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.

Sabina joined Ember in 2022 as a Coal Mine Methane Analyst, raising the profile of coal mine methane and promoting the technologies and policies to measure and reduce these emissions. She has over seven years experience in the environmental sector, including work in measuring fugitive methane emissions from anthropogenic sites in Europe. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de L’Environnement, and holds an MSci in Physics.

Dan is CEO of Peak Carbon. He is the former founder and global head of BP’s environmental markets division across 4 continents. He is a leading expert in the clean energy sector with 20+ years’ leadership experience and is passionate about delivering large scale impactful emissions reduction projects around the world.

As Head of Climate Performance Practice at the Exponential Roadmap Initiative Claire assesses and advises corporates on their climate strategies. Additionally, she works on development of new climate practice, including with the UN Race to Zero campaign, and on tracking and development of standards on greenhouse quantification and climate claims with Oxford Net Zero. Prior to this, Claire worked for 8 years with companies, doing greenhouse gas accounting, sourcing carbon credits and providing advice on claims related to offsetting.

Anna Hall has a long experience in energy efficiency, innovation, business development, policy making and collaboration between public sector and industry. In her previous work, as the Director for Big Science Sweden, she has been working with cross-function and cross-country collaboration in advanced processes. She has been driving Alfa Laval’s initiative around sustainable cities and has a broad experience in partnerships, both between industries as well as between industry and academia.

In the past two years, Dorothy has worked as a Project Manager for Global Energy Monitor, leading the Global Coal Mine Tracker, which tracks coal production activities at the individual mine level and assesses the potential methane emissions of each active coal mine. Her role also includes in-depth tracking of methane emissions from abandoned coal mines, an often-overlooked but significant aspect of coal mining emissions.

Paul Ekins has a PhD in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources at University College London. His academic work over thirty years has focused on natural capital, sustainable development and the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy. He is the author of numerous papers, book-chapters and articles in a wide range of journals, and has written or edited twelve books. His most recent book is Stopping Climate Change: Policies for Real Zero (Routledge, 2024).

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.

Karin has been Chief Sustainability Officer at Volvo Group since April 2022. She leads the company’s sustainability transition towards a fossil-free future – through a unique approach to cross-sectoral partnership and an ambition to drive sustainable solutions and practices across the supply chain. Her expertise plays a key role in helping Volvo move closer to 100% fossil free vehicles by 2040 while inspiring other industry players to enhance their own decarbonization journey. Prior to this, she held various managerial positions at Volvo Group since 1996, lately as Senior Vice President Public Affairs (2018-2022). She has also held roles as Vice President Group Strategy, President Volvo Technology North America and a number of positions in Research & Development.

Annika Ramsköld is Chief Sustainability Officer at Vattenfall. The past years she has been elected one of ”Sweden's Most Powerful People in Sustainability". Ramsköld has a Master of Science degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has worked in Vattenfall for over 30 years with a wide range of assignments from R&D and business development to sales, trading, marketing and strategy within most parts of the organisation. Ramsköld holds, and has held, many board assignments as chair or board member and is active in industry associations, e.g. First Movers Coalition

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.

Giulio brings over 14 years of expertise in advancing corporate climate action. He leads BSR’s climate team, oversees the team strategy, and works with BSR members across consulting, collaborative initiatives, and grants implementation. Currently, Giulio oversees BSR’s work on beyond growth to reconcile business models with planetary boundaries, and more generally works with BSR members on climate transition planning and net-zero value chains. Since joining BSR in 2018, Giulio’s work has focused on Scope 3 implementation through supplier engagement, and commodities decarbonization strategies, both through consulting and support developments open-source guidance such as 1.5°C Supplier Engagement Guide, Transform to Net Zero and Climate Fit.

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.

Steven Moore is responsible for the Climate Action Programme at the GSMA, the mobile industry association. His role is to provide leadership to support and accelerate the industry transition to Net Zero by 2050. Steven chairs the GSMA Climate Action Taskforce, a global group of more than 60 mobile operator members. He works with the industry on climate policy, strategy and research covering energy efficiency, renewables, supply chain engagement, smart solutions to reduce emissions, and climate adaptation and resilience.

Ana provides leadership and strategic vision to GAIA’s international plastic policy work. She currently leads GAIA's engagement in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations bringing in her years of experience as amplifier of voices from the Global South to global engagements.

SRADev Nigeria is a professional, non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit think tank in environmental health research and development, advocacy and action organization. It seeks to be the voice for environmental development in Africa particularly, Nigeria, while acting as a catalyst, advocate, educator, and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the environment. The organisation has continued to bridge the yawning gap between knowledge and action by carrying out research, information dissemination, networking, training to increase public awareness on environmental health issues towards improving health and the quality of life for all humanity. The organisation was formed on 7th November, 2003, and registered with Corporate Affairs Commission (No. RC 842138) with its headquarters in Lagos.

Soledad Mella is President of the National Association of Recyclers of Chile (ANARCH), member of the Secretariat of the Regional Network of Waste Pickers of Latin America RedLacre, and spokesperson of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers. Her mission is the recognition of grassroots recyclers in Chile and she has a key role in the international negotiations of the plastics treaty.

As Vice Mayor of the City of San Fernando Pampanga in the Philippines, Vice Mayor Lagman continues to promote zero waste work in the city that were passed on from the previous leadership. The city's zero waste systems have diverted close to 89% waste from the landfill, saving on the city's waste management budget, and has prompted the city not to pursue an incinerator project. Vice Mayor Lagman is the President of the Zero Waste Cities Network in the Philippines.

Maxine Ghavi is Executive Vice President and Head of Europe at Hitachi Energy. Most recently she was the Global Head of Grid Edge Solutions within Hitachi Energy’s Grid Automation Business, a role she held from 2019-2024. Prior, she served in leadership roles at ABB including Head of Market Development for Grid Edge Technologies, Program Director for Microgrids, and Head of Solar Industry Segment Initiative. Maxine brings extensive expertise in Grid Edge solutions, business models and digital technology for the evolving energy system. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from San Jose State University in California.

Amy Reggers has a PhD is social science and has been working in international development for 12 years in Asia and the Pacific. Amy’s professional experience has been working for UN Women country offices in the Asia-Pacific on gender equality dimensions of climate change, disaster risk reduction and the environment including producing training materials and policy analysis. Amy has published academic articles and authored practitioner reports on gender and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region and currently works as UN Women’s regional specialist on gender and climate change based in Bangkok.

dr. Fithriyyah is an Indonesian medical doctor and environmental activist with climate and health expertise. She was a fellow in the YSEALI Academic Fellowship Program 2021 in East-West Center, USA on Environmental Issues. Now, she is actively advocating for the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment at the regional and international levels. Fithriyyah is honored as UN Women 30 for 2030 and now serves as a youth advisor for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Centre for Climate Change and Planetary Health. Additionally, she is also ASEAN Youth Forum’s Regional Executive Board and has represented them to the ASEAN Environmental Rights Working Group on behalf of the youth group representative.