Julie Baddeley

Chair and founder of Chapter Zero, a network of more than 2,300 UK board members, Julie Baddeley has served on the boards of major organisations in the public and private sectors for more than 20 years. She is a director of FTSE 250 automotive supplier TI Fluid Systems plc, which is leading the transition to electric vehicles, Senior Independent Director of Marshall of Cambridge, and non-executive director of marketing analytics consultants Ebiquity plc. She was previously Senior Independent Director of Greggs plc and Yorkshire Building Society, and Chair of global recruitment company Harvey Nash.

Julie leads a series of initiatives to help chairs and non-executive directors recognise the challenge of climate change to their businesses, and their business’ impacts on global warming. She sees delivering a zero-carbon economy as the biggest challenge for business in her lifetime. She is on the board of the Climate Governance Initiative, which has Chapters focused on climate action in business in 56 countries, and is a By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.