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.

Cassie Flynn is the Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP. The portfolio supports over 150 countries to take bold climate action. She previously served as the Strategic Advisor on climate change to UNDP’s Administrator and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji as COP23 President. Cassie is an internationally recognized expert on the treaty negotiations on climate change and has been a featured expert by CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, and other publications. Cassie earned her master's degree from Yale University and undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College.

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.

Marie-Claire is a passionate advocate and public speaker dedicated to driving a just transition towards sustainable development and ambitious climate action. She is also the co-founder of the Youth Negotiators Academy and Climate Youth Negotiator Programme. Believing in the pivotal role of youth in shaping the future, she empowers young people to take meaningful actions, leading initiatives at local, national, and international levels. Her leadership has led her to chair the Youth Constituency YOUNGO of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and serve as the UN Food Systems Summit Vice-Chair on youth. Marie-Claire's commitment to global sustainability efforts has earned her recognition, including the title of United Nations Youth Climate Champion of Switzerland. Through her advocacy and leadership, she inspires and mobilizes youth to address the urgent challenges posed by the climate crisis and drive positive change worldwide

Peter Fiekowsky is an MIT-educated physicist and engineer, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, social innovator, and author. Fiekowsky has worked closely with the academic and entrepreneurial leaders who are developing the viable, scalable, and permanent solutions that constitute the climate-restoration path. Fiekowsky co-founded The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR.org), Methane Action (methaneaction.org), BlueDotChange.com (a methane removal company) and The Stable Planet Alliance. Fiekowsky has been an investor in and advisor to many companies working in climate restoration, in particular synthetic limestone, clean energy financing, cold fusion, ocean restoration, kelp, and methane oxidation

Alon Shocron has established the Environment Youth Union. Furthermore, he is the head of the climate committee in the national students council: the organization which represents all of the youth in the country. In addition, he promoted climate education to be taught in all schools in the country, by talking with the ministry of education.

Dr. Susana Hancock is a transdisciplinary Arctic climate researcher working at the nexus of science and politics surrounding the climate crisis in the polar regions. She recently was one of two scientists selected for the international Jubilee Expedition in which she skied several hundred kilometres across the High Arctic while conducting climate research. She currently leads the science team with Arctic Basecamp, is President for the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists and is an advisor to the B2BI North Atlantic-Arctic Ocean Strategic Framework.

Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) is an award winning author, government policy advisor and environmental campaigner. She is the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair and Founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. In 2019 she was awarded the Climate Breakthrough Award and in 2021 she gave a widely viewed TED Talk presenting the case for a global treaty to phase out fossil fuels.

Devika is a subject matter expert with published work on innovative public-private partnerships. She has over 20 years of experience working with complex institutions and multi-sector stakeholders from corporate, government, and nonprofit in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia, and India. As Chief Development & Marketing Officer at Health In Harmony, she leads the global development and communications strategy to accelerate the organization’s growth to meet the urgency of the climate and nature crisis.

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.

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

Ambassador Frumerie is also Sweden's Head of Delegation to UNFCCC. Previous positions include head of EU policy, EU single market, Strategic communications, postings in Budapest and Brussels as well as EU advisor in the Prime Minister's Office.

Chief executive officer and 2022 Hult Prize Global Winner

Prof. Dr. Niklas Höhne is an internationally renowned expert in climate policy with over 20 years of experience, participating in the international climate negotiations since 1995. He co-founded NewClimate Institute, where he oversees analysis on national and international climate policy and assumes various management roles. He also holds a professorship “mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions” at Wageningen University.

Michael Wolosin is a Managing Director for Conservation International’s Moore Center for Science, where he leads and coordinates the design and delivery of CI’s Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions. Prior to joining Conservation International, Michael spent six years as President of Forest Climate Analytics, where he worked with many of the world's top NGOs, think tanks, foundations, governments, and international institutions on strategic analyses to turn forest knowledge and science into climate action. Michael did his doctoral research in forest ecology at Duke University, studying light competition and tree growth using advanced remote sensing and statistical techniques. He has authored dozens of reports, briefs, analyses, and peer-reviewed papers, and has been quoted extensively in the press. He is based in Washington, DC.

Eron is CEO and founder of Emergent, the coordinator of The LEAF Coalition. He is an expert in climate finance, impact investing & markets plus, adjunct professor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Dr. Shobha Maharaj, Terraformation’s Science Director, is an IPCC Lead Author from the AR6 Working Group II chapters on biodiversity hotspots and on Small Islands. She was one of 50 world experts selected to work on the IPBES-IPCC workshop report on Biodiversity and Climate Change. She’s previously served as a climate change and biodiversity advisor for the University of the West Indies and as a Coordinating Lead Author on the climate resilience chapter of the National Ecosystem Assessment for the Caribbean Small Island tri-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Her research has centered on climate impacts and risk assessment as well as mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to changing climate conditions across global biodiversity hotspots. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Erik Rylander has +20 years of experience from the energy industry. In recent years with focus on circular economy business development. Today Erik is the commercial director of Stockholm Exergi’s CDR program with the short term objective to establish a commercial framework and business model that allow Stockholm Exergi to invest in a BECCS plant capturing 800.000 tons biogenic CO2 p.a. in Stockholm starting 2026.

Kate Brandt is Google's Chief Sustainability Officer and leads sustainability across worldwide operations, products and supply chains. In 2014 President Obama appointed Kate to serve as the Federal Environmental Executive and she became the Nation's first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. Kate is the recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest award the U.S. Navy can give to a civilian, for her work helping the Navy go green.

Since 10 years, Patrick Blankers is Sustainability Manager at Ericsson, based in the Netherlands. He is engaged in many initiatives that are related to energy efficiency, climate action and circular economy. Patrick has a career of 25 years at Ericsson, in various different roles. He has a Master degree of the Technical University of Eindhoven, Electronic Engineering.

Morten Wierod is the President of the Electrification Business Area as well as a member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB Ltd.

Niklas is responsible for the Volvo Group's larger collaborative projects in sustainable transport solutions, community contacts, and new innovation systems both internally Volvo and in the surrounding ecosystem of start-ups, universities, community actors, and well-established companies within and outside the transport industry. Niklas is head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs.

Ayub Osman is Head of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility for Ericsson Middle East and Africa driving Ericsson’s sustainability agenda in the Region. He is passionate about drawing linkages between technology and pressing issues such as energy and environmental management, climate change, social inclusion and societal impact of the digital divide and brings real world examples from working with Ericsson and other organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, Oxford Environmental Change Institute and Oxford Internet Institute.

Sherri Goodman is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute. She is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. A former first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) and staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Goodman has founded, led, or advised nearly a dozen research organizations on environmental and energy matters, national security, and public policy. She currently serves on the National Academies Advisory Committee to the US Global Change Research Program, and is senior climate advisor to the US Government. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Amherst College.

Sophia Kianni is an Iranian-American environmentalist studying climate science and public policy at Stanford University. She is the founder and executive director of Climate Cardinals, an international nonprofit with 8,000 volunteers in 40+ countries working to translate climate information into over 100 languages. She represents the U.S as the youngest member of the inaugural United Nations Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. She has been named VICE Media’s youngest Human of the Year, a National Geographic Young Explorer, and BuzzFeed’s youngest Woman to Watch.

Jennifer Morris is Chief Executive Officer of The Nature Conservancy, a global conservation organization that partners with communities across the globe to overcome the barriers to climate and biodiversity solutions. Jennifer leads over 4,000 global staff working together to develop breakthrough tools and ideas, amplify local knowledge, influence decision-making, and forge new paths to funding in pursuit of a world where people and nature thrive. For more than 25 years, Jennifer has dedicated her life to protecting the environment for people and nature.

Stewart Maginnis has worked in sustainable development and biodiversity conservation for 35 years. He has lived for extensive periods in Tanzania, Sudan, Ghana and Costa Rica, undertaking conservation fieldwork. He led the development and promotion of “forest landscape restoration” (FLR) – one of the first “purpose-built” Nature-based Solutions - to which over 60 countries have committed more than 210 million hectares under the Bonn Challenge. He and his team at IUCN have worked over the last 12 years on defining and promoting the concept of Nature-based Solutions and supporting its application to climate change, food & water security and disaster risk reduction. He is currently the Deputy Director General of IUCN with responsibility for the IUCN programme of work. Stewart was educated at Oxford University and Queen’s University Belfast.

Her Excellency Mariam Almheiri leads the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment’s mission of spearheading the United Arab Emirates’s drive to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, protect the country’s ecosystems and enhance its food and water security through developing and implementing effective measures, policies and initiatives. Prior to her current role, Her Excellency Mariam Almheiri was Minister of State for Food and Water Security. Her responsibilities included monitoring national food stocks and water supply, channeling investments in food and water technology innovation and building international partnerships in this area. Previously, Her Excellency Mariam Almheiri held the post of Minister of State for Food Security, where she oversaw the development of the necessary infrastructure to achieve the country’s food security objectives in line with the United Arab Emirates Centennial 2071.

Nigel Topping, CMG, is a renowned figure in climate action, serving as the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP26, where he launched global initiatives like Race To Zero and Race To Resilience. Nigel is now a Senior Advisor to FSD Africa, Global Ambassador to the High-Level Climate Champions, and an External Member of the Advisory Committee for AXA IM. He also advises governments, financial institutions, and private companies on climate strategy, with a focus on mobilizing climate finance and catalyzing exponential change in climate action. Nigel's commitment to sustainability earned him the CMG distinction in 2022 and recognition as a key leader in shaping a sustainable future.