BRC Climate Action Summit

Helen leads the team and sets the strategic direction of the BRC. She joined in January 2013 and has been working with retailers for over 25 years. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for Services to Retail.

Helen is passionate about diversity and inclusion in retail. She acts as the BRC’s Social Mobility Commission ambassador and was previously the Chair of Working Chance, a charity helping women offenders find employment. She is on the advisory board for Pennies, a charity which offers digital charity boxes to businesses, and was previously UK Head of Retail at KPMG.

Wayne Hubbard is a leading circular economy and waste expert with over 30 years of experience in the sector, most of those spent working in London. He has been at the forefront of circular economy development in London since 2014, and in 2017 he led the publication of the world’s first city Circular Economy Route map.

Wayne Hubbard has recently stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of ReLondon, where he led efforts to help London’s boroughs reduce waste, increase recycling rates, and accelerate the city’s transition to a low-carbon circular economy.

He recently served as a member of the UK Government’s Circular Economy Taskforce and has contributed to the development of a national Circular Economy Growth Strategy for England, where he chaired the Textiles and Clothing Sector Roadmap group, and the finance, innovation, and business support group.

Wayne is a trustee of Tech Takeback Foundation and the international development organisation Waste Aid.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and the Circular Economy Institute. 

Lindsay has over 20 years of experience in business and sustainability, working with senior leaders to advance a sustainable economy.

She built CISL’s international education programs, now with over 40,000 alumni, fostering senior-level understanding of economic transformation. Lindsay has shaped international debates on business leadership and sustainability, speaking on global trends and commercial implications. Her recent papers include ‘Survival of the Fittest, from ESG to Competitive Sustainability’ and ‘Competing in the Age of Disruption’.

Within CISL, she has driven growth, innovation, and impact, leading industry engagements across various sectors and regions, including China and the Middle East, and expanding CISL’s strategic advisory services and Board-level engagement.

Mike is a sustainable business transformation agent, committed to helping business big and small, new and established to prepare for and succeed in the complex transformation to a Society, and Economy that serves it, that is healthier, more sustainable and more just.

He’s the co-founder of Planeatry Alliance that’s helping companies transform the food system by linking their work on human health and sustainability.

Mike was until 2019 Director of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, spearheading its ground-breaking Plan A (because there is no Plan B for the one planet we have) sustainability program. He co-chaired the Consumer Goods Forum’s sustainability work bringing the world’s largest retailers and fast moving consumer goods brands together to work on issues such as deforestation, plastics and forced labour. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Trustee at Blueprint for Better Business. And Chair of local charity Greener Henley.

He’s worked with organizations such as Tata Consulting Services (TCS), Consumers International, Bloomberg NEF, ITV, Chanel, Ahold Delhaize, Musgraves, Sainsburys, PwC Japan, Unilever, SAP, Panasonic, Grosvenor GB&I, Haleon, Costain, Havas, Kite Insight’s Climate School, Ball, Nestle, Danone, Microsoft, CCEP, Lidl, Ikea, IBM, Nomad Foods, Oxford SM, 3Keel, The Climate Pledge, the Environment Agency, Which, Royal Society of Chemistry, Food and Drink Federation, British Retail Consortium, Edrington, Lagardere, CoGo

Ed has more than 8 years of experience in strategy, risk and sustainability consulting. In recent years, Ed has specialised in climate and sustainability, including sustainability strategy and operating model design, with a particular focus on the insurance sector. This includes supporting insurers in developing strategies for ‘insuring the transition’, including through development and implementation of sustainability-linked insurance models.

Ed also has considerable experience supporting organisations on climate and sustainability risk management and regulatory reporting requirements. Ed has led a number of large international sustainability strategy programmes. This has included a detailed maturity assessments, benchmarking and roadmap design for leading public and private organisations across EMEA as well as and energy transition strategy design. 

Kelvyn Sampson joined Marsh’s UK Industries leadership team in January 2023, leading the Retail, Food & Beverage, and Leisure practice.

With over 26 years of experience, Kelvyn has a proven track record of providing risk management, advisory and risk-transfer solutions to clients across various industries. His expertise enables him to develop tailored strategies that help clients mitigate risks and seize opportunities.

Recently, Kelvyn led the development of Marsh McLennan’s 2025 UK Retail Leaders Report, Leading through Disruption: Achieving Retail Resilience. Based on interviews with over 700 senior UK retail industry executives, the report highlights the significant challenges currently facing the sector, explores future growth opportunities, and identifies strategies to address these short-term risks.

Known for his collaborative approach and deep industry knowledge, Kelvyn is committed to delivering exceptional value to both clients and colleagues. 

Prior to joining Marsh, Kelvyn led the GB Retail, Leisure, and Hospitality practice at Willis Towers Watson.

James leads our Global Supply Chain Practice.  The practice brings together supply chain insurance and risk consulting expertise to provide clients with integrated solutions to strengthen their resilience. The Centre supports clients to identify their critical vulnerabilities, quantify disruption impacts and to design risk transfer and mitigation strategies across suppliers, logistics and geographies.  

James is particularly focussed on helping clients to understand their exposures to disaster risks.  His work here covers the direct risks exposures to an organisation’s own assets and the markets they operate in, as well as the indirect impacts hidden in upstream supply chains.  James also represents Marsh as a Commissioner for the UK’s National Preparedness Commission, where alongside business, government and academic leaders he works on initiatives to improve national resilience.  

Previous roles have included working as the head of risk management for the BBC and a similar role at the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, an organization responsible for the safe decommissioning of the UK’s fleet of civil nuclear sites. He also spent seven years working for PwC leading the UK firm’s enterprise resilience advisory services.  

James also worked in the UK Cabinet Office supporting government ministers and the British Prime Minister to prepare plans for national disasters. In this role he supported the response to national crises as part of the UK Government’s crisis response machinery known as COBR.  Between 2015 and 2025, James also chaired the International Standards Committee (ISO) responsible for the development of all global Business Continuity and Organizational Resilience Standards.

He is also the author of Business Continuity Management, Practical Guide to Organization Resilience and ISO 22301, which is now in its second edition, with a third edition coming.  His second book, co-written with colleague Catherine Cyphus was published in May 2026, entitled Risk Management for Third Parties and Supply Chains – an Enterprise-wide Approach to Resilience.