Pip Wheaton

Biography

Growing up in rural Australia made Pip intensely curious about humans’ impact on the rest of the natural world. Her childhood saw her planting trees and rounding up sheep, finding snakes in her bedroom and echidna in the garden, and solo walks gazing at exceptionally starry skies.

Pip works on climate change, both locally in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, New Zealand, for Wellington City Council, and globally with Ashoka. She has worked across South Africa, the UK and Aotearoa. Currently, Pip is working on a playbook for unlocking agency in climate changemakers. Based on learnings from dozens of world-leading social entrepreneurs, it is a collaboration between Ashoka and the Skoll Centre at Oxford University.

Pip is a award-winning social entrepreneur for founding enke: Make Your Mark, a youth leadership organisation in South Africa. She was a WEF Global Shaper, won a Skoll Scholarship to complete an MBA at Said Business School, and is an Ashoka Fellow.