Founder and Director
While the world is facing systemic challenges on an unprecedented scale, many of our institutions – both public and private – are trapped in silos, with short-term and short-sighted goals. Dr Gabrielle Walker works at the boundaries between these silos, helping business leaders have fresh conversations across perceived divides, and develop new narratives to enable both longer term perspectives and more rapid collective action on sustainability and climate change.
Gabrielle is an expert strategist, speaker and moderator. She works as an advisor at boardroom level with a wide range of global companies and has covered many different sectors including: oil and gas, utilities, renewable energy, finance and investment, consumer goods, retail, risk management, certification and professional services.
She has presented dozens of TV and radio programs for the BBC, reporting from all seven continents. She has been Climate Change editor at Nature and Features Editor at New Scientist, and has written very extensively for international newspapers and magazines, including The Economist, Prospect, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Gabrielle gives keynote addresses to corporate audiences around the world. She is also an accomplished moderator of high-level debates, has hosted many international meetings and guided panels involving global CEOs, former heads of state, government ministers, military generals and global humanitarian leaders. Gabrielle is also an Ambassador for Client Earth.
In this article, which appeared in the TLS in September 2019, Gabrielle calls time on divisions between the primary players at the centre of the climate crisis - NGOs and businesses - and instead argues for the need for a new era of bridge building, "Those of us who wish to save our planet need an awful lot of allies. And many, perhaps most, of these solutions will have to be delivered by businesses.
