land use from a climate, nature and livelihood perspective. The unit covers a growing portfolio of (blended) finance instruments, business incubators and other initiatives that have actively unlocked >USD 1 billion in public and especially private capital over the past 5 years towards sustainable agriculture, forestry, restoration and other sectors in developing countries with demonstrable positive impact on climate, nature and people. The team consists of 15 staff and consultants based in Geneva, Nairobi, Jakarta, Sao Paulo and Brasilia.

Ivo also co-founded the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), which was launched at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 and signed by CEOs of more than 40 finance institutions. It paved the way for the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD), the nature equivalent to the TCFD. Ivo has published extensively in the field of nature, climate and sustainable finance, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and summits with over 20 years of professional experience working for UNEP, private consulting firms and with non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Keith joined British Sugar as Managing Director in June 2023 from 2 Sisters Group, where he was Managing Director of the Meal Solutions, UK Poultry and Frozen divisions since 2015. Here he headed a business that creates industry-leading prepared meals and pizzas for major UK supermarkets.

Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive of Typhoo Tea for 5 years, and he has also held key commercial roles within Britvic and Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Allied Bakeries – another ABF business, where he was a National Account Manager in the late 1990s. He started his management career with Sainsburys.

Keith brings a keen focus on quality, operational and commercial excellence to British Sugar, and looks forward to continuing to embed our strategies and building relationships with customers and farmers, whilst reducing carbon intensity.

Marija Rompani is a Director of Ethics and Sustainability at John Lewis Partnership where she is driving and delivering change critical to achieving its purpose ‘For a happier world’ for two much loved Waitrose and John Lewis brands. 

Marija joined the Partnership in 2021 with over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing strategies across retail, FMCG and finance sectors. 

Marija is passionate about nature, transforming the food system and driving responsible consumerism.  In 2022 Partnership renewed its focus on protecting and restoring nature and published a Plan for Nature outlining new commitments and recognising the urgency to stop biodiversity loss. 

Prior to joining John Lewis Partnership, Marija worked at Federated Hermes, Sainsbury’s, Reckitt, UBS and BSI. She is also a trustee of John Lewis Foundation and Waitrose Foundation. Marija holds M.Eng in Environmental engineering and B.Eng in Chemical engineering from Belgrade University, Serbia.

Anna joined The Food Foundation as its first Executive Director at the beginning of June 2015 after five years at the Department for International Development. At DFID Anna led the policy team on nutrition and supported the delivery of the UK’s global commitments to tackle undernutrition. Before joining DFID Anna worked for a number of international organisations including Save the Children and UNICEF and has been at the forefront of international leadership on nutrition for several years, supporting programmes in a wide range of contexts in Africa and South Asia. Anna has also worked for the UK Department of Health. In 2014 she was awarded an OBE for her work to address the global burden of undernutrition. She did a MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994. In May 2017 Anna became a member of the London Food Board to advise the Mayor of London and the GLA on the food matters that affect Londoners. She is a Board member for Veg Power and an advisor to the International Food Policy Research Institute. She served as Chief Independent Adviser to Henry Dimbleby for the development of the National Food Strategy published in 2021.

This is Rowan. He joined us in 2001 and has since held a number of senior roles at Tate & Lyle from strategy, corporate affairs and communications to HR and company secretariat. He became our EVP, Corporate Affairs, in November 2014.

With over 20 years of Tate & Lyle experience, Rowan has a deep knowledge and understanding of our company and industry. Rowan and his team are responsible for our global external and digital corporate communications, our global government and community relations and bringing our purpose of Transforming Lives Through the Science of Food to life. Rowan also leads the company’s sustainability programme. Prior to joining Tate & Lyle, he worked for The Royal Bank of Scotland, National Westminster Bank, Linklaters and Deloitte.

A History graduate from York University, Rowan is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.

Rowan is partial to a prawn cocktail, should it feature on the menu!

Karen joined FDF in December 2021. Prior to this, she was the Chief Executive of the Scotch Whisky Association for four years, representing the Scotch Whisky sector in the UK and export markets worldwide. 

Before joining the SWA, Karen was a diplomat in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for 16 years, where she held a variety of posts in London and overseas, including as British Ambassador to Morocco and Counsellor to the British Embassy in Washington.  She was also posted to the UK’s Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and to the British Embassy in Baghdad.

In London, Karen served in the Cabinet Office and for the Joint Intelligence Committee, as well as in several roles in the Foreign Office. Before joining Government, Karen was a lawyer at Clifford Chance, working in London and Hong Kong. Karen is an Adviser to the UK Government’s Board of Trade.

With a double academic background of agricultural engineer and human nutritionist, Simon Bonnet has always worked to transform the food value chain through the development of healthier and/or more environmentally friendly products, whether through experiences within the innovation, nutrition or marketing departments of different agri-food companies. After more than 10 years with the Bel Group, he has now returned to his first love and is in charge of the transformation towards a more sustainable dairy upstream as Global Milk Purchase Director for the Bel Group. Its mission is to implement the transformation and transition towards a more sustainable dairy upstream according to the Global Charter co-constructed and co-signed with WWF in 2018. On the 9 dairy basins where Bel operates, his main objective is today to ensure a fair and trustful collaboration with the dairy farmers to ensure the resilience of milk supply while reducing its contribution to climate change. 

Helen farms in a family partnership on a mostly tenanted organic farm in Wiltshire with dairy, beef, pigs, cereals, agroforestry and small scale horticulture. Her products are sold through the Helen Browning’s Organic brand in retailers as well as through her hotel and restaurant/pub on the farm.

Her book ‘PIG; tales from an organic farm’, written with her partner Tim Finney, tells more about the trials and tribulations of their farming and food life.

She has been Chief Executive of the Soil Association since 2011, after a long involvement with the charity in a variety of exec and non-exec roles. Prior to rejoining the Soil Association, Helen was Director of External Affairs for the National Trust.

She is currently a Commissioner and trustee of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission and has had a number of roles in agri-politics over the years, including the Government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (‘the Curry Commission’), chaired the England Animal Health and Welfare Implementation Group and the Food Ethics Council. Helen was awarded an OBE in 1998 for her services to organic farming.

David created 600 strategy to help purposeful businesses find their missions beyond profit, and organise themselves to deliver. Having worked with a range of landowners across the UK, he sees the potential for well-managed land to meet society’s needs for food, fibre, timber, biodiversity, climate and more. But it takes effort from land managers, who also need a fair reward for their work.

David has a PhD in ecology, an MSc in environmental management systems and is a Chartered Environmentalist. He’s a Trustee for the John Lewis Partnership Foundation and chairs their Nature Fund Committee, and is a Trustee for the National Park City Foundation.

Tim Fitzgerald was appointed American Seafoods’ first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2021. In this role he oversees all aspects of the company’s sustainability strategy, including initiatives on carbon accounting and decarbonization, optimization of packaging and operational waste, technology innovation and ESG reporting. Prior to joining American Seafoods Tim spent nearly two decades with Environmental Defense Fund’s Oceans Program, leading their global engagement with the seafood industry, investors and multilateral organizations. He is an insufferable ocean optimist and sucker for cool gadgets.

Elaine joined the British Nutrition Foundation in 2022. Previously, Elaine was Chief Executive of The Drinkaware Trust, and prior to that, Director, External Affairs at The Children’s Society. Elaine is a former trustee of learning disability charity, Mencap, and is a trustee of the drug and alcohol treatment charity, Change Grow Live.

Previously, Elaine’s career included senior marketing and commercial roles with Nokia, Cadbury Schweppes plc, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, The Coca–Cola Company, Beiersdorf AG and Boots plc. She has worked in markets across the globe and lived in Europe and the USA. 

Throughout his academic and professional career, Dominik has been devoted to creating more sustainable farming systems through developing and delivering innovations and concepts that are aligned to the concept of Regenerative Agriculture.

His expertise in strategy and programme development, structure and implementation allowed him to direct multinational programmes with diverse partners. A particular objective was to integrate farmers into regenerative value chains and to deliver innovation to increase their productivity and resource-use efficiency. This included the development of carbon credit schemes to monetize a shift to more sustainable farming, value-chain partnerships to diversify agricultural production into more resilient crops, and methodologies to better quantify the impact of farming across the main pillars of sustainability.

Dominik lectures on Sustainable Agriculture in various Swiss Universities and acts as an advisor to several multilateral organisations to direct their investment towards creating more regenerative and resilient farming systems.

David, who was Senior Technical Manager at Winterbotham Darby (now part of the newly formed Compleat Food Group) brings with him over 20 years of experience working in the food production industry. Previous roles include Senior Business Development Manager at Oritain; Head of Technical Supply Base at New England Seafood, and he also spent over eight years at Sainsbury’s in various technical roles.

David will be leading on the development and delivery of The Compleat Food Group’s new ESG strategy, as the newly formed group seeks to create great quality, tasty food in a sustainable way that delivers a positive impact on the world..

Ivo Mulder leads UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit (CFU) which focuses specifically on the need to transition to sustainable land use from a climate, nature and livelihood perspective. The unit covers a growing portfolio of (blended) finance instruments, business incubators and other initiatives that have actively unlocked >USD 1 billion in public and especially private capital over the past 5 years towards sustainable agriculture, forestry, restoration and other sectors in developing countries with demonstrable positive impact on climate, nature and people. The team consists of 15 staff and consultants based in Geneva, Nairobi, Jakarta, Sao Paulo and Brasilia.

Ivo also co-founded the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), which was launched at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 and signed by CEOs of more than 40 finance institutions. It paved the way for the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD), the nature equivalent to the TCFD. Ivo has published extensively in the field of nature, climate and sustainable finance, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and summits with over 20 years of professional experience working for UNEP, private consulting firms and with non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Keith joined British Sugar as Managing Director in June 2023 from 2 Sisters Group, where he was Managing Director of the Meal Solutions, UK Poultry and Frozen divisions since 2015. Here he headed a business that creates industry-leading prepared meals and pizzas for major UK supermarkets.

Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive of Typhoo Tea for 5 years, and he has also held key commercial roles within Britvic and Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Allied Bakeries – another ABF business, where he was a National Account Manager in the late 1990s. He started his management career with Sainsburys.

Keith brings a keen focus on quality, operational and commercial excellence to British Sugar, and looks forward to continuing to embed our strategies and building relationships with customers and farmers, whilst reducing carbon intensity.

Marija Rompani is a Director of Ethics and Sustainability at John Lewis Partnership where she is driving and delivering change critical to achieving its purpose ‘For a happier world’ for two much loved Waitrose and John Lewis brands. 

Marija joined the Partnership in 2021 with over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing strategies across retail, FMCG and finance sectors. 

Marija is passionate about nature, transforming the food system and driving responsible consumerism.  In 2022 Partnership renewed its focus on protecting and restoring nature and published a Plan for Nature outlining new commitments and recognising the urgency to stop biodiversity loss. 

Prior to joining John Lewis Partnership, Marija worked at Federated Hermes, Sainsbury’s, Reckitt, UBS and BSI. She is also a trustee of John Lewis Foundation and Waitrose Foundation. Marija holds M.Eng in Environmental engineering and B.Eng in Chemical engineering from Belgrade University, Serbia.

Anna joined The Food Foundation as its first Executive Director at the beginning of June 2015 after five years at the Department for International Development. At DFID Anna led the policy team on nutrition and supported the delivery of the UK’s global commitments to tackle undernutrition. Before joining DFID Anna worked for a number of international organisations including Save the Children and UNICEF and has been at the forefront of international leadership on nutrition for several years, supporting programmes in a wide range of contexts in Africa and South Asia. Anna has also worked for the UK Department of Health. In 2014 she was awarded an OBE for her work to address the global burden of undernutrition. She did a MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994. In May 2017 Anna became a member of the London Food Board to advise the Mayor of London and the GLA on the food matters that affect Londoners. She is a Board member for Veg Power and an advisor to the International Food Policy Research Institute. She served as Chief Independent Adviser to Henry Dimbleby for the development of the National Food Strategy published in 2021.

This is Rowan. He joined us in 2001 and has since held a number of senior roles at Tate & Lyle from strategy, corporate affairs and communications to HR and company secretariat. He became our EVP, Corporate Affairs, in November 2014.

With over 20 years of Tate & Lyle experience, Rowan has a deep knowledge and understanding of our company and industry. Rowan and his team are responsible for our global external and digital corporate communications, our global government and community relations and bringing our purpose of Transforming Lives Through the Science of Food to life. Rowan also leads the company’s sustainability programme. Prior to joining Tate & Lyle, he worked for The Royal Bank of Scotland, National Westminster Bank, Linklaters and Deloitte.

A History graduate from York University, Rowan is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.

Rowan is partial to a prawn cocktail, should it feature on the menu!

Karen joined FDF in December 2021. Prior to this, she was the Chief Executive of the Scotch Whisky Association for four years, representing the Scotch Whisky sector in the UK and export markets worldwide. 

Before joining the SWA, Karen was a diplomat in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office for 16 years, where she held a variety of posts in London and overseas, including as British Ambassador to Morocco and Counsellor to the British Embassy in Washington.  She was also posted to the UK’s Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and to the British Embassy in Baghdad.

In London, Karen served in the Cabinet Office and for the Joint Intelligence Committee, as well as in several roles in the Foreign Office. Before joining Government, Karen was a lawyer at Clifford Chance, working in London and Hong Kong. Karen is an Adviser to the UK Government’s Board of Trade.

With a double academic background of agricultural engineer and human nutritionist, Simon Bonnet has always worked to transform the food value chain through the development of healthier and/or more environmentally friendly products, whether through experiences within the innovation, nutrition or marketing departments of different agri-food companies. After more than 10 years with the Bel Group, he has now returned to his first love and is in charge of the transformation towards a more sustainable dairy upstream as Global Milk Purchase Director for the Bel Group. Its mission is to implement the transformation and transition towards a more sustainable dairy upstream according to the Global Charter co-constructed and co-signed with WWF in 2018. On the 9 dairy basins where Bel operates, his main objective is today to ensure a fair and trustful collaboration with the dairy farmers to ensure the resilience of milk supply while reducing its contribution to climate change. 

Helen farms in a family partnership on a mostly tenanted organic farm in Wiltshire with dairy, beef, pigs, cereals, agroforestry and small scale horticulture. Her products are sold through the Helen Browning’s Organic brand in retailers as well as through her hotel and restaurant/pub on the farm.

Her book ‘PIG; tales from an organic farm’, written with her partner Tim Finney, tells more about the trials and tribulations of their farming and food life.

She has been Chief Executive of the Soil Association since 2011, after a long involvement with the charity in a variety of exec and non-exec roles. Prior to rejoining the Soil Association, Helen was Director of External Affairs for the National Trust.

She is currently a Commissioner and trustee of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission and has had a number of roles in agri-politics over the years, including the Government’s Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food (‘the Curry Commission’), chaired the England Animal Health and Welfare Implementation Group and the Food Ethics Council. Helen was awarded an OBE in 1998 for her services to organic farming.

David created 600 strategy to help purposeful businesses find their missions beyond profit, and organise themselves to deliver. Having worked with a range of landowners across the UK, he sees the potential for well-managed land to meet society’s needs for food, fibre, timber, biodiversity, climate and more. But it takes effort from land managers, who also need a fair reward for their work.

David has a PhD in ecology, an MSc in environmental management systems and is a Chartered Environmentalist. He’s a Trustee for the John Lewis Partnership Foundation and chairs their Nature Fund Committee, and is a Trustee for the National Park City Foundation.

Tim Fitzgerald was appointed American Seafoods’ first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2021. In this role he oversees all aspects of the company’s sustainability strategy, including initiatives on carbon accounting and decarbonization, optimization of packaging and operational waste, technology innovation and ESG reporting. Prior to joining American Seafoods Tim spent nearly two decades with Environmental Defense Fund’s Oceans Program, leading their global engagement with the seafood industry, investors and multilateral organizations. He is an insufferable ocean optimist and sucker for cool gadgets.

Elaine joined the British Nutrition Foundation in 2022. Previously, Elaine was Chief Executive of The Drinkaware Trust, and prior to that, Director, External Affairs at The Children’s Society. Elaine is a former trustee of learning disability charity, Mencap, and is a trustee of the drug and alcohol treatment charity, Change Grow Live.

Previously, Elaine’s career included senior marketing and commercial roles with Nokia, Cadbury Schweppes plc, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, The Coca–Cola Company, Beiersdorf AG and Boots plc. She has worked in markets across the globe and lived in Europe and the USA. 

Throughout his academic and professional career, Dominik has been devoted to creating more sustainable farming systems through developing and delivering innovations and concepts that are aligned to the concept of Regenerative Agriculture.

His expertise in strategy and programme development, structure and implementation allowed him to direct multinational programmes with diverse partners. A particular objective was to integrate farmers into regenerative value chains and to deliver innovation to increase their productivity and resource-use efficiency. This included the development of carbon credit schemes to monetize a shift to more sustainable farming, value-chain partnerships to diversify agricultural production into more resilient crops, and methodologies to better quantify the impact of farming across the main pillars of sustainability.

Dominik lectures on Sustainable Agriculture in various Swiss Universities and acts as an advisor to several multilateral organisations to direct their investment towards creating more regenerative and resilient farming systems.

David, who was Senior Technical Manager at Winterbotham Darby (now part of the newly formed Compleat Food Group) brings with him over 20 years of experience working in the food production industry. Previous roles include Senior Business Development Manager at Oritain; Head of Technical Supply Base at New England Seafood, and he also spent over eight years at Sainsbury’s in various technical roles.

David will be leading on the development and delivery of The Compleat Food Group’s new ESG strategy, as the newly formed group seeks to create great quality, tasty food in a sustainable way that delivers a positive impact on the world..

Ivo Mulder leads UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit (CFU) which focuses specifically on the need to transition to sustainable land use from a climate, nature and livelihood perspective. The unit covers a growing portfolio of (blended) finance instruments, business incubators and other initiatives that have actively unlocked >USD 1 billion in public and especially private capital over the past 5 years towards sustainable agriculture, forestry, restoration and other sectors in developing countries with demonstrable positive impact on climate, nature and people. The team consists of 15 staff and consultants based in Geneva, Nairobi, Jakarta, Sao Paulo and Brasilia.

Ivo also co-founded the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), which was launched at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 and signed by CEOs of more than 40 finance institutions. It paved the way for the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD), the nature equivalent to the TCFD. Ivo has published extensively in the field of nature, climate and sustainable finance, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and summits with over 20 years of professional experience working for UNEP, private consulting firms and with non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Keith joined British Sugar as Managing Director in June 2023 from 2 Sisters Group, where he was Managing Director of the Meal Solutions, UK Poultry and Frozen divisions since 2015. Here he headed a business that creates industry-leading prepared meals and pizzas for major UK supermarkets.

Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive of Typhoo Tea for 5 years, and he has also held key commercial roles within Britvic and Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Allied Bakeries – another ABF business, where he was a National Account Manager in the late 1990s. He started his management career with Sainsburys.

Keith brings a keen focus on quality, operational and commercial excellence to British Sugar, and looks forward to continuing to embed our strategies and building relationships with customers and farmers, whilst reducing carbon intensity.

Marija Rompani is a Director of Ethics and Sustainability at John Lewis Partnership where she is driving and delivering change critical to achieving its purpose ‘For a happier world’ for two much loved Waitrose and John Lewis brands. 

Marija joined the Partnership in 2021 with over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing strategies across retail, FMCG and finance sectors. 

Marija is passionate about nature, transforming the food system and driving responsible consumerism.  In 2022 Partnership renewed its focus on protecting and restoring nature and published a Plan for Nature outlining new commitments and recognising the urgency to stop biodiversity loss. 

Prior to joining John Lewis Partnership, Marija worked at Federated Hermes, Sainsbury’s, Reckitt, UBS and BSI. She is also a trustee of John Lewis Foundation and Waitrose Foundation. Marija holds M.Eng in Environmental engineering and B.Eng in Chemical engineering from Belgrade University, Serbia.

Anna joined The Food Foundation as its first Executive Director at the beginning of June 2015 after five years at the Department for International Development. At DFID Anna led the policy team on nutrition and supported the delivery of the UK’s global commitments to tackle undernutrition. Before joining DFID Anna worked for a number of international organisations including Save the Children and UNICEF and has been at the forefront of international leadership on nutrition for several years, supporting programmes in a wide range of contexts in Africa and South Asia. Anna has also worked for the UK Department of Health. In 2014 she was awarded an OBE for her work to address the global burden of undernutrition. She did a MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994. In May 2017 Anna became a member of the London Food Board to advise the Mayor of London and the GLA on the food matters that affect Londoners. She is a Board member for Veg Power and an advisor to the International Food Policy Research Institute. She served as Chief Independent Adviser to Henry Dimbleby for the development of the National Food Strategy published in 2021.