Through Mamta’s journalistic career she has focused on social and environmental issues writing for respected UK environmental journal The ENDS Report and co-founding a publishing business in 2007v to inform and challenge businesses and regulators worldwide to do more to protect people and the environment from the harmful effects of chemicals in products. This was a rapid growth business,starting with two staff and employing 75 by the time of its sale in 2020.Since then she has found new ways to apply her experience in the North West Scottish Highlands working to have local communities' back against wider negative trends and to support opportunities for local people in this remote and rural area. She is Chair of Locbhroom and Ullapool Community Trust and has co-founded a social enterprise to run a festival, Ulluminate, to showcase the talent and expertise in our area. She and her husband are renovating their 19th century. home to adapt if for renewable energy to ensure it remains a local treasure, while restoring the previously heavily grazed land around it to optimise biodiversity and mitiage climate change.She is also a trustee of the leading national funder Foundation Scotland, part of the global community foundation movement. In recent years the organisation has diversified into promoting social enterprise, community share ownership alongside grant funding and while setting new standards in measuring the impact of its funding and committing to support Scottish communities to establish the conditions for wellbeing economies that are thriving, fair and green.Mamta moved to the UK as a child with her Indian family, from Kenya. She is an executive coach with an interest in intercultural coaching.