Laura Crawford, CEO, Mama Bamboo
Having left a career in the city to become a mother, Crawford decided to start her own eco nappy and wipe brand. Frustrated by the lack of good choices available to parents, she started Mama Bamboo in 2018. Offering parents a perfect balance of performance and sustainability, the brand has grown quickly and has a strong loyal UK subscriber base. Mama Bamboo became the first European nappy brand to be B-Corp certified and has been named the "Best for the World Environment" two years in a row. Committed to environmentally sound and ethical business practise, Crawford actively seeks parents returning to work who are seeking a flexible lifestyle and would otherwise struggle in the traditional job market. Crawford also campaigns tirelessly to promote circular waste management in the UK and partners with UCL and UoH on sustainable research and education.
Pedram Esfandiary, Attorney, Wisner Baum LLP
Pedram Esfandiary is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wisner Baum (formerly Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC.), where he concentrates his practice on toxic tort injuries, pharmaceutical drug liability, class actions, and consumer fraud litigation.
He is currently leading the firm’s legal team handling the toxic baby food litigation. This new mass tort litigation involves allegations against the major brand manufacturers (Nurture Happy Family Organics, Beech-Nut, Hain, Plum Organics, Walmart-Parent’s Choice, Sprout Foods and Gerber) for knowingly selling baby food with “dangerously high levels” of toxic heavy metals. Baby food contains dangerous levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury, toxic heavy metals known to damage neurological development and brain development and associated with autism and ADHD in children.
By the age of 26, Pedram had worked on the first three historic Roundup cancer Monsanto trials of 2018 and 2019 with Wisner Baum top trial lawyer, Brent Wisner, resulting in verdicts of $2.42 billion. Pedram has received numerous awards, including Law360’s Rising Stars Top 40 Under 40, National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch™, and Roundup trial team awards from the National Trial Lawyers for 2019 Trial Team of the Year. In 2020, the National Law Journal awarded them Elite Trial Lawyers Mass Tort Law Firm of the Year finalists and inducted Pedram and his colleagues into The Verdicts Hall of Fame. Law360 also named his team Product Liability Practice Group of the Year and California Powerhouse as part of their Regional Powerhouse series.
Jaclyn Bowen, Executive Director, Clean Label Project
Jaclyn Bowen MPH, MS is a food safety and quality systems engineer and executive director of Clean Label Project, a US- based national non-profit and consumer advocacy organization with the mission to bring truth and transparency to food and consumer product labeling. Through data, science, and benchmarking, Clean Label Project uses retail sampling and testing to benchmark product quality and purity of best selling food and consumer products and award Clean Label Project's coveted evidence-based Purity Award. Bowen was the researcher and co-author behind the largest academic peer-reviewed study ever conducted on lead and cadmium in baby food and infant formula which was published in the international multidisciplinary journal, Science of the Total Environment. The capstone of her career (to date) was presenting before the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotics in Vienna, Austria on Clean Label Project's study on the levels of industrial and environmental contaminants in cannabis products in 2020. Before coming to Clean Label Project, Jaclyn held numerous technical, standards development, food safety, quality, and executive roles within the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, NSF International. Her expertise is in organic, gluten-free, non-gmo labeling, food safety, and label claim substantiation and compliance. Bowen holds a Bachelor of Science in environmental biology, a Master of Science in quality engineering and a Master of Public Health in management and policy.
Dr Anna Watson, Head of Advocacy, CHEM Trust
Dr Anna Watson has been working with CHEM Trust as Head of Advocacy since January 2018. Before joining CHEM Trust Anna worked at Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) for almost 20 years working on issues such as waste and resources, community energy and environmental rights. Anna leads on a range of areas for CHEM Trust – including the charity’s communications, hazardous chemicals in plastics and hazardous chemicals in food packaging . She is a scientist by background, and has a PhD in Freshwater Ecology.
Dunzhu Li, Researcher, Trinity College Dublin
Dunzhu Li researches the detection and removal of emerging pollutants
in water and wastewater over the last 10 years.He completed his PhD at the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental
Engineering at Trinity College Dublin in 2018. He then worked as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at TCD.His work concerns two main aspects. One, the quick detection and release
mechanism analysis of emerging pollutants, such as microplastics and two, finding the most cost-effective method for controlling and removing these pollutants.
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