Laura is a Senior Consultant in the Civil Society & Government practice at Green Park. She brings ten years of executive search experience working across board and executive appointments for grantmakers, trusts and foundations and social finance organisations.

Before joining Green Park, Laura was on the Talent Acquisition Team at the Wellcome Trust, supporting Board-level appointments and leading recruitment for the Digital and Technology area. She began her career in executive search at an international firm, assisting higher education clients with senior academic roles and arts organisations with executive and non-executive appointments.
Laura has a BA in History from the University of Bristol and is studying a masters in philanthropy, grantmaking and social finance at City St George’s, University of London. She is passionate about fighting inequality and equal access to education.

Inequality and injustice make me angry especially when they are caused by short-sighted change that does not consider the voices of the most vulnerable in society. A lot of the change in the world at the moment feels like we’re going backwards and it’s infuriating.

Seeing communities come together to tackle injustice and stand to defend communities who face injustice give me a real boost. This and when I see a truly fantastic senior appointment that challenges perceptions and will create change.

Amelia is a senior leader in social innovation and venture philanthropy, passionate about building transformative alliances that drive scalable, systemic change. As Chief Partnerships Officer at 100x Impact, she leads the organisation’s global Engagement, Influence, and Communications functions, securing strategic funding, shaping ecosystem partnerships, and amplifying the uptake of impactful social innovations.

Amelia also serves as Deputy Director of the LSE’s Marshall Institute, spearheading influencing and engagement initiatives to advance the Institute’s mission of fostering private action for public benefit.

She brings deep expertise in strategy, multi-stakeholder engagement, and impact partnerships from her previous roles at the University of Oxford and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Amelia is also an Ashoka Venture Scout, contributing to the global social impact movement.

When decisions are made without compassion or humility. I believe everyone should have the opportunity to live a life of dignity and purpose, and our systems should lift people up, not hold them back.

I’m endlessly inspired by the kindness, creativity, and courage people show when they come together. I truly believe that, through collective action, we can shape a future our children and generations to come will be proud to inherit.

Jamie Crummie trained as a lawyer, having studied a LLB in Law at Leeds University and a master’s in Human Rights Law LLM at Queen’s Mary before pursuing his mission of fighting food waste. He is the co-founder of Too Good To Go, the world’s largest marketplace for surplus food. Through its marketplace app Too Good To Go enables consumers to buy unsold food from restaurants and retailers, so that it doesn’t go to waste.

Too Good To Go is currently active in 19 countries. The market-leading app has over 100 million registered users and 165,000 active food businesses, who together have rescued over 450+ million meals of food collectively.

Jamie was named as an Obama Leader in 2023, Sustainability Entrepreneur of the Year at the GB Entrepreneur Awards 2022, a Trailblazing Activist in Forbes’ the 50 Next class of 2021, One Young World’s Entrepreneur of the Year in August 2020, and one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe in February 2019.

Injustice, inaction and inequality

Instigating and developing change is hard yet I am continually inspired by amazing work from young people striving and driving positive impact. I am truly hopeful for the future when I see the values and principles upheld by younger generations

Hassan Damluji is the author of The Responsible Globalist (Penguin, 2019) and founder of Global Nation, advising institutions on global cooperation, climate, and inequality. He spent a decade at the Gates Foundation as Deputy Director of Global Policy & Advocacy, leading the Middle East and Asia teams. Previously, he was a senior manager at McKinsey & Co., designing education system reforms. A graduate of Oxford and Harvard, he is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, a senior advisor to the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, and co-founder and Vice Chair of One Degree Academy. Passionate about youth leadership, he supports The Advocacy Academy in empowering young people to drive systemic change.

The world is an extremely unequal place, both within countries and between them. It makes me angry when people do not acknowledge their privilege, and do not show empathy to those less fortunate than themselves. We all have sources of privilege, which we can pay forward as gifts to others.

Humans have a tendency to figure things out eventually. Progress is not smooth, and sometimes things get worse before they get better, but one day we will fix the bad practices that harm our society, and our planet.

Andrew Evans is the co-founder of Smart Pension, making saving and financial access simpler for people worldwide. A long-time friend of The Advocacy Academy, he is a champion of youth-led change and a strong advocate for education. He also supports innovation foundations, advising and funding UK fintech companies and social entrepreneurs, particularly in open banking. We’re excited to welcome him as an Ambassador and look forward to his support in helping us grow our network and impact.

When people are treated unfairly based on circumstances beyond their control. And when brilliant ideas, people and opportunities are squandered due to laziness, ignorance and bureaucracy.

The poet Du Fu wrote ‘The state is broken. Mountains and rivers remain’. I take that to mean that even in times of conflict, there is something enduring beyond this. The youth of today are able to find hope and solutions, and being able to help is a privilege.

Freddie Feltham is a journalist, ‘manosphere’ expert and host of political podcast ‘What’s Left?’. After making several documentaries investigating the world of Andrew Tate and his impact on young men, Freddie has written in The Guardian and appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. As a political strategist, Freddie was a key part of the Labour Party’s digital campaign, creating content in the ‘first TikTok election’. He now hosts his own show ‘What’s Left?’, with fellow Labour campaigner Jovan Owusu Nepaul, speaking to progressive young men on how to navigate an increasingly polarised and radical political landscape.

Selfishness, corporate greed and avoiding accountability. When people refuse to empathise with others.

We can learn from our mistakes. History is a useful guide. When the chips are down, co-operation is possible to realise a better world.

Kené Umeasiegbu is Tesco’s Responsible Sourcing Director, leading the company’s agenda on human rights, sustainable packaging and food waste reduction. He was at various times, Tesco’s Campaigns Director and Head of Environment, in which roles he: led the company’s advocacy and stakeholder engagement on health and environmental sustainability, established Tesco’s sustainability innovation agenda, led the company’s switch to 100% renewable electricity and roll-out of electric vehicle charging points. Prior to Tesco, he worked at Cadbury and The Carbon Trust.

Kené is a trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and is the recipient of the 2022 Black British Business Person of the Year award in recognition of his contribution to corporate sustainability.

When public figures exploit the fault lines in society to divide communities and pitch one group against another.

The energy of young people when they realise their own power in fighting for a better future.