2024 Judges
Aileen McManamon,
5T Sports
Aileen McManamon
5T Sports
Claire Poole,
Sport Positive Summit
Claire Poole
Sport Positive Summit
Claire is the CEO and Founder of Sport Positive, supporting the global sports industry to increase action and ambition on climate change through direct support, community creation, the annual Sport Positive Summit in collaboration with UNFCCC and IOC, and Sport Positive Leagues.
In 2017 she was cited as doing ‘more than anyone alive to mobilize convocations for sustainability advocates throughout the sport world’ and in 2022 she appeared on Sport Business Journal’s ‘Influential Executives To Know in Sports Sustainability’ list. Her views and work have been covered by BBC Sport, Sky Sports News, The Mirror, BT Sport, Euronews, The Independent, Reuters, The Times, The New York Times, The Nikkei, The Japan Times, Forbes, The Athletic, Rouleur, Euractiv, Ecolospot and more. She is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences.
Jim White,
Nature Positive
Jim White
Nature Positive
Jim White is a Principal Consultant at Nature Positive who works to integrate sustainability into the heart of the organisations he works with, with a focus on understanding and mitigating impacts to biodiversity. With 10 years of consultancy experience he has rounded knowledge of corporate sustainability, programme/project delivery and effective governance, having worked with clients in the construction, manufacturing, mining, and chemical sectors, among others. Jim’s recent focus has been on supporting clients to prepare for Taskforce on Nature-related Disclosure (TNFD) and Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN) requirements, including the assurance of underpinning data.