Nusa has been with the Changing Markets Foundation since it was founded in 2015 and her role was to set up the organisation’s main office in London and to manage the team of Changing Markets campaigners. Until July 2023 she worked as Changing Markets Campaigns Director leading the development of strategies and overseeing the implementation of the Foundations’ campaigns, research and media work. In July 2023 she took over as the CEO of the Foundation.

Before joining Changing Markets, she worked for over 6 years in Brussels-based NGO Transport & Environment leading its Energy programme, advocating for more climate-friendly European policies on transport fuels. She played a leading role in running and coordinating European campaigns against unsustainable biofuels, unconventional oil and promoting transport electrification, resulting in significant political reforms. She designed T&E’s political advocacy strategy, coordinated research and fund-raising. Before joining T&E, Nusa worked at the European office of Greenpeace on the renewable energy campaign and she also gained experience as a free-lance journalist and translator.

Nusa has an MA in International Relations from the University of Ljubljana and an LLM in Human Rights from the London-based Birkbeck University. She speaks Slovenian, English, French and Spanish and has lived in Belgium, France and in the UK. In her free time, she enjoys reading, yoga, skiing, hiking and other outdoor activities.

Anne is joining Changing Markets from 350.org, where she was leading the global fundraising efforts, managing the team responsible for raising the organisation’s revenue to support the global climate movement.

Anne’s experience combines campaigning and fundraising. Before joining 350.org, she led Oceana’s global corporate plastics campaign and prior to that, she was leading Oceana Europe’s foundations and major donor fundraising. In her former positions at Oceana, she has planned and run campaigns for the protection of sharks, fought overfishing, illegal fishing and fishing subsidies and founded and led Oceana’s Baltic office in Copenhagen.

Before joining Oceana, Anne was the Head of Major Gifts in Leonard Cheshire Disability and she worked for Greenpeace International and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Anne holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Culture and Media from the University of Lueneburg.

Anne speaks German, English and Spanish. As an oceans enthusiast, she enjoys  swimming, surfing, diving and building sandcastles at the beach with her two boys.

Urška joined the Changing Markets Foundation in 2017 and has worked across campaigns on fashion and fisheries. Before joining the Changing Markets Foundation, Urška worked at a Brussels-based NGO, Carbon Market Watch, as the Climate Finance Policy Officer, advocating for more effective and accountable use of climate finance that does not cause social or environmental harm. She was responsible for implementing Carbon Market Watch campaigns at the international and EU level focusing on sustainable development, human rights and public participation in the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS), Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Prior to that, Urška worked at the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Brussels and the European Commission Representation Office in Slovenia.

Born and raised in Slovenia, Urška read European Studies at the University of Ljubljana and graduated from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium with a Master’s Degree in European Politics and Policies. Now based in Brussels, Urska enjoys exploring new cuisines, playing music, doing sports and outdoor activities. She speaks English, Slovenian, Croatian and some French.

Alma joined Changing Markets in October 2021 as a Senior Campaigner. Prior to this, Alma worked for over 7 years at WWF-UK and WWF International as a Senior Campaign Manager working on a range of environmental campaigns: engaging the general public to foster political action towards climate change; tackling illegal and unsustainable timber entering the EU market; protecting UNESCO World Heritage sites from harmful industrial activities; stopping deforestation and conversion in our food production; making sure climate and justice was at the heart of the UK Government’s COVID-19 recovery package; advocating for protection and restoration of UK seas; and started working on a campaign to fix our broken food system. While at WWF, Alma also had the opportunity to support the International Gorilla Conservation Programme with the creation of a multi-country (Rwanda, Uganda, and DRC) advocacy comms strategy that it is currently implemented.

Born and raised in Mexico, she holds an arts degree in tourism, as international cultures and languages have been of great interest to her. But it was her passion to environmental work that made her make a career switch. This switch has allowed her to do community outreach, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, and local campaigning and organising. Lover of nature, she lives by the coast, and in her spare time, she enjoys hiking, swimming, and nature and wildlife photography. She speaks Spanish, English and French.

Maddy is a Senior Campaigner at Changing Markets Foundation, having joined in April 2022. Prior to this she was Campaigns Manager at CPRE, the countryside charity where she worked across several campaigns including for a deposit return scheme in the UK and on issues ranging from nature based solutions to climate change to racism in the countryside. Maddy’s entry to the NGO and charity sector was through the CharityWorks graduate programme in 2015.

Outside of work Maddy’s commitment to climate justice manifests in her voluntary work which over the years has been for Green New Deal Rising, Green New Deal London, and a community run library and community fridge. She has an MSc in Global Environmental Politics and Policy from Birkbeck College, University of London and studied History and Sociology for her undergraduate degree at Sheffield University.

In her spare time Maddy enjoys being by or in the sea, drinking coffee, yoga, seeing friends and going on long walks – which in 2021 included walking over 250 miles from Southampton to Canterbury on an ancient path.

Caitlin joined Changing Markets in December 2023 after 6 years with Save the Children International, most recently leading their climate and inequality campaign in the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe regions. Caitlin has worked across a number of campaigns in her career, including on climate, girls’ empowerment, and protecting children in conflict and is passionate about social and climate justice. Throughout her time campaigning she has worked to ensure children have a central and meaningful voice in climate action and decision-making, as well as working closely with youth-led groups, including at COP. Caitlin likes to be creative in her approach to campaigning using tools like artivism (art + activism) and storytelling to engage with young people and adults.

Growing up in Scotland, Caitlin likes to spend much of her time hiking or walking on the beach and enjoys being away with her tent and a backpack. Last year she cycled through the Outer Hebrides, wild camping along the way. She has a BA (Hons) in International Politics from the University of Stirling, and an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford, receiving academic excellence awards in both degrees.

Lily joined Changing Markets in January 2024. Lily comes from a background in public policy and sustainable finance and joins from ShareAction, where she advocated for responsible investment and corporate behaviour, mobilising stakeholders to drive positive social and environmental impact through shareholder activism. Lily has worked across a number of campaigns targeting global corporations — from promoting consumer health to addressing air quality and worker wellbeing. Central to all campaigns is Lily’s commitment to ensuring the voices of those with lived experience shape engagement and decision-making.

Lily holds a BSc in Social Science from the University of Bath. In her free time, you’ll find Lily crocheting, delving into books and experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.

Kerry is an ICAEW-qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) who joined Changing Markets Foundation in August 2024. Originally from London, Kerry moved to the Netherlands in the summer of 2023 and began working at WECF International as their first Senior Finance Officer. There, she managed bookkeeping, project financing, and project reporting across multiple international offices.

Before moving abroad, Kerry was Head of Finance at Hackney Foodbank. She oversaw the charity’s finance function, including payroll, budgeting, and grant management. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, Kerry shaped organisational strategy and implementing strong financial controls in a period of rapid growth.

Prior to Hackney Foodbank, Kerry trained as an accountant whilst working as an auditor at Sayer Vincent LLP, an audit and accountancy firm that specialises in not-for-profit organisations. Kerry led statutory and grant audits for a diverse range of not-for-profit clients, where she gained detailed knowledge of FRS 102, IFRS, and Charity SORP, and helped provide clients with practical solutions to complex financial issues.

In her spare time, Kerry enjoys reading, listening to podcasts – especially history-related podcasts – and exploring her new hometown of Utrecht.

Joakim calls himself a campaign junkie. Swedish by origin, he studied law but soon after landed at Greenpeace, where he discovered his passion for campaigns. In the early 1990’s his time as Campaign Director of Greenpeace Sweden saw some of the organisation’s earliest innovation in market campaigns, including on chlorine bleaching in the pulp and paper industry and the PVC campaign. He went on in Greenpeace to various roles including CEO of Greenpeace Sweden, Deputy CEO of Greenpeace International and a board member of Greenpeace USA and Central and Eastern Europe.

In 1996, Joakim established and ran a solutions focused market campaigning business in Sweden. Over nearly two decades he has developed unique experience in using campaigning to drive market growth strategies for sustainable products for large international corporations. His clients have included companies in forestry, health and nutrition, building materials and recycling.

Joakim has also worked at Action Aid Sweden, advising them on how to become a campaigning organization and advised numerous other NGOs on how to improve their campaigning. Joakim has lived in the Netherlands and Australia, where he developed a passion for surfing. He is now based with his family in a small fishing village in the south of Sweden despite the lack of surfing opportunities.

Paul Gilding has spent 40 years trying to change the world, doing everything he can think of. He’s served in the Australian military, chased nuclear armed aircraft carriers in small inflatable boats, campaigned on human rights, plugged up industrial waste discharge pipes, been global CEO of Greenpeace, become a visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, started and run two successful companies and advised the Boards, CEOs and executives of some the world’s largest companies.

Paul is now an independent author, strategy advisor and entrepreneur for a sustainable economy. He has worked with the Boards and executives of many leading global companies including Unilever, BHP Billiton, DSM, Ford and DuPont and is a widely recognised global authority on the economic and business implications of sustainability and climate change. He is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership where he researches and teaches on the inevitable global economic transformation around sustainability.

In 2011 Bloomsbury published his widely acclaimed book “The Great Disruption” which has since been translated for publication in Germany, The Netherlands and Brazil. His views have been featured in major media outlets around the world including by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Tom Friedman in the New York Times, where Friedman concluded “Ignore Gilding at your peril.” He now travels the world alerting people to the global economic and ecological crisis now unfolding around us, as the world economy reaches and passes the limits to growth.

He is confident we can get through what’s coming and in fact thinks we will rise to the occasion, with change on a scale and at a speed incomprehensible today. He tells us to get prepared for The Great Disruption and “the end of shopping”, as we reinvent the global economy and our model of social progress.

He lives on a farm in southern Tasmania, Australia with his wife, where they grow vegetables and raise chickens, pigs and their children.

His blog, The Cockatoo Chronicles, and more background can be found at www.paulgilding.com