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.

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.

Massamba Thioye leads the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub, a platform and physical space at COP to leverage integrated innovative technologies, policies, financial instruments, business models and leadership are for transformative climate and SDG actions aiming at satisfying the core needs for 11 billions people, using value-chains aligned with the 1.5-degree goal, that increase resilience and provide decent life to all. Formerly, Massamba co-chaired the International Standard Organisation's Working Group 10 preparing ISO 14097.

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!

Emily Faint is the Net Zero Policy Manager at the British Standards Institution (BSI), leading on the role of standards in the net zero transition. Emily was a lead convenor of the ISO Net Zero Guidelines development process, the first deliverable in the international standards system on net zero action. Before joining BSI, Emily worked in the UK Government as a Senior Policy Advisor on net zero governance in the UK’s Net Zero Strategy.

Kaya Axelsson is a research fellow and Head of Policy and Partnerships at Oxford Net Zero. She leads a team to translate research into resources, policy, and standards for defining and achieving net zero. After years of working as a community organizer, Kaya moved to Oxford to work on connecting climate action communities internationally. Her current research and engagement focus is on the emerging net zero governance and regulatory landscape. Kaya has served as a strategic advisor to the UN-backed Race to Zero campaign and as a technical author on the International Standard Organization’s Net Zero Guidelines.

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.

Rufa Cagoco-Guiam is Associate Professor in Mindanao State University-General Santos City. She is a peacebuilder and transitional justice negotiator from Bangasmoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines (BARMM), who has extensively contributed to peacebuilding practice and research. Her most recent work has focused on gender and armed conflict, violence in Muslim Mindanao and climate fragility in Bangasmoro.

Ms. Agata Walczak is a Gender and Climate Security Specialist at UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific responsible for the development of programmes and strategies at the intersection of Women, Peace and. Security and climate change. Agata has served at UNDP as Governance, Peace and Security Specialist and focal point a.i. for parliamentary development the past 7 before joining UN Women. Prior to UN, Agata worked at UK house of Lords, the European Economic and Social Committee, Climate Parliament and the European Climate Foundation on various policy and technical assistance roles focused on climate change.

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.

Amali Tower (she/her) has extensive global experience in refugee protection, resettlement, forced migration and displacement contexts, having worked for NGOs, the UN Refugee Agency and the US Refugee Admissions Program. Years of interviewing refugees fleeing conflict allowed her the chance to hear their stories of also fleeing climate change. Through this, Climate Refugees was born. She has conducted research in climate displacement contexts, including in urban and camp settings. Her case study on climate, conflict and displacement in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin was presented as evidence of loss and damage at COP26. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network in Migration, Human Rights & Humanitarian Response and the UC Berkeley climate refugees working group. She sits on the advisory board of The Center for Climate and Security in Washington D.C.

Kunow is a food security and livelihoods specialist with 15 years of experience in international development, bringing extensive experience in the livestock sector, water resources governance, and natural resources management in the drylands of the Horn of Africa. He has extensive knowledge of institutional capacity development using a facilitation approach and with development/humanitarian-peace nexus approach for sustainable development.

Mr. Steiner’s professional experience includes assignments with governmental, non-governmental, as well as international organizations around the world, most recently Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme between 2006 and 2016. He previously served as Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi from 2009 to 2011, Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature from 2001 to 2006, and as Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams, in South Africa, from 1998 to 2001.

Currently the Special Envoy for Climate and Environment at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland.

Dr Karen Meijer is a Senior Researcher in SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research focuses on what international actors can do to address climate-related security risks in practice. This includes analysis of effective climate action in fragile and conflict-affected settings, as well as of the challenges faced by humanitarian actors in dealing with the combined impact of conflict and climate change.

Bhavreen Kandhari, a citizen/concerned parent working towards clean air for over two decades, spearheading several public movements in Delhi and India generally that bring desperate attention and call for action on Clean Air and environmental justice issues. She has facilitated the rise and management of social movement campaigns like the #MyRightToBreathe, #DelhiTreesSOS and co founded WarriorMoms with mothers all over the country joining hands to bring back Clean Air. She has recently accomplished Climate Parent Fellowship with ‘Our Kids Climate’ for the year 2022-23 and is building on with them and ‘Parents For Future Global’ to support parent-led, intergenerational and family-centered climate engagement work. Bhavreen is an accomplished media spokesperson and public speaker. Her campaigning is motivated by her twin daughters and her concerns about Delhi's excessively polluted air.