This WCA event included a talk titled “The decline in natural capital and why it matters”. The talk was delivered by external guest speakers Ian Trim.
Ian is currently undertaking a PhD at Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute. He has 20 years’ experience in developing and delivering low carbon and sustainability programs in both the public and private sector. Prior to Guidehouse, where he works part time now, Ian spent a decade in the UK Government including acting as the UK’s lead negotiator on carbon markets at the Paris COP, and leading the development of domestic policy focused on industrial and household energy efficiency. From 2011 to 2014, Ian worked for the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Moscow as the UK’s lead in Russia on climate and environment issues.”
The talk was ollowed by a catered networking opportunity between LSE Undergraduate Statistics students, WCA members and IFOA representatives.
The event included a prize giving ceremony for the WCA Prize which is not a school prize and awarded by the WCA and is given to Undergraduate students from their penultimate year, awarded for outstanding / excellent achievement.