Elsie Roderiques leads the 'Values in the Media' project at Common Cause Foundation. The project aims to support those working in the media to recognise the sector's role as a cultural values influencer and to encourage them to reinforce intrinsic values in their work as a means of rebalancing our values environment. 

Common Cause Foundation is a small non-profit that works at the intersection of culture change and human values. They're driven by the belief that it is possible to design societies that magnify and strengthen the cooperative and caring parts of human nature. We know that values play a pivotal role in shaping our cultures and systems. The dominant global culture is out of balance, prioritising extrinsic values such as wealth, power and social status, in a way that has led us to the brink of destruction. We also know that balance can be restored with the elevation of intrinsic values which have, for too long, been neglected.

Informed by decades of social psychological research, as well as other ways of knowing that centre the interconnectedness of human beings and nature, they are helping to build the foundations for a culture that truly reflects the intrinsic values which the majority of people prioritise.

Emily McKenzie is the Technical Director at the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). She has worked for 20 years integrating nature in policy, finance, economics and decision-making. Most recently, she led the analytical team that produced the independent, global Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity, based at HM Treasury in the UK.

Emily previously was seconded to the Capitals Coalition Technical Group where she helped develop the Natural Capital Protocol. Emily worked for a decade in the WWF Global Science team, where she helped establish and lead the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University. She also helped design the Environmental Land Management scheme in England – a major national agricultural subsidy reform programme – based at the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in over 20 countries worldwide. She works closely with politicians, police forces, businesses, schools and organisations from the United Nations to the Council of Europe to tackle sexism and sexual violence. She is Patron of Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support and contributor at Women Under Siege, a New York-based organisation working to end rape as a weapon of war in conflict zones worldwide. She is a bestselling author of many books, including Everyday Sexism, Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System Not the Women, and she writes regularly for the New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph and others. Laura is an honorary fellow at St John’s College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded a British Empire Medal by the Queen for her services to Gender Equality and listed as one of CNN's 10 Visionary Women.

Rebekah Church is WWF’s Global Biodiversity Stewardship Lead, driving the development of new approaches and tools to support the private sector in understanding and addressing their biodiversity impacts. Rebekah is an environmental lawyer with a background in ecology and has over a decade of experience in biodiversity strategy and program development. She has worked across NGOs, government and in the private sector and is passionate about protecting species and ecosystems all over the world.

Thomas Vellacott is CEO of WWF Switzerland. WWF‘s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Thomas is passionate about nature and has supported WWF since he was eight years old. Before joining WWF professionally, he worked for Citibank and McKinsey & Co.

Hattie has experience with clients across sectors, with her main expertise lying in human rights, supply chains and strategy management. She works in a number of areas, most recently covering remediation of forced labour issues, responsible sourcing, circular economy strategy and modern slavery reporting. She leads Carnstone’s work on labour and human rights in the publishing sector, through the Book Chain Project.

Before Carnstone, Hattie spent several years working in supply chain and logistics at a start-up fashion brand, reinforcing her commercial experience.

Vikki Cook has over 20 years’ broadcasting industry experience.
She began her career at the BBC, working in both radio and TV. Vikki moved to Sky in 2001 and held a number of senior executive roles, including Head of Planning, and Head of Home News when Sky News was named RTS News Channel of the Year.
Vikki was Deputy Editor of 5News, before joining ESI media in 2013 to take up the role of launch Director of local TV station, London Live.
She joined Ofcom in 2017 as Director of Standards and Audience Protection, before moving to become a Director in Content & Media Policy in 2019. Vikki is also Ofcom’s lead on all diversity and inclusion work across the UK’s broadcast industry.
Vikki is an active member of BAFTA and the RTS.

Amelia Knott is a human rights consultant, working with businesses across sectors, including media, energy, construction, food production and development finance. Since 2019 she has been undertaking a programme of research for the TV Industry Human Rights Forum, exploring aspects of the human rights risks involved in TV production and broadcasting. The aim is to identify gaps that are not currently addressed and to develop practical guidance and tools for those working in TV.

Garrett Quinn was appointed Group Chief Sustainability Officer in July 2021. He joined the Group in 2000 and has occupied several roles predominantly in operations, managing corrugated box plants in the UK and Ireland, and subsequently moving to head of investor relations, a role he held for 5 years. Garrett has completed his postgraduate studies with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership and holds a bachelor's degree in Commerce from University College Dublin.

Val joined Penguin Random House in 2013, after working in a number of roles in Home Retail Group, and prior to that Accenture HR Services. After leading post-merger integration activities including distribution site consolidation, benefits harmonisation and organisational design activities as Head of HR, she was appointed to the Penguin Random House Leadership Team in 2016 as HR Director. Val leads the HR Team at Penguin Random House UK, comprised of Recruitment, Talent, Learning and Development and HR Operations including compensation & Benefits and HR Analytics. Val is responsible for the people related elements of the company Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.