Sam Baker

 

Advocate for System Level Change to Address the Polycrisis | Climate and Biodiversity Educator | Campaigner. 

I have 30+ years of experience as a management consultant, including 15 years as a strategy consulting partner at Deloitte. I have an MBA from London Business School. I spent 6 formative years in Tanzania, including 3 years working as a volunteer through VSO. Since 2021, I have initiated and run campaigns, e.g., Walk2CoP26, run Climate Fresk workshops, chair a small charity and am a Director of Business Declares. 

Up until 2015/16, when the SDGs were published and the Paris Agreement was signed, I had focused on helping companies and private equity with growth and M&A. In 2016, I spent 4+ months with a team mapping the global mobile telecoms sector to the SDGs. This work became the keynote at the UNGC day at UNGA that year and changed my perspective, resulting in a pivot to driving SDG-framed purpose into business.

With the worsening of the polycrisis (climate, biodiversity, justice), I now focus on system-level change and the necessary role of business in that change