Panel discussion, questions and answers: stakeholder engagement and environmental funding

Guy Thompson is Group Director of Environmental Futures at Wessex Water and Managing Director of EnTrade, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wessex Water that creates and operates online markets for nature-based solutions and accredits their environment services. He was previously Chief Operating Officer and a founding Executive Director of Natural England, the government’s expert adviser…Read more

Craig started as Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts in April 2020, with the ambition of putting a third of the UK’s land and sea into nature recovery by 2030. He has been described as “one of the country’s top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian as “the very model of a modern eco-general” and has…Read more

David Young has extensive experience in climate change, sustainable land use and energy policy reform. A founding Executive Director of Natural England, he now specialises in environmental market design, and the planning and finance of sustainable development.Read more

Amina Aboobakar is the commercial director for the Rivers Trust, where she is helping to deliver their strategic ambition to expand as a movement and drive transformational change across the water environment, driving better collaboration and strategic partnerships with water companies and other organisations. Amina is seconded from United Utilities, where she spent the last…Read more