Sophia Tickell

Board Member

Sophia is co-founder and Director of Meteos, a not for profit company that runs networks and dialogues to support a stable economy, built on principles of social inclusion and environmental sustainability. 

An historian by education, Sophia started her career as a journalist in Bolivia. From 1996 - 2002 she was responsible for Oxfam’s work in the private sector at which time she led the team responsible for the influential Beyond Philanthropy report on the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines. From Oxfam she went to SustainAbility, where she held roles as Chair of the Board at SustainAbility and Executive Director. Sophia holds a number of governance and advisory roles as well as being the Director of the successful and ongoing PharmaFutures series: investor-company dialogues exploring long term value in the pharmaceutical sector based on a better balance between shareholder returns and societal benefits.