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.

Emily Bushby has been the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at GuarantCo since January 2022. She was Interim Chief Executive Officer from May to December 2021 and joined the company as Chief Operating Officer in March 2018. 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 leads on the sustainability agenda for the Ecover and Method brands in Europe. She has a passion for systems change and believes in the power of brands to make the world a better place. 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

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

Volker Beckers

Volker has built up more than 20 years’ senior experience within the utility industry and has a comprehensive knowledge of European energy markets. He was Group CEO, RWE Npower plc until the end of 2012. Read more

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Senior Sustainability Strategist
How medical leaders can play a critical role in solving the climate and health crisis

With the dual crisis of climate and health intensifying every single day, it is critical for medical leadership to step up and play a catalytic role. Dr Emma Iovoli, Life Sciences Consultant – Climate and health, recommends ways in which medical leaders can contribute and drive co-benefits for climate and health within their organisations.
The role of systems thinking to achieve food security and resilient food chains in India

India faces an urgent need to ensure food and nutrition security for a growing population, while also securing sustainable livelihoods and responding to urgent climate needs. However, these different and urgent needs can often compete with or crowd out each other. Here, Forum's Principal Strategist Hansika Singh makes the case for systems thinking to achieve food security resilient food systems in India.
Latha Swamy

Principal, Food & Regenerative Agriculture

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.
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.
Jobs

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