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.

Anita Soina is a Kenyan environmental Warrior and Climate Activist. 2021 TedX Speaker, Founder of SpiceWarriors Environmental Organization and Author of “The Green War” book. She’s also a sustainability digital influencer. She is now a Green Party Politician.

Dr. Robert is veterinarian and infectious disease researcher motivated by the need to build resilient community driven - public health systems and solutions to tackle threats to human health and food security. I hold a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from University of Nairobi (2013) and MSc in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2016). I also have extensive experience in social justice advocacy and community centred public health interventions with a focus on marginalized communities including LGBTI persons, people living with disabilities and rural marginalized communities. My current interest is in exploring how climate change influences human and animal health and applying community driven One Health models to build public health resilience and adaptation to climate change.

Carl Mellander is the CFO of Ericsson since April 1, 2017. He is the owner of Ericsson’s target to be carbon neutral in its own operations by 2030 as well as responsible for the company’s work to reduce business travel carbon emissions. Mellander has held various positions in finance and business control through his career in Ericsson, including Group Treasurer and Head of Finance in several regions. He also served in CFO roles for Saab and Telecom Management Partner AS in Africa. Early in his career he worked for a Swedish Government international development financing agency funding projects in infrastructure, energy and environmental technologies. In addition to his native Sweden he has lived and worked in the US, Costa Rica, Ghana, Germany and the UK. Mellander is a board member in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Sweden.

Ripman joined Storebrand Asset Management's sustainable investments team in 2006 and has been Fund Manager for Storebrand Global Solutions since May 2015. The fund focuses on companies with solutions to the challenges presented by the sustainable development goals. Ripman has held a numerous positions within the company including Group Head of Sustainability. Through his engagement with Sustainability he has advised several governments and institutions on topics ranging from coal exclusions, environmental impacts of human activities to policy requirements to achieve international climate agreement targets. He holds an MA in Chinese Studies and a Master’s in Political Science. Ripman specializes within the areas of politics, climate change, the commercialization of sustainability and how to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals as investment themes.

Ant spent a decade in the Australian Army as a Special Forces Counter Terrorism Commander before becoming an entrepreneur. The company he started on his kitchen table became a truly international firm, working in 155 countries. Ant then spent 4 years in Boulder, Colorado investing in tech companies, mentoring profit-for-purpose start-ups and learning the venture capital trade. Ant and his team at EarthTech are on a mission to create a resource mobilisation engine to help impact entrepreneurs attract the financial and human capital needed to help them, and humanity achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030. He’s a proud Husband and a Father of two strong and creative daughters.

Helen Mountford is Vice President for Climate and Economics at the World Resources Institute (WRI). The Climate team helps policymakers, businesses and civil society globally to identify and advance the deep structural shifts needed to address climate change. The Economics team uses an economics approach to strengthen the analysis and impact of WRI’s work. Helen is also Program Director for the New Climate Economy project, providing independent and authoritative evidence on approaches which both strengthen economic performance and reduce the risks of climate change. Helen previously worked as Deputy Director of Environment for the OECD advising governments on green fiscal policy reforms, climate change finance and economics, green growth, water pricing, biodiversity incentives, and environmental outlooks and modelling. Prior to this, she managed a recycling company in the UK and worked for an environmental NGO in Australia. She has a Masters degree in Environmental Economics from University College London and in Masters in Environmental Management from University of Melbourne.

Gustavo Junqueira has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from FAAP in Brazil, an MBA from Thunderbird School of management at the University of Arizona and has extensive experience in investment banking. He began his career in Commodities trading at the Swiss trading company Glencore in the early 1990s. After the completion of his MBA in the US, he worked for Enron’s mergers and acquisitions division in Houston, Texas from1997 to 2001. In Brazil, he worked as CFO of publicly traded companies as Gradiente from2002 to 2006 and EZTEC from 2006 to 2008 where he was responsible for its IPO at the B3 Stock & Futures Exchange, in 2007. In the financial sector, he worked in investment banking from 2008 to 2019 at several financial institutions as Arsenal Investments, Pine Bank and BrasilparAdvisors, where he was a managing partner and carried out numerous transactions. Also, served for more than 10 years as a board member in several companies such as CosanLogistics, Rumo Railway, Moinho Paulista Food Co., EZTEC Engineering & Construction and Pine Bank. He is a member of the Commodities Commission at B3 Stock & Futures Exchange and a member of the National Academy ofAgriculture. Between 2014 and 2017, he served as President of Sociedade Rural Brasileira, Brazil’s most prestigious farmers association. During his term, he signed several international cooperation agreements, advocated to permit foreign investments in agricultural farmland in Brazil and he was co-founder of the Brazilian Coalition on climate, forests and agriculture to articulate and facilitate actions for Brazil to promote a new economic development model based on a low-carbon economy. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Secretary ofAgriculture and Food Security for the State ofSão Paulo, where he modernized its infrastructure and introduced new public policy such as the "Rural Citizenship - 2030 Program”, an strategic development program to offer urban products and services to São Paulo State rural area. One of the Program'smain deliverables was a new digital mapping of more than 200,000 km of farm roads providing addresses to more than 350,000 farms and digital literacy to thousands of farming families. Mr. Junqueira was responsible for the introduction of a new law that will lead to the largest reforestation program in the world that is currently underway in the state of São Paulo. The Agro Legal Program will plant 1 billion trees within the next 20 years at a cost of US$ 1 billion. During Mr. Junqueira’s term as Secretary ofAgriculture, he was responsible for managingSão Paulo State’s food supply as well as keeping its agricultural production and food companies operating during the covid-19 pandemic. Currently, Gustavo Junqueira serves as CEO of InvestSP - São Paulo State investment agency. His main goal is to introduce a policy to direct all government subsidies to the private sector and research & development to be based on a ESG framework currently being developed at InvestSP.

Cathy Orlando works as Citizens’ Climate International’s Program Director, where with an exceptional team, she creates the framework to empower volunteers to build political will for evidence-based carbon pricing in 75 countries worldwide. Cathy is a Climate Reality Alumna, Montreal 2008. She started Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s first international chapter in September of 2010 in Sudbury Canada, and by November of 2011 was directing CCL Canada as a full-time volunteer. In 2017, she joined the international division at Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Cathy lives in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, a mining town, with her husband Sanjiv Mathur and their youngest daughter Sophia Mathur.

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.

Emelie Öhlander is the Climate Action Program Manager at Ericsson, with responsibility for executing the climate strategy and Net Zero program objectives, maintaining Ericsson´s leadership position in the area of climate action. Emelie works with Ericsson´s Net Zero program, employee engagement, as well with external partners to demonstrate how connectivity, innovation drives exponential change in society i.e. how technology such as digitalization, AI and 5G can help mitigate climate change.

Let's get it done, and make great business out of it. That is Mattias Goldmann's approach to sustainability and climate. He is a Senior Sustainability Advisor, and was Chief Sustainability Officer at Sweco until August 2021 when leaving for independent work in Bangkok, linked to the Swedish Embassy. Mattias was previously CEO of the green and liberal think tank Fores, with the 2030-secretariat for a fossil independent transport sector. Mattias was named Sweden's Most influential in sustainability issues, 2016, and runner-up Opinion Maker of the Year, 2017, when he was also knighted by the French government for his work against climate change. He was earlier named "future politician of the year", which shows that the future is hard to predict - he left party politics shortly after that. Mattias was born in Geneva, has lived in Chile and Kenya, mainly resides in Stockholm but currently in Bangkok.

Kingsmill Bond, CFA, is the Energy Strategist for Carbon Tracker. He believes that the energy transition is the most important driver of financial markets and geopolitics in the modern era.K ingsmill has worked as a sell-side City equity analyst and strategist for 25 years, including for Deutsche Bank, Sberbank and Citibank in London, Hong Kong and Moscow. He has written research on emerging market and global themes, including the wider significance of the shale revolution and the impact of US energy independence.nAt Carbon Tracker he has written about the impact of the energy transition on financial markets, domestic politics and geopolitics, and authored a series of reports on the myths of the energy transition, looking at the many arguments made by incumbents to deny the reality of change.He has an MA in history from Cambridge University, qualified is an accountant (CIMA), and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.

Alva Jonevret is the Business & Project Manager at the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, working with the initiative’s assessment process making sure its members are on the right path to halve emissions by 2030. Previously, Alva worked with green startups and scaleups at the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. Alva has a bachelor in economics from the top European business school, Stockholm School of Economics, where she was the Vice President at SSE Students for Climate Action connecting and engaging students, alumni and faculty members to accelerate the shift towards a sustainable economy.

Glenn joined Fidelity International in August 2021. Based in London, he focuses on the integration of sustainability considerations into investment processes, development of thematic capabilities, identifying sustainable investment trends and strategic opportunities, and represent Fidelity’s sustainable investment capabilities. Glenn joined from Allianz Global Investors, where he was an ESG Solutions Specialist developing and innovating ways of ESG and thematic integration across asset classes. Prior, he was at the UN Principles of Responsible Investment and Bank of Latvia. Glenn graduated from Cass Business School with a degree in Banking and International Finance and holds a certificate in data science from Imperial College.

Father of 3, husband, entrepreneur, founder of getAbstract. Thomas Bergen has founded the HOPE NOW Foundation and is now calling on entrepreneurs around the world to support its mission. This is to enforce carbon fees and carbon dividends in most parts of the world, starting with the leading nations. Thomas is convinced that the most important change needed to stop climate change is the introduction of a price on CO2 emissions.