Team and expert advisors
Laura Baldwin OLY - Sport LOCAL Team
Olympic Sailor and Coach
Co-founder of Sport LOCAL
World Olympians Association Environment Committee
Green Party of England and Wales Executive
Global Greens Climate Emergency Working Group
Etienne Stott MBE - Sport LOCAL Team
Olympic Gold Medallist - London 2012
Co-Founder of Sport LOCAL
Co-Founder of Champions for Earth
Climate activist with Extinction Rebellion
Motivational Speaker
Kate Strong - Sport LOCAL Team
Multiple record-breaking cyclist & World Champion triathlete
Climate-activist adventurer, inc Climate Cycle 2023
ex aerospace engineer & sustainable education course founder
Climate Games - Director of growth and impact
Dr. Peter Kalmus - Expert Advisor
NASA Climate Scientist
Activist, and Author
Recreational runner and former collegiate rower
Nature defender with Scientist Rebellion
Flight-free since 2012
Kevin Anderson - Expert Advisor
Professor of Energy and Climate Change at Manchester University,
Uppsala Uni (Sweden) and Bergan Uni (Norway)
Founder of Climate Uncensored
Former Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Andrew Simms - Expert Advisor
Co-director, New Weather Institute
Coordinator, Rapid Transition Alliance
Assistant director, Scientists for Global Responsibility
Research Associate, Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex
Dave Hampton - Expert Advisor
GB lightweight rowing team, 1980s
Award winning Sustainability Leader; professional Carbon Coach
Co-founder of Champions for Earth
Veteran climate activist and Embercombe 'Journey’ advocate
Former radio show host at Marlow FM
Rob Hopkins - Expert Inspiration
Co-founder of the Transition movement and Transition Network.
Author of several books, most recently 'From What If to What Next'
Host of 'From What If to What Next' podcast
Public speaker, artist and Time Traveller.
Professor Rupert Read - Expert Advisor
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the UEA
Author of over a dozen books, Rupert's website
Former Green Party Spokesperson & Parliamentary Candidate
Climate and environmental campaigner
Founder of the Moderate Flank, co-founder of GreensCAN
Freddie Daley - Expert Advisor
Researcher at the University of Sussex
Campaigner for Badvertising
Facilitates the Cool Down Sport and Climate Network
Work focused on the governance of fossil fuel infrastructures, the policy mechanisms needed to rapidly and equitably phase out fossil fuels, and the networks through which fossil fuel interests ensure a social licence to operate, such as sport.
Guy Finkill - Expert Advisor
Researcher at the Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester
Consultant Researcher for UNCTAD
Fossil Free Coordinator for Swedish Universities
Work focuses on the governance of industrial decarbonisation and residual emissions.
Dan Tipney - Expert Advisor
Former British Rower, active within Champions for Earth
Former airline pilot who campaigns with Safe Landing
Sport LOCAL Team
VetLed Founding Partner
Ruby Duke Foundation - Expert Advisors
RubyDuke Communications – Copywriting Support
Helping to bring the Sport LOCAL vision to life.
We are a team of medical and creative copywriters striving to leave the world better than we found it.
Frances Fox - Universities Link
BSc Environmental Science student at UEA
Climate Live, Founder & UK Director
UK Environment Agency's 'Inspirational Person of the Year 2021'
Former British Youth Sailor
Campaigner with Fridays For Future
Anna Hughes - Expert Advisor
Climate campaigner and behaviour change specialist.
Set up Flight Free UK which works to reduce emissions by informing people about the climate impact of aviation and inspiring them to travel by other means, and runs the flight free pledge by which people sign up to take a flight free year.
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