Speakers

Dr Gemma Cranston is a Programme Manager at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. Gemma works within the Natural Capital Leaders Platform, which brings together influential companies with a global reach to work on addressing the impacts of natural capital loss and degradation on business, their customers and wider society.  She is leading projects focusing upon externality valuation and water risk. 

Prior to CPSL, Gemma was the Lead Scientist at Global Footprint Network leading projects out of the Geneva office as well as supporting the organization’s Research and Standards Department by contributing to research on the Ecological Footprint methodology and applications.

Gemma has co-authored and shaped a variety of innovative projects, including the ‘E-RISC’ project on the inclusion of environmental risk in sovereign bond assessment, ‘Innovation through Collaboration’ on water stewardship and the WWF 2012 Living Planet Report.   

Gemma completed her Ph.D. focusing upon Ecological Footprints in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, UK. She also holds a Masters of Aerospace Engineering from the same institution.