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 3 Key Action Areas.

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the chair

SARAH DITTY

Senior Programme Manager at Laudes Foundation and previously Policy Director at Fashion Revolution.

Focus: Building Liveable Futures

  • Tori Tsui

    Climate Justice Activist and author of It’s Not Just You: How to navigate eco-anxiety and the climate crisis.

  • May Thazin Aung

    Climate Finance Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development.

  • Wawa Gatheru

    Founder of Black Girl Environmentalist and Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar

  • Dr. Samir K. Doshi

    Director of Just Transition at CS Fund, Race and Technology Fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab, previously Senior Advisor in the White House Office.

  • Delara Burkhardt MEP

    Youngest German member of the European Parliament, member of the EU Environment Committee, 2022 Obama Fellow

  • Sophia Kianni

    Youngest ever UN Advisor, Founder of Climate Cardinals, Advisor to the US EPA’s National Youth Council, National Geographic Young Explorer

  • 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.

  • Mika Minio-Paulello

    Climate & Industry Lead at Trade Union Congress, Economist at Transition Economics.

  • Anna Markova

    Senior Policy Officer for Industry and Climate at the Trade Union Congress, Consultant at Transition Economics.

  • Galina Angarova

    Executive Director of the SIRGE Coalition, Indigenous Peoples' rights activist

Focus: PROTECTING & RESTORING NATURE

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dr. Matthew Selinske

    Senior Social Scientist at Mosaic Insights, Adjunct Research Fellow at RMIT University and a Board Member of the Society for Conservation Biology.

  • Prof. Tamsin Edwards

    Climate scientist, Professor at King's College London, Science advisor to the UK Government, Lead Author of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report

  • Dr. Ainka Granderson

    Resilience Programme Manager at the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), co-convenor of the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance.

  • Melis Ford

    Global Engagement Lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance, working to strengthen how businesses respond to key nature-related challenges.

Focus: SUPPORTING MUSIC

  • Dr. Kyle Devine

    Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor in Environmental Studies, University of Winnipeg, and award-winning author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music.

  • Dr. Anne Pasek

    Canada Research Chair Media, Culture and the Environment, Trent University.

  • Lilian Liu

    Sustainability Director, Braze.

  • Dr. Catherine Strong

    Associate Professor of Design and Social Context, RMIT University.

  • Professor John E. Fernández

    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

  • Kavita Prakash-Mani - Chair

    Founder of multiple Asia-based conservation organizations such as Mandai Nature and Grow Asia; previously the Global Conservation Director at WWF International. 

  • Mindahi Bastida

    Founder and Convener of The Earth Elders; Expert on biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge and related topics; UNESCO consultant on sacred sites and Biocultural heritage.

  • 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.

  • David Emmett

    Conservation scientist, head biodiversity conservation partnerships at Hempel Foundation, and conservation impact investment advisor.

  • Joycelyn Longdon

    Award-winning environmental justice technologist, communicator and PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge investigating the design of justice-led conservation technologies

  • Dr. Salanieta Kitolelei

    Salanieta Kitolelei is an Indigenous Fijian PhD scholar at the University of the South Pacific whose research focuses on Fiji’s Indigenous and local knowledge of fishers.

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