Karen Hamilton
Trustee and Non-executive Director
Karen Hamilton is a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She is also a sustainability sector advisor for students at London Business School and external assessor for the Sustainability MSc at Cranfield School of Management.
Karen has over 30 years’ leadership experience in sustainability, innovation, and business. Until 2023, she was Unilever’s Global VP Sustainability.
Karen spearheaded the creation of Unilever’s ground-breaking Sustainable Living Plan and was responsible for ensuring progress against its 50+ goals spanning health and wellbeing, climate, nature, plastics and livelihoods. She has published guides on consumer behaviour change and purposeful brands.
She has previously served as a Board member of The Sustainability Consortium and Chair of the Pukka Herbs Mission Council.