Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.

Previously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.

I am currently an Arnhold Distinguished Fellow at Conservation International. From 2021-23, I served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and was the first ever US Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources. I have had a long career working at the intersection of government, policy, law and advocacy on conservation and climate change.

Camilla Thorndike is the Climate Engagement Director of the Harris for President campaign. Before this, she worked with Rewiring America, the nation's leading electrification nonprofit and led public engagement to help pass new policies and implement consumer benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act. She also co-founded Our Climate.

Antonique Smith is a critically acclaimed Broadway, film, and television actor, a GRAMMY-nominated artist and writer, and has been a passionate social, climate, and environmental justice """"artivist"""". Antonique first garnered attention in her buzzworthy leading role in """"Rent"""" on Broadway as Mimi Marquez and then became famous for her starring role as Faith Evans in the movie """"Notorious."""" Since then, she has continued to captivate audiences with her powerful performances across film and television, most recently starring in Marvel's """"Luke Cage."""" She was also dubbed """"the voice of the movement"""" by famed climate activist Bill Mcckibben and is now Co-founder and CEO of Climate Revival, a new nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing faith communities and people of color on climate.

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. is the President & CEO of Hip Hop Caucus, a minister, community activist, U.S. Air Force veteran, and one of the most influential people in Hip Hop political life. He entered the world of Hip Hop Politics as the Political and Grassroots Director for the Hip Hop Summit Action Network in 2003 and 2004, and as a key architect of P. Diddy’s “Vote Or Die!” campaign in 2004. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he established the award winning Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign where he led a coalition of national and grassroots organizations to advocate for the rights of Katrina survivors. In 2008, he led Hip Hop Caucus’ launch of Respect My Vote!, a campaign and coalition that works with Hip Hop artists to engage young people in the electoral process. As a national leader and pacemaker within the Green Movement, he works to bridge the gap between communities of color and environmental advocacy. He is a leader in campaigns calling for divestment from fossil fuels causing climate change, increasing diversity in the climate movement, ensuring everyone has clean water and air, and international efforts to address climate change. In 2018, he helped launch Think 100%, Hip Hop Caucus’ award-winning climate communications and activism platform.

Monica Capelan is a leader in programmatic marketing with over 15+ years of media experience. Her passion for strategy and processes has helped contribute to the growth of the Horizon programmatic investment team. Before joining Horizon Media in 2015, Monica spent four years at Everyday Health where she gained extensive experience across publisher side planning and client service in the Pharma and CPG verticals as well as Parenting, Entertainment, Retail, Travel, Finance and more.

Dr. Bechara Choucair is the Executive Vice President and Chief Health Officer for Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s leading integrated health systems with more than 12.5 million members. His work includes the creation of the nation’s largest social health network to meet the housing, food, and transportation needs of Kaiser Permanente’s members. He also manages the organization’s community health portfolio, including $3.4 billion dedicated to supporting medical financial assistance and charitable care as well as grants and community health initiatives. From January through November 2021, Dr. Choucair served as the White House national COVID-19 vaccinations coordinator. In that role, he focused on coordinating the timely, safe, and equitable administration of COVID-19 vaccinations for the U.S. population. During his tenure, more than 450 million doses of the vaccine were administered nationwide. He returned to Kaiser Permanente in December 2021. Dr. Choucair served as Chicago’s Public Health Commissioner from 2009 to 2014. Among other accolades, Dr. Choucair has been named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Health Executives in the U.S., one of the Most Influential People in Healthcare, and one of the Top 25 Innovators in Healthcare. A family physician by training, he completed his family practice residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He holds an MD from the American University of Beirut and a master’s degree in health care management from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Sonia Angell is a practicing physician and an expert in public health, policy and systems change. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her research aims to build out public health and health care delivery system capacity in climate and health. Additional areas of Dr. Angell’s research focus on health care delivery resilience, including the impact of COVID-19. Previously she served as Director of the California Department of Public Health and State Public Health Officer, as Deputy Commissioner at the NYC Health Department, as senior advisor on Global Noncommunicable Diseases at the CDC. She received the American Heart Association’s Chairman’s Award in 2020. She is board certified in internal medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of California San Francisco and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Brigham Women's Hospital. She has a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, serves as Director for the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR). Prior to joining NCEH/ATSDR, Dr. Bernstein led the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) and practiced pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital for nearly 20 years. Dr. Bernstein is an internationally known leader in children’s environmental health, having spent his career working to ensure that all children can grow up in environments that enable them to live up to their full potential. His scholarship has explored a broad range of subjects, from toxic exposures to mercury and air pollution, to global environmental changes such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, and their effects on health and health equity. Dr. Bernstein has held many leadership and advisory positions. He has served on the steering committee for the National Academy of Medicine’s action collaborative on decarbonizing the U.S. healthcare sector, chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health, was an advisor to the Dalio Center for Health Justice at NYP, and was a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors to the CDC’s NCEH/ATSDR.

Dr Mark Hayden is a Paediatric Cardiac Intensivist at Great Ormond St Hospital for Children (GOSH) in London. GOSH was founded in 1852 and was the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children. Mark saw an opportunity when Epic’s EMR was installed in 2018 to refocus the way GOSH clinicians interact with patient data. In addition to several Epic clinical “firsts”, he also explored the opportunities to display pertinent environmental data to clinicians. A display of local air pollution data in each patient’s chart went live in 2022 and has since been replicated in several other large hospitals in London. The Guardian, The Times and the BBC have all reported on this innovation. This simple intervention is readily replicable in Epic and other electronic medical records, and he is working with hospitals in Europe and the US to do so. He believes that it is part of his role to preserve a healthy planet for his patients and sees clearing the air as a great way to do so. He often explores the opportunities for health care workers to collaborate on clean air, preferably while cycling, but no longer while flying.

Saad Amer is a leading climate activist and environmental justice expert. He is the Founder of Justice Environment, a consultancy that works with governments, businesses and nonprofits on climate change, sustainability and the just transition. He served as an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC and as a consultant to the United Nations. He was named most influential voice in ESG by WWD and was named Forbes 30 under 30 for social impact. As one of the country’s most prolific voting rights organizers, Saad has reached millions of voters and created campaigns featuring the likes of Vice President Al Gore, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Taylor Swift. He helped secure $6.5 billion dollars for the National Parks as Advisor to the National Parks Conservation Association. He has researched the impacts of climate change on the ground in the Indian Himalayas, co-created Harvard University’s inaugural Sustainability Plan, and discovered a new hybrid species in French Polynesia. Saad has written for National Geographic, PBS and the World Bank, has spoken at the United Nations, White House and EPA, and has been profiled by Vogue, Nature and the New York Times. He went to Harvard University where he studied Environmental Science and Public Policy and was a Fellow at Yale University’s Public Voices on the Climate Crisis with The OpEd Project.

Marina is the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change, an independent and multi-disciplinary research collaboration of almost 100 academic centres around the world. Marina led a team of researchers in developing England's National Health Service's Net Zero commitments, and is a member of numerous advisory boards for projects focusing on health and climate change. Trained as a clinical biochemist in the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and holds a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research background spans from toxicology through to environmental health and climate change, and she has previously carried out her research in the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, the University of Cambridge, and the Francis Crick Institute.

Veronica Scotti was appointed Group Managing Director, Chairperson Swiss Re Public Sector Solutions (PSS) in July 2018 with a mandate to establish and grow globally the public sector business segment on behalf of the Swiss Re Group. Veronica joined Swiss Re in 1999 in London through the Group's acquisition of Fox-Pitt Kelton, a boutique investment bank specialized in FIG. Following her move to Swiss HQ in Zurich in 2002, she gained deeper insurance sector experience, with roles in asset management, strategy, risk management and products. From 2007 to 2013, she held reinsurance client-facing positions as Head of Business Development EMEA and Key Account Manager Globals, before moving to New York to become Client Executive, MD, with global responsibility for some of Swiss Re’s largest reinsurance clients. In 2015 Veronica was appointed President and CEO of Canada & the English Caribbean based in Toronto, a role she maintained until her return to Zurich in 2018. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Veronica started her career in investment banking in 1994, working in the UK, Switzerland and Italy with Banque Paribas, Union Bank of Switzerland and Banco di Napoli.

Sriram Rajagopal leads the global Climate and Air Pollution agenda for Inter IKEA Group (the IKEA franchisor) and the full IKEA value-chain – from raw material extraction to product end-of-life. Sriram has an educational background in electronics engineering and an MBA, and he has close to 15 years of experience in global leadership roles across sustainability, engineering, strategy, planning and business development. Over the past four and a half years, Sriram has held various roles within the climate agenda in Inter IKEA Group – his latest assignment was to lead the decarbonization agenda within production part of the value chain with Inter IKEA’s home furnishings supplier partners.

Dr. Shyam Bishen is joining the Forum from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he was Regional/Deputy Director of Life Sciences Partnerships in Seattle. Before working at the Gates Foundation, he was Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and Innovation as well as Vice President & General Manager of Biosimilars Business Unit at Merck, based out of the company headquarters in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Prior to joining Merck, Dr. Bishen was Vice President of Corporate Development at Ranbaxy based in New Delhi, India and Princeton, New Jersey. Before moving to Ranbaxy, he worked with Pfizer/Pharmacia in New Jersey and Schein in New York.

For the past 25 years, Tanja has worked with leadership, strategy, corporate transformations, and top-level business development in large international energy companies such as ØRSTED and INEOS Energy as well as in her current work as Chief Strategy & Operations Officer at the Mærsk McKinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. At the Center Tanja’s responsibilities cover: Center and Program Strategy, Project Portfolio, Partnerships, Finance, IT, Communication and Project Management.

Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.

Jennie Cato is SVP Head of Public Affairs & Partnerships at Scania where she develop advocacy strategies and implement activities targeting politicians, policymakers, governmental agencies, NGO’s and other influencers, while nurturing relationships and see to Scania’s ability as a trusted partner in driving the sustainable transport agenda. Cato has a background within both industry, the Swedish government and industry organizations, and brings 25 years of experience across tech and engineering driven environments, strategic business development, climate, energy and sustainability policy development in political systems in both Sweden and the EU as well as on a global level. Cato holds a M.Sc of Civil Engineering from Lund University.

Having spent 30+ years working on climate change, Gabrielle co-founded CUR8 with the view to build science led, commercially scalable solution for the planet. Having been the Climate Change editor at Nature Magazine and New Scientist, as well as taught at Cambridge and Princeton, Gabrielle is one of the world’s foremost experts, authors and speakers on climate change and carbon removals. Alongside CUR8 Gabrielle runs the non-profit Rethinking Removals which works alongside SBTi, ICVCM, VCMI and other key actors to drive growth and development of both the voluntary and compliance carbon removal markets.

John has been working at the intersection of water with climate adaptation and resilience since 2007. His work explores how we define, develop, and accelerate the uptake of our emerging set of best practices for climate resilience. John co-founded the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) in 2010, where he remains the Executive Director. He has led the development of a variety of climate risk reduction methodologies that have been used in dozens of countries, prepared green bond criteria that have certified more than 15 billion USD in water resilience investments across six continents, and advised well over 100 countries on their national climate commitments.

Kate Hughes is CEO of the Resilient Water Accelerator – an initiative designed to catalyse public and private finance at scale into improving water security for those on the front line of climate change. Prior to this, Kate spent over 20 years working for the UK Government, most recently as Director for International Climate Finance and Strategy, leading teams working on the net zero transition, green finance, sustainable supply chains, and delivering global climate ambition. She was part of the COP26 team, leading a number of policy campaigns and work on $100bn.

Martina has over 25 years of experience in Environmental Policy and Programme Management, with a particular focus on energy, buildings, transport and sustainable cities, as well as partnership building. At the UN Environment Programme, she has served in different functions out of Paris and Nairobi, including in the Executive Office, heading UNEP’s work Transport, Bioenergy, Energy Policy, UNEP's work on on Cities and the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, and now heading the Secretariat of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.

Adalberto Maluf is the National Secretary of Urban Environment and Environmental Quality for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Adalberto was the Director of Government Affairs, Sustainability and Marketing for BYD Brasil (Build Your Dream) from 2014-2023. He also served as director and president to the board of ABVE (Brazilian Association of Electric Vehicles) from 2018-2023 and a member of the board of ABSOLAR (Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy) from 2018-2022 and ABGD (Brazilian Association of Distributed Generation) vice president of the board from 2019-2023. Prior to BYD, Adalberto worked for the City of Sao Paulo (2006-2007) and was the City Director for the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) in partnership with the C40 Cities between 2007 and 2014 in Sao Paulo.

Rick Duke serves as Deputy Special Envoy for Climate, focused on encouraging major economies to define and implement ambitious emission reduction targets under the Paris Agreement. He also works through other forums and initiatives to accelerate global progress towards carbon-free energy and to advance complementary “fast cooling” strategies, including rapidly reducing methane emissions. Previously, he was a consultant and Brookings Institution senior fellow. He also served as Special Assistant to President Obama, helping to craft and implement the Climate Action Plan, including defining the 2025 emissions reduction target for the Paris Agreement, spearheading an interagency push for the Kigali Amendment on HFCs to the Montreal Protocol, and authoring the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy for deep decarbonization. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at DOE and worked at NRDC and McKinsey. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton.

Ingmar is serial entrepreneur within financial communication and nominated for a DI Gasell Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Sweden’s Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year 2020, and Green Warrior 2021. Ingmar Rentzhog has been the chairman of the environmental think tank Global Challenge. He is on the board of Naventus Corporate Finance. He’s a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force and he was in 2022 appointed a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission.

Per Espen Stoknes is a TED Global speaker, a psychologist with PhD in economics, he is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo. An experienced foresight facilitator and academic, he’s also a serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. Author of several books, among them Money & Soul (2009) and the award-winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (2015). His latest books are Tomorrow’s Economy (2021) on MITPress, and Earth For All (2022) with the Club of Rome. Per Espen has served as member of Norwegian Parliament, and on the EU Commission’s mission board on Horizon Europe’s Climate Change and Societal Adaptation. He has been a central contributor to the Club of Rome’s www.Earth4All.life project.

Dominic oversees Climate Group’s global transport work. Working with the largest corporate fleets in the world, Climate Group supports members’ fleet electrification plans and advocates for ambition from policymakers to decarbonise road transport and accelerate the transition to a net zero economy.

Angela Hultberg is a Global Sustainability Director at Kearney, advising clients on sustainability strategy and adoption with a specific focus on the automotive, transport and retail sectors, as well as a variety of managerial roles driving and shaping sustainable strategic directions tailored for Kearney’s valued clients. Prior to joining Kearney, Angela was the global Head of Sustainable Mobility at Ingka group (formerly IKEA Group), focusing on reducing co-worker and customer travel emissions, in addition to setting ambitious goals for zero emissions home deliveries for the brand. Over her career, Angela has gained a wealth of multi-sector sustainability experience, and she was appointed Road Transport Lead for the COP26 Climate Champions team. While a Climate Champion, Angela spearheaded initiatives to accelerate the decarbonization of the transport industry, drawing on her experience with setting IKEA’s goals for zero emission home deliveries.

Jean Marc Papin is the Senior Vice President of Media Technologies at Horizon Media, where he spearheads the agency’s sustainability initiatives. With a focus on achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, Jean Marc is committed to reducing Horizon's carbon footprint and driving meaningful environmental impact across the media landscape. His expertise spans multiple industries, where he has successfully implemented strategies to reduce environmental impact and ensure compliance with sustainability regulations.

For more than 35 years, Joel has been a well-respected voice on business, sustainability and innovation. An award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker and strategist on corporate sustainability practices, climate tech and the clean economy, he has advised a wide range of companies on how to align sustainability with business success.

Prajakta Koli is one of India’s leading digital creators, actors, and climate activists. With over 17 million followers across social media, she has become a powerful advocate for climate action, gender equality, and mental health. Prajakta stars as the lead in Netflix’s popular series "Mismatched" and is set to debut as an author with her romance novel "Too Good To Be True" in 2024. As the UNDP’s first Youth Climate Champion from India, she has represented young voices at global platforms like COP 28 and the World Economic Forum, inspiring millions through her content and advocacy

James Kotecki explores the future by talking to technology trailblazers. He hosts podcast and video interviews for CES, the world’s top tech event, as well as artificial intelligence and climate tech brands. His work has earned millions of views, major media coverage, and multiple awards. His guests include leaders from OpenAI and Samsung to Hollywood and the NFL. He currently serves as Chief Storytelling Officer at Agerpoint, an AI company for agriculture and nature.

Maya Hari is the CEO of Terrascope, the leading decarbonization platform for enterprises in the land-based economy. Maya is a seasoned C-suite executive in high growth digital and technology companies. Her career journey spans two decades and three continents focused on mobile, consumer and social businesses at Twitter, Google, Microsoft and Cisco. She also successfully spearheaded digital transformation at Samsung & Conde Nast.

11-year-old Robert talks to kids around the world about how they are helping to fight climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as scientists and charities about what we all can do to help save the world.

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Kathleen has developed Earth Day Network into a year-round policy and activist organization. Now more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day in 192 countries. Kathleen has been at the vanguard of developing innovative financial mechanisms to support green buildings and schools. Kathleen also founded Earth Day Network’s groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green program, which has now recorded close to 3 billion individual actions to improve the environment.

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is the global leader of Climate & Energy at WWF and interim chair of the IUCN Climate Crisis Commission. He has more than 35 years of experience in environmental law and policy. He served as Minister of the Environment of Peru (2011 to 2016) and President of the Twentieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - COP20 in 2014. He is also a member of the Steering Committees of F20 and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative. He has been invited to serve on the US Advisory Committee on Foreign and Voluntary Aid.

Cleo has been with InfluenceMap for 3.5 years, tracking the US financial sector's climate lobbying activities and researching the anti-ESG movement. She is also coordinates the sharing of InfluenceMap data with North American investors and convenors. She lives in Chicago.

Tessa Ferry leads Race to Zero and is responsible for the oversight and management of the campaign. Her previous role was also with the Climate Champions Team where she served as senior adviser on policy, gender and states and regions. Prior to joining the Champions Team in 2022 she worked as Head of International Climate Change for the Scottish Government, leading on preparations for COP26 including partnering on the first multi-level action pavilion focused on the role of states, regions and cities, and overseeing the delivery of the world's first loss and damage funding announcement. As part of this role, Tessa led on the Scottish Government's co-chairship of the Under 2 Coalition. Her role also included running the Scottish Government's Climate Justice programme, and supporting the integration of climate justice principles in net-zero legislation. Before joining the Scottish Government, Tessa worked on several roles for the UK civil service, including climate change, forestry, environmental crimes, and extradition. In her spare time, she supports local community organisations in Glasgow, Scotland developing and implementing strategic plans.

Tessa has a Law and Politics background and has worked for Judges, Members of Parliament and a Minister in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She has experience in the NGO sector enhancing climate philanthropy and setting up coalitions to improve food security and tackle food waste.

Daniel is PRI’s Senior Lead on Climate Change, where he plays a leading role in efforts to support investors in managing climate risk. He previously worked on climate issues at the World Bank, in the Scottish government, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he completed a PhD.

Laura Lightbody is the director of The Pew Charitable Trusts' energy modernization project. In that role, she advocates for state and federal policy to cut emissions and improve resilience, equity, and community outcomes. Her work focuses on building a clean, reliable electric grid, expanding renewable energy solutions such as offshore wind, and accelerating transportation electrification.

Alexander Bilgeri is responsible for Human Resources, Production, Purchasing and Sustainability Communications at the BMW Group. He is an expert in strategic, data-driven communications and public relations with over 20 years of experience in managing and leading organizations, from media startups to international car manufacturers. At the BMW Group, Alexander has held various international positions since 2004, including responsibility for communications strategy, product, innovation, business and financial communications, as well as in the U.S. for communications in the Americas region. Alexander holds a degree in business administration and studied at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and WHU in Vallendar. He is a trained journalist.

Saliem Fakir is the Executive Director of the African Climate Foundation. Prior to establishing the African Climate Foundation, Saliem served for 11 years as the Head of the Policy & Futures Unit of WWF South Africa. He was a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Planning and an Associate Director for the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy at Stellenbosch University. For eight years, Saliem was the Director of the World Conservation Union, South Africa. He has served on several Boards and is a prolific writer, contributing to leading publications.

Jamie Choi is the CEO of Tara Climate Foundation, a new regional regranting foundation that aims to accelerate Asia’s just energy transformation. Under Jamie’s leadership, Tara has transitioned into an independent, regionally-based and locally-driven foundation, providing support to a diverse network of over 250 grantees spanning across 13 Asian geographies. Jamie brings nearly two decades of global experience at the crossroads of environmental advocacy and social justice. Before asasuming her role at Tara, she held the position of Programme Director at Greenpeace East Asia, where she led the strategic direction of programs and managed a team of 160 professionals across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. A native of South Korea, she has lived or worked extensively across various continents, including Asia, North America and Central America, and speaks four languages. Jamie earned both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Brown University.

Boaz Paldi is the United Nations Development Programme Chief Creative Officer. In this role, Boaz oversees UNDP’s advocacy, flagship campaigns, events and partnerships. Most recently Paldi managed the design, rollout and launch of the #dontchooseextinction campaign. Before being appointed to his current role, Paldi led UNDP’s advocacy and communication as well as implementing UNDP’s multimedia strategy and co-founding the Social Good Summit. Prior to joining UNDP, Boaz worked as a TV journalist for 17 years covering conflicts, natural disasters and human-interest stories in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans first for the BBC then the Associated Press and finally joining Reuters where he worked as a TV News Executive Producer for over 12 years.

Bill Weir is America’s leading climate reporter. His new book "Life as We Know It (Can Be)" is a celebration of our planet and human brilliance. It is a hopeful plea for communities to rally around nature, new ideas and each other, to create the kind of resilience that lasts generations.

The Weather Company CMO Randi Stipes takes an agile, data-driven approach to drive business growth and deliver measurable results for customers and consumers. No stranger to marketing transformation, she’s helped build The Weather Channel into one of the top 10 most trusted U.S. brands and the world’s most accurate forecaster. She’s helped elevate The Weather Company to an AI-driven ecosystem player that helps people confidently leverage data and technology to make more informed decisions. With nearly three decades in media and marketing, she’s served in roles across product, editorial, sales and marketing. Named a “2020 Woman to Watch by Multichannel News,” she excels at unlocking creativity and high performance on the teams she manages, resulting in some of the industry’s top awards. Passionate about the intersection of driving business growth and societal change, Randi sits on the boards of the Ad Council, BRIDGE and the OAAA Brand Council.

Nyla Mabro is the Head of Strategy for The Clean Fight, a not-for-profit focused on accelerating the adoption of climate solutions for the 100%, by creating replicable pathways to scale. Previously, Nyla helped the fortune 200 with trend-correct strategies to align their business with the future, in addition to working in advertising in the UK.

Dana R. Fisher is a dynamic speaker and author who writes about activism, democracy and climate policy. Her most recent book, Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action was published in 2024 by Columbia University Press. She is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) and a Professor in the School of International Service at American University. Fisher is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Governance Studies program at The Brookings Institution and the chair of the Political Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. She served as a Contributing Author for Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Review (IPCC AR6) writing about citizen engagement and civic activism.

Investor and Entrepreneur in climate tech, JC Jung joined the Ice Memory Foundation as an Ambassador. The purpose of the foundation it to collect Ice Cores from all major high altitude glaciers and store them in Antartica as archives for scientists of the future. It is about saving the climate memory of the planet before it is too late. He is also a Managing Partner of Global Sustainable Future (GSF). He focuses on financing of clean technologies and large-scale projects in Energy, Mobility, Water, Air and Carbon. He also advises Cleantech startups and large corporations with their Net Zero Strategy. He co-founded Tarform, an electric motorcycle start-up set to disrupt the two-wheeled transportation industry through advanced manufacturing and clean technology.

Anna Hall has a long experience in energy efficiency, innovation, business development, policy making and collaboration between public sector and industry. In her previous work, as the Director for Big Science Sweden, she has been working with cross-function and cross-country collaboration in advanced processes. She has been driving Alfa Laval’s initiative around sustainable cities and has a broad experience in partnerships, both between industries as well as between industry and academia.

As President of Commercial HVAC, Holly oversees a broad portfolio of high efficiency, industry-leading HVAC systems, services, controls and energy reduction solutions. Since joining Trane Technologies in 2016, she has held executive roles as President of Life Science Solutions, General Manager for Data Center Precision Cooling, Head of Marketing and Head of Strategic Sales & Operations. She has spent over 25 years in the industrial and technology markets across virtually every vertical and customer segment. Prior to her time at Trane Technologies, Holly held executive leadership roles in general management, M&A, strategy, product management and marketing for Corning, Eaton and Intel. She has served on several corporate, industry and nonprofit boards, including LiquidStack, Well Buildings Institute Health Committee for Stadiums and Arenas, Davidson Day School, University of Wisconsin Diversity in STEM Committee and 50/50 Women on Boards’ Executive Committee. She is a STEM advocate and has received numerous industry awards for driving entrepreneurism, diversity and sustainability. Holly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of Minnesota - Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management.

Thai-Swedish multimodal artist, singer, and producer Sirintip creates works that center climate action through empathy and meaningful connections. She has issued three critically-acclaimed releases, Carbon (Ropeadope), The Lost World (GroundUP) and Tribus (GroundUP); collaborated on 19 releases; and produced albums for artists like actor Melanie Smith (Seinfeld). She has appeared at international festivals and major venues across the world, alongside Benny Andersson (ABBA), Snarky Puppy, and countless diverse acts. Commissioned pieces include orchestral arrangements for the Swedish Radio and Malmo Symphony Orchestras, respectively; and interpretations for both Nobel Chemistry Prize and Nobel Prize for Peace.

Owen is a global sustainability writer, analyst and strategist. He is based at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is also a Future Earth Senior Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow (New Zealand) and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. He is interested in big-picture narratives of the past and future of people on Earth (and beyond). He has published in Science and Nature and is a regular contributor to New Scientist. He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and Rethink magazine and is on the editorial board of the Anthropocene magazine.

Sandrine Dixson-Declève is an international and European climate, energy, sustainable development, sustainable finance, complex systems thought leader. She is currently the Co-President of the Club of Rome and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating change in business and policy models and advisory work. She holds several advisory positions for the European Commission: Chair, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR); Assembly Member, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Mission (DGR&I); TEG Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Platform (DGFISMA); United Nations: Food Summit Action Track 5 Resilience and for companies/organisations/institutes such as BMW, UBM, Climate KIC, UCL-Bartlett School of Enviornment and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Senior Associate for E3G, Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission (ETC) and WEALL. In 2017 Sandrine co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network (WECAN).

As a scientist, clean energy entrepreneur and CEO, and now as a Member of Congress representing the western suburbs of Chicago, Congressman Sean Casten has dedicated his life to fighting climate change. Rep. Casten draws upon his previous private sector experience in Congress to craft market-based solutions to reduce emissions while creating jobs and spurring economic growth. Rep. Casten serves on the House Financial Services Committee and is Vice Ranking Member of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) and is a Co-Chair of the Sustainable Investment Caucus. Rep. Casten worked as a clean energy consultant and manager at Arthur D. Little then served as the president and CEO of Turbosteam Corporation, which focused on utilizing energy recycling technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by generating heat and power from previously wasted energy. In 2006, Casten co-founded Recycled Energy Development (RED), which focused on recycling wasted energy and converting energy facilities to cleaner, more economic uses. Casten was a founding chairman of the Northeast CHP Initiative, a nonprofit advocacy organization with a mission to advance policies that favor energy efficiency in the Northeast United States.

Congressman Don Beyer is serving his fifth term as the U.S. Representative from Virginia’s 8th District, representing Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, and parts of Fairfax County. He serves on Congress' Joint Economic Committee, and also serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1998, and was Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Obama. Rep. Beyer’s signature work as lieutenant governor included advocacy for Virginians with disabilities and ensuring protections for Virginia’s most vulnerable populations as the Commonwealth reformed its welfare system in the mid-1990s. Rep. Beyer was Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor in 1997. After leaving office, Rep. Beyer spent fourteen years as Chair of Jobs for Virginia Graduates, a highly successful high school dropout prevention program, and was active for a decade on the board of the D.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. As Chair of the Virginia Economic Recovery Commission, he helped pass permanent pro-business reforms and was co-founder of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. President Obama nominated Rep. Beyer to serve as Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein in 2009. He used his position to advocate for stricter sanctions to compel Iran to begin nuclear disarmament discussions. As Ambassador, Rep. Beyer was integral to US Department of Justice efforts to halt the abuses of Swiss bank secrecy by wealthy Americans. Rep. Beyer has spent four decades building his family business in Northern Virginia after a summer job at a car dealership in 1974. He is a graduate of Williams College and Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC. He was named a Presidential Scholar by President Lyndon Johnson. Rep. Beyer has four children and two grandchildren. He and his wife Megan live in Alexandria, Virginia.

Lynda Tran is an expert in advocacy and public engagement. Over 25 years of experience across politics, policy, and communications, Lynda has helped launch national and international initiatives, shaped the narrative around historic moments, and built and scaled groundbreaking organizations. As Senior Advisor to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Director of Public Engagement for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), she helped activate stakeholders to secure passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) — also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — and played a critical role in shaping the policies and programs that determine how these historic resources are allocated in communities nationwide. A nationally recognized leader in transportation and infrastructure policy, Lynda serves on the Board of Directors for STV, a leading professional services firm that plans, designs, and manages infrastructure projects across North America.

Frank has spent over a decade at Sharethrough conducting research to better understand how humans respond to advertising to help brands and agencies adapt their unique advertising challenges to ever-evolving media consumption behaviors. In order to accelerate sustainability initiatives at Sharethrough and across the advertising industry, he recently completed his “Sustainability in Business” certification from Harvard Business School. He has also led multiple sustainability initiatives, including helping to launch the ad industry’s first Green Media Product “GreenPMPs,” hosting the advertising industry’s first Green Media Summit and speaking at Climate Week NYC . He is a digital advertising industry veteran, beginning his career working for clients including Nestle, Pfizer and Wyndham on the agency side and then, in 2010, opening up and growing Sharethrough’s East Coast headquarters in NYC.

Karin has been Chief Sustainability Officer at Volvo Group since April 2022. She leads the company’s sustainability transition towards a fossil-free future – through a unique approach to cross-sectoral partnership and an ambition to drive sustainable solutions and practices across the supply chain. Her expertise plays a key role in helping Volvo move closer to 100% fossil free vehicles by 2040 while inspiring other industry players to enhance their own decarbonization journey. Prior to this, she held various managerial positions at Volvo Group since 1996, lately as Senior Vice President Public Affairs (2018-2022). She has also held roles as Vice President Group Strategy, President Volvo Technology North America and a number of positions in Research & Development.

Juan Manuel Santos was the President of Colombia, from 2010 to 2018, where he managed to significantly improve his country’s social and economic indicators. He was one of the initial promoters of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that became the world agenda in 2015 (he officially proposed them in the Rio+20 Summit in 2012). He also led the process to convene a special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGASS 2016) to discuss more effective ways to face the world drug problem. He was one of the founders and architects of the Pacific Alliance. He was the sole recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for ending the longest armed conflict with the oldest guerrilla in the Western Hemisphere (his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end). He was also awarded the Lamp of Asis by the Catholic Church and the Tipperary International Peace Award in Ireland for his efforts to bring peace to his country and the region. For his aggressive environmental policies to protect his country’s biodiversity and fight climate change, he was awarded the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew International Medal and the Wildlife Conservation Society Theodore Roosevelt Award for Conservation Leadership. In addition, the National Geographic Society honored him for his for unwavering commitment to conservation and Conservation International awarded him the Global Visionary Award.

First woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Chair of The Elders; a passionate advocate for gender equality, women’s participation in peace-building, human dignity and climate justice.

Kerry McCarthy was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 9 July 2024. She was elected as the Labour MP for Bristol East in May 2005.

Activist, medical doctor, academic, businessperson and global thought leader, Dr Mamphela Ramphele is co-founder of ReimagineSA and the Chair of the Tutu IP Trust. She was Co-president of The Club of Rome between 2018 and 2023. She is a change agent rooted in the Black Consciousness philosophy that enabled many young people in the 1970s to self-liberate from the inferiority complex imposed by racist oppression and inspired the revival of the liberation struggle that ushered in political freedom in 1994. She is a medical doctor (MBChB), a social anthropologist (PhD), an accomplished researcher and a co-author with Francis Wilson, of Uprooting Poverty: The SA Challenge.

Farwiza is the chairperson of Forest, Nature and Environment Aceh Foundation (Yayasan HAkA), a grassroots organisation based in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia that focus on the conservation, protection and restoration of the Leuser Ecosystem. She mainly work on the policy and advocacy aspects, seeking to increase meaningful access and involvement of local community in the development of policy pertaining to their environment and livelihood. In addition to passionately working to tackle the herculean task of creating permanent conservation status for the Leuser Ecosystem, Farwiza is also mad enough to enrol in a PhD program in the Faculty of Anthropology and Development studies in Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research seek to bring light on the political economy of natural resource management in Aceh, Indonesia, with particular spotlight on (of course) the Leuser Ecosystem. A place so close to her heart.