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.

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.

Dr. Gunhild A. Stordalen is the Founder and Executive Chair of EAT, the science-based global platform for food system transformation. She is a board member and/or advisor to the United Nation’s Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Stewardship Board on Food Systems, and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). She is an ambassador for Friends of Ocean Action and a member of the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (HLP) for the Blue Economy. In 2019, Dr. Stordalen was the recipient of the UN Foundation’s Global Leadership Award, and in 2021 she was the Chair of the 2021 UN Food System Summit’s Action Track 2: Shifting to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns.

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.

Rasmus Valanko is an analytic and strategic leader with global experience across several industries and value-chains. He is currently the Managing Director, Systems Transformation at We Mean Business, as well as a Senior Advisor at Mission Possible Partnership. He has a passion for developing clear and compelling choices in complex and ambiguous fields. With high cultural sensitivity and a commitment to people, he thrives in diverse and dynamic teams. He is continuously searching for innovative and practical solutions to both societal, business, and organisational challenges.

Cecilia McAleavey is the Director Sustainable Eating and Public Affairs at Oatly. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the European Alliance for Plant-based Foods, and has worked as Head of Corporate Communications at Orkla Foods Sverige AB.

Richard is an environmental scientist with a strong track record of leading teams which tackle plastic pollution, reduce food waste and deliver more sustainable practices within businesses. He leads WRAP’s international work, working with partners in over 25 countries to deliver systemic change, particularly within the food system. WRAP is a not for profit organisation, based in the UK, which aims to cut waste around the world and deliver a Net Positive future. WRAP’s programmes, such as the Courtauld Commitment, inspire and deliver change, for example helping reduce food waste across the UK supply chain by 27% or 1.7 Mt/y.

Owen manages Nestlé’s global climate change, nature and water related advocacy, communications and engagement activities. He is also responsible for topics related to animal welfare within the Public Affairs and ESG Engagement team. In this role, Owen advises and guide’s Nestlé interactions with multi-lateral institutions, business associations and other coalitions of action on the environmental agenda – supporting the company’s aim to advance regenerative food systems at scale. Prior to taking on this role, Owen headed up Nestlé’s global issue and crisis management function. Before joining Nestlé, Owen advised clients in the food, agriculture and health sectors on corporate communications and public affairs programs.

Nick Robins is Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute. The focus of his work is on how to mobilise finance for climate action in ways that support a just transition, promoting the role of central banks and regulators in achieving sustainable development and investigating how the financial system can support the restoration of nature. Nick is co-founder of Carbon Tracker and also co-founder of Planet Tracker and previously worked at UNEP, HSBC, Henderson Global Investors, the International Institute for Environment and Development, as well as the European Commission.

Canadian-Swedish Vanessa Butani is Electrolux Group VP Sustainability since 2021. Butani was previously Head of Sustainability for Electrolux Europe and before that Director of Sustainable Business at Scandic Hotel Group. She has held several senior managerial roles in connected appliances and sustainability. Vanessa is passionate about driving sustainable business and integrating sustainability thinking into every aspect of the business.

David has developed a technology platform called the Universal Processing Plant which eliminates waste from food processing, utilizes waste from other food processors and allows the waste on farm to be monetized. The 100% utilization of the total crop and the feed stock has material impact on cost of goods and the overall nutritional value of food ingredients. The Future of Food demands that we utilize everything and waste nothing. David, though his Universal Processing Plant is delivering on this future with a plan to is implementable today and transitions into tomorrow’s food requirements.

Owen is a global sustainability writer, analyst and strategist. He is based at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is also a Future Earth Senior Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow (New Zealand) and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. He is interested in big-picture narratives of the past and future of people on Earth (and beyond). He has published in Science and Nature and is a regular contributor to New Scientist. He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and Rethink magazine and is on the editorial board of the Anthropocene magazine.

In her current role, Hanneke leads Unilever’s Nutrition Business Group, including full P&L responsibility, strategy, M&A, innovation, marketing, digital and a supply chain of more than 200 factories and contract manufacturers around the world. Nutrition is a €12bn turnover business, present in more than 150 countries. It is known for iconic global brands Knorr and Hellmann’s, emerging brands like The Vegetarian Butcher and Maille, as well as local brand leaders like Horlicks in India, Bango soy sauce in Indonesia, and Calve peanut butter in Europe.

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.

Arturo is the business development lead for LandScale, a Rainforest Alliance initiative. He holds a degree in economics from Tecnológico de Monterrey and an MBA from the COPPEAD Graduate School of Business. He has 10+ years of commercial experience in diverse sectors, which has enrichened his knowledge on the perspectives from different stakeholders, regarding incentives and actions. After working in banking and commercial trade, he switched to a role where he could create positive impact and worked as a fundraising manager for educational causes. Most recently, he has joined the Rainforest Alliance, where he is thrilled to be part of landscape, a platform with a guided approach to assessing landscape performance.

Anna-Julia is the Global Climate & Environment Lead for Accenture Development Partnerships where she leads key relationships and shapes engagements with our environmental NGOs and ecosystem partners. Her 15+ years consulting experience saw her business strategy skills extended from banking into the international development sector and her recent studies into climate diplomacy are in line with her passion to collaborate across sectors to tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.