Joseph K Ajuwon is the  Co-founder and creator of eLearning, Special Education Needs, Coding and eHealth initiatives.  Using bespoke EdTech innovations to provide eLearning platforms and digital access for unreached communities, particularly in Africa, he is passionate about ensuring every child’s unique voice is heard. He intends to make it easy and fun for the children in rural areas as in urban setting to read great stories, write well and learn about their world whilst gaining essential life skills – regardless of circumstance, gender and especially learning needs.

Sushmita Krishnan is an ecologist by training and a storyteller who wants to make a difference. Sushmita has  had research experience with agricultural pests and their management. She has collaborated with the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru and the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bengaluru. Together with UNESCO, she has actively worked on TAGe programme and the Digital Games for Peace. Sushmita’s current work in Nature-based Solutions focuses on a program to build expertise for women and youth, using the stems of water hyacinth to create value-added products through the International Sustainability Academy, Germany. In the process, they learn how to make a variety of products such as bags, mats, bottle holders, baskets and much more. Another focus of the program is entrepreneurship to ensure sustainability and incentives for the elimination of water hyacinths. This will lead to the restoration of water bodies and the improvement of aquatic biodiversity.

Dr. Hamdi Mohamed, is founder and CEO of Climate and Health Connect, passionate about addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change, public health, and women’s rights. Coming from a severely impacted and underdeveloped region in Kenya, she advocate for sustainable development, environmental justice, and One Health, emphasizing the interdependence of human, animal, and ecosystem health. With a background in climate science and public health, she drives initiatives that mitigate climate impacts and promote health and well-being, inspiring diverse groups towards common goals, especially in climate action and women’s rights. Her work involves effective communication, coalition-building, and project management, fostering equitable partnerships between high-income and low- and middle-income countries to integrate lived experience expertise into research and policy-making.

Prof Sikhulile B. Msezane is a faculty member at the University of South Africa, specializing in the field of Environmental Education. His research focus is around ESD issues such as Climate Change Education. Over the years, he has authored numerous articles and book chapters on this subject. Additionally, he has successfully guided and mentored both Masters’s and Ph.D. students in the areas of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development. Presently, Prof Msezane is serving as a visiting scholar at the University of Reading.

Dr Barry Murrer is a distinguished industrial scientist having recently completed a 35-year career at the FTSE-100 company Johnson Matthey in the UK. During this period, he led the development and commercialisation of a range of technologies across the company’s portfolio, including novel catalysts, nanomaterials, sorbents and FDA-approved platinum-based drugs. Dr Murrer joined the TSL Board of Trustees in September 2017.

Peter Omondi is the founder and CEO of Global Youth Forum, a community organisation founded in Kenya that seeks to empower youth with skills to get or create jobs and work towards realising the SDG’s. They provide opportunities in 4 key areas, Education, EdVentures, Entrepreneurship and Environment, enabling young people to gain leadership, civic education and life skills.

Daisy Parsons is an Associate Landscape Planner working in landscape planning and design at global consultancy Stantec, where she is involved in projects for large scale urban extensions, commercial and logistics developments, and renewable energy proposals. As a landscape planner Daisy undertakes assessments of the likely effects of proposed developments on the landscape character and visual amenity of a site and its context. This involves desktop research and field work to ascertain the existing conditions and to appraise the value of the landscape and views and their capacity to accommodate development without harm. This is followed by an assessment of the extent to which the proposals will change the existing conditions and how significant this change will be, whether adverse or beneficial, as a factor in the decision made by the planning authority when they determine the application. As such, landscape planning is a role that influences the long term character, appearance and social and environmental value of our urban and rural landscapes.

Daisy is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute and has been a member of the LI since 2014. She is the LI East of England Branch Representative on the LI Advisory Council and the LI Representative on the Ipswich Conservation and Design Panel. She has assessed candidates taking the Experienced Route to Chartership exams and is a Pathway to Chartership Mentor.

Dr Jo Anna Reed Johnson is the Institute of Education School Director for Climate and Sustainability Education and lecturer in science education at the University of Reading. Her research interests include Sustainability Education, Systems Thinking, Critical Pedagogy, Teacher Education, Leadership and Management in Education.  She has also been working with colleagues and the UK government to develop new Initial Teacher Education Framework to support teachers in teaching sustainability and climate change which has now been implemented in Higher Education Institutes across the UK and Internationally. Jo Anna joined the TSL Board of Trustees in December 2023