Davie Philip is a sustainable community development expert with over 25 years of experience. He is currently a project manager and facilitator at Cultivate, the Sustainable Ireland Cooperative, where he leads the development of its Community Climate Coaching program. He was a co-founder of the ecovillage project in Cloughjordan, an award-winning community-led housing initiative where he is active in the Community Farm. He is also a director of Cloughjordan Co-Housing, a company that is developing a model low-impact co-housing neighbourhood.

Davie has made significant contributions to the sustainable community movement in Ireland. He was an original catalyst of the Transition Towns process in 2005, served on the board of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland from 2009 to 2011 and was a director of Grow It Yourself Ireland from 2010 to 2013. From 2015 to 2021 he sat on the Council of ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, and from 2019 to 2021 he was a co-president of the network.