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Pip Wheaton

Co-lead, Planet & ClimateAshoka

Biography

Pip is a climate change practitioner and systems thinker. She currently has two main projects she devotes her time to: Ashoka's Planet & Climate initiative, and Wellington City Council's target of reducing emissions by 57% by 2030.

Australian by birth, Pip has spent the majority of her career in South Africa and the UK. She recently moved to Aotearoa New Zealand with her husband and two young boys.

While in South Africa, Pip founded enke: Make Your Mark, a youth development organisation that has impacted tens of thousands of young people across the country. For this work, she was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2014. She has consulted climate action, funding practices, innovative finance, and systems change and sits on several boards. She is currently researching how to build widespread agency for climate action.

Regional Focus

Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe