Ife Piankhi

Ife, a community leader, poet and facilitator has
been working with young people in Merton to foster
well-being, develop leadership skills, and build
better cohesion within communities.

Philippe Castaing

As Chair of Brixton Green, Philippe's aspiration is
to make Brixton a hub for green enterprise and drive
sustainable change to improve the quality of life
for Brixton's residents.

Dusty Gedge

Dusty's London Leaders pledge was to retrofit green
roofs in central London, the first of which in 2008
was the roof at National Magazine in Soho.

Steve Howlett

Steve is the Chief Executive of the Peabody Trust,
which houses about 50,000 people and delivers a range
of community regeneration activities. The 'eat to
live' initiative has been running from a network
of community centres, communal rooms and green spaces
owned by the Trust and uses innovative ways of engaging
families and individuals with unhealthy lifestyles
and encourages them to change their habits through
community based, social activities.

Lutfun Hussain

Lutfun is the Coordinator of the Coriander Club at
Spitalfields City Farm. In 2008 the club of volunteers
wrote, produced and published a cookbook to encourage
local food growing and healthy eating, and is now
being used as part of the Farm's outreach to other
local community groups.

Mark Johnson

In July 2008, Mark Johnson, Operations Director of
London Warm Zone, set up Sustain 72, a network of
professionals working in the private rented sector
to promote more joined up solutions, embedding sustainability
into the heart of opertions.

Elliot Lipton

Elliot is the Managing Director of First Base, an
urban regeneration developer specialising in delivering
sustianable and affordable homes. His commitment
is to work with the housing supply chain to ensure
that the aspiration for sustainable homes is met
by the availability of suitable products from the
industry.

Joseph T Oliver

Joe, founder of BASH Creations, made it his pledge
to champion the development of sustainable entertainment
venues and in March 2009 BASH launched their eco
nightclub project, Black Lotus Karate Club.

Chantal Cooke

Chantal is the co-founder Passion for the Planet,
the only radio station providing you with solutions
for a green and healthy lifestyle. Passion for the
Planet is the London Leaders official radio station.

Monica Saini

Monica has been working with businesses and small
retailers in the Lower Marsh community in south London
to reduce the volume of packaging waste associated
with the lunchtime trade.

Solitaire Townsend

Solitaire is the co-founder and Chief Executive of
Futerra Sustainability Communications and has been
working with the TV and film industry to develop
the capacity and know-how to portray sustainable
lifestyles on screen.

Professor Rick Trainor

As Principal of Kings College London, Rick and his
team have been working to ensure sustainability principles
are at the heart of both the university's academic
research and facilities management.

Vijay Amin

Vijay's passion is working with communities and his
London Leaders' project aims to educate London's
youth about the value of good eating choices, and
to link this to entrepreneurship in the food sector.

Dr Frances Corner

Frances is Head of the London College of Fashion and
believes that sustainability represents a great opportunity
for designers. Through a sustianable design approach
adn embedding creativity in practice across the supply
chain, Frances believes a more sustainable industry
is beneficial both financially and socially.

Richard Featherstone

Richard is a founding member of the national Furniture
Reuse Network and his aspiration is to increase the
reuse services in London, to deliver the social and
environmental benefits from reducing the amount of
bulky waste going to landfill and providing low cost,
quality furniture to low-income families.

Wayne Hemingway MBE

Having identified that it has become increasingly
difficult for start up creative businesses to find
affordable retail space in London, Wayne's London
Leaders campaign in 2009 will be to find a sustainable
solution to support the creative industries in this
time of recession.

Rob Holdway

Rob is known as the presenter of Channel 4's Dumped,
screened in 2008. He's also the Director of Giraffe
Innovation and believes that more needs to be done
to encourage a culture of pro-environmental behaviour
amongst London's citizens and businesses of all sizes.
His London Leaders project brings a visual solution
to tackle this challenge head-on.

Laura Ivill

Laura is Vice-Chair of Bankside Open Spaces Trust,
which works to shape local concern into action, for
parks, gardens, the streetscape and the wider shared
environment.

Arthur Potts Dawson

In 2006 Arthur created two sustainably aware urban
restaurants, Acorn House & Water House in London.
Arthur is passionate about the variety of food on
offer in towns and cities and created a menu of 'Modern
London' cuisine for Acorn House that exemplifies
the diversity of the city in which he was born. He
also teaches 10 young 'trainees' a year in sustainable
catering.

Debbie Leach

Debbie is the Chief Executive of Thames21 and during
2009 will be campaigning to encourage people to use,
support and enjoy their local waterways.

Andrew MacAskill

Andrew is the Supply Chain Director at Skanska and
his commitment is to develop a sustainable work with
diverse suppliers to find a practical way of building
a local and diverse supply chain that is best value.

Hugh Montgomery

Hugh is the founder of Project Genie, a powerful climate
change education and action programme based in primary
schools. His plans are to rollout this innovative
and inspiring project across London in 2009.

Melanie Poyser

Melanie is the Manager of the Handyperson Service
at the London Borough of Southwark. Her aspiration
it to bring professionals across London together
to facilitate greater joint service identification
and delivery for vulnerable residents.

Susan Sheehan

Susan is co-founder of the Hyde Farm Climate Action
Network, based in south London. Hyde Farm residents
have been getting together to work out how they can
significantly reduce their domestic carbon emissions
and Susan is now working with other community groups
to share her experiences of creating low carbon communities.

Ben Todd

Ben is the Executive Director of Arcola and his is
to an eco-hub - an arts and community centre showcasing
cutting edge building techniques and renewable technologies
and providing an engaging community space to explore
sustainable living and cultural exchange.

Steve Waggott

Steve is the Group Chief Executive of Charlton Athletic
Football Club, and through the universal language
of football and sport has been bringing local communities
closer together. CAFC were named Community Club of
the Year at the 2009 Football League Awards, in part
for their groundbreaking Street Violence Ruins Lives
campaign.

Alex Smith

Alex is the founder of Alara Wholefoods, the first
cereal company in world to be certified organic and
the first to be zero waste. As a company based on
sustainability principles his aspiration is now to
develop a community based AD system.

Michaela Crimmin

Michaela is Head of Arts at the RSA and in 2008 launched
the Arts and Ecology Centre supports, promotes and
debates artists' responses to current environmental
challenges, encouraging insights into their implications
and exploring alternative futures.

Tzeggai Yohannes Deres

As Director of the Evelyn Oldfield Unit, Tzeggai has
been working with young refugee leaders to develop
environmental awareness and sustainability leadership
skills.

Reverend Roger Gayler

Roger is Chair of Marks Gate Local Agenda 21 Group
and Chair of Wellgate Community Farm and has been
working with members local community to improve their
local environment and find low carbon solutions to
support the Farm's operation.