Innovation for sustainability (for UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources Masters)
These interviews were originally conducted for a module in the Masters in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sustainable/study/sustainable-resources-economics-policy-and-transitions-msc) at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sustainable/).The module has a slightly out-of-date title (BENV0077: Eco-Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship). It is essentially on the intersection of business, innovation and sustainability. Other course materials cover theories and case studies. The interviews are with people who are putting innovation for sustainability into practice. We wanted to give students the grit under the fingernails of real experience.The interviews were conducted by David Bent, the practitioner co-lead of the module. The academic co-lead is Dr Will McDowall, Associate Professor at the UCL ISR.
- Update frequency
- every 38 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Julie Blane & Carmel Rafaeli of The Table
Julie Blane and Carmel Rafaeli are the Founding Partners of The Table, "a community of investors at the intersection of Climate and Diversity, focused on increasing the amount and frequency of invest…
Hans Unkles
Hans Unkles is a boat builder and fisherman. He is responsible for the first (and so far only) fully electric fishing vessel in the UK, based out of Tayvallich on Scotland's West Coast.
He converted …
Amy Wilson
Amy Wilson is a consultant on commercial marketing strategies to early-stage startups (or, as her LinkedIn page puts it: "Venture Lead/Portfolio CCO/CMO & Advisory Board Member for Startups & Scaleup…
Anna Birney: Multi-Level Perspective case study
Dr Anna Birney is CEO (Chief Executive / Enabling / Evolving Officer) of The School of System Change, which enables personal and collective agency to cultivate change in the world with a multi-method…
Molly Webb
Molly Webb is Founder of Energy Unlocked, an energy market accelerator focused on new market entrants achieving a low cost, renewable, resilient energy system, and Co-Founder of PeerCo, a platform w…
Sarah Goodenough
Sarah Goodenough is Head of Policy at Climate Policy Radar (CPR), a "startup using data science and AI to build tools that unlock global climate law and policy data. Open data, open source, not-for-p…
Paul Miller
Paul Miller (LinkedIn, personal website) is Managing Partner and CEO of Bethnal Green Ventures, which is "Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC".
Note that at about 33 minutes there are some …
David Hunter
David Hunter is Senior Counsel at Bates Wells, a purpose-driven law firm (David's corporate page and LinkedIn). David has a specialism in purpose-led organisations, including on fiduciary duty, socia…
Stuart Wilkinson
Stuart Wilkinson is Assistant Director, Innovation & Engagement at the University of Oxford (his university page, LinkedIn), and a Fellow of Reuben College. He works across the university, trying to …
Steve Waygood
Steve Waygood is Chief Responsible Investment Officer at Aviva Investors (Steve's corporate page and LinkedIn). He has been a crucial player in the rise of sustainable finance in the UK over the last…
Adam Parr
Innovating for Sustainability series is back after an unintentional summer break with a great interview.
Adam Parr is an Oxford-based barrister researching law, enterprise, and the environment (websi…
Alison Ward
Alison Ward (LinkedIn, Twitter) is the CEO of CottonConnect, which helps global brands source more fairly and sustainably by creating more robust, resilient and successful raw material supply chains.
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Mike Pitts
Mike Pitts is Deputy Challenge Director, Transforming Construction at Innovate UK (LinkedIn, Twitter). Innovate UK is the UK’s national innovation agency, supporting business-led innovation in all se…
Beverley Gower-Jones
Beverley Gower-Jones has two roles:
(1) the Founder and Managing Partner of the Clean Growth Fund, which" invests in companies with products and services focussed on driving clean growth in the low ca…
12. Alyssa Gilbert and Naveed Chaudhry
Alyssa Gilbert is the Director of Innovation at Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. She is the boss of the second speaker, Naveed Chaudhry who is Head of The Greenhouse at the …
10. Jolyon Swinburn
Jolyon Swinburn is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Treasury / Te Tai Ohanga in Aotearoa New Zealand (LinkedIn). The specific innovation which prompted the conversation was Jolyon working on Aotearoa N…
6. Leigh Hudson
Leigh Hudson (LinkedIn) is Sustainable Fuels & Carbon at International Airlines Group (IAG, which owns British Airways amongst others) and Board Member at Ikigai Capital, which aims to become a leadi…
8. Chris Bean
Chris Bean is Serial Entrepreneur, Technology Developer, and Edmund Hillary Fellow (LinkedIn). He is the CEO and co-founder of REVOLUTION Turbine Technologies (RTT).
RTT is "developing reliable, scala…