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.

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Ms. Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability, strategy and operations.

António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), took office on January 1, 2017. He served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from June 2005 to December 2015, heading one of the world’s foremost humanitarian organizations during some of the most serious displacement crises in decades, and witnessing the suffering of the most vulnerable people on earth, in refugee camps, and in war zones. Mr. Guterres has spent more than 20 years in government and public service. Mr. Guterres was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1976, where he served as a member for 17 years. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Guterres was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he chaired the Committee on Demography, Migration, and Refugees. He served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. Mr. Guterres was born in Lisbon in 1949 and graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico with a degree in engineering.

Marco Lambertini’s critical mission is to save life on Earth. With 35 years of conservation leadership, Mr. Lambertini began as a youth volunteer in his native Italy. Prior to joining WWF, he served as Chief Executive of BirdLife International He managed a highly decentralized secretariat, overseeing a global partnership of over 120 civil society organizations based in countries and territories in all continents. Marco has a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Pisa and has published several books.

Jakob Trollbäck is the designer of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the framework that is the world’s roadmap to a safe future. He has worked as a designer and communications specialist for 30 years, primarily from his company Trollbäck in New York. Three years ago he founded the New Division in Stockholm, a company dedicated to strategic communication focusing on sustainability.

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.

Mrs. Mrema has worked with UNEP for over two decades, based in Bonn, Germany, and Nairobi, Kenya. Her work at UNEP has focused on the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws at national, regional, and international levels. Before joining UNEP, Mrs. Mrema worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a lecturer in public international law and conference diplomacy at Tanzania's Centre for Foreign Relations and Diplomacy. She has published several articles related to international environmental law, compliance, and enforcement of conventions, and she has developed, among other things, a number of multilateral environmental agreements negotiation tools, handbooks, and guidelines. Mrs. Mrema is a lawyer and career diplomat with LLB (Hons) from the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, LLM from Dalhousie University, Canada, and postgraduate diploma in International Relations.

Adriana Lobo studied civil engineering at the Escola Politécnica of the University of Sao Paulo and has more than 20 years of experience promoting sustainable policies, urban mobility projects, urban development, and environment. During the 14 years since its inauguration, the World Resources Institute Mexico (formerly CTS EMBARQ Mexico) has promoted an impact toward sustainable cities, recently expanding to include energy, climate, and forests. She worked for more than six years as Technical Director of the consulting firms Cal y Mayor y Asociados, SC and Transconsult, SC.

Pavan Sukhdev is a sustainability thought leader, innovator, influencer and the former Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative. Pavan founded GIST Advisory, a sustainability consulting firm measuring and valuing business impacts across all SDG’s. Pavan has served on many NGO Boards, including Conservation International, Stockholm Resilience Centre and GRI , and is at present President of the Board of WWF International.

Patricia Espinosa Cantellano is a Mexican politician and diplomat. In 2016 the United Nations Secretary-General appointed her as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). Prior to that she was Mexican Ambassador to Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Slovakia and served as secretary of foreign affairs in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón. Ms. Espinosa brings to her new appointment more than 30 years of experience at the highest levels in international relations, with specializations in climate change, global governance, sustainable development, gender equality, and protection of human rights. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in international relations from El Colegio de México and earned a diploma in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Peter Elmberg studied Native American studies in Wisconsin, USA, in 1996 and got inspired by the saying, “Think seven generations ahead before any important decision.” Ever since, Peter has been engaged in the field of sustainability. To show his respect and support to children and youth all over the world, bringing awareness to the climate issue today, he has written numerous songs and two musicals, and he created the label Music for Peace in 2004 under which he released "Earth Anthems" supporting children and youth, including "Now is the Time" (Sweden's answer to "We Are the World", 2005), "A Song for Tibet" (2008), "One World" (Project for West Africa, 2015), and "12 Peace Prayers" (2016). Peter is also the founder and CEO of the ecological retreat center Mundekulla in southern Sweden since 1998.

Louise Carlson has been fascinated since childhood by all the fantastic species that have evolved through evolution and shaped our planet both above and below the sea surface. She became a biologist, and since 2004 she has worked at WWF Sweden. She has extensive experience from WWF working with a range of different conservation issues and corporate partnerships. She is currently working on the conservation of tigers and Asian elephants and stopping illegal wildlife trade, and on civil society engagement and responsible forest management. In the most recent years her work has been focused on southeast Asia, India, and Russia Far East.

Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognized leader on climate change. She was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, where she oversaw the delivery of the historic Paris Agreement. Today she is the co-founder of Global Optimism, co-host of the podcast “Outrage & Optimism” and is the co-author of the recently published book, “The Future We Choose.”