Professor Frans Berkhout, Assistant Principal, King’s Climate and Sustainability

Frans Berkhout is Professor of Environment, Society and Climate in the Department of Geography and Assistant Principal (King's Climate & Sustainability) and Assistant Principal (Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression) at King’s College London.

He joined King's in 2013. From 2015 to 2021 he served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy. Before that, he was Director of the Future Earth programme, based at the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris. Prof Berkhout directed the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in The Netherlands (2004-2012), while also being founding Director of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.

Among other advisory roles, Professor Berkhout was a lead author in two Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007 and 2014). He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Industrial Ecology, Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning and The Anthropocene Review.

Professor Jonatan Pinkse, Director, Centre for Sustainable Business, King’s Business School

Jonatan Pinkse is Professor of Sustainable Business and the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at King's Business School.

His passion is sustainability, strategy, and innovation. He is a regular speaker on topics related to strategy and innovation for net-zero and sustainability, business model innovation for disruption, the green transition, cross-sector partnerships, and digital platforms.

In his research, Jonatan analyses how firms make strategic decisions to create a sustainable economy and deal with tensions between issues and actors. He investigates opportunities and barriers for firms to adopt disruptive and sustainable technologies from cognitive, organizational, and institutional perspectives.

He is deputy editor for the journal Organization & Environment and has edited numerous special issues. He is theme lead of Social, environmental & technological transitions of the ESRC-funded The Productivity Institute.

Gethin Hine, NSE Purpose Lead, Deloitte

Gethin is Purpose Lead for Deloitte North & South Europe; a role which sees him head up the firm’s social impact agenda, advance the organisation’s net zero strategy, and oversee a range of interventions to foster a purpose-led culture.

Gethin began his career in global mobility, supporting multinationals to deploy talent across borders, and has more than 14 years’ experience advising multi-national organisations on a variety of people and purpose matters.

He believes that organisations have a critical role to play in responding to society’s greatest challenges, and that doing so is a business imperative. He is passionate about helping people and teams to discover what drives them, and using this as a catalyst for stimulating positive change.

Gethin has made a significant contribution to the purposeful business movement, including through membership of the Purpose in Practice Community and Kings’ Meaning and Purpose network.

Professor Katie Bailey, Emerita Professor of Work and Employment, King’s Business School, and Professor of Leadership and Human Resource Management, Northumbria Business School.

Katie is co-editor of The Purpose-Driven Organisation in Times of Climate Crisis and is a leading expert in meaningful work and employee engagement. She founded the Meaning and Purpose Network (MaPNet) for employers seeking to become purpose-driven.

Her research focuses on meaning and purpose at work, temporality and interstitial times and spaces in organisations, employee engagement, and strategic human resource management.

Katie is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Higher Education Academy, an Academic Fellow at the CIPD, and an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies.

Dr Katie Manning, Lecturer in Climate Change, Business, and Society, King’s College London

Katie’s work takes a systems approach to climate change, drawing on the political, economic and social dimensions of climate mitigation and adaptation in global land and food systems

In 2020, Katie joined the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where she was leading on the systems analysis of land use for the upcoming government Land Use Framework.

Today, her work focuses on the development of participatory decision-making tools and the need for science, policy and business to work collectively to develop the systemic transformations that are required to build a sustainable future.

Professor Marc Lepere, Professor of Practice in Sustainability, King’s College London

Marc Lepere leads Executive Education on ESG & Sustainability at King’s Business School, King's College London. He holds a PhD and a MSc from King’s College London, and is an Economics graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Marc has published in leading journals including Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Financial Times and Discovering Truth (series 1) which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Professionally, Marc has served as Chief Marketing Officer for Havas Worldwide; Executive Vice President for McCann Erickson WorldGroup and Deputy Chairman of Dentsu in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Dr Catherine Tilley, Impact Director, Centre for Sustainable Business, King’s College London

Dr Catherine Tilley’s research examines two phenomena: first, how people in companies incorporate social and environmental sustainability into their decision-making; and second, the work of Chief Sustainability Officers and other sustainability leaders.

She teaches on topics related to sustainability, ethics, leadership, strategic uncertainty and decision-making for undergraduate, postgraduate and executive students.

Professor Craig Robinson, Professor of Management Education and Practice, Vice Dean (Education), King’s Business School

Craig joined King’s Business School in 2021 and has been teaching strategy, management and leadership since starting in academia in 2007. He has also worked with executive students in private and public sector organisations in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa through leading executive workshops and supervision of seven professional doctorates in areas related to scenario planning, strategic agility and strategy execution.

Craig’s expertise cuts across the fields of strategic management, education leadership and management development. His education and management development work involves studies of programme leadership in research-intensive environments and an identity-centred exploration of teaching-focused careers.

Professor Rashedur Chowdhury, Professor of Business and Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex

Rashedur Chowdhury is a Professor of Business and Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex, and a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. His thesis, “Reconceptualizing the Dynamics of the Relationship between Marginalized Stakeholders and Multinational Firms,” received the Society for Business Ethics Best Dissertation Award in 2014.

He was recognized with the 2024 Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Essex, as well as the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2024/2025). He has been a visiting scholar at INSEAD, University College Dublin, the University of Virginia, HEC Switzerland, the University of the Western Cape, Peking University, and the University of California, Irvine and Berkeley.