Lucy Siegle is a journalist, broadcaster and opinion leader who specialises in climate and nature stories. As a reporter and presenter on BBC1’s The One Show, she has been following the problem of single use plastic and wider ecological issues since the show began in 2007. Her book, Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again was published in 2018.

Also known as an authority on the environmental and social footprint of the global fashion industry, her book To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World was the basis for hit Netflix documentary, The True Cost, for which Lucy was co-executive producer). In 2014, she co-founded the Green Carpet Challenge with Livia Firth. From 2004 to 2018, she wrote a weekly Ethical Living column in the Observer Magazine and founded the paper’s Ethical Awards. She regularly contributes long form features and Op-eds to major newspapers including The Times, The Guardian and The Observer. Recent TV and radio includes a microplastics special for ITV’s Tonight, the Today Programme and Costing the Earth (BBC Radio 4).

Claudia leads the sustainable investment team at Quilter Cheviot, dedicated to serve clients who would like to invest in companies offering solutions to the economic and environmental problems of urbanisation, climate change and resource scarcity. Claudia’s role is to generate the best investment outcomes for the funds and segregate portfolios that I manage on behalf of private clients, pensions and charities with a focus on sustainable and ethical investment.

Claudia has 20 years of experience in Sustainable, Ethical and Responsible Investment and 13 of those are with Quilter Cheviot where Claudia has worked since 2009. Claudia is the Lead Fund Manager of our award-winning sustainable investment strategy, the Climate Assets Fund. I also manage investment portfolios on behalf of private clients, pensions, trusts, offshore bonds and charities with a focus on sustainable investment.

David’s primary role is to create and deliver the distribution strategy for our Regional Development Managers who work with our key introducers. David works alongside our Heads of Office in ensuring that our supporting advisers across the country receive the highest possible care and attention.

David entered the industry in 1991 with Scottish Amicable in their sales support team and was quickly promoted to a financial advisers sales role. He remained in life company intermediary sales until 2003 when he was promoted at Prudential to work as an integral member of their corporate partnership team. In 2004 David moved to Insight Investment to work as a client relationship director within their group partnership team, managing group and third party relationships until 2010 when he returned to the financial adviser sector for Cofunds. David joined Quilter Cheviot in 2012 as a Business Development Director and became the Head of Strategic Accounts in 2016, responsible for the Head Office Relationships with National, Networks and Platforms, until moving into his current role in April 2020.