Sam Gardner

Critical in setting up a new climate resilience workstream, from its start as a number of individual tasks to its formation as a fully fledged independent workstream. Led Cundall's first SBTI Buildings-Sector submission and the first carbon accounting baseline and net zero roadmap ever carried out in Qatar. Developed an automated Python analysis tool to scale climate resilience consulting, saving approximately 20% budget on every task and enabling the largest climate resilience project ever done by Cundal

Creo's first ESG hire, building foundations across net zero carbon analysis, TCFD implementation, social impact, risk management, and compliance. Developed creative solutions, such as using Climada to assess climate risks to our upstream supply chain, and delivered Creo's first Scope 3 emissions analysis with recommendations for emissions reductions and data quality improvements. Supported the new Langenfeld office in Germany, covering multiple roles across the office in German, as well as my regular ESG

I qualified through an interview process and a weekend at Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) to join the unit as an Officer Cadet and have since completed four international deployments, alongside numerous other training weekends and other duties, such as representing the Royal Navy at the annual National Arboretum memorial service in November 2019. Other occasions that stick out include handling military and civilian dignitaries onboard HMS Exploit during London Pride 2018 and training with Latvian Navy

Every week I professionally coached Eintracht Frankfurt youth rugby teams, conducting my training sessions entirely auf Deutsch. I had originally been hired to conduct in-school rugby taster sessions, but instead transitioned towards coaching the established youth sessions due to the impact of Covid-19. I greatly enjoyed my time with the youth players at Eintracht Frankfurt Rugby - watching how they developed and grew as rugby players and people, even during the few months I was there, was incredibly rewar

I worked at a Kids Summer Sports Camp as a Summer job in Frankfurt in 2020. As a bilingual English & German speaker, I was allocated to look after mixed groups of German children (who only spoke German) and children from the Frankfurt International School, who were mostly Japanese or South Korean (and thus only spoke limited English and no German). This greatly improved my ability to swap out fast and translate between the two languages. Also, I successfully integrated the German- and non-German-speaking gr

I worked as a key worker on a local farm during the height of the first Covid-19 lockdown in the UK, mostly handling hops but also planting two new apple orchards of approximately 10,000 trees. The work was physical and with long hours and we faced the full force of the often adverse British weather. However, I found it very rewarding because I knew I was contributing towards helping keep the British agricultural industry afloat during a critical time for the country (and indeed the whole world), and thereb

Volunteer Consultant with 180 Degrees Consulting in Frankfurt. I worked in a team with other German students, completely in German, to help improve a local autism support group.

Worked in a variety of roles with in the Gloucester branch of Santander over 6 weeks, most of them dealing directly with customers on the bank's floor. Was trusted to handle customers independently and resolved numerous different issues that customers had. I also shadowed some appointments of other personal bankers, as well as working as a teller.

Studied at Goethe University in Frankfurt on my Year Abroad, as part of my BSc Economics with German degree at the University of Birmingham. Modules: Retail Marketing, Behavioural Finance, Investment, Foundations of Strategic Management, Ethics in Financial Management, Introduction to Market and C

4th (Final) Year Modules: Topics in Economic Theory and Practice, Economics of the EU, Behavioural & Experimental Economics, Economics of Uncertainty & Information, General Equilibrium & Welfare, Health Economics, German Core VI, German Core VII. I wrote my dissertation on the economic security of