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.

Karin Wanngård is the Mayor of Stockholm, representing the Social Democratic party. This is her second mandate on the post, also claiming it from 2014-2018. Wanngård’s political focus is to make Stockholm an equal, green, and open city for all. With a bold goal to make Stockholm climate neutral by 2030, Wanngård takes lead to put Stockholm at the forefront of the climate transition.

Steve has always been fascinated by the power of money to change the world. He has worked for Aviva Investors for the last 15 years where he founded its Global Responsible Investment team as well as its Sustainable Finance Centre for Excellence, which seeks to transform capital markets so that they become more sustainable. He also co-founded the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, the World Benchmarking Alliance, and the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative. Steve started his career at WWF-UK in 1995, where he worked on its own ethical and environmental investment policy. He has subsequently advised the UK Government, the European Commission, the Financial Stability Board and the UN on the creation of sustainable capital markets. Steve was appointed to the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, and the UK Green Finance Taskforce, and is also a member of the Financial Stability Board Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). He was highlighted by the Financial Times in 2018 as being one of the warriors of climate change among Money Managers.

I lead global strategy on circular economy and the development of the roadmap and action plan to achieve our vision of becoming a circular business.

Johnny has led ClientEarth’s work on legal accountability for greenwashing since 2020. Before that, he was a senior commercial litigation lawyer at the international law firm Clifford Chance.

Åsa Löfgren is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg. Löfgren is an expert in the area of climate economics; in particular, she has focused on climate change and behavioral economics. She is particularly interested in the effect and design of policy instruments, fairness, and industrial investment behavior, such as firms' carbon-reduction investment behavior in response to climate strategies. Löfgren has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters, policy papers and reports.

Sverker C. Jagers is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Göteborg University. His research interests include green political theory, international relations, environmental public opinion, and environmental management. He is also the Director of CeCAR (Centre for Collective Action Research).

Katarina leads TechnoServe's efforts across 30 countries to design, test, and scale solutions that restore nature and mitigate climate change while improving the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs--and the communities that count on them. She draws on more than 15 years of experience in the private and nonprofit sectors leading impactful partnerships in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

Senior leader with broad international experience, driving strategic client engagements with leaders from business, government, international organizations, NGOs, and academia on Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) efforts. Strong focus on environmental sustainability & climate, health & well-being, and inclusive growth. Previously worked at the World Economic Forum (10 years) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University (2 years) in New York, and private sector in India (5 years) across rural and urban markets.

Neelam Chhiber is the Co-founder of Industree Foundation and Mother Earth. Neelam’s deep experience with enterprise growth models built on all kinds of impact capital- equity, debt, and philanthropy, makes her a strong proponent of Innovative Finance, as defined by the local needs of communities on the ground.

Iris Casado studied illustration back in Spain, and then Game Development - 2d Graphics at University of Skövde. She is currently working on her thesis for the Master's program Digital Narration and Games, also at University of Skövde.

Johanna Lundgren Gestlöf is Head of Sustainability at SPP – one of Sweden’s largest pension providers. Johanna holds a MSc in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics and has previous experience from strategy consulting at Qvartz (today part of Bain), and from being political advisor to the party leader of the Centre Party.

Game Designer with passion for strategy games and board games.

Mr Brodin is Head of Energy at the forest company Södra and Program Director of the group de-carbonization program aiming to be net zero 2040. He is also member of the board of Bioenergy Europe and the advanced biofuel company Silva Green Fuel.

Lives and are engaged as an elected official in the municipality of Mariestad. Works since 20 years as a rural developer and community planner.

Emma is part of the global programmes team, supporting the evolution of a global approach to capacity building that can deliver impact at scale. She is responsible for the development of the soil health and smallholder livelihoods 2030 targets areas. Before joining Better Cotton in 2020, she trained and worked as an agronomist and led the technical team at a rural development organization seeking to reduce poverty in East Africa through engagement with smallholders.

I have been working in Swedish municipalitys for many years. Most of the time my labor have included environmental issues of all kinds from health protection to control of large industries concerning their emissions and other impacts on our air and water. During the last year I have been assigned the task as a Sustainable strategist in Mariestad and that includes following the development of our Pre-School “Kronoparken” which in my knowledge is the one and only that can be self sufficient with green energy from hydrogen.

Elise Grosse works in the forefront of development for the sustainable built environment at Sweco Architects, Sweden and has a Master’s in architecture, Building Biologist IBN and part-time Ph. D doctorate in multi-disciplinary co-creation. Elise has an international working background with an extensive international network of people with the same interest. Her ingenuity, great initiative, and strong belief in collaboration, has made her an expert in facilitating teams in developing innovative solutions - digital tools and new partnerships, accelerating the green transition of the built environment.

Bonnie Waltch is the award-winning senior producer and writer of the one-hour PBS and international broadcast documentary, Earth Emergency, and series of five short films, Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops, narrated by Richard Gere. She has worked for a variety of television science series such as NOVA, Scientific American Frontiers, and Discover Magazine. She has also produced, directed, and written media for museum exhibits around the U.S.

Antonelli’s passion is nature, and his mission mirrors that of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew’s: to understand and protect biodiversity for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth. To this end, he studies the distribution, evolution, threats, and sustainable uses of species and develops methods to speed up scientific discovery and innovation. Antonelli has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters, received multiple awards and recognitions for his work, and in 2022, his first popular science book “The Hidden Universe – Adventures in Biodiversity”, was published in several countries and languages.

Camilla Välimaa has 20 years of supporting sustainable transformation of businesses in Sweden and internationally, as sustainability director at the Lantmännen group and as senior advisor at the Natural Step. Välimaa is an educated agronomist with focus on sustainability, based in earth system science including Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) and planetary boundaries. She currently holds a position as Deputy Director Markets & Finance at WWF Sweden, where she has been since 2017.

Jaco served as policy lead for WWF’s international climate team in the lead up to the Paris agreement and as interim executive director for Business for Nature during its establishment. He has worked directly on translating global biodiversity and climate policy for companies through the Science Based Targets initiative and in his current role supporting H&M Group on biodiversity action.

Agronomist and former Sustainability manager at Sigill Kvalitetssystem.

Pär is an award winner in communication, social sustainability, and intrapreneurship, listed multiple times by Trust Across America as one of the Top Thought Leaders in Trust. He is the current appointed expert for setting environmental targets for sea and coastal regions in Sweden and for the coalition group for climate-neutral Swedish industry by 2045.

Dr. Sprenkle-Hyppolite is a restoration ecologist from California specializing in tree restoration and agroforestry and was a contributor to the Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions chapters on Climate Smart Farming and Grazing. Starry is the Senior Director of Restoration Science Conservation International (CI) and collaborates closely with The Nature Conservancy on agroforestry as a Natural Climate Solution. She leads CI’s approach to tree restoration monitoring, collaborating with the World Resources Institute. She is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and holds a PhD from UC Davis.

Rebecca Watkins has thorough experience from working with sustainability in the textile industry, with brands such as Gina Tricot and Blåkläder. Watkins has studied fields such as textile technology, marketing and industrial ecology. Currently, she holds a position as Global Production and Sustainability Manager at Gina Tricot, where she has been working since 2012.

Senior natural resources management advisor and programme manager with local, regional and global experience of nature conservation, policy and green governance. Currently leads WWF’s policy research and development team, which provides analysis of geo-political and policy trends to inform WWF’s conservation strategy. Leads WWF delegations to international fora such as the Convention on Biological Diversity.

PhD David Bryngelsson has been CEO of CarbonCloud since its inception and has successfully taken the company through the bootstrapping phase the way up to backing of international venture capital and the mission of changing how the global food industry thinks about food and climate. With a deep understanding of the details in the science behind climate change and food production combined with a business mind he has a unique ability to package the science in ways to make it available and relevant for the food industry. Before CarbonCloud, David worked as researcher on climate change mitigation at Chalmers University of Technology for 8 years.

Nicola Renison farms with her husband Reno in Cumbria, Northern England. The daughter of dairy farmers, Nic grew up within the conventional, high production ag environment, growing food with little thought of the environment, ‘it just wasn’t on our radar’. It wasn’t until in 2012 when the Renison’s started farming their own land they started to think more regeneratively, this wasn’t because they wanted to save the world it was because they needed to pay the bills! The last ten years have been a journey of both practical ‘re-learning’ and a total change in mindset, they now farm 80 beef cattle who are 100% grass fed, with laying hens following the cows around in an ‘egg mobile’, also a handful of woodland pigs. No artificial fertilisers and sprays have been used for seven years, this along with extended rest periods for the grasslands, planting of hedges and tree the farm’s eco-system is well and truly thriving. Nicola and Reno are also founding members of ‘Carbon Calling’ a regenerative farming conference in the North of England.

Jennifer Clapp is a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has published widely on the political economy of food security and sustainability in a global context. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).

Guus is reNature’s COO, in charge of structure and smooth global operations for the regenerative agriculture scale up. With an academic background in business and science, Guus has 10+ years of experience in sustainability strategy and has worked intensively in sustainable agriculture.

Ethan is a farmer and the Chief Innovation Officer at HowGood, the Sustainability Intelligence Platform. He manages innovation partnerships with Fortune 500 Brands, Retailers, and Suppliers through the world's largest product sustainability database, which covers 247 impact attributes across 33,000 unique ingredients and 2 million+ UPCs. Ethan leads HowGood's Regenerative Innovation working groups and is the author of Regenerative Enterprise and the Levels of Regenerative Agriculture.

Olga Grönvall Lund is a Swedish entrepreneur who has worked with food-related projects her whole professional career. She has mainly been active in Stockholm and Berlin but has also hosted events, catered, and done productions in other parts of the world such as Hong Kong, London, Bologna, Copenhagen and Paris to name a few. In 2019 Olga founded Reformaten – a people’s movement for a positive food system where everyone’s winner – humans, animals and nature. The slogan, “Det ska vara lätt att äta rätt”, explains the purpose well; “it must be easy to eat right”.

Susanné Wallner is Vice VD of Restart Earth. She was Business Manager ElectriVillage for Mariestad municipality, a UNESCO model area for sustainable development in Sweden. Mariestad’s unique ElectriVillage is testing and demonstrating sustainable transport and energy systems to meet climate goals. ElectriVillage includes renewable energy systems and is at the forefront when it comes to hydrogen, not least the hydrogen preschool that is currently being built with the same system solution and has the world's first solar-powered hydrogen filling stations. Susanné was previously Regional Councilor in the Jämtland / Härjedalen region with a focus on business. Susanné has also run her own company for 10 years in the wool industry.

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.

Chris Armitage is a business development and strategic partnering professional, specialising in large-scale solutions to address the root causes and impacts of poverty, food insecurity and climate change in developing countries. Chris is currently the CEO and Executive Director of the Global EverGreening Alliance, which unites the world’s largest and most capable development NGOs and technical and research organisations. Chris’ experience leading the development of a diverse range of funding and programming models, the Alliance is working in diverse contexts around the world.

Maria Gustavsson works with the implementation of Agenda 2030 in Mariestad municipality and is also project manager for the municipality's participation in Viable Cities. Her interest in sustainable development comes from practical work and studies in agriculture and forestry. Over the years, Maria has worked with rural development and as a coordinator for the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Lake Vänern Archipelago and Mount Kinnekulle.

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.

Cement plant manager in Europe and Africa, with world unique experience in climate cement, fossil free steel production and electrification.

Pär is an award winner in communication, social sustainability, and intrapreneurship, listed multiple times by Trust Across America as one of the Top Thought Leaders in Trust. He is the current appointed expert for setting environmental targets for sea and coastal regions in Sweden and for the coalition group for climate-neutral Swedish industry by 2045.

Bo Gyldenvang is the CEO of Tacton. He is the former COO of Software AG and occupied various leadership positions in the software industry for over 15 years. He is committed to customers and pursuing excellence.

Stephanie has been at Xylem for 7 years, overseeing product management for environmental monitoring sensors and laboratory instrumentation used by water monitoring professional. Today she drives Xylem’s initiatives to build more sustainable products, reduce Xylem’s environmental impacts and reach Net Zero by 2050.

Lucas Boudet is the Director General of the European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA), the single authoritative voice on advertising self-regulation in Europe. It promotes high ethical standards in commercial communications by means of effective self-regulation. Before joining EASA in 2016, Mr. Boudet spent 12 years leading different self-financed independent French Chambers of Commerce abroad, in Belgium, Thailand, and South Korea.He holds a Master’s degree in entrepreneurial studies from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris) as well as a double degree in French and Anglo-American business law from the University of Paris.

George is Campaign Manager at the Changing Markets Foundation, a Dutch non-profit formed to accelerate solutions to sustainability challenges by leveraging the power of markets. Much of their work involves exposing irresponsible corporate behavior, and George has worked across the fashion, fisheries, food, and plastics sectors pushing for corporate accountability. He leads the organization’s circular economy campaigns, exposing the fashion industry’s environmentally disastrous reliance on fossil fuels during the climate crisis as well as the organization’s latest project, greenwash.com. George is also an advisory board member of the Conscious Advertising Network.

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.

Maria has 20+ years of experience working with sustainability in food retail, industry and service sector. She holds a M.SC. in Chemical Engineering and executive MBA. Acting as the Secretary general of Axfoundation - a stand-alone, non-profit organization developing practical solutions to complex sustainability challenges.

Runs Sweden's largest vegan food blog, Jävligt Gott. Co-Founder and culinary leader of the plant-based restaurant ChouChou. Opinion maker, educator, and creator of and for all things plant-based and bloody good!

Sandrine Dixson-Declève is an international and European climate, energy, sustainable development, sustainable finance, complex systems thought leader. She is currently the Co-President of the Club of Rome and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating change in business and policy models and advisory work. She holds several advisory positions for the European Commission: Chair, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR); Assembly Member, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Mission (DGR&I); TEG Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Platform (DGFISMA); United Nations: Food Summit Action Track 5 Resilience and for companies/organisations/institutes such as BMW, UBM, Climate KIC, UCL-Bartlett School of Enviornment and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Senior Associate for E3G, Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission (ETC) and WEALL. In 2017 Sandrine co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network (WECAN).

Mathias Sundin is an angry optimist. He is the editor-in-Chief of Warp News, Co-Founder and Chairman of Warp Institute. He was a Member of the Swedish Parliament in 2012, and from 2014 to 2018.

Boaz Paldi is the United Nations Development Programme Chief Creative Officer. In this role, Boaz oversees UNDP’s advocacy, flagship campaigns, events and partnerships. Most recently Paldi managed the design, rollout and launch of the #dontchooseextinction campaign. Before being appointed to his current role, Paldi led UNDP’s advocacy and communication as well as implementing UNDP’s multimedia strategy and co-founding the Social Good Summit. Prior to joining UNDP, Boaz worked as a TV journalist for 17 years covering conflicts, natural disasters and human-interest stories in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans first for the BBC then the Associated Press and finally joining Reuters where he worked as a TV News Executive Producer for over 12 years.

A concerned UNDP climate activist and asteroid-surviving dinosaur.