Eve Joseph
- Microsoft
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Eve is a passionate advocate of technology for social good, particularly when engaging with organisations on helping them understand the impact of technology to drive their missions. Eve has worked at Microsoft for 14 years, moving from sales to strategic corporate responsibility. In 2018, Eve co-founded and led the Microsoft UK’s AI for Good StartUp accelerator . In its 4th year, this is a pioneering programme bringing the best of Microsoft’s UK AI talent to support social impact ventures through a 16-week curriculum. Now working for the Microsoft HQ, Eve’s current role focuses on building opportunities for organisations to learn more about Microsoft’s sustainability commitments and engaging with Microsoft’s employees to help them advocate for environmental sustainability within their roles. Based in the UK, she works globally to support customers from across various industries to build on their own sustainability ambitions, engaging with conversations on the role technology has in supporting our global need to respect and preserve our natural planetary habitat.
Taelor Daniells
- NatWest Group
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Taelor started studying climate change whilst completing her BSc Business Economics degree at the University of Exeter through their ‘Business and Climate’ module in her final year. She discovered that her personal purpose was to help resolve the climate crisis and that the area she could have the highest marginal impact was in financial services. Taelor joined NatWest Group on the Commercial graduate scheme in 2018 and focused all her rotations on sustainability and climate change. In her first three months, she realised that the bank needed a mechanism to allow more like-minded colleagues to deliver on climate action within the organisation. Thus, with another graduate, she co-founded the Sustainable Futures network that now has over 3,000 members and delivers education, events and initiatives to support colleagues embed sustainability at home and at work. Taelor is now the Climate Lead within the bank’s Wealth franchise and is seeking to extend her education by completing a part time masters in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions at University College London.
David Smith
- Scottish Power
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David spent 9 years working as an environmental consultant before transitioning into the renewable energy sector. He now works as an Assistant Project Manager at Scottish Power Renewables, focusing on onshore windfarm developments. He sits on the Steering Group of Scottish Power’s employee-led climate action network, iCAN, which aims to challenge, collaborate and champion for effective climate action. Outside of work, David volunteers with 2050 Climate Group, a youth-led climate action charity. He leads a team responsible for delivering the charity’s Young Leaders Development Programme, which is an award winning educational programme that aims to equip, enable and empower young adults to take climate action. David is passionate about mainstreaming climate action and ensuring everyone has access to opportunities to enhance their skills and experience.
Ben Faulkner
- Hitachi
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Ben has a passion for sustainability and has recently been able to get to bring this passion to his career. Having been in the railway for over 10 years, Ben now has the opportunity with Hitachi to decarbonise the way we travel. For the last year Ben has been working with design and engineering colleagues to make battery trains in the UK a reality. In Ben’s role he is looking at reducing the whole life costs of the batteries and battery systems so that the technology can be widely adopted on both new and existing rolling stock. Ben is also looking into what happens with batteries when they reach the end of their useful life on trains, these options include second and third lives and also end of life recycling. Ben is one of 1000 volunteers for the COP26 event and will be helping delegates in Glasgow at a number of hotels around the city and making sure they have all the information they need to help the event run as smoothly as possible. Outside of work Ben has looked at ways of reducing his and his family’s impact on the environment by driving a fully electric car, adopting a plant based lifestyle and also becoming a certified nutrition coach, focussing on predominately plant based diets. This is in a bid to help people improve their health and reduce their impact on the planet.
Phoebe Tucker
- NatWest Group
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Phoebe is an Events Lead for the Sustainable Futures Network at NatWest Group, responsible for delivering informative and engaging events for bank colleagues and external audiences on the broad topics of Climate and Sustainability. This is in addition to her core role as a Strategy Manager for the Distribution team, which focuses on building digital channels for the bank’s customers. Phoebe studied Economics at the University of Warwick and joined NatWest Group as a Commercial graduate in 2018. She completed 4 rotations across the bank where she noticed a growing focus on climate and sustainability, including in Real Estate and Group Strategy. She finished the scheme in 2020 where she joined her current team. However, Phoebe’s involvement in sustainability grew exponentially when she became a volunteer for Sustainable Futures upon its formation in 2019; becoming an Events Lead in 2020. Phoebe has a particular interest in planetary boundaries and biodiversity, which she enjoys linking back to her upbringing as a farmers’ daughter.