Arthur Kay is an entrepreneur and urban designer building solutions for sustainable cities.

Arthur is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skyroom, the design, technology and development company that builds new buildings in the airspace above existing buildings (2018-).

He is Founder and Chair of the £100 million ESG private equity fund, the Key Worker Homes Fund (2020); Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the clean technology company, bio-bean (2013-2018 (acquired 2023)); and co-Founder and co-Chair of the think tank, Fast Forward 2030 (2015-).

In addition, Arthur is an Entrepreneur in Residence at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity and a Visiting Lecturer in technology, entrepreneurship, and design at both UCL, and Imperial College London. He is an advisor to various organisations, including a leading real estate development company, the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK); the Royal Academy of Engineering, where he chairs the Sustainability and Climate Roundtable, and the Museum of the Home (London, UK) where he serves as a Trustee.

Arthur’s work has been recognised by the UN as a Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer; The Guardian as Sustainable Business Leader of the Year; MIT Technology Review, as a 35-under-35; and Forbes as an all-star 30-under-30. His words and work have appeared in publications, including the FT, MIT Technology Review, Wired, Architect’s Journal, RIBA Journal, Architectural Review, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, Bloomberg, New Scientist, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and the BBC.

Arthur studied architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and entrepreneurship at The Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ann has worked in the environment and sustainability sector for over 20 years, following a career in social housing. During this time, she has been involved in the development of commercially successful circular economy service innovations, driving reuse and refurbishment whilst delivering social value. Ann has developed the Responsible Business Plan for all the Crown UK&I brands to help deliver their net zero targets whilst embedding more strategic sustainable business practices to drive better outcomes aligned to UN Goals.

Ann helps drive the market-leading circular services of Crown Workspace in the remanufacturing, refurbishment, resale and donation of redundant workplace furniture and IT assets that have recently been showcased in the Terra Carta Impact report. She is building these principles into the Crown’s wider workplace change service provision as well as supporting circular and sustainable service innovations across the other Crown brands.

Ann is a member of the CE task force as she is passionate about collaboration to drive a more sustainable and equitable society. She frequently speaks and writes about enabling the change and believes in the power of business to deliver a net positive future. She is a keen sailor, forest cyclist and enjoys fun times with her family.

Anna has worked in waste prevention, environmental education, event planning and sustainability for more than 20 years. Roles in local government, schools, regional partnerships, community groups and the not-for-profit sector have given her a wide range of experience to draw from. Anna specialises in building relationships, working with communities, initiating behaviour change and creating engaging content to inspire positive action.

Natalie has worked in waste, reuse, recycling and circular economy for over 20 years, in consultancy, local government, regional partnerships and is a Circular Economy Club volunteer leader. Her experience includes helping local authorities and other organisations to write waste management and circular economy strategies; designing and delivering local authority improvement and efficiency programmes; waste prevention, education and communications; waste policy; waste collection management as well as former landfill management and remediation. She specialises in project management, research and partnership working.

Ash has seemingly boundless energy for climate education. With a background in aerospace engineering and an interest in sustainability, Ash left his work in 2019 to become involved in the effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. For the last 3 years he has been delivering Climate Fresk with his social enterprise Climate Clarity CIC.

After learning about coral erosion, Ash became fascinated about the finite nature of things. He now uses this drive to tackle our excessive consumption with circularity.