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EMILY EVANS
SHIPRA GUPTA
NEAL RANSOME
Emily has worked within third-sector
healthcare for more than 15 years.
At Nuffield Health she held various
operational leadership roles including
supporting teams through periods
of significant organisational change.
She also headed up the growth
of their mental health services
through acquisition and proposition
development.
Shipra currently works in Responsible
Investment with a large institutional
investor leading on the Stewardship
strategy, plan and initiatives. Her
role encompasses engaging with the
investment industry and public-listed
companies on their environment,
social and governance policies and
practices, and advocating for the
right public policy in this space.
In her current role as Chief
Commercial Officer for Everyturn
Mental Health, Emily sits on the
Executive Management Team and
leads a commercial function of
marketing, business development,
relationship management and
service development teams, along
with a project management office to
deliver commercial sustainability and
social return on investment.
She brings with her over 22 years of
experience working in Management
Consulting, Financial Services,
Healthcare and also a social
entrepreneurial venture across a
range of geographies and functions.
Of these, the last 12 years or so has
been specifically spent in embedding
sustainability in business-as-usual
and developing new propositions
in sustainable finance. In addition,
Shipra chairs her local community
primary school and contributes to an
external Investment Committee as an
impact specialist.
Neal qualified as a chartered
accountant and corporate financier
with PwC and as a partner led
their Pharmaceutical & Healthcare
Corporate Finance business. He was
also Chief Operating Officer of PwC’s
Advisory Services division, and a
member of the firm’s Corporate
Sustainability Governance Board.
He left PwC in 2013 and is now a
non-executive chairman and director
of three investment trusts focused
on healthcare and early stage
companies.
Emily is passionate about the
positive impact nature can have on
wellbeing and was inspired to join
TCV by the work it does to connect
people to green spaces, creating
healthy and happy communities.
DR JOANNE GILBERT
Jo has worked in nature conservation
for 28 years in both the charity
and education sectors with
experience in UK and international
conservation. She has held the
post of Conservation Programmes
Director at the RSPB since 2017,
overseeing the strategic direction
of nature reserves acquisition and
management, landscape restoration
and species recovery. Prior to this
she was Head of Reserves Ecology
for the RSPB. Jo is a board member
of the Saving Asian Vultures from
Extinction partnership, a committee
member for the Key Biodiversity
Areas partnership, and was formerly
a volunteer leader at TCV. She is
passionate about taking practical
action from local to global scale to
restore nature and stop the climate
crisis.
As someone equally passionate
both about people and biodiversity,
she believes TCV is an organisation
that is right at the heart of the
sustainability agenda and what the
world needs more of. She hopes
to contribute to the organisation’s
growth and development with the
aim of establishing TCV as best
practice for other entities to emulate
while herself learning and growing
from the experience.
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With a keen interest in environmental
conservation, Neal is a former
Trustee and Council Member of
the RSPB. Neal has worked as a
volunteer for the RSPB, the London
Wildlife Trust and, more recently,
TCV. He lives in London and is a
fellow of the RSA.
ANDREW WALKER KC
Andrew is a practising barrister and
arbitrator. He was appointed as
King’s (Queen’s) Counsel in 2011. He
was an elected member of the Bar
Council of England and Wales for
many years, eventually serving as its
Vice-Chair (2017) and Chair (2018),
following several years as Chair of
its Ethics Committee. His areas of
legal expertise include property and
company law, and he continues to
advise and act for a very wide range
of clients across the country.
In 2009, he was awarded the Bar
Pro Bono Award for some of his
free professional work with the
homelessness charity, Shelter. He
has been involved in the governance
of a number of organisations, both
charitable and non-charitable,
and has had lifelong passion for
conservation and the environment.
