Speakers

Neil O’Brien MP is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care, and previously co-founded Onward in 2018.

Eddie Hughes MP was a member of Onward’s Advisory Board and now serves as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Will Holloway is Special Adviser to Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP at the Department for International Trade. Prior to this he was Onward’s Deputy Director. 

Minette Batters is the President of NFU

Anthony Browne is the MP for South Cambridgeshire

Lord Gus O’Donnell served under three Prime Ministers and was Permanent Secretary to the Treasury under the Brown chancellorship

Dr Rhian Mari-Thomas is the Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute

Guy Opperman MP is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, and is the MP for Hexham

Harriet Baldwin is the MP for West Worcestershire

Danny Kruger is the MP for Devizes

Jessica Oghenegweke is the Commissioner of the Social Mobility Commission

Mark Gifford is the CEO of NCS

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt is the Minister of State at the Department of International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Jonathan Branton leads the Government and Public Sector Group at DWF

Dr Ben Caldecott is the Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme, and a member of the getting to zero steering group

Alan Haywood is the Head of ESG at BP

Gary Neville is a football pundit at Sky Sports

Alison McGovern is Member of Parliament for Wirral South

Lord Mervyn King of Lothbury is a Member of the Economic Affairs Committee in the House of Lords

Jo Gideon is the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central

Andrew Lewer is MP for Northampton South

Nickie Aiken is the Member of Parliament for Cities of London and Westminster

Bim Afolami is the MP for Hitchin and Harpenden

Ben Houchen is the Mayor of Tees Valley

Virginia Crosbie is Member of Parliament for for Ynys Môn.

Dr Caroline Johnson is the MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham

Helen Pidd is an Editor for The Guardian

Sir Richard Leese is the Leader of Manchester City Council

Philip Broadhead is the Councillor for Talbot and Branksome Woods, and Deputy Leader for the new BCP Council.

Andy Street CBE is Mayor of the West Midlands, and former Managing Director of John Lewis

Dr Russ Tucker is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Ivy Farm Technologies

Victoria Prentis is MP for Banbury and Attorney General.

Polly Neate is Chief Executive at Shelter

Vidhya is the founding Chief Executive of Power to Change, with extensive policy experience

Alison Jones is the Development Manager at the Little Hulton Big Local

Paul Scully MP is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and Minister for London

Tracy Vegro is Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at the Solicitors Regulation Authority

Natasha Clark is a political correspondent for The Sun

John Glen MP is the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Salisbury.

George Freeman is the MP for Mid Norfolk and the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation

Maggie Throup MP is the Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care.

Katherine Fletcher is the MP for South Ribble

Dr Séamus O’Neill is the CEO of the Northern Health Science Alliance.

Dr Kath Mckay is the MD at Bruntwood SciTech, Alderley Park

Andrew Bowie is Member of Parliament for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, and Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party

Jonathan Gullis is the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North

Secretary of State for International Trade, and President of the Board of Trade since 2021

Adrian Letts is the CEO of OVO’s retail energy business.

Jack Harries is a filmmaker and environmental activist

Mathieu Flamini is an environmental entrepreneur and former professional footballer

Emma Gatten is the Environment Editor for The Daily Telegraph.

Alexander Stafford is MP for Rother Valley.

Guy Newey is the Director of Energy Systems Catapult

Huw Merriman is the MP for Bexhill and Battle

Jamie Heywood is the Regional GM at Uber

Rt Hon Esther McVey MP is the Member of Parliament for Tatton.

Henri Murison is the Director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership

Neelam Patel is the CEO of MedCity

Mims Davies MP is the Parliamentary Under Secretary at the DWP and the MP for Mid Sussex

Dr Anna Valreo is an ESRC Innovation Fellow at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance

Mike Hawking is the Head of Policy and Partnerships at JRF

Chris Heaton-Harris is the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the MP for Daventry.

Phil Whittingham is the Managing Director at West Coast Partnership

Felicity Buchan is the MP for Kensington

Catherine McGuinness is the Chair of the Policy and Resources Committee for the City of London Corporation

Nadhim Zahawi MP is the Chairman of the Conservative Party and MP for Stratford-upon-Avon.

Juergen Maier is the Chair of Digital Catapult and the Former CEO of Siemens UK

Janet Godsell is a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain at the University of Warwick, and is the Dean of Loughborough’s School of Business and Economics

Ian Muldowney is the CEO and Engineering Director of BAE Systems Air

David Postings is the Chief Executive of UK Finance

Gareth Davies is the MP for Grantham and Stamford

Andrew Stephenson MP is the Minister of State at the Department for Transport and the MP for Pendle

Secretary of State, Department for Health and Social Care