Nigel Topping [Personal]

Buddhist, Business adviser, Business mentor, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Environmentalist, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, Industrialist, Life mentor, Public servant, World traveler

Mathematics, Rugby, Mountaineering, Manufacturing Social entrepreneur building radical collaborations for climate action, including CDP, Science Based Targets, Race to Zero, TED Countdown, GFANZ, Ambition Loop, Earth Investment Engine. Also business champion on UK Climate Change Committee, board member UK National Wealth Fund. Honorary Professor of Economics, Exeter University. I live in the middle of Dartmoor with my French-Canadian poet wife Ann and Homer the Kitten [named after classical poet or the simpsons - you choose!] Cycling 170km up and down Dartmoor 4 times the day i return from Countdown!!

Our shared humanity and the paths to a regenerative economy

The S-Curve - ubiquitous, obvious looking back, invisible looking forward.

Climate change, global commons, manufacturing, systems transformation, non-linear mathematics

Admired from afar for years. Co-created TED Countdown Gave my TED Talk during Covid at the Eden Project Love the energy generated from the amazing mix of fellow travellers in TED Countdown Excited to be with you all in Africa.

Navigating in white-out