Episodes
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
IB Green Minds #27: In conversation with Kavita Sinha
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
This week, Andreas speaks with Kavita Sinha, the Director of the Private Sector Facility at Green Climate Fund or GCF. In this episode, Kavita talks about GCF’s background, program and focus. You will hear about what GCF wants to accomplish, especially with the private sector partners in the emerging markets. Kavita also shares the unique country-led approach that GCF takes and the role of the accredited entities in their program. We also talk about career opportunities in GCF as well as in climate finance space.
Contains original music by Kirk Zieser
Additional information
- GCF’s projects: https://www.greenclimate.fund/projects
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
IB Green Minds #26: In conversation with David Vetter
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
This week's episode features Claudia's conversation with David Vetter, a climate writer with 15 years' experience in online and print media, currently working as a Senior Contributor for Forbes Sustainability. They talk about David's journey from studying archaeology towards working in journalism, his studies at Oxford and the current climate media landscape. David shares his point of view on the challenges of climate writing, staying critical while communicating the urgency of the situation as well as which animal he would interview if he had the opportunity.
Resources mentioned in the podcast:
https://www.twitter.com/davidrvetter
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/
The Greenland cold war climate story:
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Sports Buff #5: How to take the risk and go into sports
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
In this episode of The Sports Buff, Daniel is joined by Oscar Cantu. Oscar took a series of risks in his life to pursue his great passion for sports and journalism, which has taken him on a great journey working for Sporty Group, a prominent entertainment company brokering deals with sports leagues such as: the EPL, Bundesliga, and Serie A.
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Friday Jun 02, 2023
In this episode of The Sports Buff, Daniel and Henry are joined by Imperial alumn and current analyst at The Sports Consultancy Oli Ng. Oli had always been a sports enthusiast, but he found a way to turn this passion into a career. Tune in to hear his story.
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
IB Green Minds #25: In conversation with Joel Tasche
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
In this episode, Moritz is joined by Joel Tasche, Founder & CEO of Cleanhub – a waste management and recognition software company. Together with his team, Joel is on a journey to collect plastic waste before it can even enter the world's oceans. Join us for an episode about plastic waste, it’s different players and what role “plastic credits” play in the waste ecosystem!
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Friday May 19, 2023
Sports Buff #3: How to win a gold medal while studying at Imperial
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Join Henry and Daniel as they interview Jamie Lim, who just won her second SEA Games gold medal earlier this month. Jamie, a world-class karate fighter who doubles as a current MSc Business Analytics student at Imperial, tells her inspiring story and the challenges she’s faced along the way.
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Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
In this episode, Desiree and Moritz speak to Cody Finke, CEO of Brimstone about building decarbonization and cement decarbonization. Here, they focus on the founding story of Brimstone, Cody’s background, and why he focused on cement decarbonization. Cody shares his experience building a company in this sphere, Brimstone’s differentiation and process of making carbon negative cement, and the challenges the company faces in scaling their solution internationally. Cody, Desi, and Moritz also discuss the market landscape of companies working on cement decarbonization and the pros/cons of each solution. Lastly, they discuss risk and quality standards, stakeholder engagement, and the talent gap facing the industry.
Biography: Cody Finke is the co-founder and CEO of Brimstone Energy, a company working to commercialize carbon-negative cement by using calcium silicate rock. Cody completed his postdoctoral work as a DOE-funded Cyclotron Road entrepreneurial fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Finke received his Ph.D. from Caltech where he studied electrochemistry and industrial decarbonization. Prior to his Ph.D. Cody received a BA in Chemistry from Carleton College where he was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship by the US Government.
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Thursday May 11, 2023
IB Green Minds #23: In conversation with Karman Space Programme
Thursday May 11, 2023
Thursday May 11, 2023
In this week’s episode, Moritz sat down with Shapol and Rohan from Imperial College’s very own Karman Space Programme. The two have been part of the team from the very beginning, both managing multiple different departments. Together with their team they aim to build a reusable liquid bi-propellant rocket, thereby not only supporting the sector’s decarbonization efforts but also contributing to the research breakthroughs needed, to affectively fight the climate crisis here on earth.
And of course the all so important question about the colonization of Mars was asked as well – so tune in and learn more about how a space programme can actually support sustainability efforts!
Friday May 05, 2023
The Sports Buff #2: The ‘Wild West’ of Sports Agencies, with Ben Peppi
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
Join Henry and Daniel as they discover what its like to manage sportsmen and women in a more digitised era. How does one become a football agent? Are they overpaid, and what is the future of how athletes connect with sponsors? These are all topics tackled in this week’s edition of The Sports Buff.
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
Vanessa is currently working as a Data Scientist in Product Analytics at Meta. She completed her bachelor’s degree in economics at Northeastern University in the US. After graduation, she worked as Business Intelligence Analyst across different functions such as web analytics, logistics, and payments at Wayfair for 3 years then moved to the UK.
She will share with us her career experience across different roles and countries. You may also notice we have a very beautiful podcast title today, butterfly tale. Let’s listen in to find out more.
Connect with Vanessa via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-emodi/
Resources recommended by Vanessa:
- Notion for goals-tracking
- Data Camp for technical training
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