Emma has had an extensive career in financial services at the forefront of the environmental and sustainable finance agenda. She is currently Chair of the Environment Agency, an Ex-officio board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and interim Chair of the Green Finance Institute.

She is also an Adviser to the Board of Trade, and a UN Global Ambassador for Race to Zero and Race to Resilience. Emma was the UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation from 2018 until January 2021.

Emma serves on several boards and advisory committees which include Liontrust Asset Management, The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (co-Chair), The European Climate Foundation, The Council for Sustainable Business and The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project.

Olly has been Managing Director and Investment Committee member of the Forestry division of Gresham House since January 2019.

He is responsible for managing the growth and development of Gresham House’s forestry activities including acquisitions, fund and private client management and forestry asset management. He started his career at ING Barings in 1995 focusing on asset backed structuring and since then has focused his career on real asset investment management. Olly has more than 25 years of investment experience and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Biological Science.

Emma Toovey is the Ecology Director at Environment Bank – a pioneering business delivering nature restoration at scale across England to enable the planning sector and meet corporate sustainability targets. In this role, Emma manages a team of ecological experts and land managers responsible for the delivery of an extensive network of habitat creation projects (habitat banks) across England that enables developers to meet their Biodiversity Net Gain consenting requirements through the sale of Biodiversity Units. Emma has 20 years of ecological consultancy experience across diverse industries, specifically the development and major infrastructure sector, working with landowners, developers, planning authorities and a range of stakeholders in the development consenting process including the assessment and delivery of BNG. Emma ensures that sound ecological principles and technical integrity underpin the decision making processes at Environment Bank.

Nynke has a background in sustainable finance and experience working at multiple international financial institutions. She brings deep technical and practical insight into biodiversity action for business and investments. Since joining PwC's Netherlands firm, she has taken a leading role on the integration of action on biodiversity and financial performance for clients in the context of double materiality. She is a core member and driver of PwC's global biodiversity and nature community of practice.

Nynke is currently developing PwC Netherlands' own biodiversity strategy - including measuring and targeting impacts, capability building and relevant reporting standards - and also takes those lessons to clients looking at their nature-related challenges and opportunities. PwC is a member of the Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosures, for which Nynke supports the Working Group creating specific guidance for financial institutions.

Gillian joined the GFSC from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority in 2014. As Director of the Investment, Fiduciary and Pension Division, Gillian oversees the Guernsey Green Fund regime. In July 2018, the GFSC published the Guernsey Green Fund Rules - creating the world’s first regulated green investment fund product. Investors in a Guernsey Green Fund are able to rely on the Guernsey Green Fund designation, provided through compliance with the Guernsey Green Fund Rules, to represent a scheme that meets strict eligibility criteria of green investing and has the objective of a net positive outcome on the planet’s environment. The GFSC is also actively working on future developments to enhance its regulatory sustainability framework.

William Mason has been the Director General of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission since 2013. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, where he chaired both the Audit and Risk Committee and the Standards Assessment Working Group, establishing IAIS’s regulatory assessment programme. William has a strong interest in Supervisory Technology and Green Finance. Under his leadership, the GFSC has developed the Guernsey Green Fund – the world's first regulated green fund structure – and more recently, the Natural Capital Fund regime.

Ali leads sustainability and climate change advisory services for PwC Channel Islands, working with government, corporates and financial services clients.

A career environmental scientist, Ali has more than 20 years' experience working with businesses and governments around the world on sustainable development strategy, policy, planning and financing. She supports asset and wealth clients on ESG and Net Zero strategy, business integration and reporting. She is passionate about accelerating the pace and scale of the urgently needed global transformation to a net zero, nature positive, inclusive economy, and the key role of sustainable finance in achieving this.