Paul Dickinson is founder and executive chair of CDP, a not-for-profit that runs a global disclosure system for investors to manage their environmental impacts. He is also chair of trustees at responsible investment charity ShareAction.
Christian Doherty is a business journalist with more than ten years’ experience writing on subjects including finance, public policy and banking. He has written for Accountancy Age, CFO.com and Financial Director.
Joshua Domb is an associate in DLA Piper's corporate crime and investigations team. He specialises in bribery and corruption, tax investigations and compliance and has been involved in internal investigations in the financial, retail and pharmaceutical sectors, as well acting for clients facing investigations by the Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority. Joshua was also part of the DLA Piper team that represented Andy Coulson during the phone hacking trial.
Guendalina Dondè is a senior researcher at the Institute of Business Ethics. After gaining a bachelor's degree in Economics, Guendalina decided to focus on sustainable economic development and corporate social responsibility both during her Master's and, afterwards, in her professional career. She joined the IBE in August 2014. Prior to this, she collaborated in developing the Code of Ethics for the Italian Association of Management Consultants, and worked for a European NGO based in Brussels, focused on CSR-related topics.
David Doughty is a chartered director, chief executive, chairman, non-executive director and corporate governance expert. He is a director at Talent4Boards, a non-executive director at GLOVOC Fund Partners and a member of Board Agenda's Advisory Panel.
Paul Drechsler CBE is the president of the Society of Chemical Industry. He believes that business is a force for good, and that the voice of business can make a positive difference to economy and society. Paul has worked across the chemical, plastics, food, flavours, industrials, construction, property, retail, distribution and financial services sectors. His career included being CEO of several of ICI’s international businesses and he has also served as a main ICI board director.
Paul is an independent director of Schroder and Co Ltd and has served on the boards of London First, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK and Greencore Plc. From 2015 until 2018 he was President of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry). He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Business in the Community.
Previously, Paul was chair of Bibby Line Group from 2014 to 2020. He was chair and chief executive at Wates Group from 2006 to 2014, where he was credited with being both a champion for young people in business and a leader in the field of sustainable development. He was chair of the UK National Skills Funding Agency Advisory Board from 2015 to 2017.
Natalie Druckmann is the VP of EMEA at Certa, where she sets the strategy for Certa’s expansion into the Europe, Middle East, and Africa markets, and growing the company’s customer base within those regions. For more than 10 years, Natalie has led the implementation of multiple third-party risk management (TPRM) transformation programmes across both private and public sectors, managed live operations focusing on ensuring continuous compliance, and driven organisations to future-proof their risk programmes. Prior to joining Certa, Natalie led the global risk and performance SME team for Coupa Software, supporting customers in their TPRM journey.
Jean is currently a professor of law at Deakin University, Australia. He studied in South Africa and obtained his doctorate in Law (LLD) in 1991. He is currently teaching the units Corporate Governance, Corporate Law and Corporations Law at Deakin University. Jean has spent extensive time doing research in the UK and in Germany (as Alexander von Humboldt Scholar) in the areas of corporate law and corporate governance. He has published extensively in international refereed law journals in the areas of corporate law and corporate governance. Jean also published several books as co-author in Australia, Germany and South Africa.
Patrick chairs board consultancy Boardelta and the charities EY Foundation and ESSA (Education Sub Saharan Africa). He is a trustee of the Chartered Management Institute, a visiting professor at Cranfield and the founder of charity Warwick in Africa.
His executive career was with Air Products and FTSE100 3i Group plc where he was a member of its operating committee.
Lynn Dunne is interim chief executive of Bowel Research UK. She is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the charity.
Lynn is a senior nurse by profession with an additional MA in Law and Medical Ethics. Her career in the NHS and voluntary sector spans over 40 years. She has held senior roles with several of the UK’s health charities including The Patients Association and Macmillan Cancer Support. She was executive director at Cornwall Hospice Care until her retirement in 2020 and was responsible for driving transformation and growth through the development of a clinical governance performance dashboard and educational services for all staff.
Lynn’s most recent experience has been that of a patient. In September 2020 she found herself on the bowel cancer pathway as a result of the national screening programme. Major surgery, a temporary ileostomy and chemotherapy followed and thankfully a year later she has received the all clear. The surgeons and the colorectal cancer team who cared for Lynn were fantastic under the most testing of times for the NHS and are her motivation for taking this post as a thank you to them and the wider colorectal community. Lynn has kindly said that she does not wish to take a salary thus allowing the charity to spend more money on funding vital bowel research.
Seán Earley is managing director at Teneo and specialises in digital communications and social strategy. Seán helps lead the social team in the Dublin office. Prior to his current role, Seán was head of digital for Slattery Communications for three years. His career has included a past of creative roles in advertising in house at a number of media outlets across Ireland, including Dublin radio stations FM104 and Q102, before moving to agency roles. He holds a position of authority on social media and digital marketing and regularly contributes to media articles and broadcasts for Irish Times, Irish Independent and RTÉ 2FM. His current client base spans a whole host of industry including FMCG, retail, pharma and insurance.
Dr Seyed Ebrahimi is principal consultant of sustainability operations at Alfa Energy Group. Seyed has extensive research and consultancy experience in sustainable operations supply chain management, data science, and technology applications in the energy, finance, aviation, agro-food, and automotive sector. Seyed is well-versed in greenhouse gases emissions mapping scopes 1, 2 and 3, green supply chain strategies, net zero business strategies, life-cycle assessments, the circular economy, Industrial-urban symbiosis, and environmental mitigation strategies.
