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.

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.

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.

Jim Andrew is Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer for PepsiCo. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Eva Karlsson is the CEO of Houdini Sportswear, a progressive and rapidly growing Swedish outdoor brand and a trailblazer in corporate responsibility. Since 2001, Eva together with a team of likeminded, have been redesigning business to become a force for good – providing state-of-the-art circular products, offering product-as-a-service solutions and building a co-creative community for open-source innovation, sharing knowledge and inspiring to reconnect to nature. Rather than focusing on Houdini's outstanding track record in sustainable development, Eva emphasizes the journey ahead and the untapped opportunities and abundant value in designing attractive and regenerative lifestyle solutions.

As CEO of Renewcell, Patrik Lundström leads a path-breaking textile-to-textile recycling business aiming to make fashion circular globally. He has led the scale-up of Renewcell’s operations from demo to industrial scale with the opening of the world’s first commercial scale textile-to-textile chemical recycling plant, Renewcell 1 in Sundsvall, in 2022. Prior to joining Renewcell, Patrik worked for international corporations such as Royal DSM and General Electric.

Bernadette is a Berlin-based electro-pop musician, singer-songwriter and theatre director with a passion for political & social issues and utopian ideas. Since 2014 she wrote 5 climate songs for the festival "Save the world". She performed her song "I'm an island" for the opening of the COP23 in Bonn together with 200 children and the Beethoven orchestra. She wrote the song "I need air" for the COP 24 in Katowice, and she recorded her song "Save the world with this melody" together with her singing partner Nick Nuttall, the former spokesperson and communication director of the UNFCCC.

Silva Hanell is the Wealth Leader for Mercer Investment Solutions Sweden.

Max Messervy leads Mercer’s Sustainable Investment team in the Americas region. Max provides advice on sustainable investment strategies, climate change, and impact investment approaches throughout investment processes. Max advises institutional investors across a range of segments, including pension funds, endowments, insurers, multi-lateral development finance institutions, and other stakeholders in the investment value chain. Max was a lead and/or co-author of reports on increasing institutional investors’ impactful allocations to African infrastructure and private market assets in 2018 and 2021, as well as a guide for integrating sustainable investment approaches into corporate retirement plans in a project with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Prior to joining Mercer, Max spent nearly four years working in the Insurance practice at Ceres in Boston, a leading non-profit sustainability advocacy organization. In that role, he worked with a range of stakeholders across the industry in making the business case for the sector to address climate and ESG risks and opportunities both as underwriters of weather risk and investors in physical infrastructure. This involved engagement with re/insurers, regulators, non-re/insurer investors and NGOs. Previously,Max worked in various capacities with Canadian federal and provincial governments, and with other environmental and sustainability entities as an independent consultant. Max holds a Master of Public Policy from the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, and an Honors Religious Studies degree from McGill University.

Cara Williams is the Global ESG Strategy Leader for Mercer. Located in London, Cara works to articulate and amplify Mercer’s ESG value proposition and positioning, embed sustainability in the journey to a bright future, and drive highly-practical, relevant and value-added outcomes both internally and externally. Cara oversees the Mercer’s Private Wealth businesses in Canada and India, and also works with Mercer’s multinational clients to deliver the best of Mercer’s broad Wealth solutions to assure positive financial outcomes for organizations and their employees. Cara presents regularly on global ESG, sustainability, diversity and investment trends.

Alice (Xia) Zhu is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto studying the transport and fate of plastic pollution in the global ocean, and the interconnections between plastic pollution, carbon cycling, and climate change. She uses a combination of field sampling, laboratory analysis, and statistical modelling to study the behaviour of plastic pollution in the environment. On the side, she is heavily involved in environmental advocacy at the local, national, and international levels through organizations including Fridays for Future Toronto, People's Climate Movement Toronto/GTA, and the University of Toronto Trash Team.

Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is a Nigerian Professor who has served as the Ambassador of the EU's European Climate Pact since December 2022. She was named by the Web of Science as the "Most Read Researcher in Nigeria" and is the current University Librarian of the University of Calabar. She chaired panels at the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada, the 2022 G20 Bali Summit in Indonesia, the United Nations Water Summit on Groundwater, held at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, and other international conferences.

Dr Renuka Thakore, PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), PIEMA AFHEA, is the Founder of Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnerships Network, United Kingdom. In this capacity, she leads a global network that administers multidisciplinary activities and research partnership development platforms. She has received several prestigious awards for her work, including the "Global Sustainability Award 2022," the "Development Leadership: Governor Enrique Tomás Cresto Award 2022," and the "Global SDG’s Women Ambassador Award 2022." With over 35 years of professional experience, Dr Thakore engages and connects with academics, businesses, and individuals from both the Global South and Global North to promote climate adaptation, resilience, and just transition. She applies systems thinking and transdisciplinarity to evaluate strategic realities and brings together technologies, emerging trends in data, skills, education and employment, and future scenarios to solve real-world problems.

Associate Professor Olga Laiza Kupika is a Natural Resources Conservationist and Climate Change expert with over a decade of experience in research, teaching, and community service. Until April 2023, she served as the Chairperson of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe, and is recognized as the founding member of the Centre for Climatology and Applied Research (CCAR). As of 3rd April 2023, Olga is the Senior Research Fellow in Climate and Adaptation at Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana. Olga has experience leading and working with multidisciplinary teams and is skilled at communicating with stakeholders and research partners at local, national, regional, and international forums. She has expertise in Climate Resilience projects, Climate change advocacy, Agro-ecology and Climate Change Adaptation, Biodiversity Assessments, Community Based Natural Resources and Livelihoods Monitoring and Development Projects, Environmental Safeguards/ Social and Environmental Standards Assessments, Environmental Policy Development and engagement, Environmental education campaigns, Academic mentorship, Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Education 5.0.

Ms Nancy Marangu is a passionate advocate for inclusion, gender, and climate mainstreaming. With 15 years of experience in strategic communication, planning, and management, she has enhanced disability and gender mainstreaming, entrepreneurship, and risk monitoring, evaluation, and management in the public, private, and development sectors. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Public Relations) and an MBA in Strategic Management and Electronic Commerce. She is a gifted storyteller and writes on thematic areas of environment, technology, and inclusion for Kenya's local dailies and Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) Energy Scoop Magazine. As a volunteer board member at the Gifted Community Centre, she empowers youth with disabilities with entrepreneurial skills. She has taught public speaking and served as an application reader for the 2022 and 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Nancy previously served on the board at Ukarimu Ministries Trust and as a mentor at the Global Give Back Circle-MasterCard Foundation Scholars Community Platform Mentoring Program.

Dr Kushal Adhikari, an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, focuses on integrating sustainability dimensions into engineering to build a sustainable and resilient society, with an emphasis on reducing, reusing, and recycling. His research interests include water sustainability through reclamation and reuse, climate-smart agriculture, water resource management optimisation techniques, food-energy-water nexus, and materials sustainability. Dr Adhikari has published extensively in prestigious professional journals such as the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, and the Journal of Water Process Engineering, and has presented at multiple national and international conferences including ASCE-EWRI, AWWA, GSFN, and Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium 2022, where he recently served as a panel speaker.

Jacqueline Corbelli is founder of the US Coalition on Sustainability, a nonprofit organization established in collaboration with the United Nations with a single purpose: to unify and accelerate progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Its solution, SustainChain TM, brings together innovators, impact investors, purpose-driven brands, NGOs and alliances with a shared mission of building a more sustainable supply chain.

John B. King, Jr. is the 15th Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY), the largest comprehensive system of public higher education in the United States. Prior to his appointment as Chancellor, King served as president of The Education Trust, a national civil rights nonprofit which seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps for students from preschool through college. Chancellor King also served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as the 10th U.S. Secretary of Education.

Efrem Bycer leads global sustainability policy partnerships and North America workforce policy partnerships for LinkedIn. As part of LinkedIn's Economic Graph team, he works with data scientists to generate valuable insights for governments, NGOs, and business to help deepen their understanding of the economy. He lives in San Diego, California with his wife and three daughters. In his spare time, Efrem is an avid runner and homebrewer.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change.

The interests of Adam Met PhD bridge music, sustainability, law, academia, policy, marketing, and technology. As the bassist for AJR, he has traveled the world on sold-out tours, achieved platinum certifications in numerous countries, and recorded a repertoire of music that has garnered more than 7 billion streams worldwide. In the 2021/2022 touring season, Adam has played live in front of over 1 Million fans. As the founder and Executive Director of Planet Reimagined, he leads a nonprofit that addresses climate change systems through media, academic research fellowships, and incentive-based initiatives. Adam’s work with the UN Development Programme as a Development Advocate fosters awareness on social media and beyond of sustainability, rights violations and solutions. In Washington DC, Adam has worked closely with the EPA, The Department of Energy, and The White House on innovative renewable energy policy, and with a bipartisan coalition in Congress to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act. He has brought his interdisciplinary perspective to his writing for publications including TIME, Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine, Fortune, Mashable, and Quartz, and he is the host of the podcast Planet Reimagined.

Robert founded ClimateHero in 2018 with the mission to help our planet's inhabitants to understand and reduce their environmental impact. He has previously founded two other digital start-ups, worked as a strategy consultant and written a book about growth hacking.

Felicia Reutersward is Impact lead Resource use & Circular impact, H&M Group.

With an MSc Naval Architecture, Erik has experience from throughout the maritime industry, including in Sweden, Norway, France, Malta, and Dubai. At Candela Technology, Erik is leading the company’s development of its commercial vessels for professional use, including ferries and water taxis, and the accompanying system thinking for fossil-free and super energy efficient public transportation on water with the company’s 100% electric hydrofoiling vessels.

Stockholm County, County Commissioner (Centre Party), 2006 – Responsible for the Climate/ Environment, Regional planning and the Archipelago. Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, Board member as well as a member of the environmental working group (Centre Party), 2015 –.

Background as an officer, economics degree, worked 25 years as an airline pilot / captain / instructor, display pilot, built own race car. Earlier business venture in real estate which made the foundation for NoviOcean. Having seen many of previous patent ideas come to market by others 25 years later, I found the need for this solution so huge that I went 100% for it six years ago.

Christoffer Bonde is the CEO of Initiative 1415.

Artist-Director of Beyond Crisis film, "a story of hope for a rapidly changing world." Master of Climate Change (MCC) graduate, and PhD candidate in Community Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, with a focus on engagement through the arts and movement-building for climate action, and climate justice. Community organizer, art-activist and 'big dreamer' of the society-wide systems changes we need to rescue a #SafeClimateFuture for us all. (https://www.peoplesclimatefoundation.org/)

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior. The Climate Mobilization advocates an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe and helped pioneer the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign, which has led more than 1400 global governments to declare a Climate Emergency. She is also the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a self-help guide for the climate emergency.

Tom Rand’s focus is on carbon mitigation as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author and speaker. He is Founding Partner of ArcTern Ventures and sits on the board of a number of clean energy companies and organizations. He’s written three books on the intersection of climate, economics, psychology and technology.

Ivo Mulder has over sixteen years of professional experience working for UNEP, private consulting firms, and with non-governmental organizations. He has published more than fifty reports, blogs and articles and sits on the Steering Committee of a number of initiatives. Ivo is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a member of the Dutch Association of Sustainable Investors (VBDO). Ivo leads UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit (CFU), and oversees a growing portfolio of various initiatives and finance facilities that actively unlock public and especially private capital towards sustainable land use with positive impacts for the climate, nature, and people.

Julia Ragnell is a business development and corporate relations professional at Mycorena, a FoodTech company determined to accelerate the green transition in the food industry using fungi technology. As a graduate of the University of St Andrews and UCL with a background in sustainability, business management and global governance, Julia is passionate about driving meaningful change to address today’s global challenges.

María José Gutiérrez Murray is a climate change and sustainability expert. She is currently the Senior Director of International Programs for Tradewater, where she directs the search, collection and destruction of potent greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances in the form of older refrigerant gases and halons around the world. She is also Founder and Director of the consulting company RE Responsabilidad y Estrategia in Costa Rica. María José has a Licenciate in Industrial Engineering from the University of Costa Rica, and holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford.

Kirsten Love is working to combat climate change using a diverse skill set developed over the course of her career. Her career began in Supply Chain, working in several functions including project management, marketing analytics, and strategy. When climate work chose Kirsten three years ago and she joined the Tradewater team, she put those various skills to use in helping to develop a market for the work Tradewater is doing globally. She is currently the Director of Market Development for Tradewater, where she works with partners and climate heroes of all types find a home for the carbon benefits that result from Tradewater’s work to collect, control and destroy potent non-CO2 greenhouse gases around the world. Kirsten holds a B.S. degree in Psychology and a B.S. degree in Business and Applied Math from The Illinois Institute of Technology.

Executive Director of the U.S. Coalition on Sustainability and co-founder of SustainChain™, a free public service platform built in partnership with the United Nations. Prior to the USCS, Managing Director at Originate, a world-class designer of custom software innovation products, leading large scale Digital transformation initiatives as well as enterprise innovation labs and accelerator projects for organizations including Chief, BlackRock and McKinsey.

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.

Pippa Ehrlich is the co-writer, editor, and director of the Oscar and Bafta winning My Octopus Teacher – South Africa’s first Netflix Original documentary. For the last five years, she has been a storyteller with the Sea Change Project, exploring the underwater forests of Cape Town. Prior to joining Sea Change, Pippa worked as an environmental journalist, specialising in the field of marine science and conservation and the intersection between people and the natural world.

Arbaro Advisors is the investment advisor of Arbaro Fund, a sustainable forestry fund investing in emerging market forestry opportunities. Hanna is a management team member of Arbaro Advisors looking after investment sourcing, structuring and executing, E&S related matters and portfolio monitoring. She has more than 20 years of experience in the forestry sector in emerging markets. Prior to Arbaro, she led Finnfund’s (Finnish development finance institution) investment team specialised in forestry, environment and renewable energy with a portfolio of about EUR 170 million including plantation forests and processing industries in both Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa (equity, debt and mezzanine finance). Her previous experience also includes senior positions in commercial banking specializing in limited recourse financing as well as management consulting in the forest industry.

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995, and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. His work has been translated into 25 languages, and won a dozen awards in five countries, including the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. His most recent novel is The Ministry for the Future.

With two decades of experience in private equity, venture capital, and business development, Pia Irell is dedicated to fostering value creation through sustainable solutions and responsible business practices. As the founder of Pike, she advises institutional investors and companies on creating long-term value with a positive societal impact. Pia previously contributed to shaping Trill Impact’s investment strategy and building a portfolio of purpose-driven companies. At Altor Equity Partners, she focused on driving value creation and integrating ESG across the portfolio. She has also held leadership roles at Gambro and ABB, and as CEO of the Young Shareholders Association, she worked to make the stock market more accessible to younger investors.

Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, LL.M. is the co-founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital a Zurich based, independent impact investing advisor.

Lewis’s driving aim is to help protect our planet’s threatened oceans. As an endurance swimmer, he is unparalleled. He was the first person to undertake a long-distance swim in every ocean of the world. He pioneered the first swim across the North Pole, the first swim along the length of the English Channel, the world’s highest swim, and even a swim under the Antarctic ice sheet. His passion to protect ocean life, combined with his commitment to justice, make him a powerful negotiator and facilitator of change. To date the Lewis Pugh Foundation has been instrumental in securing full protection for over 2 million km2 of the most vulnerable ocean, an area the size of Western Europe.

Thomas Kolster is a frontrunner and one of the most recognised thinkers globally where marketing, business and sustainability meet. He continuously challenges the status-quo with his vocal, and often provocative, views on values, purpose, and leadership. In an over-crowded do-good market, people don’t buy your values or your “why”, but rather who you can help them become. Written two books: Goodvertising & The Hero Trap Delivered keynotes and workshops in +70 markets for clients like Facebook, P&G and IKEA and at conferences such as TEDx, SXSW and more.

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist whose work helps people to face the truth of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective, disruptive action. As executive director of Climate Emergency Fund, she raises funds for and makes grants to climate activists. She is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency.

Martina Donlon currently heads the Climate Communications Team at the United Nations Department of Global Communications in New York, managing campaigns and initiatives focused on climate action. Before that, she led a communications team on the Sustainable Development Goals, managed UN human rights campaigns, and headed communications and change management at the UN regional service center in Uganda. Before joining the UN, she worked as Assistant Director at the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as Special Assistant to the Swiss Ambassador to the UN, Deputy Cultural Attaché of Switzerland in New York, and as editor at the Wall Street Journal online.