The Opening Keynote at Green Economy Forum, featuring Nigel Topping, Founder Ambition Loop. Nigel Topping, CMG was appointed by the UK Prime Minister as UN Climate Change High Level Champion for COP26. In this role Nigel mobilised global private sector and local government to take bold action on climate change, launching the Race To Zero and Race To Resilience campaigns and, with Mark Carney, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. Nigel is now a global advisor to governments, financial institutions, and private companies on climate and industrial strategy. He is a non-executive director of the UK Infrastructure Bank, and an Honorary Professor of Economics at Exeter University, and was awarded the honour of CMG in Queen Elizabeth’s final honours list in 2022.

In 2024 Nigel founded Ambition Loop with Gonzalo Munoz.