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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrea Lindblom is a journalist gone communications professional with a passion for using communication to accelerate climate action. She has attended UN climate change conferences or COPs as a reporter for German radio and TV, starting with COP18 in Doha and including COP21 in Paris, as an editor for the UNFCCC communications team (COP23 in Bonn), and as a communications officer for a research organization, at the COPs in Madrid, Glasgow and Sharm el-Sheikh. Now looking forward to ensuring the business voice at COP28 has as much impact for accelerated climate action as possible!

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.

Tom leads Aviva Investors’ advocacy with policymakers and regulators on climate change and finance as a member of our Sustainable Finance Centre for Excellence. His work prioritises engagement to seek correction of market failures and management of systemic risks, with particular focus on the need for reform of the international financial architecture to embed climate and sustainability at its heart.

John manages the Net Zero Tracker. He specialises in analysis and communicating climate science and policy to the public for both the Tracker and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. A New Zealand-qualified lawyer, John also runs the environmentalist, a climate communication blog; Consult Climate, a sustainability consultancy; and Kiwis in Climate, a non-partisan group of international New Zealanders involved in climate and related fields.

Arunabha Ghosh is a public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. As founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, since 2010, he has led CEEW to the top ranks among Asia's leading policy research institutions (8 years in a row); and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks. He conceptualized and designed the International Solar Alliance. He conceptualized and is a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN). Co-author/editor of 4 books and with experience in 45 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva). In 2018, the UN Secretary-General nominated him to the UN's Committee for Development Policy.

Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action & Denesųłįné woman from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Treaty 8, so-called Canada. Mother and long time advocate for Indigenous rights and challenging the expansion of fossil fuel development in home territory. Member of International Indigenous People’s Forum on Climate Change, board Chair of Bioneers and renowned orator and political advocate for global Indigenous climate Justice.

Dr. Amiera Sawas is a feminist researcher and advocate who works at the intersections of climate change, gender justice, public participation and the social contract. Amiera has almost 20 years experience working on these issues across academia, think tanks and NGOs. Amiera has a PhD on water, climate and human rights and is a contributing author to the latest IPCC report on gender and climate security. She recently joined the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty Initiative as Head of Research and Policy.

Thomas Hale’s research explores how we can manage transnational problems effectively and fairly. He seeks to explain how political institutions evolve – or not – to face the challenges raised by globalisation and interdependence, with a particular emphasis on environmental, economic and health issues. He holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, a master’s degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics, and an AB in public policy from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. A US national, Professor Hale has studied and worked in Argentina, China and Europe. His books include Beyond Gridlock (Polity 2017), Between Interests and Law: The Politics of Transnational Commercial Disputes (Cambridge 2015), Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge 2014), and Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing when We Need It Most (Polity 2013). Professor Hale leads the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker and co-leads the Net Zero Tracker.

Andreas Magnusson is a 19-year-old Swedish climate justice activist, organiser, host and speaker. He has organised with Fridays For Future Sweden since its beginning in 2018 and is now an experienced host and speaker specialised in youth inclusion, climate & sustainability. He is also Head of Activism at LiveGreen Festivals & Academy co-leading its work with transforming the Swedish music- and culture industry.

María Mendiluce is the CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition and has 25 years of experience in sustainable development, energy, and climate action. The Coalition brings together seven leading international organizations: BSR, The B Team, CDP, Ceres, CLG Europe, Climate Group, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). She sits on the Executive Board of the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) which has over 2,800 companies engaged. She actively took part in the founding and is a member of the Board of the Mission Possible Partnership that works to develop decarbonization roadmaps for seven hard-to-abate sectors including cement and steel. María also co-founded the SME Climate Hub which is building a one-stop shop for smaller companies for their net-zero commitments. Formerly being the Managing Director and member of the Senior Management Team at WBCSD, María established transformative industry projects. She has also held senior positions at the Economic Bureau of the Spanish Prime Minister, in the CEO’s office of Iberdrola, and at the International Energy Agency.

Laura is a determined optimist driven by the need for positive change in the world, and is committed to addressing the greatest challenges facing our planet - the climate and environmental crises. Laura joined ClientEarth in September 2022, after two decades in public policy, and in diplomatic roles across Africa, Asia and Europe. She has worked extensively on climate, environmental and sustainability issues throughout her career, and brings a deep understanding of global policy issues and international relations, alongside extensive senior leadership and partnership-building experience, all of which are critical as we expand ClientEarth's impact globally.

Catherine McKenna is Canada's former Minister of Environment and Climate Change as well as Minister of Infrastructure. She is the Principal of Climate and Nature Solutions, an advisory firm focused on scaling action and financing to tackle the climate crisis. She chaired the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero setting out criteria for net zero commitments of business, financial institutions, cities and regions. She is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University and launched Women Leading on Climate.

Born in 1960, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo in 1984. After working for the Ministry of Home Affairs, he became Director General of the Nagano Prefectural Planning Bureau in 2001, Deputy Governor the same year, and then Deputy Mayor of Yokohama City in 2007. He subsequently worked in the Cabinet Office of Japan, before becoming Governor of Nagano Prefecture in 2010, where he is currently serving his fourth term.

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.

Andy Revkin, an independent writer and webcaster, is one of the world's most experienced and innovative journalists on the sustainability beat. He has covered climate change for more than 35 years, from the thawing North Pole to the burning Amazon. He spent 20 years writing and blogging for The New York Times and also held staff positions at Discover Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. He has taught at Pace University and Columbia and written five books. The Burning Season, his 1990 biography of slain rain forest defender Chico Mendes, was the basis for the Golden Globe and Emmy winning HBO feature film of the same name.

Climate Scientist working on Natural Climate Solutions that remove atmospheric carbon Dioxide and store the carbon as wood in forests, and in soils of wetlands and grasslands. A Lead author of 5 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports on technological solutions for reducing emissions including the 2007 report that shared the Nobel Peace Prize. for over 16 years, he and his wife have lived a low carbon lifestyle by building a super efficient, grid connected solar home that sends more PV generated electrons to the grid than it receives while also providing electricity for their electric car.