Gabrielle is an expert strategist, speaker and writer, helping businesses to address global challenges—with a focus on sustainability, climate change and strategies for achieving net zero. She is a TED speaker, a Global Ambassador for Client Earth, and works at C-suite and boardroom-level with a broad set of global companies.
Gabrielle is co-founder of two organisations aiming to accelerate action in the confused but vital area of carbon removals and figure out how to do them right: CUR8, the leading market maker for carbon removals and Rethinking Removals an influential policy and market intelligence unit which works with leading influencers of market rules including SBTi, ISO, VCMI to drive the growth and development of the voluntary and compliance carbon removal markets.
She gives keynote addresses to corporate audiences around the world and is an accomplished moderator of high-level debates, guiding panels involving global CEOs, former heads of state, government ministers, military generals and global humanitarian leaders. She has presented many TV and radio programs for the BBC. She has been Climate Change Editor at Nature and Features Editor at New Scientist and has written extensively for many international newspapers and magazines, including The Economist, Prospect, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Gabrielle is author of four books including co-authoring the bestselling book The Hot Topic, how to avoid global warming while still keeping the lights on, which was described by Al Gore as “a beacon of clarity” and by The Times as “a material gain for the axis of good”. She has a PhD from Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton.
A self-confessed “ice addict” Gabrielle has made more than a dozen trips to both poles. She has also climbed trees in the Amazon rainforest, swum with piranhas, been sneezed on by a humpback whale, hooked lava out of a live volcano, and flown in zero gravity.
