Champions

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of 16,000 designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.

Jo da Silva, Global Sustainable Development Leader, Arup

“As experts in the built environment, we understand the growing need for resilience to ensure that cities and businesses can continue to function, and the needs of communities are met. By ‘joining hands’ as a collective, sharing our expertise, and pushing for step-change outcomes, we can shape best practice and define new approaches that will lead to safer, more inclusive, and sustainable, cities and infrastructure – for everyone.”

Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. 

Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.

HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. We serve more than 39 million customers through four global businesses: Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Private Banking. Our network covers 66 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, North America and Latin America.

Intel's innovation in cloud computing, data center, Internet of Things, and PC solutions is powering the smart and connected digital world we live in.

Ivanhoé Cambridge develops and invests in high-quality real estate properties, projects and companies around the world. It is committed to creating living spaces that foster the well-being of people and communities, while reducing its environmental footprint.

Jacobs challenges today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems, and with a vision of making the world smarter, more connected and more sustainable.

London Stansted Airport is the third largest in London (4th in UK) serving over 26 million passengers a year. Firmly positioned as a market leader for short-haul travel across Europe, with over 190 destinations across 38 countries, Stansted serves more scheduled connections to Europe than any other airport in the world apart from Munich.  With capacity to serve up to 43 million passengers a year, Stansted has the ability to support the introduction of new and innovative services. 

Stansted also boasts an impressive and growing range of transport links that benefit from close proximity to the M11 and A120, as well direct trains to London and Cambridge. Stansted is the UK’s leading major airport, and one of the best-performing in Europe, for public transport use with over 50% of passengers travelling to and from the airport by rail, coach or bus. 

London Stansted Airport was named International Trade Champion at the Business Weekly awards in in March 2018.

Their purpose is Possibility. At Marsh, the idea of possibility isn’t just something they talk about — it’s something they've lived for over 150 years.

They help their clients and colleagues grow — and their communities thrive — by protecting and promoting Possibility. They seek better ways to manage risk and define more effective paths to the right outcome. They go beyond risk to rewards for their clients, their company, their colleagues, and the communities in which they serve.

Mastercard operates the world’s fastest payment processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, retailers, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, PA Consulting are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Their people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

Helping our customers at the moments that matter most.

Santander UK is a large retail and commercial bank based in the UK and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the major global bank Banco Santander.

Our business was built with a simple mission – to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living.

This hasn't changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it's our job to deliver this in the right way for them.

That's why 'Serving customers a little better every day' is our core purpose. As a business, serving customers is at the heart of everything we do – from colleagues in our stores to those of us in supporting roles.

In the UK, we serve some 66 shoppers every second, so it's our goal to ensure every one of those customers experiences just a little better service on each visit.

As the UK's largest water and wastewater services provider, Thames Water serves 15 millions customers across London and the Thames Valley and supplies around 2,600 million litres of tap water.

The Resilience Shift provides knowledge and tools for those responsible for planning, financing, designing, delivering, operating and maintaining critical infrastructure systems.

UK Power Networks is one of the UK’s largest Distribution Network Operators, covering the East of England, the South East of England, and London. It is our job to ensure the infrastructure that brings power to homes, businesses, hospitals, schools and other public services continues to deliver reliable, safe and sustainable electricity for today and tomorrow. Our responsibilities include maintaining the safety and reliability of the electricity networks, connecting new customers’ premises to electricity, and extending and upgrading the electricity network to meet changing needs as our economy transitions to low carbon. From underground cables to overhead power lines, small rural substations to complex delivery networks in the capital, we’re working on the electricity network 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, making sure the lights don’t go out. Safety and customer service and costs are our top priorities, these are at the heart of everything we do.

WSP Global Inc. is a Canadian company with American and British roots, providing management and consultancy services to the built and natural environment.