Lauren is an internationally recognised leader in sustainable finance, having built her career at the intersection of capital markets, climate and sustainability. She is Global Head of Sustainable Finance at Bloomberg, a global leader in financial data, analytics, technology, news and market infrastructure where she leads the firm’s sustainable finance business and strategy across a global, cross-functional organisation. She also serves on Bloomberg’s CEO led Sustainability Oversight Committee, helping guide the firm’s global corporate sustainability strategy.

Lauren is widely recognised as an early pioneer in sustainable finance and works closely with senior finance and industry leaders to integrate climate and nature considerations into financial decision-making. She is a regular speaker at major international forums, including Davos, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Energy Nexus.

Earlier in her career she helped grow Trucost, a pioneering environmental economics firm, from start-up to global market leader. As a member of the board and senior management team, she played a key role in the sale of the business to S&P Global in 2016, later going on to co-found and lead S&P Global’s sustainability division, Sustainable1.

She has significant board and governance experience, having served on the boards of Trucost and S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s leading provider of financial market benchmarks. Lauren’s career spans both the private and public sectors, including roles in fund management and early work with the UK Government’s Department for International Development.

Her passion for rainforest conservation was shaped by formative experiences working with an orangutan rehabilitation project in Borneo and a tiger conservation project in Sumatra. These experiences inspired her academic studies in archaeology, anthropology and international development and underpin her long-standing commitment to protecting biodiversity.

Lauren joined the Board of SOS in 2022 and has served as Chair since 2023, supporting the organisation’s mission to protect Sumatran orangutans, their forests and the communities who depend on them.

Stephen is a lawyer at Fauna & Flora International, where he works on the legal aspects of project design and implementation, the use of law for wildlife conservation, and the charity’s general work. Prior to his move to conservation, he was a lawyer for 20 years in the City including 10 years as a partner at a leading international law firm. Stephen joined the board of SOS in March 2020.

In the past decade he has been an advocate for regeneration in the supply chain and helped to set up many such projects at Lush in partnerships with communities, networks of farmers and like-minded suppliers. He also helped to launch a prize and a fund to reward regenerative initiatives around the world.

Simon has recently left Lush to leverage his influence and develop other regenerative business models. He remains a close advisor to Lush and will continue to help shape its future.

After finishing her MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at Oxford University, Sophie moved to Indonesia to gain some hands-on experience of reconciling biodiversity conservation with sustainable agricultural production. Through much time spent in remote parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan, initially running a conservation project for the Zoological Society of London and then as the Group Sustainability Manager for a palm oil company, Sophie gained a deep, holistic and practical understanding of the challenges with and potential solutions for delivering conservation initiatives on the ground.

Sonia Maycock is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years’ experience in senior finance leadership roles across listed, private-equity-backed and mission-led organisations, most recently as a Director of Group Finance. She brings strong expertise in strategic finance, financial governance, audit and risk, long-term planning and working with Boards, and also serves as Treasurer and Trustee of another UK-based charity. Alongside her professional career, Sonia is a wildlife artist and has family connections to Southeast Asia, having spent time with orangutans in Borneo, which helped inspire her commitment to conservation and to supporting SOS. 

Having grown up in Indonesia, Lara has experienced the joy of seeing orangutans in the wild and in rehabilitation.

This led her to a lifetime of animal protection and environmentalism and she spent much of her career working within the animal welfare, conservation and environmental sectors.

Lara specialises in understanding different audiences and then devising and implementing awareness-raising campaigns to spark action and create change. Currently the External Relations Lead at WRAP; Lara is excited to be expanding the reach and influence of a global environmental action NGO that drives the transformation of our broken product and food systems and generates behavioural change.

Passionate about social justice, animal welfare and protecting the planet, Lara believes that these global issues are interlinked, with the solutions found in listening, collaborating, taking less and giving more. She was appointed a trustee of SOS in November 2022.

Marjolein has over 25 years’ experience working as international (project) director on organisational development, philanthropy and marketing for INGOs including WWF, BRAC and World Animal Protection.  Her passion for nature and wildlife started at a very early age and was further ignited while working with orangutans in Indonesia. She obtained an MSc in Climate Change and Development at SOAS in 2023, focusing on coastal communities and climate adaptation.

Hana is an ESG Analyst in a global investment bank with a background in International Relations and Environmental Conservation. Through her interdisciplinary work, she developed various skills including stakeholder engagement, carbon reporting, policy briefs, and research on topics around climate issues. Prior to her full-time job, she volunteered during COP24-26 and interned at the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany for 6 months. Currently, she is interested in learning more about impact investing and ESG integration.

Iding is a forester by training and a wildlife conservationist by passion. He has spent more than two decades working on species conservation, research and management in Indonesia. He has strong scientific and analytical experience with a D.Phil in Wildlife Conservation from  the University of Oxford. Working on the ground is always his passion and assisting young conservationists to learn more on the field always recharges his energy. His aspiration remains on implementing science-based wildlife and nature conservation and management across Indonesia and SE Asia but also bringing in sustainable financing from the global market to boost ecological and economic benefits for wildlife and the local people.

Steve Trent has over 30 years experience in environmental and human rights campaigning, creating effective advocacy and communications campaigns and field projects, as well as leading investigations in over 40 countries. He is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). Steve also co-founded WildAid, serving as president for over a decade, and leading WildAid’s work in China and India. Prior to this Steve was the Campaigns Director at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) for a decade.

Elspeth is the Director of Size of Wales. Prior to that, she was a barrister at the environmental law NGO ClientEarth, where she works on innovative legal actions designed to protect the environment.  Elsepth was a valued members of the Board of SOS from 2015-2019.