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Sheri-Leigh Miles
Women In Sustainability
09/11/24 • 31 min
In this episode Emily interviews Sheri-Leigh Miles, director of NETpositive Futures, a consultancy based in Yorkshire that helps organisations, teams and networks understand how sustainability links to organisational excellence. She frequently works with the UK Higher Education sector on sustainability issues and is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for Change Agents UK, which offers recruitment services into sustainability roles, supports purposeful careers, and delivers sustainability education programmes. Join Emily and Sheri-Leigh as they discuss what it truly means for an organisation to be sustainable, and how women can take on more leadership roles in the sector.
Dr Éliane Ubalijoro
Women In Sustainability
02/25/25 • 35 min
This month Emily speaks with Dr Éliane Ubalijoro, who is currently serving as the CEO of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR) and the Director General of World Agroforestry (ICRAF). An accomplished leader with a background in agriculture and molecular genetics, she has been recognized for outstanding contributions in the areas of gender equity and sustainable prosperity creation. She talks about her work at CIFOR-ICRAF and her strategies for staying positive in the fight for a better world.
Penny Davies
Women In Sustainability
10/08/22 • 28 min
In this episode, Emily talks with Penny Davies, a recognised change agent who has over 35 years of experience working in the field of forestry, climate change and sustainable development in diverse geographic locations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America. They discuss Penny’s early experiences working in Sierra Leone with rural women, her transition from working at a grassroots level with rural communities to the international policy making world, and women as a minority in food, forests and climate-policy making.
Across her career, Penny has supported evidence-based policy development on forests and livelihoods - including access to markets, climate finance, property rights (forests, land and water), involving producer organizations and social networks, as well as the contribution of forests and lands to conflict resolution. She has led UK Government and European Union (EU) delegations in international forest policy-making arenas (United Nations (UN), EU, World Bank) and played a key role developing the European Union’s Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan (and coined the term!).
For 14 years, Penny was Senior Forestry Advisor to DFID, leading advice on UK Government’s global policy and international programming on forests, focusing on their contribution to poor peoples’ livelihoods and climate protection.
More recently, she was International Director for Natural Resources and Climate Change at the Ford Foundation. Within her role she supported rural communities and indigenous peoples in the Global South, ensuring their needs were reflected in government and company policies. She was also Coordinator of the Climate & Land Use Alliance (CLUA) for 7 years, where she created strategies to reduce climate change by supporting international policies, programmes, and finance that conserve tropical forests, biodiversity and ecosystems, promote indigenous peoples’ and rural communities’ forests, livelihoods and land rights, while reducing deforestation and human rights abuse from illegal logging and agribusiness.
Sarah Mogford
Women In Sustainability
09/25/24 • 32 min
In this episode, Emily chats with Sarah Mogford, the UK Divisional Director of Environment and Planning and a board member of RSK, one of the world's largest environmental consultancies. They discuss Sarah’s work growing the company from 25 to over 15,000 employees her insights on being a woman in the sustainability field.
Ditte Lysgaard Vind
Women In Sustainability
04/08/24 • 31 min
Ditte Lysgaard Vind is a renowned circular economy and design expert and practitioner, based in Denmark. Ditte is the founder of The Circular Way, the Chairwoman of the Danish Design Council and a member of the executive board of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation as well as the global SDG innovation lab UNLEASH. She most recently published Danish Design Heritage and Global Sustainability, a book that showcases practical examples taken from Danish designs of how design can help build a regenerative society. In this episode, you will hear Ditte explain how we need to design the world of tomorrow with the waste of today, while designing a world without waste.
Dr. Manon Littek
Women In Sustainability
12/17/24 • 37 min
Join us for an exciting and inspiring conversation with Dr. Manon Littek, one of Europe's leading early stage investors in the agrifoodtech and deep tech industries. She and Emily discuss her career and her work as a founding partner of the early stage venture capital Green Generation Fund, where she is making innovative investments in areas like regenerative agriculture and sustainable food production.
Daphna Nissenbaum
Women In Sustainability
01/03/24 • 32 min
Daphna Nissenbaum is the founder and CEO of TIPA, a global compostable packaging company providing innovative solutions for the fashion and food industries, and a globally recognized pioneer and female entrepreneur in the sustainable solutions space. Daphna spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2020, and has received multiple awards for her work, including being named as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2019. In this episode you will learn about sustainable packaging innovations, and Daphna’s journey to found one of the leading companies working against plastic waste.
Dr. Ines Smyth
Women In Sustainability
03/30/23 • 34 min
In this episode, Emily speaks with Dr. Ines Smyth who has an MSc and PhD in Social Anthropology. With 10 years of experience working as a University Lecturer and Researcher, she has an extensive publication list, and has also been the Senior Gender Advisor in Oxfam Great Britain, and the Senior Gender Expert at the Asian Development Bank. She is now a Gender and Women Rights consultant with over 30 years of professional experience in the fields of gender equality, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and gender mainstreaming, around the world, especially in East Asia.
In particular, Dr Smyth has over 10 years of practical experience in Myanmar, working on the full gamut of issues and methodologies pertaining to gender equality and social inclusion in the context of a country prone to ecological and other crises.
Since engaging in consultancy work, she has engaged in the identification, design and formulation of standalone women’s rights programs and gender mainstreaming strategies in development and humanitarian settings. She has also used intersectional research for the purpose of influencing governments and other development actors on issues of women’s access to natural and other resources, food security, livelihood and governance. She has prioritised collaboration with individuals and civil society organisations, including Women's Rights Organisations, in developing and delivering innovative capacity-enhancing curricula on gender and women's transformative feminist leadership, gender mainstreaming in humanitarian settings, gender and Disaster Risk Reduction, safeguarding and GBV, gender and localisation, feminist MEAL, and engaging men.
To her private and professional life she has brought a commitment to gender and social justice, which translates into feminist activism as well as, in the last 4 years, in active engagement with Extinction Rebellion, for a transition to a just and fossil fuel free society.
Margot Logman
Women In Sustainability
02/24/23 • 23 min
Margot Logman is a specialist in nutrition and food supply chains and an expert facilitator, supporting strategic collaboration between companies and governments that influence how we source food more sustainably. Margot has worked with some of the world’s leading food companies such as Unilever, Nestle and Friesland Campina where she has provided strategic support on a range of topics including CSR, nutrition strategy and communications.
As the Secretary General of the European Palm Oil Alliance (or EPOA) between 2016-2022, she worked on market transformation across the complex palm oil supply chain, together with members Sime Darby, Wilmar, Cargill and more. She has also engaged many international partners, including the Malaysian Palm Oil Council and GAPKI (the Indonesian palm oil association).
Both personally and professionally, she likes to create meaningful impact through sustainability and public health improvement strategies. Through public private cooperation between businesses, governments and non-governmental organisations she facilitates and implements time bound strategies, appealing communication campaigns and interventions based on expert knowledge. By building trusted relationships, she has been able to build and activate meaningful cooperation with a range of global stakeholders.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nutrisult/
Jenny Morisetti
Women In Sustainability
05/16/24 • 37 min
In this episode Emily talks with Jenny Morisetti, an expert convener and activist in Dorset, about the myriad community projects promoting sustainable fashion and textiles, renewable energy, and eco-schools that she runs. They discuss her involvement in Dorset’s COP 2024 and the Defashion Dorset event, which focuses on educating the community about local fibre growers, cloth makers and a local clothing culture, as well as the work she does as a Retrofit Adviser for traditional buildings using renewable energy.
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How many episodes does Women In Sustainability have?
Women In Sustainability currently has 21 episodes available.
What topics does Women In Sustainability cover?
The podcast is about Research, Nature, Podcasts, Gender, Social Sciences, Science, Female Leadership and Sustainability.
What is the most popular episode on Women In Sustainability?
The episode title 'Dr. Ines Smyth' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Women In Sustainability?
The average episode length on Women In Sustainability is 31 minutes.
How often are episodes of Women In Sustainability released?
Episodes of Women In Sustainability are typically released every 34 days.
When was the first episode of Women In Sustainability?
The first episode of Women In Sustainability was released on Sep 8, 2022.
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