Clodagh Cant

Senior sustainability consultant, Longevity Partners

Cant is a senior sustainability and energy consultant at Longevity Partners, the global responsible business and climate advisory firm. She is a structural engineer by background, with a passion for environmental responsibility and a drive to create a more sustainable built environment globally. At Longevity Partners, she leads a team dedicated to reducing embodied carbon and promoting circular economy initiatives in new developments and major refurbishments. Cant has also been actively involved in organisations such as LETI (Low Energy Transformation Initiative) and UKGBC (UK Green Building Council), working collaboratively to create educational resources and promote knowledge-sharing within the industry.

Kate Larsen

Founding director, SupplyESChange

Larsen has more than 17 years’ experience in responsible sourcing and supply chains environmental and social issues management. She was the first Asia corporate responsibility manager for Burberry, building and managing a team and programme that helped contribute to one of the strongest programmes against modern slavery and for ethical trade in the sector. Larsen was later global director responsible sourcing for the USA listed largest childrenswear retailer in north America, TCP. In recent years, she has trained and supported procurement and investment teams to understand the ESG and business human rights due diligence steps expected of companies, and how companies can deliver these. A Chinese speaker, she applies deep insight from her years working in China and Asia in business, also in non-profit, and as a director responsible sourcing and participating in and leading industry initiatives and collaborations. Larsen has featured on the BBC, in Vogue Business, Drapers, Apparel Insider, and was a Top 100 corporate modern slavery influencer UK of 2018. She has spoken at conferences for the PRI (principles for responsible investment), Thun group of banks meeting, TechUK, Innovation Forum, WWD and Drapers sustainable fashion conferences, and more. Larsen holds an MSc environmental management (thesis on preventing wastewater pollution from fashion and electronics supply chains south China), and a conjoint BA Chinese language/ BCom in Asia business.

Samantha McClary

Editor, EG

McClary has almost 20 years’ experience in real estate and business journalism, covering a wide range of topics. Alongside making sure EG delivers the best, most helpful, most accurate and, of course, most interesting content to EG’s readership across all platforms – print, online and audio – she also plays a leading role in enabling and delivering a more diverse environment for the real estate community through EG’s REWIRE and tech initiatives. A keen chair and regular wearer of too bright trousers, she seeks to help keep panel discussions and events lively with audience participation and insightful questioning