Speakers & Performers

Confirmed Speakers


Sándor Fülöp  Mr. Sándor Fülöp, lawyer and psychologist, was born in Montreal, and he lives in Budapest, Hungary. He worked as a prosecutor and started to deal with environmental legal matters at the General Attorney’s Office of Hungary in 1991. From 1994 to 2008 Mr. Fülöp acted as a public interest environmental lawyer and the director of Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA). He  represented NGOs and local communities in 30-40 environmental cases a year. He took part in drafting the Aarhus Convention on public participation in environmental decision-making and was a member of the Convention’s Compliance Committee for 6 years. He served as member and deputy-head of the National Environmental Council for 6 years. Since 2008 Mr. Sándor Fülőp has been the first Hungarian parliamentary commissioner for future generations.

Tamsin Omond  Tamsin Omond left university with one ambition – to become the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.  After reading a popular science book about climate change she had to rethink her goal.  One morning she left her church office so that she might climb the roofs of Parliament to drop banners that read: No Third Runway (at Heathrow Airport). This was the beginning of a new ambition – to build a women-led environmental movement in the UK.  Since that January morning three years ago she has organised (and been arrested for) a number of high profile protests, co-founded a Suffragette inspired climate action group called Climate Rush and coordinated the recent Save England’s Forests campaign. She is the author of RUSH! The Making of a Climate Activist and is as likely to be found in the pages of Vogue as she is to be found outside Jeremy Clarkson’s house leaping over a large pile of manure.

James Thornton  is an environmental lawyer, chief executive and founder of ClientEarth. In January 2009 he was selected by the New Statesman as one of 10 people who could change the world.

He moved from Wall Street law practice to found the Citizens’ Enforcement Project at NRDC in New York, where he brought some 80 federal lawsuits against corporations to enforce the Clean Water Act when the Reagan Administration stopped enforcing the law. He won these cases and embarrassed the government to start enforcing the law again. He moved to Los Angeles and founded the Los Angeles Office of NRDC, which does internationally important environmental work with the support of the Hollywood community.

ClientEarth is working with the Zoological Society of London to promote the Declaration of Young People’s Rights to a Healthy Environment. James will speak about the necessity of recognising young and future generations’ environmental rights in law.

Joss Garman  Environmental campaigner with Oxfam who at the age of twenty founded Plane Stupid, an organisation campaigning to prevent expansion of unnecessary flying in Britain.


Kate Hampton is the Executive Director for Climate Change at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and manages a major global portfolio of technical assistance and advocacy programmes. Formerly Head of Policy at Climate Change Capital, Kate has advised asset managers and multinational energy companies on the development of policy-driven markets. She has also advised policy makers in a number of roles including as a Senior Policy Advisor for the UK’s G8 and EU Presidencies in 2005 and as a Sherpa to the EU High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and Environment in 2007. She is currently a member of the European Commission’s Advisory Group on Energy which helps target pan-European R&D efforts. Previously, Kate was Head of the Climate Change Campaign for Friends of the Earth International and Convenor of the Green Globe Network, an advisory group to the UK Foreign Office. Kate holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. In 2008, Kate was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and she now manages the London hub for the new WEF Global Shapers network.

Halina Ward Director of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, a forum for long-term thinking on the intersection these two topics, where she leads research and campaigns on intergenerational justice.


Kyra Choucroun Innovation & sustainable business researcher and consultant with SustainAbility, currently writing a book on the topic of intergenerational innovation.