Hugh is a consultant Intensivist at the Whittington Hospital and is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL, where he also directs the Centre for Human Health & Performance.

Hugh co-chaired the two Lancet Commissions on Human Health & Climate Change and now the 5-year, 42-country Lancet Countdown on Health & Climate Change. He’s written & lectured extensively on the subject; has briefed policymakers (inter)nationally; & co-founded the UCL MSc module on climate & health. He was appointed London Leader by Greater London Authority’s Sustainable Development Commission; has attended many of the international ‘COP’ negotiations; leads the children’s climate education ‘Project Genie’ and co-led the ITV documentary on Floods and Climate Change (2020).

Scott is a founding partner of Glennmont Partners, leads all of the firm’s solar initiatives and is actively involved in new financing initiatives.

Scott has worked in renewable energy power generation for more than a decade, leading many of the investments across Glennmont’s fund platform. Prior to founding Glennmont Partners, Scott was the co-founder and director of Windsor Alternative Investments – a company formed to finance and develop solar power plants in Europe. Before focusing on renewable energy, Scott was involved in private equity acquisitions and debt capital finance for commercial real estate transactions in Europe and the United States.

Adrian joins us with over 20yrs of experience in finance, across private and public sectors, the last 10yrs as a director of finance in the NHS. Adrian has led strategic and collaborative change on local and national programmes including an infrastructure funding strategy across a £5bn healthcare system, also serving on their sustainability committees.

Prior to this, Adrian worked for Accenture for 10yrs, the latter 5yrs in corporate deal shaping responsible for a $0.5bn portfolio of client value propositions. He has served as a charity Board Trustee and provides support to a community interest energy not-for-profit company.

Kate ran her own business as a “sniffer-dog” trainer whilst raising her three children. When the youngsters had grown up and left home, she worked for the NHS as a strategy project manager.

Kate passionately believes that we must all ‘play our part’ if we are to provide a habitable planet for future generations, and that offering easily achievable and pragmatic solutions to stop further climate breakdown is the best way to safeguard a planet in which humanity can survive and thrive.

Mike Berners-Lee consults, thinks, writes and researches on sustainability and responses to 21st century problems. He is the author of acclaimed books, including There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, and How Bad Are Bananas? The carbon footprint of everything. As the founder and director of Small World Consulting Ltd, he helps businesses, governments and the third sector to lead the way in truly sustainable living. He is a professor at Lancaster University, where his research includes supply chain carbon modelling, sustainable food systems and the environmental impact of ICT. He has made numerous speaking, radio and television broadcast appearances to promote public awareness of sustainability and climate change issues.

Tom Burke is the Chairman of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism, and an Honorary Professor at University College, London. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. In 2010 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Environment. He was a Trustee of the Green Alliance from 1979 – 1991 and 1997 – 2016. He is a Patron of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association. He is Chairman of the Advisory Council of Earth Capital Partners and a member of the Advisory Board of Glenmont LLP. He was Environmental Policy Advisor to Rio Tinto plc (part time) 1996 - 2016 and served as Senior Advisor to the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change from 2006 -12.

Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources at University College London. He was Deputy Director of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2014-2019. He is a member of UNEP’s International Resource Panel, for which he has led reports on resource efficiency and critical minerals for the energy transition. His new book is Stopping Climate Change: Policies for Real Zero (Routledge, 2024). In 1994 Paul Ekins received a Global 500 Award ‘for outstanding environmental achievement’ from the United Nations Environment Programme. In the UK New Year’s Honours List for 2015 he received an OBE for services to environmental policy.

Professor Watts is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Medicine, leading NUS’s efforts to accelerate the transition to net zero and resilient healthcare systems, across the world. Prior to NUS, he worked as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the NHS in the UK, where he spearheaded their efforts to efforts to deliver low-carbon healthcare, leading the Greener NHS team with a budget of almost £1 billion. He is a medical doctor, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians’ Faculty of Public Health, and has worked as the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown, and as the founder of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.

Rachel Surtees has been working in health and local government in ‘strategy and change’ roles for over 15 years. Rachel is currently the Director of Implementation at UCLPartners, a health innovation partnership that works to apply research and innovation to tackling some of the biggest health challenges. Rachel leads delivery of two of UCLPartners’s strategic priority areas: the climate collaborative that is focused on acceleration of de-carbonisation of the NHS, and their adolescent mental health programme that puts youth-led change at the heart of prevention-based care.

Peter Chalkley is Director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a non-profit organisation that supports informed debate on energy and climate change issues in the UK. ECIU supports journalists, parliamentarians and other communicators with accurate and accessible briefings on key issues, and works with individuals and organisations that have interesting stories to tell, helping them connect to the national conversation. During his time at ECIU, Pete has helped to develop the organisation’s strategy and direction, expanding its functions to further the mission. He co-authored a number of reports on various aspects of climate change and energy.

Following a career in finance, Pete has spent 25 years campaigning with well-known organisations and personalities in the environment/conservation sector, including Greenpeace, The Climate Group and many more. He co-founded 38 Degrees, a people-powered campaign movement, whose early success was to help stop the Government's plan to sell England's forests. Pete is a Director and Trustee of The Catalysts Foundation, supporting projects with the potential to scale-up to help ensure a sustainable future. He firmly believes that strengthening healthcare systems is one of the most significant and cost-effective solutions to climate change, already available to us.

Ben is Chief Executive of New AutoMotive, a non-profit that aims to use data to support and accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. Ben is a specialist in climate change and sustainability, public policy, and data science. Before founding New AutoMotive, he worked on sustainability policy in Parliament, on green finance in the City sustainable finance and on carbon markets reform at a think tank.

George Polk invests in sustainable real assets for Vision Ridge and is on the board of Vision RNG, C Quest Capital and Cool Planet Group. George was a serial entrepreneur, most recently the founder and CEO of The Cloud Networks Ltd, has served as Senior Advisor to McKinsey and Adviser to George Soros on climate change related investments and was recognized as a Global Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. George has also founded a number of non-profit organizations and initiatives, including European Climate Foundation and the Carbon War Room and he is currently on the board of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He received an AB in History from Harvard University.

Mia Shaw is a climate consultant, specialising in decarbonisation solutions, sustainability strategy and communications. Mia works across private, public and non-profit sectors in the UK, Europe, USA and Asia. She is currently working with clients in clean tech and media. She has previously worked in ocean conservation policy with Oceanic Global, and in corporate ESG strategy with The Female Quotient in New York City. She is also a freelance urban forest-maker with SUGi Project in London, and an award-winning eco poet. Mia was a founding Director of Real Zero.

Debbie was a clinical scientist in both cancer and cardiovascular research. She became a pharmacist when she moved to the Isle of Wight and specialised in project work and then in infection management, somehow acquiring 5 degrees along the way.

Debbie ran a sailing school with her husband based out of Cowes, specialising in the delights of astro-navigation, racing and professional qualifications.

Debbie’s love of science and the sea combine powerfully with now trying to protect our planet from an impending climate catastrophe.

Victoria is a Medical Doctor with training in Anaesthesia. She has experience working clinically in the NHS and abroad and has taken on multiple roles in academic research and medical education. With a background and Diploma in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, Victoria has previously participated in marine conservation, developing an interest in planetary health. She is currently studying the MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to explore the health co-benefits of low environmental impact plant-based diets.

Nathan is an emergency medicine doctor based at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London. His interest in the climate crisis stems from his work as an expedition doctor and photographer, which has seen him support environmental research expeditions from coral reefs in the Indian Ocean to previously unexplored caves in North Greenland. At Real Zero, Nathan is driving the adoption of plant-based-by-default hospital menus in order to rapidly decarbonise food systems in the UK health sector. He also sits on the environmental steering committee for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, and is the founder of Eco Medics, a non-profit organisation that provides education around the climate health crisis.

Dhruv is a medical doctor with an interest in climate change and health, education, and promoting population health. He has previous experience in developing climate resilience in healthcare systems internationally, promoting the co-benefits of climate action and tackling health inequalities, and improving education for sustainable healthcare. Dhruv is commencing the MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Helena is a documentary filmmaker and a medical doctor specialising in anaesthesia. Her filmmaking journey has taken her from exploring science and medicine to capturing the beauty of seahorses and gardens.

She earned an MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University’s graduate film program. Upon returning to the UK, she resumed her clinical practice and became a Specialist in Anaesthesia at UCLH.

Helena blends her expertise in medicine with her passion for documentary filmmaking, producing and directing films that educate, inform, and inspire. Her work focuses on patient narratives, using qualitative research to drive patient co-production and shape patient-centric care pathways.

Helena joined Real Zero, believing in the power of inspiring, engaging, and connecting with Gen Z and the emerging Generation Alpha—those who will ultimately inherit the consequences of the climate crisis.

Chef Arthur Potts Dawson has been cooking for 35 years and is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Sustainablity at Feed Me Seymour, Executive Chef at Omved Gardens in London and a UN World Food Program Advocacy Chef. With strategic policy creation and thought leading in sustainable food, he looks at the importance of ethical and human food connections. Arthur is a chef, a foodie, a teacher, a mentor, a social entrepreneur, and business founder. Much of his thinking is how we can minimise the impact that food businesses have on the planet, what the future of food is and where restaurants need to improve to lower their customers negative consumption habits on the planet.

Aleks is an innovation strategist specialising in Open Innovation, a co-creation methodology that champions collaboration and diversity as the key to unlocking breakthrough creative thinking and accelerating innovation. With an extensive background in insight she ensures that empathy and an understanding of human behaviour drive the design of impactful creative solutions. She has previously delivered innovation and creative strategy for a range of global brands and non-profit organisations, from running the global Open Innovation programme for Omnicom Network to designing a national service for the UK Government Test & Trace Programme.