Our experts
Our Expert Advisory Panels are carefully and meticulously curated.
Their design and membership are to ensure our grant money and the contributions you make are reaching only the most effective organisations. At all parts of the grant process we aim for full impact and full accountability.
The panels
Every grant we make is vetted by a diverse group of climate experts, spanning generations and nations.
With members including leading scientists, academic researchers, economists, climate communicators, youth activists, community organisers and policy makers, the intention of EarthPercent is to place knowledge at the centre of it’s ambitions.
The panel now advises on our global grant giving programme (including in the US) and is orientated in sub-panels around our 5 Key Action Areas.
the chair
SARAH DITTY
Senior Programme Manager at Laudes Foundation and previously Policy Director at Fashion Revolution.
Focus: Legal & policy change
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Dr Tamsin Edwards
Climate scientist, Professor at King's College London, Science advisor to the UK Government, Lead Author of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report
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Delara Burkhardt
Youngest German member of the European Parliament, member of the EU Environment Committee, 2022 Obama Fellow
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Amol Mehra Esq.
Director of Industry Programmes at Laudes Foundation, Board member of EarthRights International and Built By Natur
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Sophia Kianni
Youngest ever UN Advisor, Founder of Climate Cardinals, Advisor to the US EPA’s National Youth Council, National Geographic Young Explorer
Focus: climate justice
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Tori Tsui
Climate Justice Activist and author of It’s Not Just You: How to navigate eco-anxiety and the climate crisis.
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Dr Samir Doshi
Director at the CS Fund and was Senior Scientist and Deputy Division Chief for the US Agency for International Development,
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May Thazin Aung
Climate Finance Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
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Wawa Gatheru
Founder of Black Girl Environmentalist and Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar
Focus: JUST ENERGY TRANSITION
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Lauren Hermanus
Founding Director of Southern Transitions, Co-founding member of the Just Transition Lab, Technical expert for South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership Investment Plan.
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Mika Minio-Paulello
Climate & Industry Lead at Trade Union Congress, Consultant at Transition Economics.
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Anna Markova
Climate & Industry Lead at Trade Union Congress, Consultant at Transition Economics.
Focus: PROTECTING NATURE
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Dr Erik Cordes
Department Vice Chair, Department of Biology at Temple University, Expert Reviewer for the IPCC Report, Foremost expert on the ecology of the deep sea
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XIYE BASTIDA
Climate Activist, Co-founder of the Re-Earth Initiative, Lead organiser of Fridays for Future, Time100NEXT 2023, member of the Indigenous Otomi community
Focus: GREENING MUSIC
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Dr Kyle Devine
Professor of Musicology, University of Oslo and award-winning author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music.
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Anne Pasek
Canada Research Chair Media, Culture and the Environment, Trent University.
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Lilian Liu
Sustainability Director, Braze.
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Catherine Strong
Associate Professor of Design and Social Context, RMIT University.
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Dr John Fernandez
Director of the MIT Urban Metabolism Group, Chair of Sustainable Urban Systems for the International Society of Industrial Ecology, Associate Editor of Sustainable Cities and Society.
Sounds right expert advisory panel
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Kavita Prakash-Mani - Chair
Founder of multiple Asia-based nature conservation organizations; served strategic advisor to WWF and AsiaGrow.
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Mindahi Bastida
Director of Original Nations Program; Expert on biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge and related topics; UNESCO consultant on sacred sites and bioculture.
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Dr. Shivani Bhalla
Award winning conservation scientist protecting 4,500km2 with Samburu community in Kenya; developed an open source framework on community driven decision making.
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David Emmett
Conservation scientist, head biodiversity conservation partnerships at Hempel Foundation, and conservation impact investment advisor.
