Global Fashion: Navigating Dilemmas around Climate and Nature-related Risks

Catherine is on a mission to bring circular living to every board room and every home. Catherine has spent her career building coalitions globally with businesses and governments to drive system transformation, with particular expertise in the food, packaging, textiles and fast-moving consumer goods sectors. Drawing on her background at Fairtrade and the Coop, Catherine has led WRAP’s Behaviour Change and Business Programmes functions, and in 2025 stepped up to be WRAP’s CEO. 

Nigel is a consultant at Clyde & Co, an international law firm, and has specialised in reinsurance throughout his career. He co-founded Clyde & Co’s Resilience and Climate Risk practice and frequently writes and speaks on climate and sustainability issues. He is also actively involved in the Insurance Development Forum, a public/private partnership seeking to optimize and extend the use of insurance and the industry's risk management capabilities to protect those most vulnerable to disasters.

As President of GARP Risk Institute, Jo Paisley helps lead research and thought leadership for GARP and the broader risk community.

Jo Paisley’s career began at the Bank of England where she worked in various economist roles, ran the Statistics Division and spent the last part of her career in Supervision. Her last role was as a Director of the Supervisory Risk Specialist Division within the Prudential Regulation Authority. This area provided deep technical risk expertise to front line supervisors across all risk disciplines, covering banking and insurance. She was also heavily involved in the design and execution of the UK’s first concurrent stress test in 2014.

She left the Bank in 2015 and joined HSBC as their Global Head of Stress Testing, where she was responsible for ensuring that they met all their regulatory stress testing requirements around the world. She has also worked as an independent stress testing consultant, advising firms on how to get the most value out of stress testing. Jo studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, before completing her MPhil in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Julie Baddeley is one of the U.K.’s most experienced women directors having served in executive and non-executive capacities on the boards of leading companies in the FTSE 100 and 250 indices, as well as major public sector organizations.

Since 2001 she has served as a non-executive director across a range of sectors including consumer, retail, financial services, professional services and global industrial. She was chairman of global recruitment company Harvey Nash plc and Senior Independent Director at Marshall of Cambridge.

At the Said Business School, Julie coached top business teams from around the world on the execution of business strategy, having previously been the partner in charge of Accenture’s change management practice in Europe. She was Executive Director at Woolwich plc responsible for HR, IT and the insurance businesses.

Julie is active in raising the awareness of boards of UK companies on the impact of climate change on their business models and balance sheets as well as the impact they are having on the global climate. She was one of the founders of Chapter Zero, the UK Directors’ Climate Forum, and now chairs Chapter Zero Alliance, which provides a home for the global network of non-exec Chapters spanning 74 countries and has more than 100,000 members.