Victoria is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Visiting Fellow of The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. She has a Master’s in Environment and Development from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa and a PhD in Sustainable Business Strategy from Exeter University, UK.

Victoria was the Technical Author for the first national standard in Purpose-Driven Organisations (PAS 808:2022) and co-led the 5-year development of the first global ISO standard in Governance of Organizations (ISO 37000:2021) for which was awarded ISO Excellence and BSi Creativity in Standards awards. She also co-led the 1 year ISO ad-hoc group scoping standards on Indicators for Governance (TC309/AHG5). Victoria is a regular UNCTAD review panel member for ISAR Honors and was a member of the UNCTAD/UNEP Task Force developing a methodology for SDG indicator 12.6.1 and a member of WBCSD’s working group on Governance.  She is the academic lead for Common Ground Research Network’s Climate Change theme and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Scientist’s Warning Foundation.  She co-designed, and is the Head Tutor of CISL’s 8-week online course ‘Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative’. 

Victoria has over 20 years of experience in marketing, management and sustainability, having previously worked for 3M and Accenture with companies including Marks and Spencer, Cancer Research, and J Sainsbury and developing theory as an Associate Professor of Sustainable Business and Marketing. She is currently employed as Non-Executive Director at the Soil Association Certification Ltd previously for family hardware retail chain FTB Lawson Ltd. Victoria is a Chartered Manager and Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published research papers and thought pieces in journals including Nature Climate Change, Energy Policy, The New Scientist and Sustainable Development and was co-editor with Iain Stewart and Stephen Sterling of a Frontier’s special issue on Re-purposing Universities for Sustainable Human Progress.