Laura D'Henin-Ivers

Laura D'Henin-Ivers is a Co-founder and CEO of Hope for the Future, the UK's only charity dedicated to helping people build constructive relationships with politicians to influence climate and nature policy. Over the past decade, she has helped develop an approach that has supported more than 25,000 people and hundreds of organisations to turn concern into influence. Laura is passionate about making politics more accessible, ensuring underrepresented voices are heard, and strengthening democracy through constructive engagement.  

Shaun Spiers

Shaun Spiers was executive director of Green Alliance from 2017 until earlier this year. Previous to that, he led CPRE, the countryside charity, for 13 years. 

Nikki Williams

Nikki is Director of Campaigning, Communities and EDI at The Wildlife Trusts, and a Board Member of Civic Power Fund. She leads community-driven campaigning across the 46 Wildlife Trusts, including embedding Organising Principles, overseeing the Youth Steering Group and co-creating national campaigns linked to Strategy 2030: Bringing Nature Back. 

Inclusion is central to Nikki’s work. Her approach combines creativity, plain English and close observation of people to build confidence, capability and support for positive change for people and nature. She believes nature isn’t a nice to have, it's necessary for a thriving society.  

Craig Bennett 

Craig is Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts, Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, an Associate Fellow of Homerton College (Cambridge), and a Fellow of The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is also a Commissioner on the UK Government’s Clean Power 2030 Advisory Commission. He was awarded an OBE for services to the environment in the King’s New Year 2026 Honour’s List.

He has been described as “one of the country’s top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian as “the very model of a modern eco-general” and has also been listed in The Sunday Times Green Power List of the UK’s top 20 environmentalists. Craig was formerly CEO of Friends of the Earth where he led the organisation to numerous campaign victories including on bees, fracking and against airport expansion.

Earlier in his career, Craig was Deputy Director at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), and Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (from 2007 to 2010).

Craig has twenty-five years experience of designing and contributing to Executive Education and Leadership programmes at numerous universities and business schools around the world, and of providing advice and constructive challenge direct to CEOs and company boards. He is currently Chair of the Independent Challenge Group for Anglian Water.

He is also a Policy Fellow of The Centre for Science and Policy and a member of the Churchill Sustainability Practitioners Network at The University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, a judge on The Wainwright Book Prize, a Trustee of the think-tank Green Alliance, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). He regularly appears in the print and broadcast media.

He has a BSc (Hons) in Human and Physical Geography from The University of Reading and an MSc in Biodiversity Conservation from University College London, and Honorary Doctoral degrees from University College of Estate Management (UCEM), and Anglian Ruskin University (ARU).