The Ecoflix Podcasts

James Sawyer is the Executive Director UK for IFAW. He is an experienced senior director, with a strong history of building and maintaining partnerships with Governments, Heads of State, NGOs, corporate entities and academia. Capable of developing high-functioning global teams, across challenging environments, to deliver at a global scale and leverage global partnerships to deliver sector level change. Experienced at change management, strategy development, high level engagement and negotiation, corporate and financial partnerships, programme implementation within complex global organisations. Leader in developing new models of conservation finance, impact investing and sustainability funding models. Leadership experience in sustainability, environmental, humanitarian, conservation and animal welfare sectors.

In this episode Ugo Mozie shares his love for animals, his success working with celebrities, faux fur, leather alternatives, the importance of education so consumers make informed decisions and his work with his NGO in Nigeria which uses sustainable materials and trains locals in the craft of textiles.

Leah Garcés is the CEO and president of Mercy For Animals. She has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the animal protection movement and has partnered with some of the world’s largest food companies on her mission to build a better food system.

Leah Garcés oversaw international campaigns at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and launched Compassion in World Farming in the United States. The New York Times, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and other national and international media outlets have featured her work. She is a contributing writer for Food Safety News and serves on the advisory boards of Encompass and Seattle Food Tech. Leah is also the author of GRILLED: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry, published by Bloomsbury in September 2019. Part memoir, part activist tell-all, Grilled illustrates how her fight to end factory farming and construct a compassionate food system led Leah to collaborate with unlikely allies in the food industry. It’s a must-read for new and veteran animal advocates, as well as those looking to learn more about the food industry—and how to change it.

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Will Travers OBE - an English director, writer, broadcaster and animal rights activist shares an intimate conversation with Ecoflix founder David Casselman. The son of English actors and wildlife campaigners Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, he is president of the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA and Species Survival Network.