Dr Brad Irwin MBE

Brad is a strategist, convener and partnerships specialist with more than 25 years’ experience working across culture, science, sustainability and global public engagement. Through his consultancy, he advises organisations, institutions and brands on strategic partnerships, executive positioning and high-level convening — helping them build influence, shape narrative, and create moments that matter.

Formerly Head of Global Engagement at the Natural History Museum, London, Brad built partnerships that connected science, culture and public audiences at scale. He later joined Project Everyone, helping mobilise coalitions in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Awarded an MBE for services to arts and culture, Brad has built a career around connecting institutions, ideas and influence. He has helped shape major engagements at the World Economic Forum, COP, the UN General Assembly, CBD and CHOGM, and served as Chair of the Ecsite Annual Conference, Europe’s leading gathering for public engagement in science.

He also serves on the Global Advisory Board of Open Planet, as a trustee of the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust, and on the Education, Public Engagement and Policy Advisory Committee for the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water at Trinity College Dublin.