Our Trustees

Forum for the Future is a registered charity (Charity No. 1040519), and our trustees are legally responsible for all of our activities. Like many other charities, we are also incorporated as a registered limited company.

Komala Ramachandra has been a human rights advocate and lawyer for nearly two decades, promoting transparency, corporate accountability, and access to remedy for individuals and communities around the world. Read more

Deepak Subramanian

Deepak Subramanian is a Member of the Management Committee of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), the Indian subsidiary of Unilever, and a publicly listed company in India with a market cap of 70 billion USD. Read more

Deepa Iyer

Deepa is an impact investor and independent advisor who invests globally and flexibly across the returns continuum. She advises social enterprises, impact investing funds, private foundations, family offices, endowments, and traditional venture capital funds on strategy, structure, individual investments and portfolios, impact, and emerging markets. Read more

Emily Bushby

Emily Bushby has been the Chief Financial Officer at Nesta and BIT since January 2023. Prior to this, Emily was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at GuarantCo and her previous roles have included leading the finance functions at a world top ten university and a medical related charity, as well as performing mergers and acquisitions for a highly acquisitive FTSE 30 business and investment management within the banking sector. Read more

Rita Clifton CBE

Rita is a portfolio chair and non-executive director of leading businesses and in the non-profit sector. She joined Forum for the Future as Chair of the Board of Trustees in December, 2020. Read more

Laura McGonigal

Laura is Global Head of Sustainability Transformation at CHANEL. She has a decade of experience distilling complex sustainability issues into business strategy and programmes designed to have a positive impact on people and planet. Read more

Andrew Winston

Andrew is a globally recognized expert on how companies can navigate and profit from humanity’s biggest challenges. His book, The Big Pivot, was selected as one of the "Best Business Books" by Strategy+Business magazine. Read more

Noa Gafni

Noa is the Founder and CEO of Trust Collab. Noa began her career as an entrepreneur, founding a social network for women in 2005. She then joined the founding digital team at Hearst Magazines as Head of Social Media. Read more

Jonny Wates

Jonny sees sustainability as a key to the long term resilience of organisations, humanity and the planet itself. He is a fourth generation owner of the Wates Group, where the common cause of the owners is to hand on a stronger enterprise to the next generation. Read more

Heather Grady

Heather is a Vice President in the San Francisco office of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and leads the organization’s strategy and program development in global philanthropy, including collaboratives and research. Read more

Charlotte Ersbøll

Charlotte joined the board of Forum for the Future in 2019. She is a senior advisor to the United Nations Global Compact, and a partner in Hansen & Ersbøll Agenda. Read more

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Climate Week confirms there is still time to transform, but it will take courage

As the dust settles on New York’s latest Climate Week, Forum for the Future’s Chief Executive, Dr Sally Uren, draws on Forum’s Future of Sustainability: Courage to Transform report to relate what she saw and heard to the different possible futures that might lie ahead.
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022

Read our annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December, 2022.
Nitin Kesar

Senior Communications and Marketing Manager

The Five Capitals - a framework for sustainability

The Five Capitals Model provides a basis for understanding sustainability in terms of the economic concept of wealth creation or ‘capital’. Any organisation will use five types of capital to deliver its products or services. A sustainable organisation will maintain and where possible enhance these stocks of capital assets, rather than deplete or degrade them.
Jobs

We are a growing organisation and we are regularly on the look out for new recruits to join our teams around the world.
For a just and regenerative future

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore.
Growing our Future US

Working together to accelerate the transition to a just and regenerative agriculture system in the United States.
Sustainability and system change

Climate change, malnutrition, inequality, poverty, ecological degradation. The global challenges we face are so urgent and tricky that we need a solution to match their scale and complexity. This is where system change comes in. We use systems thinking to understand the web of interrelations that create complex problems, anticipate unintended consequences, and identify how and where to take action to meet the SDG goals.
What is Net Positive?

We reinvent strategies for a 1.5°C world. Our Net Positive approach helps business put back more into society and environment than it takes out. Unilever’s pioneering commitment to eliminate fossil fuels from its operations and directly support the generation of more renewable energy than they consume was driven behind the scenes by Forum.
Become a system change agent

Learn more about upcoming system change programmes and express your interest.
Transport or Mobility: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Recently, the word transportation is being replaced with mobility. Why is this happening? What’s the difference between them? And why should we care about this change?
6 ways Unilever has achieved success through sustainability - and how your business can too

A year ago this week, Unilever launched its Sustainable Living Plan (USLP), one of the most ambitious strategies that a global company has ever embarked on. Pioneering a bold new business model, the company pledged to double in size at the same time as halving its environmental footprint.
Cotton 2040

Cotton 2040 aims to create a resilient cotton industry in an increasingly climate-disrupted world by bringing together stakeholders across the value chain.