Christina is a science and policy professional committed to global impact, climate action, and strengthening foresight capability, innovation and evidence‑based decision‑making across the public sector. She leads futures work at the UK Government Office for Science, supporting long‑term policy development through futures‑focused tools and resources, strategic insight and cross‑government engagement. Her experience spans roles across UK government and the United Nations, including work at FAO on climate-nutrition linkages and resilience planning, and with the World Food Forum, where she led regional youth engagement across Europe and Central Asia and created a podcast exploring the future of climate, nutrition and health.

Christina holds an MSc in Environment, Politics and Society from UCL and an MSci in Geography from Durham University, where she was a Laidlaw Scholar. Alongside her professional role, she leads the Civil Service Climate and Environment Network’s Discussion Group – a forum that helps grow civil servants’ environmental knowledge and capability, and a space she has helped shape into a hub for collaborative and inclusive climate dialogue. As a UK Youth Delegate to COP31, she aims to ensure youth voices inform ambitious and equitable climate action, bringing essential intergenerational perspectives into global climate governance to help shape resilient futures.

Humayra holds a Politics, Policy and Economics degree from the University of Birmingham, where she completed a dissertation examining the paradox of environmentally sustainable industries contributing to environmental harm. She has spent the last few years on the Civil Service Fast Stream, developing my policy skills across challenging and impactful roles. She also supported the delivery of Cost of Living payments to over 8 million vulnerable households and work directly with rural communities to co-design solutions for people, place and environment.

Whilst interning for the policy think tank Curia, Humayra led a Dyslexia Inquiry Commission in partnership with the British Dyslexia Association and chaired by Matt Hancock MP. This examined dyslexia support across various sectors in the UK, with a particular focus on addressing disparities in service provision and improving outcomes. She also held an exciting position as a breaking news intern for Al-Jazeera in their Qatar office. This was a wonderful opportunity where she navigated language barriers and broadened my perspective on cultural differences in business. She is passionate about fighting against Islamaphobia and rising anti-migrant rhetoric. As part of the Muslim Visionary Programme, she advocates for issues affecting these communities and hopes to empower others to engage in politics. As her career develops, she hopes to drive forward real change and aspires to work in a role focused on international engagement and human rights.

Atiyah Suleman works as a Senior Associate in the MBB. A strategist specialised in energy and climate, Atiyah has a proven track record of leading high stakes sustainability initiatives across the energy, pharmaceutical, and financial sectors. Previously, as a Sustainability Business Consultant, she was handpicked to lead senior teams in executing global value chain assessments for pharmaceutical giants and designed ESG strategy workshops for major international organisations. Her technical expertise in decarbonisation is further highlighted by her work where she delivered a comprehensive 80 page strategy on carbon offsetting implemented by a consumer goods company. She has also spearheaded circular economy analyses and accelerated the launch of an energy firms Sustainability Network.

Beyond corporate strategy, Atiyah is a dedicated advocate for social mobility and representation. She serves as a founding team member of a social mobility organisation called IHSAAN and mymuslimmentor.com, a platform that has connected hundreds of students with industry professionals to bridge the opportunity gap. Her leadership extends to the startup ecosystem supporting VC-backed startups in scaling their own talent. Atiyah holds an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London and outside of her professional life, she is a half-marathon runner, a former Army Reserve Officer trainee, and an enthusiast of deep sea fishing.

Simran Mohnani is a Chemical Engineer, Climate Intrapreneur, and STEM Activist on a mission to decarbonise manufacturing through climate spinouts, infrastructure innovation, and community-led solutions. She brings a decade of experience across the climate innovation lifecycle – from designing bioreactors for cultured meat, to reducing waste at Cadbury’s factories, and digitizing COVID-19 vaccine production at the peak of the pandemic. She went on to lead Deloitte Europe’s Circular Economy Innovation Studio, founding the firm’s Circular Manufacturing practice and scaling its CleanTech platform across 12 countries and 45 startups. Her work focuses on building and adopting first-of-a-kind solutions that reimagine what our manufacturing systems could be: from designing the UK’s first reverse supply chain for textiles, to piloting the EU’s first digital product passport for medicines, and setting up the UK’s first paperless factories for vaccine production.

Beyond her professional pursuits, she is a dedicated advocate for youth empowerment and women’s education. She serves as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, One Young World Ambassador and UN Women Ambassador, having founded grassroots networks to elevate youth voices on climate action and girls’ education globally. In the long term, she aspires to build a net-zero fund focused on female innovators –and one day, a school for South Indian girls to study STEM. Simran is currently studying for her MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business as an elected UK Fulbright Scholar, Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow, and Stanford BOLD Fellow. A First-Class Honours’ graduate from the University of Bath, she has been recognised as one of the UK’s TechWomen100, UK Asian Woman of Achievement, INvolve’s 100 Future Role Models, JCI Malta’s Top 10 under 40, Salters’ Top 5 UK Chemical Engineers and the UK’s Asian Women of Achievement.