Mark, the ‘Reluctant Futurist’ advises governments, investors, NGOs, and corporates on climate change, inequality, democracy, and market failures. He co-founded carbon removal company CUR8, is Global Ambassador for Client Earth, and a former advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence.
His bestselling books, An Optimist’s Tour of the Future and We Do Things Differently, offer solutions to global challenges. Mark is a comedy writer and songwriter, co-hosts a hit podcast, and gives talks on building the post-Covid world, successful optimism, innovation, and systems change.
Hiring Mark as a keynote is a ‘no going back’ experience – you will not leave his talk unchanged. Mark delivers the emotional punch needed to catalyse radical change – all backed by wide-ranging experience of change at the highest levels.
Be warned, bringing Mark to your event will not be a comfortable ride, nor should it be – but it will be richly rewarding. An exemplary and award-winning communicator Mark’s other career (in comedy, theatre and music) gives him the ability to thrill, chill and upskill an audience, whether that’s actuaries or artists.
As a systems thinker working across multiple fields Mark brings an incredibly wide perspective, making sense of the grand trends of our age (from climate change to digital transformation) but through a uniquely human lens – helping to turn inertia into agency.
