"What gives me hope is that people are getting involved with climate action, not just politicians and businesses. There is a strong show of human demand for change and that’s what we’ve always needed." Gurjit Singh Lalli
In this conversation I connected with Gurjit Singh Lalli, who is one of the best connected people in Glasgow, and with the eyes of the world on the City due to the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference summit, I caught him on a very busy day yesterday, in-between meetings in a cafe, a short distance from the main summit event.
Born in England, raised in Scotland, educated in Sweden, having lived in Mexico & Middle East, with a wife from Hong Kong, and parents from India, he has been back in Glasgow and since 2010 and is the Founding Curator TEDxGlasgow.
They have had hosted numerous events in Glasgow and over 14 million views of the talks we put online.
He is the founder of several companies is also winner of the Business Man of the Year award at the Scottish Asian Business Awards.
So I started out by asking him. How does it feel to be in and from Glasgow right now?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurjitsinghlalli/
"If we can bail out banks then lets bail out humanity."
"There are two types of activism I’m seeing. One on the street and one in the boardroom."
"Climate action is not something we should be competing on it’s something we should be collaborating on."