Susan is deeply passionate about and committed to embedding sustainability thinking, practice, and authentic communications into business, education, and policy towards creating a world where we care about each other and our shared future. She is Managing Director, Responsible Business Consulting. Prior to consulting, Susan was Head, Sustainability & Community Engagement, Standard Chartered Bank Kenya. Before this, she worked with Unilever as Head of Corporate Affairs, East Africa and prior to that with DHL Express as Head of Marketing & Communications East Africa. She has held various management roles with DHL in corporate responsibility and communications in Europe and Asia. Susan also worked with CSR Europe, Europe’s leading business network for CSR, as Senior Programmes Manager leading CSR services delivery, project design and management for CSR Europe’s members.
She has over 20 years’ experience working with multinationals in Africa, Asia and Europe in sustainability and communications. Susan has worked in various leadership and management roles, driving national and regional sustainability strategy, programme delivery, multi-stakeholder partnerships, employee engagement and volunteering, external and internal communications, and crisis communications.
Susan is also an Executive Fellow at Strathmore University, Strathmore Business School, Kenya, and an alumna of the CISL Prince of Wales Business & Sustainability Programme, Stellenbosch.
She holds an Msc. Sustainable Development, with the University of London, SOAS. A bachelor’s degree in business management from Daystar University, Kenya, a Charted Institute of Marketing Diploma in Marketing Communications, a Public Relations Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Anton Cartwright is an economist focussed on Africa’s urban transition, infrastructure and services, green finance, environmental degradation and poverty alleviation and the implication of these issues for the discipline of economics itself. He has post-graduate degrees in Economics and Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
He is the founding Director of Credible Carbon South Africa's first voluntary carbon market registry and a candidate registry for the Department of Minerals and Energy’s Domestic Carbon Standard.
Gary is the author of the WWF publication on electromobility “Plugged In: The End of the Oil Age”. He has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Liverpool and has been a season ticket holder with Liverpool F.C. since 1991.
He is affiliated to the African Centre Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town and a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and Cambridge University (UK). He led the New Climate Economy’s Special Initiative, the Coalition for Urban Transition’s, and in this capacity established and runs the Tanzanian Urbanisation Laboratory in Dar es Salaam and the Ghana Urbanisation Think Tank and advised local and national governments in the respective countries on infrastructure procurement programmes.
He was a lead author on Chapter 4 of the IPCC’s Special Report on of 1.5°C of warming released in 2018 and a Contributing Author to Chapter 6 of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (WG2).
Tshidi has over 28 years of experience in FMCG and mining industry, spanning human resources and operating as a Chief Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Officer, serving 15 markets in Africa. She built a strong reputation for sustainability and for championing social, equity, and ‘green’ agendas, while also delivering on business objectives and priorities. Her leadership roles include C-Suite Executive Director, Non-Executive Director and Board chairperson. Tshidi is a people leader and an exceptional developer of high-performing teams. She is an Integral Coach® - career transitioning, women empowerment and leadership coaching. Tshidi holds a Social Science degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from UCT, a Certificate in Finance – GIBS. She sits on the Social and Ethics Committee at IoDSA, Corporate Affairs Executive Development Programme - Cambridge, and has an Integral Coaching® certificate – UCT.
Sibusiso is the Africa programme manager at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Prior to joining CISL, Sibusiso worked in political polling at Afrobarometer. He has experience with a diverse background spanning media, academia, and think tanks. He held key roles at Afrobarometer, focusing on strategic partnerships, communications, and research. A major part of his work focused on the African Union.
Beginning his career in journalism, Sibusiso worked with reputable publications such as Cape Times, Cape Argus, and The Sunday Independent. His transition into research led him to contribute to notable think tanks like Good Governance Africa and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
Actively engaged in academia, Sibusiso has served on the management committee of the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa at the University of Cape Town (UCT). As a visiting academic at UCT’s Centre for Social Science Research, he delivered guest lectures on politics, media and history across various departments. He is an alumnus of UCT’s Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative.
Furthermore, he contributes to the Western Cape Archives and Records Service Advisory Committee and has an extensive record of presentations to governments and intergovernmental organizations across the globe (Africa, Asia, Europe and North America).
He completed his education at the universities of Stellenbosch, the Witwatersrand and Cape Town.
Khanyi Mlambo is passionate about driving sustainability and shared value principles for businesses to purposefully pursue sustainable growth while positively impacting customers, society, and the environment. She is the MD of KM ESH consulting, an Independent Sustainability Consultant, a Facilitator, a Transformational Executive Coach, and a Speaker. Her career spans over 30 years across multinational businesses, including Old Mutual as Head of Responsible Business, Standard Bank Group, and Corobrik, as an Executive Director and Board member.
She is a Non-Executive Director at Nozala Investment Trust, the Southern African HIV and Aids Collaboration (SAHAC) and Legacy Africa Publishing (LAP). She is a Committee Member of the Institute of Directors SA (Social and Ethics Committee), an associate of the Shared Value Africa Initiative (SVAI), and a Senior Associate at Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership. She is a previous Board Member of the UN Global Compact SA Network, the National Business Initiative (NBI), Motheo Construction Group – Chair of SEEC, South African Women in Construction – Chair, Construction Industry Development Board.
She holds an Honors in Psychology, a Bachelor’s in Applied Social Sciences, a National Diploma in Architecture, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management. She attained certificates in Business Management (UCT) and Executive General Management (GIBS) and attended Cambridge's CISL Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme. She is a master’s degree in Community Psychology candidate.
She co-founded and Chaired the South African Women in Construction (SAWIC) and is key in assisting stakeholders in collaborative efforts to deliver the UN's sustainable development goals.
Thabani is the Managing Director of Moahi Sustainable Solutions, a boutique sustainability advisory company, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town, Chemical Engineering Faculty, Mining to Minerals Department. He has over 23 years’ experience in the Sustainability field, primarily focused on Mining. Thabani’s previous roles have included Executive Head of Sustainability at KAP, Executive Head of Safety, Health and Sustainability at ERG Africa, Head of Sustainability at Anglo American Platinum, and Sustainability Manager at AngloGold Ashanti. His main areas of work and research are, Decarbonisation and Low Carbon Economy, Critical Minerals, Artisanal and Small Scale Mining, Responsible Sourcing, and Leadership development. Thabani holds a Masters' Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Oklahoma, an Undergraduate Degree in Chemistry and Zoology for Rhodes University.
David Farrell is a founding partner and the CEO of Blue North Sustainability, a specialist sustainability consulting practice based in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has worked in the agricultural sector in South Africa for more than twenty years with the last thirteen years focussed on sustainability in farming systems and agri-supply-chains. He founded Blue North in 2011 and has been involved in a wide range of projects and activities towards improving the sustainability of the sector, including the development of the content of the Sustainable Fruit Initiative (SFI), which has become the Environmental Standard of the sustainability program for the South African fruit industry (SIZA). Blue North also runs the Confronting Climate Change Initiative (CCC) on behalf of the fruit and wine sectors and manages the implementation of FruitLook, a satellite based remote sensing solution funded by the Western Cape Department of Agriculture and made available to all farmers in the Western Cape Province. David has a B.Sc. Agriculture (Horticultural Science) and a master’s in business administration (MBA) and is a Senior Associate and member of faculty of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
Nicola has spent 25+ years working with teams and leaders who seek sustainability transition. She has worked in 15 countries, and in most sectors, primarily in emerging markets. Her teachers include pioneers of Impact Assessment (UCT, 1990), Industrial Ecology (Yale School of the Environment, 1994), and Shared Value strategy. She has spent time in research (Environmental Evaluation Unit, UCT) and as a corporate employee (Nissan SA). Her work is informed by Complexity Science and Southern African Ngoma Traditions. She is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and Trinity Business College, Dublin. Nicola lives in Cape Town, a short walk from the edge of the Great African Seaforest.
Founding director of Incite, an advocacy-based consultancy in South Africa with associates across emerging markets. 30 years’ experience advising companies, intergovernmental organisations and NGOs in more than 30 countries on sustainability strategy, policy development and disclosure. He played an active role in driving corporate accountability in South Africa and globally, working with organisations such as CDP, GRI, IIRC, ILO, ISO and UN Global Compact. Lecture on sustainability in MBA courses at various business schools (since 2000). Co-developed and led CISL’s first sustainability practitioners course in Africa; regular contributor to CISL executive and practitioner programmes. Prior experience in corporate sustainability divisions of electricity company (Eskom) and chemical company (AECI). Former Chairman of Outward-Bound South Africa (global adventure-based youth development initiative). LLM from LSE, and MSC from Lund University. Keen trail runner.
Claire Conroy is a passionate humanitarian and communications strategist with over 16 years of experience across media, NGOs, start-ups, and social impact ventures. With a background in Marketing and Economics (University of Natal) and a postgraduate diploma in Advertising (Red & Yellow School), she has applied her expertise to drive both commercial growth and meaningful change. Claire was instrumental in launching a youth-led content agency, supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation, in 2011. The agency delivered campaigns for global partners, including Google, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The British Council. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined forces with Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott at Flamingo Sanitation Solutions to address South Africa’s deep-rooted sanitation crisis in under-serviced informal settlements, bringing creative thinking, operational grit, and a commitment to community-led solutions.
Himkaar was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and grew up in Johannesburg. He studied a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Wits University from 2011 to 2015, with his 3rd and 4th years being sponsored by an engineering company due to his outstanding performance.
After graduating, he worked an WSP engineering consultants where he designed roads and stormwater systems, with always keeping a keen interest in water projects. While working, WSP sponsored further postgraduate studies where Himkaar completed a Graduate Diploma in Engineering at Wits in 2017.
Also in 2017, Himkaar was seconded to work for Tongaat Hulett Developments in Durban for 5 months. During this time Himkaar developed a state-of- the-art business analytics and management dashboard for THD using Microsoft Power BI.
After completing the secondment in Durban, Himkaar resigned and moved to Germany to study a Masters in Integrated Water Resource Management. As part of the degree, he lived in Germany for 5 months, then Vietnam for 5 months, followed by 5 months in Jordan. He completed the degree in 2019. After returning to South Africa, Himkaar founded The Compost Kitchen in April 2019 with the aim of repairing the soil of South Africa so that its water security can be improved.
Due to Himkaar’s demonstration of integrity, energy and intelligence, in 2021 Himkaar was voted to the board of Dainfern Golf Estate, which has a budget of R70 million, and houses some of the most influential people in South Africa. He is the youngest ever board member of the estate.
Himkaar has shown every sign of great potential and is a leader, visionary and inspiration.
Malcolm is CFO and a co-founder of Libryo, a UK based legal tech start-up with a sustainability bias. Prior to co-founding Libryo he spent 16 years working for Investec Asset Management in a number of senior roles, including Head of Client Service, Portfolio Manager and Global Head of ESG. Malcolm has been involved in the establishment of a number of key sustainability initiatives in South Africa and abroad. He was a founding member of the JSE SRI Index Advisory Board, the world’s first emerging market Sustainability Index. He was a member of SAICA Integrated Reporting Working Group which developed the original guidelines for Integrated Reporting (). He was the conceptualiser and founding portfolio manager of the WWF Living Planet Fund in South Africa. Malcolm, an admitted attorney, graduated with a BSc in Geology and Hydrology, an LLB and an LLM in Environmental Law. Malcolm held a Gencor bursary and during his BSc and LLB studies spent time working on mineral sands exploration projects in the Free State, gold mining in Stilfontein and during his legal studies at the mining rights department in Johannesburg. Malcolm is a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a faculty member on a number of their programmes. He contributes and teaches on sustainability, climate change, sustainable finance and regulation. He is an ALI Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Malcolm is married to Colleen and they have three wonderful boys: Daniel, James and Joshua. They live in Cape Town and share a passion for travel. He and the boys are also snowboard enthusiasts! Malcolm enjoys running, cycling and yoga.