Jonathon has over 30 years of advisory and advocacy experience, working with companies, intergovernmental bodies, and NGOs in Africa, the MENA region, Latin America and Asia. He has played an active role in driving corporate accountability both globally and in South Africa: he was instrumental in bringing the CDP to South Africa, convened the GRI Corporate Leadership Group on integrated reporting, served on technical committees to the IIRC, and is on the expert review committee of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Financial System Benchmark. Recently Jonathon led the teams developing the Sustainability Disclosure Guidance for stock exchanges in South Africa, Botswana and Uganda. From 2006-2010, he facilitated the multi-stakeholder negotiations on the text of ISO 26000, securing consensus – from more than 95 countries, 45 global organisations and 450 experts – on the international guidance standard on social responsibility. He is a teaching fellow on various executive and MBA programmes, a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and an active ultra-distance trail-runner and kite-surfer.

Nicola partners with teams and leaders in support of sustainable and just transitions. She has spent 25+ years working in 15 countries, across most sectors, with a focus on listed companies in emerging markets. With a base in Natural Science and African Economic History, her professional training includes Impact Assessment (UCT, 1990) and Industrial Ecology (Yale School of the Environment, 1994). She has done stints as a research assistant (UCT Environmental Evaluation Unit) and corporate employee (Nissan SA). Increasing awareness of sustainability’s failure in the face of uncertainty led her to study and apply the complexity-based methods of The Cynefin Company and Southern Africa’s Ngoma Traditions. Her approach is unorthodox, often adaptive, highly pragmatic and trackable. She lives in Cape Town, a short walk from the edge of the Great African Seaforest.

Jacqui has 20 years of experience in corporate sustainability in Asia and South Africa.  She established and led a sustainability team for a large global seafood company, listed in Hong Kong and Singapore, and went on to co-establish a sustainable seafood coalition of industry buyers and seafood traders. As technical advisor she developed tools and training for members to screen seafood suppliers on illegal, unregulated & unreported (IUU) fishing and supported members on sustainability risk assessments and traceability. She remains on the Steering Committee of the Hong Kong Sustainable Seafood Coalition. She also worked as Country Director of sustainability consultancy, CSR Asia (acquired by ELEVATE) in Hong Kong. She Co-Chaired a food security working group under the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) working with government and private sector for two years, and was a Project Working Group member of the Global Reporting Initiative Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Fishing Sector Standard. She holds a MProf in Leadership for Sustainable Development with Forum for the Future, a BSC (Hons) in Environmental Sciences from UCT, and a postgraduate diploma in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies from UWC. She was a member of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)’s Technical Advisory Board from May 2023 – May 2024.

Treve is a sustainability specialist with eight years of experience at Incite, advising corporate clients on sustainability and ESG disclosure, drafting integrated and sustainability reports, and supporting strategy, research, and innovation projects. While his core focus is the food sector, he has also worked with companies in chemicals, energy, fashion, finance, healthcare, logistics, and mining. Before joining Incite, he worked as a sustainability practitioner across research, communications, and project management roles. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Environmental and Geographical Science from the University of Cape Town, with electives in economics, politics, and law, and has completed additional short courses that strengthen his capabilities as a specialist–generalist in business and sustainability.

Laura has nine years of experience working as a reporting strategist and content developer. She specialises in integrated and sustainability reporting and advising on ESG disclosure aligned with leading reporting frameworks. She has worked with public and private companies in South Africa and regionally across a range of industries, including retail, food and beverages, real estate, banking, insurance, farming and agriculture and payments infrastructure. She has also worked as writer, analyst and researcher for academic institutions and as a journalist for local and national publications. Laura holds an MBA in Creative Writing and a BA (Hons) in Health Journalism from Rhodes University. Additional certificates include Complexity Theory and Systems Thinking (Stellenbosch University).

Orly Stern is a consultant, researcher and international human rights lawyer, with 20 years of experience in the development, humanitarian, and sustainability sectors. She has worked across Africa, including Somalia, Iraq, northern Nigeria, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Central African Republic. She has consulted for companies, international organizations, governments, research institutions and NGOs, and has published extensively in her field. Orly holds a PhD in international humanitarian law from London School of Economics, and a Masters in international human rights law from Harvard Law School. She has served as a visiting fellow of practice with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, and has held a senior fellowship with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard School for Public Health. In 2026 she will be teaching a course in Business and Human Rights through UCT Law@Work