Julian is interested in designing and implementing systemic strategies for tackling social and environmental challenges - bridging community activism to corporate intrepreneurship to policy change and everything in between. He is particularly motivated by the pressing need to address the widespread and rapid breakdown of the ecosystems and processes that support the abundance and diversity of life on earth.
In his current role at the Skoll Centre he helps to guide and manage educational and research programmes that equip students and changemakers with the hard and soft skills needed to understand the self in relation to complex social and environmental challenges, develop theory of change, and prototype and implement interventions. He is interested in the tension between the use of research and evidence to guide action and rolling up sleeves and getting on with it!
Julian's background is in food systems challenges, as a consultant, at responsible business advisory firm 3Keel, researcher, at the Environmental Change Institute, and social entrepreneur, co-founding successful community-owned social enterprise Cultivate and sustainable food network Good Food Oxford.
Julian has an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences and an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy, both from the University of Oxford. Given the opportunity, he would probably choose to be up a tree.
Arresting DeforestationClean EnergyEconomic OpportunityEnvironmental SustainabilityLivelihoodsResponsible Supply ChainsSmallholder ProductivityStandardsSustainable Markets
Central America, Europe, South America
