Mal Williams is recognized as occupying a leading role in the development of Real Zero Waste (not simply zero to landfill) and sustainability principles over the last twenty years. As a founder member of Zero Waste International Alliance (www.zwia.org) he has actively promoted Zero Waste throughout the world and is now the Executive Director of The Zero Waste International Trust.
Emma Hallett is Team Leader for Wales’s Collaborative Change team, responsible for helping replicate the ‘Welsh Recycling Blueprint’ across Wales’s local authorities. Using source separation of recyclables at the kerbside and keeping, separation of food waste to keep all other materials clean, the blueprint ensures maximum quality for recyclable materials and has enabled Wales to rise from the worst performing recycler in Europe to be the 3rd best globally. The blueprint is a crucial step in moving from an extractive system of land degradation to a Circular Economy.
Sophie Howe is the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales; tasked with ensuring progress against Wales’s ground-breaking ‘Wellbeing of Future Generations’ legislation. The Act gives Wales the legal obligation to improve social, cultural, environmental and economic well-being. The Act is unique to Wales and is attracting global interest as it offers a huge opportunity to plan for long-lasting positive change for current and future generations.
Eifion Williams is Founder Director and CEO of Circular Economy Wales CIC (CEW), a social enterprise that campaigns to see the elimination of all waste in Wales and its conversion into wealth and locking it within the same local communities that collects the material. He is committed to the social economy model and has 20 years’ experience working within the sector in Wales; a former Business Advisor with the Wales Cooperative Centre helping social enterprises to set up and grow.
Jane Davidson is Vice President for Sustainability and Engagement at the University of Wales and in 2017 become an associate faculty member at Harvard University.
Rob Corcoran is a trainer, facilitator and racial healing practitioner who has worked with diverse and polarized groups across North America and Europe and in Australia, India, South Africa and Brazil. He is the founder of Hope in the Cities, Initiatives of Change USA’s flagship program, in Richmond, Virginia. He collaborated on a dialogue guide for President Clinton’s Initiative on Race, and was a consultant for the W.K.
Ebony Walden is a trainer and facilitator who has over a decade of experience as an urban planner and community builder. At Ebony Walden Consulting she facilitates workshops and engagement processes that explore race, equity, and the creation of more just and inclusive communities. She is also a lead trainer and facilitator with Hope in the Cities in Richmond, Virginia.
Agnes Otzelberger is a trainer and researcher supporting change-makers in finding their resilience, power and wisdom. Coming from a background of ten+ years in the not-for-profit sector and international development, with a focus on climate change and social inequality, she began to work on the connection between 'inner'/personal and 'outer'/system change in these demanding and volatile times.
Pauline Warjri is a freelance musician from Shillong, Meghalaya, India. She has written for solo piano, voice, choirs, jazz band and other instruments (Western and Eastern). She has collaborated with musicians of various genres both national and international.
She has been to Caux, Switzerland several times from the year 2002 -2011 as a performing artist at the arts a la carte, plenary session’s speaker and to conduct a choral workshop.