Woman's Hour Power List 2020: Meet the judges
Lucy Siegle
Lucy Siegle is a climate and environmental journalist and broadcaster. As a reporter and presenter on 大象传媒1’s The One Show, she has been reporting on the problem of single use plastic and wider eco issues since the show began in 2007. Her book, Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again was published in 2018. She is also an authority on the environmental and social footprint of the global fashion industry. From 2004 to 2018 she wrote a weekly Ethical Living column in the Observer Magazine and founded the paper’s Ethical Awards that ran for a decade. She is a trustee for the environmental NGO, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) and chair of the Real Circularity Coalition, spearheading the change to a real circular economy. Lucy is often to be found riffling through people’s bins, wardrobes and bathroom cabinets (usually with their permission) and loves to help individuals reduce their impact on this precious planet.
Flo Headlam
Flo is a horticulturalist who decided to follow her passion for plants after working for over 20 years in the charity sector. She now creates, builds and develops private gardens in London. Flo was part of the Gardeners’ World presentation team from 2016-2019, and has also worked on community gardens.
Flo is a passionate believer in the power of gardening to transform people’s wellbeing - and feels that as lovers of the Earth we all have a responsibility to care and protect it. Given the current climate emergency, she thinks it’s really timely that this year’s Power List is focussed on the environment, and wants to highlight the amazing women doing ground-breaking work across a range of different fields. Flo loves being in gardens, witnessing their continuous evolving nature and their meditation on life. There is always growth in a garden, nature and one’s own self.
Professor Alice Larkin
Alice is Head of the School of Engineering and a researcher in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester. Alice trained as a physicist in Leeds, did her PhD in climate modelling at Imperial College, then worked in science communication. She returned to academia joining the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester in 2003 to research conflicts between climate change and energy policy. Her work on carbon budgets helped to shape the UK’s Climate Change Act and inclusion of aviation within policy frameworks. She became a Professor and Director of Tyndall Manchester in 2015, delivered a TED talk and was awarded a University ‘Researcher of the Year’ award in 2016. She has led large collaborative projects for The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council on the Water-Energy-Food nexus and decarbonising shipping, and continues to work at the climate change-policy interface.
Zunaira Malik
Zunaira is 24 and works for the UK environmental education charity, Action for Conservation. They aim to inspire and educate the next generation of young environmentalists through school workshops, nature camps and mentoring through their ambassador programme. Zunaira became involved in environmental campaigning through her general interest in the outdoors and her Islamic faith, attending civil society actions at COP21 in Paris with Islamic Relief and leading environmental workshops with a faith-based focus. She has worked for various environmental organisations such as Sustrans, Keep Britain Tidy and the National Trust and has spoken on various platforms such as Inspire FM, 大象传媒 Asian Network and Islamic Channel.
Emma Howard Boyd
Emma Howard Boyd is the Chair of the Environment Agency, an Ex officio board member of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and the UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation. She serves on a number of boards and advisory committees which include Menhaden PLC, The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project and the European Climate Foundation. She has worked in financial services for over 25 years, in corporate finance and fund management. As Director of Stewardship at Jupiter Asset Management until July 2014, Emma was integral the development of their expertise in the corporate governance and sustainability fields. Her previous board and advisory roles include: Chair and trustee of ShareAction, Vice Chair of Future Cities Catapult, a director of the Aldersgate Group and Triodos Renewables PLC, Chair of UKSIF (the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association), and a member of the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance and the Green Finance Taskforce.
