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.

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.

Anita Soina is a Kenyan environmental Warrior and Climate Activist. 2021 TedX Speaker, Founder of SpiceWarriors Environmental Organization and Author of “The Green War” book. She’s also a sustainability digital influencer. She is now a Green Party Politician.

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.

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.

Mats has over 20 years’ experience in digitalization and sustainability. Under his leadership Ericsson was the first manufacturer in the telecom sector to have science-based targets on a Net Zero trajectory and also the first company in the sector to renew targets after successfully concluding their first SBTi commitments. The conviction to base decisions and plans on science and facts is manifested by being part of the initiation and steering of the Exponential Climate Action Roadmap report as well as leading the joint project with Columbia University on ICT and SDGs. Mats has been spearheading industry in sustainability both as a consultant and in global companies such as Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Nobia.

Started 1984 with producing futons, then get in touch with natural latex foam. Co-founder of “QuL e.V.”, 2004 inventor of new vulcanization method for latex foam, from 2003 to 2019 helped setting up 4 factories in the world for natural latex foam (Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Guatemala and Malaysia). Identifying the big potential of NCS through rubber trees beginning 2022.

I’m a Swiss-Namibian pop music producer and artist. Growing up in a family very close to nature I always wanted to use my music to create an impact. When meeting my co-founder Eansadh at University in London we started both our artist projects “Citrus Hues” and “stream by stream”.

After graduating from law-school, Karsten visited Vietnam with two of his best friends and witnessed plastic pollution in the Mekong River. Back in Germany, the three friends decided to found (one of) the world's first companies to tackle ocean plastic pollution already in rivers. They invented a simple technology that can be built at low-cost, from locally available materials around the world and collected and managed more than 250 tons of River Plastic in 2022. (Optional 4th sentence: The organization has been awarded by the World Economic Forum as "Top Innovator" in the Global Plastic Pollution Challenge and was invited to

John is Co-founder of Seafields, an impact investment entrepreneur, a crowdfunding trainer for Virgin Startup and a two time novelist. Seafields is developing a hyperscale, mid-ocean aquafarm for growing the free-floating seaweed, Sargassum. They will harvest, process, bale and sink the seaweed to the ocean floor, where the embodied carbon will remain for up to thousands of years.

Anna-Marie Laura is the Director of Climate Policy at Ocean Conservancy and previously served as the organization’s Director of International Government Relations. She is a strong advocate for ocean-based climate mitigation and adaptation solutions and the policies and enabling conditions necessary for their implementation.

Erik is a postgraduate geographer with a focus on glaciology and climate development, and holds an exam as a science journalist. During the 1990s, Erik was connected to Tarfala Research Station in the Swedish Lapland mountains doing studies on glacier behaviour on climate and topography. Erik has been Head of media for the Nobel Prizes at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, as well as the Science editor for the largest network of Earth system scientists, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. Since 2016, Erik runs his company Husstainability with Emma Rehnberg Jensen. The business supports the industry achieving sustainable business development within the planetary boundaries. Erik is a part of the Jubilee expedition and just got back from the Arctic.

Brian leads the Climate-Aligned Finance Program at RMI, where he directs the financial system and to mobilize capital for the transition to a secure, prosperous, and equitable global economy. In this role, he serves as the Executive Director of RMI’s Center for Climate-Aligned Finance and is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. A recognized leader on international climate finance and development policy, Brian is a member of the US Export-Import Bank Chair’s Council on Climate. He also served on the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition team, where he focused on the US International Development Finance Corporation and USAID. Previously, Brian served as Managing Director of Business Development for OPIC’s Global Energy Group, where he led the group’s origination and account management for financing power projects in emerging markets and developing countries. He also spent seven years leading the US Department of Commerce’s efforts to develop markets for US renewable energy companies, with a particular focus on China and India.

Antti Vihavainen is Co-Founder and CEO of Puro.earth, the world’s leading carbon crediting platform focused solely on carbon removal. Puro.earth's mission is to mobilize the world’s economy to reward carbon net-negative emissions.

Ed has led InfluenceMap's research on lobbying and corporate influence since 2017, having joined the organization in 2015. Working with a team of dedicated analysts, Ed manages InfluenceMap's system for tracking and assessing the climate change lobbying of the world's largest 400 industrial companies and their key trade associations.

Dr. Susan Gardner is a Mexican-American environmental scientist, known for her pioneering research on ecotoxicology and her critical contributions to the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Dr. Gardner has over two decades of experience in supporting countries in conserving and restoring their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Prior to serving as the Director of UNEP’s Ecosystems Division, she was a senior official in the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of State, and she worked for the Mexican Federal Government as an environmental scientist at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste. She holds a Doctoral Degree in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Washington and a Master’s of Science Degree in Toxicology from North Carolina State University. Her research has generated over 30 publications including a book and book chapters on topics related to ecology, toxicology, fisheries management and species conservation.

Tom Duncan is a FinTech executive and environmental scientist with a successful track record in leading large scale land restoration projects. He was featured in Forbes as a Climate FinTech leader, and appointed to the UNCCD Sustainable Finance Expert roster.

Before joining SBTi, Luiz served as Director for Commodities and Finance at the World Resources Institute (WRI), leading the institute ́s work on sustainable global supply chains. At WRI he also directed the product development team for Global Forest Watch, technology-based solutions to monitor world ́s forests. In addition, Luiz has served on personal capacity on several external board positions, such as credit committee member of the &Green Fund, a multi-million blended-finance facility investing in sustainable agriculture, the innovation and sustainability board at Minerva Foods, the largest Latin American beef exporter, as well as steering committee deputy member for the Tropical Forest Alliance.

Allen Blue is Vice President and Co-Founder of LinkedIn. He's an experience product executive and strategist who guides and advises LinkedIn's marquis product and marketplace initiatives. He also sponsors LinkedIn's work and education products within the Economic Graph team. Outside of work, Allen advises several startups, most focused on improving health and education outcomes. He's also the Board Chair of the Hope Street Group, a nonprofit focused on helping every American access economic opportunity.

Madeleine is a sustainability professional with broad experience from working with companies on different continents to drive sustainability agenda with customers and society.

Pär Stenmark is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Inter IKEA Group - covering the IKEA product and food range, supply, production and franchising. He leads the global IKEA sustainability strategy, which includes transforming IKEA into a circular business, becoming climate positive, creating a fair and equal society and enabling healthy and sustainable living. Before joining IKEA, Pär worked for the Swedish Forestry Association, responsible for developing the world´s first national FSC-standard (Forest Stewardship Council) for responsible forestry certification.

Catherine leads the UN High-level Climate Champions’ Industry sector work to mobilise systems change and deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement. This involves activating the ambition loop between non-state actors and national governments across 7 sectors, with a focus on Steel and Technology. Prior to the Champions, Catherine has 10 years from industry, most recently Global Head of Sustainability at Stuart Delivery, scaling a program to electrify fleets across Europe, committing to a Net Zero SBTi pathway and becoming a pending B Corp.

Emelie Öhlander is the Climate Action Program Manager at Ericsson, with responsibility for executing the climate strategy and Net Zero program objectives, maintaining Ericsson´s leadership position in the area of climate action. Emelie works with Ericsson´s Net Zero program, employee engagement, as well with external partners to demonstrate how connectivity, innovation drives exponential change in society i.e. how technology such as digitalization, AI and 5G can help mitigate climate change.

Gabrielle has managed BT Group’s thought leadership and external advocacy programmes on environmental sustainability since 2009. Her work has spanned developing BT's carbon targets, including BT's 1.5°C science-based target and carbon abatement methodologies for BT’s products and services as well as working with BT’s Procurement division on supplier engagement strategy. Gabrielle represents BT Group in numerous external fora and has chaired the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Awards Advisory Panel. She has previously held roles in public affairs and programme management at BT and has an MA from SAIS Johns Hopkins University and an MSc from University College London.

Mark Gough is the CEO of the Capitals Coalition, a global collaboration of business, governments and civil society that is transforming the way decisions are made by including the value provided by nature and people. Previously, Mark led the Natural Capital Coalition and was on the board of the Social and Human Capital Coalition. He championed and delivered the uniting of these two communities, creating a unified, systemic, collaborative approach. Mark has worked extensively in the private sector, leading programs and strategy for the Crown Estate and Reed Elsevier (now RELX), as well as advising many more. Among other board and advisory positions, Mark is on the Steering Committee for the Global Commons Alliance and the Advisory Board for TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity).