Urgent Optimism – The Earthshot Prize CEO Hannah Jones

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Hannah Jones the CEO of The Earthshot Prize, a prize and a platform founded by Prince William and the Royal Foundation in 2020 to search, spotlight and scale solutions that can help repair and regenerate the planet in this decade. Five, one million-pound prizes will be awarded each year for ten years, providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030. Previously Hannah was Nike’s first Chief Sustainability Officer, was founder of Nike Valiant Labs, on the founding team of Microsoft’s philanthropy program in EMEA and twice named to Fast Company’s top 100 Creative People list. We talk about “urgent optimism”, eco-innovators and storytelling what is possible to build scalable solutions.