Canon Giles Goddard is Vicar of St John’s Church, Waterloo, London. St John’s hosts the Waterloo Festival and is closely involved in the South Bank arts scene, and is noted for its work on climate change, inclusion and interfaith. Giles is a member of the Church of England’s General Synod and the Environment Working Group. His latest book, “Generous Faith: Creating vibrant Christian communities”, is published by Canterbury Press, who also published his first book, “Space for Grace – creating inclusive churches”. Previously he worked in social housing and at the John Lewis Partnership.

Chris is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham. His academic work focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of environmental management, including how faith shapes responses to environmental challenges such as nature conservation and climate action. He grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia and obtained a PhD in environmental geography from Macquarie University in 2012. Chris subsequently held positions at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Leuphana University Lueneburg, where he conducted research on nature conservation and sustainability transformations. Since moving to Nottingham in 2016 he has had the privilege of developing a MSc in Environmental Leadership & Management and supervising many PhD students in the School of Geography. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of the Society for Social-Ecological Systems. Chris has previously served as Trustee of a Church of England church in the city. He enjoys travel, playing music, and exploring hidden wild places with his wife and son.

Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers is part of the Rabbinic team at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue. She teaches Religion and Dialogue at Leo Baeck College where she herself was ordained in 2009. She also teaches at a number of Christian and Interfaith seminaries. She is a Buber Fellow from Paideia, the European Centre for Jewish Studies, and was awarded a 21 for 21 award in 2018 for her interfaith work. She has a history of campaigning on climate change and the impact of human consumption, as well as teaching broadly on what Judaism has to say about all of this. She has been published in magazines and journals, writes for the Jewish press, and is a regular contributor to Radio 2’s Pause for Thought, BBC 3 Counties Radio and BBC Radio London. Debbie has published prayers and chapters in several books, including writing on issues addressing interfaith matters, creative ritual, and climate change.

Sue is a member of Quaker Peace and Social Witness Central Committee and also engaged in grassroots Quaker activity supporting activists and exploring various climate justice themes. Before retirement, she was an Open University tutor of environmental studies. For Sue, the marrying of faith with a long care for the environment is a joy, learning much along the way from others is part of that. She is sustained by meeting with other Quakers online for meetings for worship every week, holding a space for listening and facilitating our climate justice activities.

Jagbir is a senior lecturer in Sikh Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. She is the only academic in the UK who has the official title Senior Lecturer in Sikh Studies. Jagbir has over 17 years’ experience in teaching and research, and provides extensive knowledge and experience in Sikh theology, inter-faith dialogue and contemporary issues facing the Sikh community. Her research covers issues of gender inequality, Sikh identity in the diasporic community, mental health, racialization and mistaken identity and other contested issues that confront the Sikh community. Her work in the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion looks at public policy, social and political engagement issues as they affect and are affected by the British Sikh community.

Jagbir was a Commissioner on The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life (CORAB), convened in 2013 by The Woolf Institute. She is a board member of ESITIS – European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS) an international and interdisciplinary society for the scholarly study of intercultural theology and interreligious relations. She is also a board member and trustee of a number of charities that focus on gender and climate change.

Jagbir is a presenter on the Thought for the Day segment on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

Jo is the Church of England’s National Environment Officer, a role she has held for the last 5 years. Previously she was part of the church engagement team at Christian Aid and volunteer Environment Adviser at the Diocese of Sheffield. Jo is responsible for taking forward the strategy developed by the CofE’s Environment Working Group, with a focus on the environment as a theological and mission priority. She works closely with the Net Zero Carbon Programme Team and the Diocesan Environment Officer network, regularly hosting webinars and online network meetings. Jo lives in Wakefield and loves the Yorkshire countryside but misses the sea.

Trupti Patel is the first female President of the largest UK Hindu umbrella organisation, the Hindu Forum of Britain. She has over 40 years’ experience in highways, traffic and transportation, managing various divisions at Salford City Council, Manchester City Council and Three Rivers District Council. She now runs a consultancy supporting network management, sustainable transport, environmental improvements, road safety, and climate change issues.

Trupti trained as a civil engineer at Sardar Patel University in India, then after moving to Britain, achieved her postgraduate degree at City University and became a fellow of the Charter Institute of Highways and Transportation UK while working full-time. In 2004, she became the first female civil engineer of Asian origin in the UK to hold high office in local government as Assistant Director at Salford City Council, and she was the first female chairperson of the Northwest Branch of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation.

Trupti’s involvement with community organisations has spanned her career. She was a Trustee of the Community Arts Northwest and Voluntary Community Faith Partnership until moving back to London from the Northwest. In 2019 she was elected the first female Director of the Interfaith Network UK for the Hindu Faith in 2019, and since 2015 she has sat on a Home Office panel for the Security of Faith Buildings. She is a member of the Women’s Economic Forum, and a regular participant on various BBC television and radio channels.

Imam Razawi is the Chief Imam and Director General of the Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society (SABS). He is also a Director and Associate at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, as well as being a Visiting Scholar at the University of Strathclyde.

Nationally, he has served as an advisor on the United Kingdom’s Independent Sharia Review commissioned by Theresa May and participates as a member of the Oxfam GB Zakat Advisory Panel.

Internationally, Imam Razawi is a trustee and member of multiple international organizations and non-governmental bodies including an international Trustee of Religions for Peace (RfP), a member of the European Council of Religious Leaders (ECRL), a member of the United Nation (UN) Multi-Faith Advisory Council, and an advisory board member of the Islamic Reporting Initiative (IRI).

Colette Joyce is the Justice and Peace Co-ordinator for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster where she leads on the Environment and also convenes the Southern Dioceses Environment Network which brings together climate activists from eight Catholic Dioceses across the South of England. She has previously worked as a sixth form college chaplain, the pastoral assistant for three Catholic parishes in London and Hertfordshire, and managed a refugee day centre with the Church of England for six years. She has been an accredited trade union representative for nearly twenty years, working across all faiths and denominations, and was formerly Equalities Officer for the Faith Workers Branch of Unite. She grew up in rural Essex where her first job was fruit-picking and has a long term love of gardening and getting out into nature. Visits to Kew Gardens are essential to preserving her well-being while living in London.

Lucy Plummer is a member of SGI-UK (Soka Gakkai International), a community of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism practitioners. Lucy is SGI representative to the United Nations for Youth Engagement and a consultant for the SGI Office for UN Affairs. Lucy is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Buddhism based at Taplow Court, UK, and a doctoral student of policy at the University of Bath focusing on meaningful youth engagement in policy for sustainable development.

Moiz is a climate transition researcher and consultant working at WTW, a risk advisor. He leads consulting engagements with public and private companies to help them identify and manage their climate risks. He is a chemical engineer by training and holds a PhD in energy systems from Imperial College London. He has no qualifications for growing veg on his new allotment, but is doing his best. Moiz has previously volunteered for a faith-based organization and a mutual aid group in and around London. As an Indian Muslim, he is committed to climate justice through his faith and community.

Sachi is the Multi-Faith Coordinator and Lead Chaplain at SOAS University of London, and also serves as the Hindu Chaplain at King’s College London. He has worked in chaplaincy for over a decade, fostering dialogue and understanding across faiths and beliefs. Sachi holds an MPhil in Classical Indian Religion from SOAS and a PhD in Theology from the University of Oxford, where his research explored the interplay of politics and religion in eighteenth-century India. He is the author of a monograph in the Routledge Hindu Studies Series examining the 18th century ruler Jaisingh II and the rise of public theology. Born in London, Sachi spent ten years living as a Hindu monk in both the UK and India and served as a Hindu chaplain at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Passionate about interfaith engagement and the theological and ethical dimensions of caring for the earth, Sachi is committed to working with faith communities to address the climate crisis.