Research Network Chair
Victoria Hurth
Dr. Victoria Hurth is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Visiting Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School. She describes herself as a ‘pracademic’, taking a pragmatic interdisciplinary approach to the drivers and solutions of organizational responses to climate change and sustainability. She has a Master’s in Environment and Development from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and completed her Ph.D. (Exeter) on the role of marketing as a driver of sustainable/unsustainable consumption. Her research and practice now focuses on purpose-driven organizations and the implications for culture, governance, and strategy. She has been a British Council ‘Climate Change Ambassador’ and a climate change advisor for a UK MP. She is currently a member of the UN Taskforce for developing a methodology for SDG indicator 12.6.1. and the Convenor of ISO37000 – the first global standard on Governance of Organisations.