Cool Earth welcomes new trustees and ambassadors to the team | 2019

Samantha Cohen CVO will be joining Cool Earth as Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees. Samantha’s distinguished career ranges from working for the Australian Government to the Royal Household, where she was Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen from 2011-2018, and Head of Royal Communications prior to this.

As she reaches the end of her most recent role as Private Secretary to TRH The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Samantha joins Cool Earth with a wealth of professional experience and a personal passion for protecting the world’s forests.

Samantha has been the driving force behind initiatives such as The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, of which Cool Earth is a managing partner.

“We are delighted to have Sam Cohen join Cool Earth, after playing such a key role in the creation of the Queens Commonwealth Canopy – an initiative that has done so much to protect forests around the world and to highlight the importance of its preservation and revival.” Mark Ellingham, Cool Earth trustee

Gillian Burke is a passionate conservationist and wildlife champion. With a distinguished career in natural history filmmaking, Gillian’s variety of experience makes her a dream ambassador for showcasing Cool Earth’s rainforest conservation work.

A proponent of all things conservation optimism and environmental success stories, Gillian celebrates the local success stories that highlight nature’s power to regenerate and return from the brink.

It’s brilliant to have Gillian lending her distinguished voice to our work.

Tony Juniper is Britain’s best-known environmental campaigner, having worked on efforts to conserve tropical forests for nearly 30 years. As the Director of Friends of the Earth, special advisor to the Prince of Wales’ Rainforests Project, Director for Advocacy and Campaigns at WWF and fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Tony’s experience on the frontline of the fight to save the world’s most precious resources has inspired many to do the same.

His current role as chairman of Natural England means Tony balances preserving and rewilding UK’s nature with championing Earth’s rainforests and raising awareness on the importance of taking effective environmental action. As Cool Earth ambassador, we’re sure he will continue to inspire action to protect rainforests remarkable peoples, plants, and animals.

“We cannot keep global warming within tolerable boundaries without not only protecting but restoring large areas of forest. Cool Earth very much signals the possibilities in terms of working with the people who literally are on the front line of deforestation.” Tony Juniper