Katherine is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change. Her roles include writer-at-large and co-director of the Compassion in Financial Services hub at the University of Edinburgh, Economic Change Lead for The Next Economy, and Strategic Advisor for the Centre for Policy Development. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub, and she instigated the group of Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo). She is a member of the Club of Rome and her board roles have included a range of groups such as Hands Across Canberra, Denmark’s Wellbeing Economy Lab, the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, and The Democracy Collaborative. She is Distinguished Visitor at ANU’s Planetary Health Hothouse, a New Economics Senior Fellow at the ZOE Institute and was 2024 thinker-in-residence at the Australian Health Promotion Association. Katherine has Bachelor Degrees in Economics and in Politics (University of Melbourne) and holds a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University. Her book The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy (co-authored with Jeremy Williams and published by Policy Press) was published in January 2019 and her major report Being Bold: Budgeting for Children’s Wellbeing was launched in March 2021.

Mark served as a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School from 2016 to 2023, and is co-founder of FSG, a global consulting firm which helps develop social impact strategies for many of the world’s largest corporations and foundations. Mark led the firm from 2000 to 2021 and currently serves as Chairman. He is also a Founder and Director of Maternal Newborn Health Innovations and a Partner in the Congruence Capital investment fund. Mark is coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article “Creating Shared Value” (2011), along with Professor Michael Porter, and has spoken and published extensively on topics in philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, shared value, collective impact, strategic evaluation, and impact investing. He also serves as a Senior Fellow in the CSR Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Mark is a founder and served as initial Board Chair from 2000 to 2004 of Center for Effective Philanthropy, a non-profit research organisation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to founding FSG, Mark served for twelve years as President of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and before that as an Associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Boston. Mark previously served as a Director on the Shared Value Project and Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong Boards, and has now transitioned to the role of Chief Advisor for both organisations.

Rosemary Addis is serious about impact. Rosemary’s portfolio of Chair, board and advisory roles is anchored by her role as Founding Managing Partner of Mondiale Impact, working alongside boards and other decision-makers grappling with social and environmental impact. Her industry experience has seen her appointed Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne and Industry Professor at University College London. She is a Global Ambassador for the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. Rosemary’s unique combination of commercial acumen, strategic insight and transformational leadership has made her a go-to principal for breakthrough solutions to complex issues. She is globally recognised as a director and strategist at the forefront of innovation and investment for impact, sustainability and social innovation. Her 30+ year track record spans a global legal career including as an equity partner of Allens-Linklaters, Social Innovation Strategist for the Australian Government, G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce and Founding Chair of Impact Investing Australia (Market Builder of the Year 2018 and 2020). Rosemary has led design and execution of ground-breaking impact funds and enterprises. She advised SDG Impact at the United Nations Development Programme, the OECD Social Impact Investing Initiative, the World Economic Forum Ideas to Practice, a World Bank Steering Group for Innovative Finance and clients internationally from major corporates and banks to institutional investors and asset managers, foundations and governments. In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and has also been recognised as an inaugural Sorenson Impact Leader (2021), by Women in Finance ranking among top thought leaders (2017), Australia’s 100 Women of Influence for contributions to innovation (2015) and by Chambers Global as one of the world’s leading lawyers (2002 and 2003). Her thought leadership is published widely and her work is the subject of numerous international case studies informing a generation of leaders.

Tariq Fancy is a successful investor, turnaround specialist, and entrepreneur, and has a unique perspective and voice on a critical challenge for global capitalism today: how to merge sustainability and social imperatives with traditional business models focused purely on profit. Tariq previously served as BlackRock’s first-ever Global Chief Investment Officer for Sustainable Investing. After leaving the firm he began publishing op-eds challenging the ESG status quo, culminating in a 2021 viral essay entitled “The Secret Diary of a Sustainable Investor” that argued that business leaders are “answering inconvenient truths with convenient fantasies.” The essay was widely covered in the press and sparked a wide-ranging and ongoing backlash against ‘greenwashing’ in the financial services industry. Tariq found himself at the nexus of capitalism’s attempt to merge profit and purpose after a genuine foray across both extremes. On the ‘purpose’ side, from 2013 to 2017 he founded and built Rumie, an award winning digital non-profit that pioneered smartphone-based ‘microlearning’ that is used today by millions in over 150 countries – including by Afghan girls to learn safely from anywhere on a mobile phone. Rumie, which Tariq founded following the passing of a close friend from business school in late 2012, is a graduate of tech incubator Y-Combinator and subject of a 2016 Harvard Business School case study. Prior to his time in the non-profit world, Tariq spent a long career on the ‘profit’ side as a senior investment professional. He began his career in 2001 in Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB)’s technology investment banking group in Palo Alto, which led the IPOs of Google, Amazon, and Cisco. In 2003, he joined MHR Fund Management, a New York-based private equity firm with a focus on distressed, turnaround and special situations investing, where he became the firm’s youngest partner in 2006. From 2010 to 2012, he served as senior investment professional at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), where he led the creation and investment of various new global investment strategies. In 2012 and 2013, he led the turnaround of Wildfire, an Asian software company that was acquired in 2015. Tariq’s writings and lectures are informed by practical, hands-on experience turning around businesses from Shanghai to San Diego, building and executing on profitable new investment verticals, building consensus and implementing changes across large bureaucracies, and using new data and technological methods to carefully measure and supercharge social impact. He has developed a reputation as a rare contrarian in the ESG space, one who challenges us all to step outside of our short-term incentives and targets in order to find long-term solutions that actually work on the timelines required. Tariq has written guest pieces for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, USA Today, The Globe and Mail, and Le Monde, among others. Tariq completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University, during which he spent his junior year abroad studying PPE in the UK at Oxford University, and holds a Masters in Economics & Public Policy from Sciences Po Paris and an MBA from INSEAD in France and Singapore. He was born and raised in Toronto and has lived and worked across North America, Europe, and Asia, and speaks four languages.

Variously known as the “Godfather of Sustainability” and an “Ambassador from the Future,” John is acknowledged as one of the founders of the global sustainability movement. Mainly focusing on business and markets, he has worked as an advisor to an A-to-Z of businesses across the globe for 50 years. He has co-founded four companies since 1978, all of which still exist in some form: Environmental Data Services (ENDS, 1978); John Elkington Associates, later Countercurrent and now Elkington Ventures (1983); SustainAbility (1987); and Volans (2008). Over the decades, he has served on over 80 boards and advisory boards—and was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008. He has addressed over 1,500 conferences around the world. Along the way, he coined such terms as environmental excellence, green consumer and green growth, the triple bottom line (People, Planet and Profit/Prosperity), business-as-unusual and green swan. He is the author or co-author of 21 books, including the million-selling Green Consumer Guide series. His most recent book—Tickling Sharks: How We Sold Business on Sustainability—was published in June 2024 by Fast Company Press. He has received many awards, most recently the 2021 World Sustainability Award.

Linda is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Regis Healthcare. Linda has been a chief executive for almost 15 years with broad experience in health and aged care, including substantial growth and transformation execution. During the year, Linda was reappointed as Director of Ageing Australia and is a member of the Finance and Risk Management Committee. Linda is also a Board Director of Mercy Community Services Ltd and its subsidiaries including Mackillop Family Services, and a member of the Governance Committee. Linda was formerly Chair of the Aged Care Reform Network, Chair of the Aged Care Guild, Chair of the North Eastern Metropolitan Integrated Cancer Service, Co-Chair of the Victorian Metropolitan Hospital Chief Executive group, Board Member of the Parent Infant Research Institute and Board Director of the South West Melbourne Medicare Local. Linda holds a PhD in Cardiac Physiology, Bachelor of Science with first class Honours, Bachelor of Arts and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is also a graduate of the Williamson Community Leadership Program and a member of Chief Executive Women.

Jon is the PwC’s Global Energy Transition Lead. Based in Melbourne, he brings more than 25 years of international consulting experience, where he has consistently delivered high value outcomes to address his clients’ needs in both private and public sectors. Jon’s international experience advising Executives and Boards across a variety of industries including Energy and Utilities, Government, Telecommunications, Financial Services, FMCG and Technology in North America, Europe and throughout Asia Pacific. His most recent experiences have focused on pragmatically helping large clients adapt, adopt and develop new ways of working and technologies to better serve customers and shareholders through this era of disruption. Jon is extremely active in pulling together eco systems to solve the most complex issues and is part of a number of world leading initiatives on Energy Transition and Sustainability. In addition, he regularly speaks at and attends international conferences to keep abreast of the latest developments as well as have input into their evolution.

Natalie Kyriacou OAM is an award-winning environmentalist, writer, and company director with a passion for harnessing curiosity to solve nature crises. Natalie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and the Forbes 30 Under 30 honour for her services to wildlife and environmental conservation in 2018 and was recognised as one of The Australian’s ‘Top Innovators’ in 2022. She was the United Nations Environment Programme’s ‘Young Champion of the Earth’ Finalist for her innovation in wildlife and environmental conservation and is LinkedIn’s Top Green Voice. She is a Board Director at the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife, a Board Director at CARE Australia, the Founder and Chair of My Green World, a UNESCO Green Citizens Pathfinder, a member of the XPrize Brain Trust for Biodiversity and Conservation, and an Australian Delegate and Climate Justice Lead at the W20 (the official engagement group of the G20). Passionate about protecting the environment and ensuring everyone has a voice in the process, Natalie’s work focuses on connecting people with the environment in meaningful and impactful ways.

Peter is Chairman of AIA Australia Limited, a Director of Linfox Australia Pty Ltd and Mutual Trust Pty Ltd. He is Chairman of the Royal Institution of Australia, the Australian Science Media Centre, the Faculty of Business and Economics at Melbourne University, the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, the Shared Value Project and the NHMRC Centre for Personalised Immunology at ANU and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at UNSW. From 2004-2007 Peter was Managing Director of Oceania Capital Partners and held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited from 2001-2004. Until 2001, he worked in the Investment Banking industry including 15 years with Macquarie Bank. He holds a Doctorate of the University from Murdoch University, a Masters degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Commerce degree from University of Melbourne. He speaks Japanese, having studied at Keio University in Tokyo. Until May 2021, Peter was Chairman of Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited. He has been Deputy Chairman of The Myer Family Investments Ltd, a Director of the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Asialink, Publishing and Broadcasting, Crown Ltd, Foxtel Ltd, The Nine Network, Ninemsn, Ticketek, Veda Ltd, Oceania Capital Partners Ltd, the National Portrait Gallery, The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Centre for Independent Studies, MOKO.mobi and the Australia-Japan Foundation. In the June 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Peter was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for service to education, to the financial services industry and to a range of arts, science and charitable organisations and in 2017 was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE). He has also recently been awarded the Australian Academy of Science Medal for 2019.

Jill is currently Deputy CEO at Infrastructure Victoria and leads the development of independent advice to government including Victoria’s 30-year Infrastructure Strategy. Prior to this she was the lead Partner for climate and sustainability in Deloitte consulting and Deloitte’s Asia Pacific Lead Partner for the circular economy. Previously Jill held various executive roles within public and corporate sectors including as CEO of the Victorian Government agency responsible for waste and recycling across Greater Melbourne and corporate roles within ASX20 and multi-national companies including Vicinity Centres, REA Group and Telstra. She has recently held a number of industry and government honorary roles (including as expert contributor to the Global Circularity Gap Report, expert panel member for the Climate Leaders Coalition, and expert panel member for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Jill is also an experienced Non-Executive Director and has served extensively on Boards including currently as Asia-Pacific Chair and Trustee at global environmental NGO WRAP and previous Board roles at Launch Housing, the Royal Botanic Gardens (VIC), ACOSS, Heathcote Health, and Streetsmart. Jill’s academic qualifications include a Masters in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge. Jill was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the King's Birthday Honours List for her contribution to sustainability across corporate and non-profit sectors.

Brendan Wintle is Professor in Biodiversity Conservation and Director of the Melbourne Biodiversity Institute at the University of Melbourne. He develops economic methods to support conservation decisions and policy. He has been Director of Australia’s Threatened Species Recovery Research Hub and UN IPBES coordinating lead author. He teaches Applied Ecology, Global Environmental Change, and 1st year Biology. He serves on the Zoos Victoria Board and was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria. He publishes on biodiversity assessment, monitoring and reporting design, cost-efficient conservation spending, and species loss under environmental change. He has held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and was theme leader of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions. He is a Lead Councillor on Australia’s Biodiversity Council. He harbours strange obsessions with a gliding marsupial called the greater glider, spider orchids, playing football (with a round ball), and watching Tigers play the ovoid ball version. He once met the Queen and Michael Parkinson in the same week, but was too polite to admit he was a republican.

Satara Uthayakumaran is an advocate, dedicated to legal and social reform, most recently having been appointed Australia’s Youth Representative to the United Nations for 2025 by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She serves on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Youth Advisory Council, is a National Youth Advisor for Amnesty International, and has worked with the ACT Human Rights Commission. She also served as the youngest board member of the Domestic Violence Crisis Service (ACT). Satara frequently appears on the ABC and writes for prominent outlets like SBS and the Canberra Times. While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts/Law at ANU, she also worked as a Policy Advisor at PM&C. In 2024, she was named a Young Woman to Watch in International Affairs.

Carsten Murawski is a decision scientist, Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Melbourne, and Director of the Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets (CBMM), an interdisciplinary research centre focused on human and machine decision-making. He is Graduate Research Director of the doctoral program Decision, Risk and Financial Sciences and the academic lead of the joint PhD program between the University of Bonn and the University of Melbourne. His primary research and teaching areas are decision theory, experimental economics, decision neuroscience, consumer decision-making, computational psychiatry and cognitive science. Most of his current research investigates the neurocognitive computations underlying decision-making and how computational resource constraints affect decision-making in healthy and clinical populations. He uses a variety of methods including behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, pharmacological interventions, and neuroimaging in both human and non-human animals. His translational research spans consumer decision-making, decision-making and health, and high-performance decision-making. He is a co-editor, with Ulrich Ettinger and Bert Heinrichs, of the book Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (Springer, 2025). His research has been published in leading journals in biology, cognitive science, finance, neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology and been covered by leading media outlets including CBS, The Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, National Geographic, NBC, New Scientist and The Washington Post. Before joining the University of Melbourne, Carsten was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich. He has been a visiting researcher at New York University and Columbia University. His teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Melbourne, the University of Zurich, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. In addition to his academic career, he has several years of experience in the finance industry. Carsten holds a PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a Master’s degree from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Janette is a partner at PwC focused on supporting clients on sustainability strategy & implementation. Janette draws on over 28 years’ experience in sustainability, strategy, and people & culture to provide the support and guidance clients need to identify, prioritise and address often complex and interconnected sustainability issues and deliver on their sustainability objectives. Janette is also the Chief Sustainability Officer for PwC Australia. As CSO, Janette has the day to day responsibility for the firm’s sustainability agenda. She leads a team that develops and implements the Firm’s approach to sustainability including the management of associated governance, strategy and targets, business integration, performance monitoring, engagement, learning and reporting. Janette started her career as a strategy consultant with Andersen Consulting before moving into sustainability consulting with PwC UK. She has since worked in management positions in banking and energy before most recently working with QBE in both sustainability and People & Culture. Janette is a member of the AICD Reporting Committee and has a number of governance roles with not-for-profit organisations including Accounting for Sustainability, the Arise Leadership Circle and the Shared Value Leadership Council.

Nathalie Spencer leads the in-house Behavioural Science team at IAG, applying behavioural insights and design to improve customer experiences. Nathalie brings a global perspective to her work, having previously held roles at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ING Bank, and the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, and having studied in Canada and the Netherlands. She is the author of Good Money: Understand Your Choices, Boost Your Financial Wellbeing, a practical guide to navigating money decisions using behavioural science, published in five languages. At the Shared Value Summit, Nathalie will join the panel on “The Business Case for Economic Inclusion,” where she will explore how organisations can create shared wins by supporting customer financial wellbeing.

David Spriggs is the CEO of Infoxchange, a not-for-profit social enterprise with the vision of ‘technology for social justice’. He is passionate about creating a more digitally inclusive society and the role technology can play in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the not-for-profit sector. In addition to his role at Infoxchange, David is Chair of the Australian Digital Inclusion Alliance (ADIA) and Deputy Chair of Specialisterne Australia, working to create careers for people on the autism spectrum. David is also a Non-Executive Director of the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, a charity dedicated to keeping children and young people safe from violence wherever they live, learn and play. David holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Queensland, a Certificate in Theology from Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and is a Graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Sasha is a strategy and sustainability leader with over twenty years’ experience in driving systems change at the intersection of business, government, research and civil society sectors. At Natural Capital and Climate, part of the Alluvium Group, Sasha provides expertise to clients on corporate and sustainability strategy development, climate risk and resilience planning and on how to integrate nature into business decision-making. As a senior executive at Bank Australia and at NAB, she led the integration of sustainability into core business strategy, focusing on shared value responses to challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, First Nations reconciliation and affordable housing, creating commercial opportunities and positive societal outcomes. Previously, Sasha was Executive Director of the London-based ISEAL Alliance, the global association for sustainability standards and assurance systems. She has also worked as an international consultant on social justice and environmental sustainability issues in soft commodity sectors, and as an academic at the ANU. Sasha was deeply involved in setting up the Fairtrade labelling system in Australia and New Zealand and is currently the Chair of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative.

Jen Cobley is an experienced leader of strategic corporate and community partnerships and programs, driving social and commercial outcomes. She has a demonstrated history of working in the insurance industry and in building cross sector partnerships. As Executive Manager Community Impact at NRMA Insurance, Jen and her job-share partner Georgia Whitbread lead a team responsible for developing and executing activities that enable communities in across Australia to build their climate readiness and financial readiness. This includes through preparedness and behaviour change campaigns and programs with long term community partners.

Kate Cotter managed a vineyard in regional Victoria and saw firsthand the devastating impact of bushfire on friends who lost their homes, their businesses and the futures they had worked towards. Kate’s response was to bring experts together to help people through the complexity of re-building after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. She realised that co-ordinating expertise to help people before the disaster could prevent the avoidable suffering she witnessed. Kate established the Bushfire Building Council of Australia in 2014 to communicate the science of resilient, sustainable buildings with a broader audience. She used her expertise and strong network of disaster resilience and sustainability experts to develop relationships and build collaboration across industry, government and NGOs to create the Resilient Building Council in 2022. Kate leads the development of innovative systems that break down systemic barriers to enable resilience knowledge, communication and investment, so that climate adaptation of the built environment can be achieved in Australia and globally.

Claudia has over 15 years of experience as a business and investment professional with extensive experience in stock research. In her current role as Managing Partner at North Star Impact Funds she is responsible for the environment and communities pillars of the portfolio, leading on the integration of financial and impact analysis. North Star is the leading Australian equities fund in the impact space with a sustainability plus rating from RIAA. The fund was awarded Impact Asset Manager of the Year and Claudia received an outstanding individual achievement award for her contribution to the impact investing industry. Prior to joining NorthStar Impact, she was a Senior Investment Analyst with Morphic Asset Management, a global hedge fund leading in ESG investing. Claudia spent the majority of her career at Morgan Stanley covering Australian listed equities. She is a Principles in Responsible Investing graduate and recently completed her Australian Institute of Directors Course. She is serving on the University of Sydney Impact Investment Society Committee and is keen to continue to educate the next generation on how to direct capital for triple line returns. Claudia has a Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (Accounting, Finance, Mandarin) from University of Technology, Sydney.

Janet is the Group Head of Social Impact and Community Partnerships at ANZ. She is responsible for the strategy, governance, reporting and implementation of ANZ’s social impact initiatives across 29 markets in which ANZ operates. Janet is a Board member of the largest digital inclusion charity in Australia – Good Things Foundation and the Chair of Business for Societal Impact, global standard in measuring and managing social impact. In her very limited spare time she enjoys listening to non-fiction books while painting by numbers.

Mel has worked across the private sector, consulting and government in management and leadership roles, including at EPA Victoria and Sustainability Victoria. Mel became the CEO of the UNESCO Western Port Biosphere Foundation in May 2021. Passionate about environmental issues and a proud UNESCO Biosphere Reserve local resident, Mel is committed to driving impactful outcomes at the Foundation. Mel has a Bachelor of Information Science from the University of Adelaide and a Master of Environment from the University of Melbourne.

Soraya leads NAB’s disaster resilience program, NAB Ready Together which supports Australians to withstand and recover from natural disasters. Soraya is an experienced sustainability leader with more than 15 years’ experience in stakeholder engagement, social impact and sustainability consulting. She has worked overseas as a consultant with organisations including General Electric, Coca Cola, and the World Economic Forum. Locally, Soraya worked at the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility across a diverse range of industries. She specialised in stakeholder research to measure and improve organisations’ social license to operate, sustainability reporting and community partnership evaluations. Soraya also worked at Metro Trains Melbourne as the stakeholder relations specialist and Head of Marketing where she built the business case for the company’s corporate responsibility function. She began her career at NAB leading the bank’s sustainability reporting team

Michelle is a strategic adviser and program leader who works with multi-sector organisations to embed sustainable development within business strategies, organisational practices and projects to create positive social impact. With a career spanning the corporate, non-profit, academic and government sectors, she specialises in facilitating strategic partnerships to address complex social issues. Michelle has led flagship corporate social responsibility initiatives, educational capacity building programs, and social sustainability strategies in Australia and globally. She also works closely with multi-disciplinary teams and local counterparts to enable social outcomes in major infrastructure, cities, climate resilience, economic, and international development projects. Michelle is recognised for her practical and participatory approach to program design and implementation that supports partners to move from ambition to action.

An executive leader, systems innovator and social entrepreneur, Vita applies academic expertise spanning business, community development and international relations. She has an established record of co-creating, developing, delivering, and evaluating initiatives with community, not-for-profit, public, and private sector organisations aimed at addressing complex societal challenges and advancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Vita’s career across Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and Australia includes experience with for-purpose, non-profit, private, and public organizations, guided by collaboration, equity, and social justice. In her role with Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand, Vita is leading the further development and scaling of responses, alongside partners, that go beyond financial inclusion and aim to build financial health and wellbeing for women, girls and families nationally.

Ben is a sustainability strategist, storyteller and movement maker. He has helped startups startup and changemakers make change since 2007. Ben founded the OG sustainability agency Republic of Everyone, and is co-founder of the multi-award winning Garage Sale Trail, a published author and keynote speaker. Ben is also part of the Shared Value Executive Education: Reinventing Value Creation Faculty. Ben believes creativity is only creative if it creates a better world, and that a good idea should be good for people, planet and those who make it happen. Ben is currently Brand and Creative Director at South Pole.

Taylor is an award-winning advocate and leadership development specialist focused on future-driven leadership, policy innovation, and intergenerational collaboration. She is the Co-founder Managing Director of Foundations for Tomorrow, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the protection of future generations’ interests in Australia, which recently spearheaded the introduction of the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill (2025) into Australian Federal Parliament, established the Australian Parliamentary Group for Future Generations, and is the chair of the Intergenerational Fairness Coalition. Taylor was also an Advisor to the Our Future Agenda initiative of the United Nations Foundation in the lead-up to the UN Summit of the Future. Additionally, she serves as the youngest member of the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network Advisory Board, the Executive Leadership Team for the global Network of Institutions for Future Generations, and the Global Futures Council on Human Science of Environmental Action, she is also a member of the FutureGen Advisory Panel for the Municipal Association of Victoria. Taylor's professional background is rooted in years of leadership development experience, and she currently serves as a Managing Consultant for Leading Initiatives Worldwide. She has designed and facilitated enterprise leadership programs to foster future-driven leadership for organisations like CSIRO, Google, Adidas, and Salesforce, for which her work has been nominated for several industry awards. An accomplished speaker, Taylor has spoken at international events such as the United Nations COP26 Climate Conference, Stockholm+50, the Global Parliamentary Congress and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Taylor’s efforts have earned her recognition through various accolades, including Smart Company’s 30 Under 30, the NSW Young Achiever Awards, YAIIA’s Young Women to Watch in International Affairs, the MBAus Social Impact Awards, and the NSW Young Australian of the Year Awards, the Ashoka Together Towards Tomorrow Challenge, and she has also been selected as one of the global 12 Kofi Annan Changemakers.

Hugh Foley is an expert in strategy, sustainability and shared value. He has advised companies across the industrial, banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, property, and automotive sectors. Previously, Hugh worked for FSG in the US, a consulting firm founded by Harvard academics Mark Kramer and Professor Michael E Porter (creators of the ‘shared value’ concept). Beyond consulting, Hugh has published research on shared value in the resources sector with the Shared Value Initiative (US) and on global road safety with the National Academy of Medicine (US). Hugh also teaches shared value theory at the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales, as part of the Shared Value Executive Education Faculty and sits on the Advisory Board of the Shared Value Project (Australia).

Sarah is an accomplished executive and strategist, with a particular talent for transforming, leading, and activating purpose-led organisations. As CEO for the Shared Value Project Australia and New Zealand (SVP), she builds on 20 years’ experience in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors to champion a better future for business and society collectively, through shared value. Driven by the belief that corporate assets, resources, and innovation can unlock unrivalled social progress – whilst increasing business prosperity and sustainability – Sarah is committed to advancing a new kind of capitalism; fit for the times. A member of the Shared Value Global Steering Committee, she directs the Shared Value Australian team to deliver the evidence, tools, education, and inspiration required make this urgent shift. She has completed Harvard Executive Programs; Sustainable Business Strategy (2019), Profit and Purpose: Creating Shared Value (2021) and Sustainability Leadership (2024).

Jacqui serves as the leader of the Impact Assembly at PwC, a dedicated team working to accelerate positive social and environmental impact. She currently holds the position of Chair for Guide Dogs NSW and serves as a Director for Guide Dogs Australia. Her previous leadership roles include Chief Executive Officer at the Constellation Project and the Australian Business and Community Network. With over 25 years of experience spanning both the private and nonprofit sectors, Jacqui is committed to enhancing outcomes for individuals, particularly in the realms of education and homelessness. She possesses extensive expertise in implementing systemic changes through cross-sector collaboration, combined with deep experience in strategic co-design, transformation, and leadership essential for driving change in complex environments.

Anthony McCosker is Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Director of the Social Innovation Research Institute, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. His research addresses digital inclusion and inequality in the adoption of new technology, with a focus on data capability and human-AI capabilities. He works with public sector, health care and non-profit organisations to ensure equitable and innovative technology adoption. His latest co-authored books are Data for Social Good (2023, Palgrave), Everyday Data Cultures (2022, Polity Press) and Automating Vision (2020, Routledge)

Lauren is passionate about contributing to social and environmental outcomes that will see future generations enjoy a life of safety, equity, and inclusion. At QBE, Lauren leads the QBE Foundation across the organisations global footprint and is responsible for working with people across their global operations to embed sustainability and create impact. In her role she is focussed on reaching the QBE Foundation’s vision to create strong, resilient and inclusive communities through strategic and impactful partnerships. Lauren is also a member of ActionAid Australia’s Arise Leadership Circle who help drive the objectives of the Arise Fund and meet the visionary target of empowering one million women to lead crisis response. She is also a member of the B4SI Steering Group. Since 2006, her career has been focused on collaborating with organisations and stakeholders to develop and execute strategy and reporting relating to ESG, shared value, sustainability and community engagement in alignment with organisational vision, purpose and strategy. Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Development Studies and Culture Change from Macquarie University, and a Diploma of Business Management.

Lucas Carmody leads PwC’s Global Centre for Nature Positive Business, helping businesses and financial institutions navigate the emerging risks and opportunities at the intersection of nature, climate and capital. An environmental economist by training, Lucas works across Asia Pacific and globally to translate ecological realities into financial and strategic decisions that create long-term value. Over the past decade, Lucas has advised government agencies, multinationals and investors on integrating nature into decision-making supporting everything from biodiversity finance and regulatory reform to supply chain resilience and macroeconomic risk assessments. He played a key role in shaping PwC’s global work on nature risk and disclosure, and serves on the board of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife. Lucas combines global insight with grounded, place-based thinking. He is passionate about shifting business mindsets, from managing nature as a risk to investing in it as a strategic asset.

Alix is an award-winning campaigner and policy advocate who has committed her career to accelerating Australia’s trajectory to net zero and strengthening national and community resilience. She is currently the General Manager of the Australian insurance industry’s climate and social policy team, drawing on the industry’s critical role in the economy to drive down climate risk and better protect communities. Alix has a history of building unique alliances to drive change, her career has seen her work with global security leaders, first-responders, front-line communities, consumer groups, major companies and all tiers of government. She is also a published author, working with Australia’s premier climate experts, economists and policy analysts on landmark reports that have shifted the national conversation. As the Head of Campaigns for the Climate Council, Alix led the organisation's advocacy and government relations team, focused on driving down emissions this decade. As the Director of Policy and Campaigns for the Consumer Action Law Centre, she led a team of policy professionals, and campaigners in the wake of the Banking Royal Commission. She also worked as the Founder and Director of the Cities Power Partnership, the biggest climate and energy program for cities in the country. Alix’s leadership and work has been recognised with numerous awards, including a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to travel around the globe in 2025, exploring how to tackle the insurance protection gap being widened by worsening disasters.