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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jon Yoder is the President and Chief Executive Officer of MN8 Energy and serves as a director on the board of directors. Originally founded inside of Goldman Sachs, MN8 is now one of the largest and most sophisticated renewable energy companies in the US. MN8 is on a mission to serve enterprise customers with the renewable energy and services that they need on their journey to a decarbonized world. Jon was previously a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was Head of the Renewable Power Group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, a 100+ person team focused on investments in the renewable energy sector. During his career at Goldman Sachs, Jon was also Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Credit Alternatives investing team and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. (NYSE: GSBD).

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.

Vanessa leads Volvo Cars sustainability ambitions and the continuous evolution of our sustainability strategy supporting our organisation’s mission to give people freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way. Vanessa has more than a decade experience in sustainability leadership. She was previously VP Group Sustainability at Electrolux Group, and prior to that held senior strategy and sustainability roles at Accenture and Scandic Hotels. Vanessa is an established voice on sustainability and a speaker at world events like the UN’s COP.

Sandra leads Kipster Farm’s recent carbon neutral egg farm start in the United States. For over two decades, she worked to advance corporate sustainability and sustainable food systems at World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, Global Reporting Initiative, and Dubai Chamber of Commerce’s Centre for Responsible Business. She has degrees in Food & Business and International Relations. Sandra grew up on a small tulip farm in the Netherlands and moved to the United States in 2009. She lives with her family in Washington, DC.

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.

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.

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.

Mike Umiker is a dynamic ambassador for energy-efficient technology, best practices and collaboration. His global journey has taken him to the United Arab Emirates followed by Germany, and now back to Switzerland. With a robust career in the industrial sector, he brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective. he holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Marketing Management from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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.

Björn Öste is the Founder of Aventure, Oatly, Good Idea & Founders Ambassador Member.

Philip Ajina is the Founder of Infranode & Member Founders Group 2.

Malin Lindfors Speace is the Founder of Ethos & Member Founders Group 2.

Aticka Chona is the Founder of GreenKarmas & Founders Ambassador Members.

Isabelle Spiegel is Vice President Environment and member of the Executive Committee of VINCI. She joined VINCI to lead its environmental ambition 5 years ago. Graduate with an engineering degree, Isabelle has over 25 years of experience in sustainability and environment. She provided sustainability advisory services for more than 15 years with PwC, both in France and China. She directed international task forces preparing publications by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Before joining VINCI, she spent 5 years with Arcadis, as the operation leader of its Environment activities in South Europe.

Tim has more than 25 years research experience, focused on modelling of the biosphere, climate, biogeochemical cycles, and associated tipping points. Tim is renowned for his work identifying climate tipping points, which informed the setting of the 1.5C climate target, associated net zero targets, and nationally determined contributions. He works with policymakers and businesses helping them assess the risks of climate change and nature loss and highlighting the opportunities for ‘positive tipping points’ that can accelerate change towards net zero.

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.

Kevin Lang is the CEO of Agerpoint, a spatial intelligence platform for agriculture and nature. Agerpoint tools empower a sustainable food system and to protect natural environments by measuring and monitoring plant health, growth, yield, species, and carbon sequestration potential. Prior to Agerpoint, Kevin was General Manager of Agriculture for PrecisionHawk, a commercial drone technology provider, and Co-Founder of geospatial startup, spadeGEO. He also held roles with Deloitte Consulting, the World Economic Forum, and began his career in product engineering for John Deere. Kevin holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University and an MBA from Wake Forest University.

Founding member of The Global Investigative Journalism Network, the principal author of Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists (UNESCO 2009) and the recipient of many awards for his reporting. He is the founding academic director of the Future Media Management Programme at Stockholm School of Economics Riga. He has lectured in 40 countries on five continents and pioneered collaborative investigations with NGOs, notably Greenpeace. Mark will moderate the event.

Founder and CEO of Constructive Institute, which embraces solutions, nuance and dialogue with the intent to reinstall trust in the idea that shared facts, shared knowledge and shared discussions are the pillars on which our communities balance. Ulrik is an international public speaker on leadership, media, democracy, innovation and strategy. For 10 years he was the Executive Director of News at Denmark's public service broadcaster DR. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at Nordjyske Media and before that national daily Jyllands-Posten, after working as an investigative reporter.

Award-winning Pacific island journalist and scholar. For over 20 years she has reported from the frontlines of the climate crisis in her home islands of Samoa. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, AFP, AP, Al Jazeera, Washington Post and others. She is the host of 'An Impossible Choice' a podcast series by The Guardian on the existential nature of the climate crisis for Pacific island countries. A Chieftess from the island of Savai'i, she has facilitated numerous climate journalism trainings with various organisations to strengthen climate coverage globally.

CEO of the Meliore Foundation, a leading organisation for philanthropy focused on funding fact-based strategic communications around climate and related issues. In 2012, he founded the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), building on his work as Executive Director of Strategic Communications at the European Climate Foundation. The Meliore Foundation works with global philanthropic funding partners to support programmes which educate and encourage fact-based discourse at community, societal, commercial and policy-making levels. Tom previously led government relations for Apple in Europe and was a senior advisor to Microsoft and other companies in their interactions with EU competition regulation.

Senior journalist, media researcher, independent advisor, and university teacher. She is the lead author of the 2023 and 2024 EBU News Reports “Climate Journalism That Works: Between Knowledge and Impact” and “Trusted Journalism in the Age of Generative AI”. She works as co-director of the Climate Explorer Fellowship Program at the Constructive Institute and as a coach for the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in their Table Stakes Europe Programme on the digital transformation of newsrooms. As a honorary professor at TUM School of Management Alexandra teaches “Leadership and Strategy in the 21st Century”. She is also affiliated with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Associate after having served as their Director of Leadership Programmes until 2019. Prior to this she was managing editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany’s leading quality daily.

Award-winning journalist, media entrepreneur, founder and CEO of DataLEADS, a tech & digital media company that promotes open data and democratisation of information at scale. Syed has spearheaded one of the world’s biggest fact-checking, data journalism, open climate change reporting initiatives and media literacy training networks which has resulted in the launch of many fact-checking initiatives, in multiple languages, and has benefited hundreds of institutions and organisations across Asia. He is a founder of Asian Dispatch and a board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

A communications professional and campaigner, Angelika has spent the last 15 years advocating for more ambitious EU and international climate and nature conservation policies, since 2016 as Communications and Campaigns Director at the WWF European Policy Office in Brussels. Prior to this, she worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Global Wind Energy Council, where she led a campaign on the climate mitigation potential of wind power ahead of the 2015 UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen. She started her career as a journalist reporting on environment and energy policy in Brussels, and holds a Master's degree on European Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Founder and editor in chief of Clean Energy Wire | CLEW. The non-profit energy and climate journalism hub covers the relevant stories of Europe's move to climate neutrality, offers trainings for journalists and runs a network of nearly 500 engaged journalists from 82 countries. As Executive Director, Sven is also in charge of multi-award-winning German language climate communication platform Klimafakten. Before launching CLEW, he covered the German, Swiss and British economies during his 12 years at Reuters. He also taught journalism at Kingston University and worked as a media trainer.

Executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. She was formerly data and research editor and Latin American coordinator at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Emilia took part in more than 20 ICIJ award-winning investigative collaborations, including the Pulitzer-winning Panama Papers. She was previously the investigative reporting coordinator at the Press and Society Institute of Venezuela, and in 2012 was Reporter in Residence at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University and CONNECTAS. She pioneered in data journalism and investigative collaborations in her native Venezuela and has been a mentor to Latin American reporters. Emilia has taught at Columbia University in New York, she has been a professor at the Central University of Venezuela and contributor for the Washington Post, magazine Poder y Negocios, Venezuelan media El Universal, El Mundo and Armando.info, which she co-founded.

Political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism. She was a Chevening fellow for the South Asia Journalism Fellowship 2020, a Raisina Asian Forum for Global Governance Young Fellow 2019 and a 2017 fellow of the Australia India Youth Dialogue. In 2020, she was nominated for the prestigious Red Ink Awards in India for two of her business stories. Mitali has been Consulting Business Editor at The Wire and Mint, Markets Editor at CNBC TV 18 and Prime Time Anchor at TV Today and Doordarshan. She has been a Fellow at The Observer Research Foundation (ORF) where she led Gender Initiatives for the organisation. Mitali has also co-founded two start-ups that focused on civil society and financial literacy. She is a gold medallist in Television Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) New Delhi, 2001 and a gold medallist, Political Science Hons., Delhi University, 2000. She is also a TEDx speaker.

Shereen has over 20 years of experience as a communications specialist and innovation lead from her work with global advertising agencies, F100 Organisations and as a founder. She is an ICF accredited integral coach, regenerative strategist, creative and business developer. She heads up the flagship initiative of Syli CIC as Programme Director for climateXchange, on a mission to reshape the climate journalism media ecosystem. She serves as an advisor for the TG Foundation and provides integral coaching for innovation development and regenerative strategic advice. With listening, understanding and critical thinking at the heart of her approach, Shereen values the power of collaborations and relationships and believes that people with agency can positively affect change at scale.

Lars is the founder and President of the Sustainable Journalism Partnership, a newly founded global NGO that explores the relationship between sustainable societies and independent journalism. Lars is also a senior advisor at Fojo/Linnaeus University, Sweden’s Representative to UNESCO/IPDC Intergovernmental Council and Policy Advisor to the Global Forum for Media Development. He is trained in the US, France and Sweden and served for twelve years as a reporter and editor for leading Swedish media. For 15 years he advised governments, media, private companies, the UN and civil society on issues related to communication and journalism. Among the organisations for which he served and cooperated are the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office, the Guardian, Sida, Ericsson, JP/Politiken, OECD/DAC, The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Stockholm Culture Centre, UN-Habitat and the Regional Kurdish Government in Iraq. For three years he was stationed in Nicaragua, working as a reporter and communication advisor to the Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights. During the last twelve years he has led the development of Fojo/Linnaeus University’s international projects – Sweden’s leading media development organisation – and 2022 he founded the Sustainable Journalism Partnership.

Ivan is the "Future of the Planet" chief editor at Agence France-Presse in Paris. He reports to AFP's Global Editor-in-Chief and oversees climate coverage for AFP's 1,700 journalists worldwide, who produce text, photo, and video news content in six languages. Working with AFP's business, environmental and general news reporters, he is in charge of unifying coverage of the causes and impact of climate change, of the energy transition, and of the responses to the climate crisis. Additionally, Ivan coordinates coverage of major environmental events such as COPs and supervises AFP's climate training program for the global newsroom.

Senior Vice President and Head of Group Communications at Vattenfall, with an extensive background in communication and media (SVP and Head of Group Communications at Telia Company, SVP and Head of Communication and HR at Bonnier Broadcasting/TV4).

Daniel Barcarolo is Head of Regulatory Affairs at Fonden Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping

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.

Elena Avesani is Vice President, Oracle Sustainability Strategy & Technology Innovation with Oracle. Under Elena’s leadership, Oracle has become a recognized leader in sustainability and governance, integrating sustainable practices into operations and driving innovation to tackle critical global environmental and social challenges. This has led to notable recognitions, including Newsweek’s America’s Greenest Companies (2023), Sustainability Magazine’s Top 10 Sustainable Cloud Companies (2023), and CDP's Supplier Engagement Leaderboard (2023). Elena has been honored by consecutive placements on Sustainability Magazine’s Top 100 Women in Sustainability list since 2022 and the 2024 SEAL Environmental Leader Award. Elena's current focus is on developing tools to help customers accelerate their path to net zero, including the launch of Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability, which integrates sustainability into IT infrastructure with AI-driven insights.

Jennifer Evans is a climate justice activist and environmentalist. Jennifer currently serves as Chief Operating Officer with Climate Cardinals. She holds a Master of Arts in Climate and Society from the inaugural class of the Columbia Climate School and is an alumna of St. Lawrence University, majoring in Environmental Sociology. Her passion for climate justice and equity has been the main focus of her work throughout her academics and at her previous roles with the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University and NASA GISS.

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.

With over 15 years in international policy, campaigning, and sustainable innovation, Fiona have worked for organisations like Amnesty International, EIT Climate-KIC, and 38 Degrees. As the Global Senior Sustainability Manger at Unilever responsible for climate advocacy she now works to leverage corporate influence to drive transformative change.

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.

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.

Chris Grosso is the CEO of Intersection, a leading experience-based Out of Home media and technology company that delivers consumer amenities, content, and advertising to major American cities. Intersection operates many of the largest out of home networks, including New York’s LinkNYC wifi kiosks, Philadelphia’s bus shelters, and the Chicago Transit Authority’s advertising and customer information system. An experienced media executive and business strategist, Chris was previously Intersection’s COO and helped develop the company’s business strategy, product portfolio, and operational capabilities. Chris has had a long career helping re-invent media products for the digital world at NBC Universal, AOL, and Hearst. Previous to his corporate work, he spent several years at McKinsey and Company, where he helped start the Firm’s internet practice.

Dr. Sheiner is the President/Founder of CPGH, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to find innovative solutions to global health challenges. He is a board-certified physician specializing in psychiatry and child psychiatry.

Emily Atkin is the founder and editor of HEATED, an 80,000+ subscriber Substack newsletter dedicated to climate accountability reporting and analysis. A climate and political journalist for more than a decade, Atkin has previously held reporter and editor positions at The New Republic, MSNBC, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and ThinkProgress. Since founding HEATED in 2019, she has organized partnerships with larger publications like GQ, The Guardian, and NowThis, to bring her independent climate reporting to mainstream audiences. She’s also interviewed several high-profile figures in climate politics for HEATED, including Al Gore, John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and Stacey Abrams. She is a contributor to the climate solutions anthology "All We Can Save.”

Kasia Reterska is a leading sustainability and social impact strategist and c-suite advisor who leads the U.S. Sustainability and Social Impact practice for Burson. Reterska has developed successful global programs and campaigns on issues ranging from environmental stewardship, community engagement, human rights, global health to women’s and LGBTQ issues. Her extensive client list includes Fortune 500 companies, tech startups, multilateral organizations, United Nations agencies, global NGOs, and high-profile individuals in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to driving campaigns that elevate brands, Reterska helped launch Business & Society Futures for Weber Shandwick, which provides strategic counsel to c-suite executives on leadership positioning, organizational effectiveness, policy and regulatory complexity, positive societal impact, and value creation for stakeholders.

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.

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.

Dr Maria Persson Gulda is Chief Technology Officer at H2 Green Steel. Maria has led the project from the start, from the idea of making green steel on a large scale, to where the company stands today. In her role as CTO, she is responsible for the plant design, including the production of green hydrogen and selection of the associated equipment and technology. Before joining H2 Green Steel, Maria was a partner at McKinsey and led digital transformations for the steel and paper industry. Maria is Doctor in Applied Physics from Harvard University. She wrote her dissertation on the topic of metallic structures and defects.

Joey leads the Buyer Development team at Scope3, the tech company on a mission to decarbonize media and advertising. Joey and his team are responsible for developing Scope's relationships with agencies, brands, and other marketers. Prior to Scope3, Joey oversaw the Buyer Development group at OpenX, a leading advertising technology platform. He has been featured in publications like Forbes, AdExchanger, Adweek, and Digiday.

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.

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.

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).

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.