Hina West’s two-decade career spans the NGO, public and private sectors across multiple countries, by connecting stakeholders, to drive forward truly sustainable impact and forge transformational partnerships that create global systems change for the benefit of both people and nature. Focused on scaling high-impact innovative market-based solutions, that foster inclusivity, equity and regenerative growth at both at a community and global level, to ultimately shift us towards a new climate-resilient and equitable economic structure, recognising the current system is broken and is destroying lives and our home.
A former Green Party UK parliamentary candidate advocating for a fairer future for us all whilst combating the climate crisis and safeguarding nature. Whilst at WWF, she steered a global Nature-based Solution called Nature Pays that created market access opportunities for Indigenous People and local community-led enterprises within WWF’s conservation work globally. Hina also worked in a number of programmatic and partnership roles at IRC and Oxfam, including leading Oxfam’s Global WaSH innovation Fund to support the most climate-vulnerable communities through gap-analysis innovation. Additionally, guest lectured for Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership and is a thought leader on female leadership, social and environmental impact, market-based approaches, social economy, climate justice and much more. Along with time spent working for New Zealand’s Green Party in Parliament combating social and environmental issues; within communications for the iconic MINI; and raising youth’s awareness of HIV/AIDS with The British Red Cross.
Andrea Cardoso is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences at the University of Magdalena in Santa Marta, Colombia. She leads the Research Seedbed on Energy Transition at Unimagdalena, where she is committed to empowering young people in the region to engage with just transition.
She holds a PhD in Environmental Science and Technology, with a focus on Ecological Economics, and a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. With 14 years of research experience, her work centres on the political ecology of coal phase-out in the Colombian Caribbean and the multiple dimensions of just energy transitions in these territories.
Her research adopts a justice-oriented and territorial approach, engaging closely with coal former workers and local communities to address the social, environmental, and economic challenges of transitioning away from fossil fuels.