Jamie Crummie Keynote Speaker
- Co-founded Too Good To Go, rescuing 450 m+ meals (2016–2025)
- Named Top 100 Influential People in Sustainability (2024)
- Led UK campaign for mandatory food waste reporting (2024)
Jamie Crummie's Biography
Jamie Crummie is the co-founder of Too Good To Go, the world’s largest marketplace for surplus food. Since launching in 2016, the app has grown to more than 100 million users across 19 countries and has rescued over 450 million meals from landfill—avoiding nearly a million tonnes of CO₂e.
Trained in human-rights law, Jamie channels his legal mindset into entrepreneurial activism, transforming a simple idea into a movement recognised on every continent. His impact has earned him a place on Forbes 30 Under 30 (2019), One Young World’s Entrepreneur of the Year (2020), Forbes 50 Next Trailblazing Activist (2021), Great British Entrepreneur Awards Sustainability Entrepreneur (2022), and the Obama Foundation Leaders programme (2023).
In 2024, Jamie spearheaded a coalition with major UK retailers and the British Retail Consortium, urging the government to mandate food waste reporting across the supply chain. His leadership in this initiative underscores his commitment to systemic change in food sustainability.
On stage, Jamie blends start-up grit with policy insight, offering audiences actionable frameworks for embedding purpose, cutting waste, and unlocking growth through circular thinking. He argues that fighting food waste is among the fastest, lowest-cost routes to net-zero—transforming environmental responsibility into lasting competitive advantage.
Jamie Crummie's Speaking Topics
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Scaling with Purpose: Building a High-Growth Business That Delivers Commercial and Social Value
More than ever, consumers, employees, and investors expect businesses to create value beyond profit. In this session, Jamie Crummie shares his journey co-founding Too Good To Go and scaling it into a global business that’s saved over 450 million meals from waste. Learn how purpose-driven innovation can unlock new markets, build customer trust, and attract top talent. This talk will leave leaders inspired to align growth with impact—and with actionable strategies to make purpose a driver of long-term performance.
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Social Impact as Strategy: Why Purpose-Led Business Models Are Winning in a Changing World
In today’s rapidly shifting landscape, businesses that integrate social and environmental impact into their core strategy are outperforming those that don’t. Drawing on real-world insights, we will explore how mission-led business models can unlock innovation, build brand resilience, and future-proof your organisation. This talk will equip corporate leaders with a compelling business case for purpose, and inspire a mindset shift: from corporate responsibility to competitive advantage through impact.
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Culture by Design: How Values-Driven Leadership Creates Resilient, High-Performing Teams
Culture is no longer a ‘nice to have’—it’s a critical driver of business success. Discover how to embed purpose into your culture, foster trust and ownership, and build teams that thrive through change. Attendees will gain insights into building environments where performance and purpose go hand-in-hand—and leave ready to lead with authenticity and clarity in a complex world.
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Food waste: the unspoken solution to the climate crisis