By 2050 the world will need to produce 70% more food and drinking water, whilst producing less carbon and using 70% fewer resources. The current global food and water system is grossly unsustainable, and if left unchecked will use the world's entire carbon budget in the next 30 years. Regulation, consumer behaviour, and new technology are changing fast, and are now starting to impact the long overdue change that is required to make the whole system less carbon intensive, wasteful and polluting, whilst improving biodiversity and encouraging healthier diets globally. It is estimated that this change will require around $30trillion of capital reallocation by 2050, creating significant opportunities for investors in the wide array of companies and subsectors within the global food and water system.
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Samantha was appointed Head of London and Wealth within the UK Intermediary Team in 2021 and manages the team responsible for client relationships across the London area. Having joined Schroders in 2000, she has 22 years of industry experience. Over this period, she has held a number of key positions within the UK Intermediary Team, including Head of Broker Liaison, Head of Business Development and Head of Intermediary Business Development, London.
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Roland has worked for Schroders as a regional sales manager since 1995, covering asset manager and discretionary sales in the South and Midlands. Since 2015, he has headed up the team servicing both advisory and discretionary clients in the South of England.
Mark Lacey is Head of Global Resource Equities at Schroders, which involves being the fund manager for the Commodities strategy. He joined Schroders in 2013 and is based in London. In 2006, Mark was ranked as No.1 Energy Investment Specialist in the 2006 Thompson Extel Survey. He was previously a Portfolio Manager at Investec from 2007 to 2013, which involved managing the global energy funds. Prior to this he was a Head of Global Energy at Goldman Sachs International.
Sir Sebastian Wood served as Britain's Ambassador to Germany from September 2015 to September 2020. Before his posting to Berlin, he served as British Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015. Sebastian joined the Diplomatic Service in 1983. After a posting to the British Embassy in Bangkok, he learned Mandarin at the beginning of the 90s before serving as a First Secretary in the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1996 in the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong. He was Political Counsellor in Washington from 2001 to 2005 following US foreign policy in Asia. From 2005 to 2008 he was Asia-Pacific Director at the FCO (now Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) before undertaking a one year secondment to Rolls-Royce from 2008 to 2009. Before joining the Diplomatic Service Sebastian studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Mark Lacey is the Head of Global Resource Equities, Global Thematics at Schroders. He is the portfolio manager of the Schroder ISF Global Energy Transition, Schroder ISF Global Energy and Schroder ISF Global Gold. Mark joined Schroders in 2013 and is based in London. Prior to joining Schroders he was a portfolio manager at Investec from 2007 to 2013, where he managed global energy funds. Prior to Investec, Mark was head of energy equities at Goldman Sachs and was ranked No.1 energy investment specialist in the 2006 Thompson Extel survey.