Chris Redmond

Hot Poets Director – Education & Culture

Chris Redmond is a writer, musician and multi-artform facilitator. Co-Artistic Director of Hot Poets, founder of Tongue Fu, his career spans thirty years, working in twenty countries on five continents, with collaborators including Kae Tempest, Lemn Sissay, Irvine Welsh and Hollie McNish. In 2022 he was chosen by the UN, to be one of 50 international thought leaders, taking part in Adaptation week in Botswana. Chris contributes to the UNFCCC’s Resilience Frontiers and facilitates processes in creativity, performance and leadership, in schools, colleges, universities and with clients such as The British Council, BBC and The Southbank. His poetry and music has featured on BBC Radio 1-6, ITV, Sky Arts, CBBC, in The Guardian and Independent. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the Outspoken Prize and was on the judging panel for the Forward Prize.

Email: chris@hotpoets.org

Liv Torc

Hot Poets Director – Business & Culture

Liv Torc is world shaping, creativity championing, poet, performer and producer. A Radio 4 Slam winner, a former Bard of Exeter and host of The Hip Yak Poetry Shack, Liv runs the poetry stage at WOMAD, Banana Poems and the lockdown haiku and photography project, Haiflu – as featured on the BBC’s Radio 4 Today Programme.

In 2019 her climate change in the face of motherhood poem The Human Emergency went viral across the world. She has performed at BBC R4 Poetry Please, Glastonbury Festival, TEDxLondonWomen, the House of Commons and UNESCO in Paris. Hot Poets has taken Liv to COP26, COP27 and COP28, performing for the United Nations and the Met Office. Liv has since become a UN consultant, facilitating creative climate spaces all over the world. Her published books include Show Me Life (2015) and The Human Emergency (2021).

“Liv Torc makes the world a better place” – Elvis McGonagall

“You don’t get any better than Liv Torc” – Roger McGough

Email: liv@hotpoets.org

Dr Michal Nachmany

Dr Michal Nachmany has worked on climate change for over 18 years, across law, policy, and finance. She is the Founder and CEO of Climate Policy Radar, a not-for-profit building open databases and AI-powered tools to make climate, nature, and development governance data usable for decision-making worldwide. Her work focuses on turning fragmented information into shared public infrastructure that supports accountability, investment, and action.

Michal is a Visiting Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, where she spent a decade developing evidence-based tools for legislation and responsible investment with governments, the UN, and global investor coalitions. She advises the IPCC on the responsible use of AI and has also advised the UN-led Initiative on Climate Action Transparency (ICAT). She is a regular speaker on climate action and AI.

Michal holds a PhD in climate policy from the London School of Economics, an MA in Energy Policy and Management, an LLB in Law, and an MBA specialising in finance.

She has worked with Hot Poets as an ally and adviser since 2019, before joining the board in 2024. Until her early twenties, Michal was fairly sure she would become a poet, so she was so excited to get to perform with Hot Poets on stage (once! ).