EARTH ON BOARD - Key Persons

Dr. María Mendiluce

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Natural Capital, WBCSD
Dr. María Mendiluce has over 20 years' experience in the energy and climate area.

James Thornton

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO, ClientEarth
  • Founding CEO of ClientEarth
James Thornton is the founding CEO of ClientEarth. The New Statesman has named him as one of 10 people who could change the world. The Lawyer has picked him as one of the top 100 lawyers in the UK. In 2016, he was named as one of the 1,000 most influential people in London and also won Leader of the Year at the Business Green Awards. The Financial Times awarded him its Special Achievement accolade at the FT 2016 Innovative Lawyers Awards. He also delivered the keynote speech.

Lindsay Hooper

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Education, CISL
Lindsay is responsible for the Institute's work to educate and empower individuals and organisations to take leadership to tackle critical global challenges. Over a decade in Cambridge she has led executive and graduate programmes to help leaders to build organisational capacity and resilience and to refine their strategy and business models to adapt to social and environmental challenges. Lindsay's work involves engagement with senior executives from multinational companies, financial institutions and national and regional governments as well as leading sustainability practitioners and senior academics. Lindsay has a particular focus on international engagement and has led collaborations and programme delivery in China, USA, Australia, Singapore, South Africa, and across Latin America.

Peter Bakker

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Business Leader
  • President and CEO, WBCSD
Mr. Bakker is a distinguished business leader who, until June 2011, was the CEO of TNT NV, the Netherlands-based holding company of TNT Express and Royal TNT Post. Under his leadership TNT rose to the forefront of Corporate Responsibility via a ground-breaking partnership with the UN World Food Program and ambitious CO2 reduction targets from its Planet Me initiative, holding multiple-year top-ranking positions in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

Philippe Joubert - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
  • Global Business Leader
Philippe is a global business leader focused on building sustainability into the heart of business strategies to enable long-term growth. According to him, "Business as usual is dead: a new business model is emerging". He is a Senior Advisor and Special Envoy for Energy and Climate for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Chair of the Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership where he is a fellow. He is also Advisor for International Development to the World Energy Council. He acts as an advisor to the CEOs of several major global companies on sustainable development and sits on various boards and advisory boards as a Non-Executive Director. Previously, Joubert was President of Alstom Power and Deputy-CEO of Alstom Group.