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.

You can read all of our Annual Report and Financial Statements here.

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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

Anita Tiessen

Anita has worked in international development and human rights for more than two decades, and is a trustee/advisory board member for organisations working in the children, human rights and social policy sectors, including for the Children’s Commissioner for England. 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

Fiona Thompson

Fiona is a board member of several not-for profit organisations in the international development, education and arts fields, including Vice-Chair of CARE International UK, and governor of a further education college 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

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

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Independent AAC Member

We are looking for an independent member of our Audit and Assurance Committee (AAC) who believes, as we do, to accelerate the transformation to a regenerative and just future and who is keen to use their skills, experience and networks to help govern our organisation.
Hannah Cunneen

Principal Project Manager
Basecamp Europe Autumn 2021

A learning experience in partnership with DRIFT Transitions Academy kicking off in October 2021. Applications will be open from May 2021 to changemakers from all sectors who are looking to grow their impact. Sessions are planned around European time zones, but you can participate from anywhere
Renewable Energy to Responsible Energy Initiative: Call to Action Report

The Responsible Energy Initiative is a multi-year programme working to ensure renewable energy in Asia achieves its full potential for positive environmental and social outcomes.

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.
Reinventing the way the world works.

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit. We specialise in addressing critical global challenges by catalysing change in key systems, from food to apparel, energy to shipping. We do this by convening transformational collaborations to drive change, by partnering with organisations to help them lead by example, and by building a global community of pioneers and change makers.
Jobs

We are a growing organisation and we are regularly on the look out for new recruits to join our teams around the world.
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 a sustainable business model?

What is a sustainable business model? The term signals the need to go beyond innovating products or services, and change the fundamentals of how a business makes money.
Pioneering sustainability strategies

Leadership in the 2020s is about your organisation’s ability to positively influence its operating context. We help you to understand the opportunities, and then how to unlock them.
Protein Challenge 2040

The Protein Challenge 2040 is the first global coalition of its kind, aiming to tackle the question: How do we provide up to 10 billion people with enough protein in a way that is healthy, affordable and good for the planet?
Fashion Futures 2025

Working with Levi Strauss and Co using futures techniques to develop global scenarios for a sustainable fashion industry.
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 programmes and express your interest.

Our Trustees

Andrew Winston

Anita Tiessen

Charlotte Ersbøll

Fiona Thompson

Heather Grady

Jonny Wates

Laura McGonigal

Noa Gafni

Rita Clifton CBE

Volker Beckers