Who we are

Zoë Blackler is Kairos’s founder and director. She is a journalist, editor and climate activist. Her journalism has been published by The London Review of Books, The Guardian and The New York Times among others. She has an MSc in Social Anthropology from University College London.

Our advisory panel

Natasha Walter is a journalist and author, the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London.

Darius Cuplinskas is director at The Ideas Workshop of the Open Society Foundations, based in London.

Charlie Waterhouse, is the founder and creative director of award-winning identity specialists This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll, a director of The Brixton Project, and a director of the Brixton Pound, the world’s first local currency in a major city. He created our visual identity.

Our funding

Kairos launched in October 2022 with a start-up grant from The Open Society Foundations.

Our legal entity

Kairos Counter-Club CIC (company number 14215769) is a not-for profit community interest company registered with the UK’s Companies House.