Founding partner of Wundersight Company and Director of Planeta Vibrante. Jorge is an Industrial Engineer with extensive experience in industrial consulting and business development in the field of renewable energy with different technologies and in different markets and countries. Jorge consults on and develops renewable energy projects across the world including the UK, Spain, South Africa, Kingdom of Eswatini, Costa Rica and Portugal.
Miriam Mesas
As the main shareholder of Planeta Vibrante, Miriam is the entrepreneur developing the Solarwood project. Miriam currently resides in the United Kingdom, where she participates in the management of an international group of companies, grouped under the Wundersight brand, dedicated to the development, execution and operation of renewable energy projects.
Michael Doyle
Michael is the concept initiator and developer of the Global 1000 Schools Project (G1000). The Proof of Concept for G1000 was developed at Waterford Kamhlaba, United World College of Southern Africa, Mbabane, Swaziland where Michael was employed as the Eco Estate Manager and where he spent three years developing their facilities and sustainability program.
Prior to this Michael’s passion for the environment and sustainability was reflected in his shift in focus from the corporate sector to that of environmental education during the autumn of 2011. He built and managed the off grid environmental Kamoka Bush School in 2011 (in conjunction with St Stithians College), and this has informed his career path ever since.
His shift in focus also led to a Post Graduate Degree in Futures Studies at the University of Stellenbosch Business School in 2015. It was here that he developed the core disciplines required for leadership and the understanding of the world and its future pathway. He consults to organizations and works with schools in many different countries.
Tamzin Ractliffe
Tamzin has worked across the public, private and civil society sector providing advisory services and training in high impact solutions for sustainable development.
The founder of GreaterCapital and GreaterGood SA (voted one of the Top Ten most trusted NGOs in South Africa), she led the creation of the world’s first social stock exchange board. She won the GIBS Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2007, was appointed an Ashoka Fellow in 2008 and won the Thomson Reuters 2012 TrustLaw Innovation Award for her efforts in designing “an ambitious, landmark project with the potential to facilitate the evolution of the entire social and impact investment sector”.
With undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Science, an Honours in Applied Psychology and a Masters in Climate and Development, Tamzin’s more recent focus on multiple literacies and their connection to the enactment of citizenship intersects with her work promoting sustainability leadership and “Routes to Resilience” in education.
Tamzin led the implementation of an Integrated Studies curriculum for secondary school youth in South Africa and has supported educators identify routes through which curriculum content and sustainability can align to promote youth leadership in sustainability practice.
Sindhu Clark
Sindhu holds a Masters in microbiology and began teaching Chemistry and Environmental Systems at UWC India in 1998, acting also as a volunteer nature orientation and leadership instructor for WWF. Enjoying the trans-disciplinary approach, she co-pioneered (with Howard Gardner’s Harvard Project Zero) the first trans-disciplinary IB Extended Essay: World Studies.
She is a published photographer of wilderness flora and fauna, and it was Sindhu’s pictures that clinched the board’s decision in 2007 to convert 120 acres of the UWC Mahindra campus into a biodiversity and conservation reserve. Her responsibilities grew to include oversight of this, and here, she designed the YES (Youth, Environment, Sustainability) UWC summer programme.
After 14 years at UWC Mahindra, Sindhu explored another Indian ‘biodiversity hotspot’ as curriculum designer and workshop facilitator for Hanifl Centre for Outdoor Education in the Himalayas. Here, she also lectured for University of Pittsburg’s study abroad programme and spent three years integrating environmental education into school and university courses and curricula.
Experienced at securing fruitful partnerships between NGOs and institutions of learning, in recent years, courses at Schumacher College (UK) have enriched Sindhu’s commitment to sustainability education.
Now IB Co-ordinator at UWC Southern Africa (2015), she integrates her years of experience as an examiner and IB workshop leader, and plans to continue to promote sustainability education by initiating UWC certificate courses in permaculture.
Alexei du Bois
Alexei is the Director of Studies at Peponi School in Kenya whilst also completing a PhD in Education at the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar, focusing on Education for Sustainable Development practices in various Southern African countries.
He has worked on policy contributions for UNESCO, DFID and World Bank projects, and was selected as a consultant for a British Council project on English language teaching in Mexico.
Before coming to Oxford, Alexei was a teacher in Cape Town where he directed the Luleka Exchange Programme in his time spent outside the classroom – a multi-school partnership that facilitated curriculum exchange, professional development, fundraising and infrastructure development, as well as leadership capacity building in both disadvantaged and fee-paying South African public schools.