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.

Angela Hultberg is a Global Sustainability Director at Kearney, advising clients on sustainability strategy and adoption with a specific focus on the automotive, transport and retail sectors, as well as a variety of managerial roles driving and shaping sustainable strategic directions tailored for Kearney’s valued clients. Prior to joining Kearney, Angela was the global Head of Sustainable Mobility at Ingka group (formerly IKEA Group), focusing on reducing co-worker and customer travel emissions, in addition to setting ambitious goals for zero emissions home deliveries for the brand. Over her career, Angela has gained a wealth of multi-sector sustainability experience, and she was appointed Road Transport Lead for the COP26 Climate Champions team. While a Climate Champion, Angela spearheaded initiatives to accelerate the decarbonization of the transport industry, drawing on her experience with setting IKEA’s goals for zero emission home deliveries.

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.

Matt is a sector specialist in sustainability and ESG leadership, with a wealth of experience in corporate reporting, climate risk, carbon accounting, and stakeholder engagement. He acts as a senior advisor to industry bodies, standard setters, and policy groups on net zero, decarbonizing the built environment, and how banks can support SMEs with sustainability. Matt plays a key role in OakNorth achieving its sustainability goals, as well as ensuring it continues to invest in good causes and make a positive societal impact.

Diolu Tobechukwu Prosper is the Co-founder of Lincgreen Prospect and a Climate Justice Advocate.

I am a young kiwi scientist, climate activist and adventurer. I am a Blue Carbon Lab PhD candidate investigating seaweed as a climate change solution and I am on the scientific advisory board to the Kelp Forest Foundation. Historically I have had roles as the co-founder of not-for-profit charity Let Them Fish, founder of The Seaweed Solution, Bomb Bucha CEO and contributor to the genesis of Live Ocean. I am currently the founder of Climate Action Company, host of the Both Sides Now political podcast, co-chair of Future Farmers New Zealand and board member for Otago Department of Conservation and WSV2 biochar. I live on Lake Hawea Station; my family farm which is pioneering on farm environmentalism and is the first certified Bcorp sheep farm in the world. I am deeply passionate about the ocean as a climate change solution, but above all live for adventures in the most remote corners of the South Pacific.

Mikael Karlsson is Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Senior Lecturer in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University. His research focuses on environmental governance and policy, including climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, chemicals management and marine protection. Science-policy interactions in terms of e.g. science denial and decision-making processes and critera are of particular interest. Karlsson is Agronomist and holds a PhD in Environmental and Energy Systems. He has lectured environmental science for more than 25 years, focusing on sustainable development, environmental policy, risk governance and natural resources management, including Swedish and EU policy and law. He has previously given courses on sustainable rural development and natural resources conflict resolution in e.g. East Africa. He has been researcher and lecturer at Karlstad University, Södertörn University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa is a twenty-three year-old Guyanese and Japanese American climate justice activist. He serves as the Executive Director of Climate Cardinals, leading a community of 16,000 youth in 134 countries and 130 chapters in 33 countries focused on empowering youth and non-English-speakers at the forefront of climate solutions.

She holds a degree in International Relations and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Political Science at Rio de Janeiro State University. Her research focuses on youth participation in international climate change conferences. She is a researcher at the Columbia Global Center Rio and the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change. As a climate justice activist, she is dedicated to advocating for equitable, anti-racist adaptation policies.

Jonathan has worked with CATF since 1999 and serves as Global Director of the Methane Pollution Prevention program, where he develops and directs all of CATF’s international efforts to dramatically reduce methane pollution from energy, waste, and agriculture. Jonathan brings over two decades of experience working with governments, companies, and civil society around the world to foster and implement policies to reduce methane pollution. Jonathan works to catalyze international coalitions, country level policies and subnational efforts, to foster rapid change. He also serves on the board of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.