Evelyn Acham is a passionate climate justice activist from Uganda. She has organized climate strikes and campaigns with the Rise Up Movement, where she works as a national coordinator. She is part of Fridays for Future, the international movement of school students striking for bold climate action. She is also an Arctic angel for Global Choices, a youth-led intergenerational action network. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in land economics from Makerere University in Kampala. She is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Alice Aedy is a documentary photographer, filmmaker and campaigner using multimedia creative storytelling for social impact. Her human stories focus on forced migration, women’s stories and environmental issues. She is the co-founder of Earthrise Studio, a creative studio communicating climate.

Daze Aghaji is a 21-year-old climate justice activist from London who focuses on regenerative cultures, intersectionality, radical social justice and youth political engagement in her work. In 2019, she was the youngest candidate to stand in the European Parliamentary election. Described by The Guardian as “a ball of energy, conviction and warmth,” her advocacy for racial systemic change has led her to work with many leading charities, N.G.O.s and grassroots changemakers globally.

Halide Alagöz is chief product and sustainability officer at Ralph Lauren. She is responsible for the end-to-end product life cycle, bringing the design and product vision to life for the brand’s consumers around the world. She leads the Polo and RRL brand teams and drives the seamless execution of all products across the Ralph Lauren portfolio. She also oversees the company’s holistic sustainability strategy and programs. She joined the company in 2016.

Liz Alderman is the Paris-based chief European business correspondent, covering economic, social and inequality challenges. Her coverage has included Europe’s refugee crisis and the Paris terrorist attacks. Along the way, she has profiled numerous European movers and shakers in policy-making and business. An award-winning journalist, she was previously an assistant business editor in New York, and spent five years as the business editor of what was previously The International Herald Tribune.

Mohamad Al-Jounde is a 20-year-old rights activist. From Syria, he started the Gharsah School in Lebanon and the Gharsah Sweden N.G.O. in Älmhult. He also started making documentaries in 2015 and is the producer of three short films. After winning the 2017 International Children Peace Prize and many international awards, he became a public speaker, speaking in events like the World Economic Forum and the World Summit of Nobel Laureates.

Dr. Rawaa Ammar has served as sustainability and impact lead at Resortecs since 2019. She holds a Ph.D. in Earth and environmental sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and is a visiting professor at the Lebanese University in Beirut. She has over 10 years of experience in scientific research, fieldwork and environmental risk assessment. Her research focus areas are anthropogenic pollution, remediation, heavy metals impurities, iron biogeochemistry in the ocean and the link with atmospheric CO2 emissions.

Matt Anderson is the European culture editor at The New York Times.

Cherrie Atilano is the founder and C.E.O. of AGREA Agricultural Systems International, a for-purpose inclusive agribusiness. She is a high-level ambassador of the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, which works together with the United Nations, and a U.N. food systems champion. She is also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a board member of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Philippine ambassador of food security. She was named APEC BEST Award’s best top manager in the post-pandemic economy in 2021 and is the recipient of the U.N. Women 2020 Asia-Pacific Women’s Empowerment Principles Covid-19 Action Award. She was also named among the inaugural 50 Next leaders by 50 Best and the Basque Culinary Center in 2021.

Based in New Mexico in the southwestern U.S., Jade Begay leads NDN Collective’s climate justice campaign work and brings extensive experience working in climate justice movement spaces within Indigenous communities across the globe. She has also worked as a multimedia producer, filmmaker and communications professional working in nonprofit and Indigenous organizations.

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at M.I.T., which works to ensure that social policies are informed by scientific evidence. Heremains one of J-PAL’s directors and is now a Ford Foundation international professor of economics, also at M.I.T. He is a co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 for his groundbreaking work in development economics.

​​Katrin Bennhold is The New York Times’s Berlin bureau chief. A native German who spent most of her life abroad, she has been particularly interested in exploring the rise of the far right. In 2019, she wrote a series of investigations on the far-right infiltration of Germany's security services. In 2018, she hosted an audio series on nationalism and populism in Europe for the paper’s “The Daily” podcast. Previously, she reported for The Times from London and Paris, writing about a range of topics from migration to gender. She covered a string of terrorist attacks in France and Britain and wrote a series of features on the fallout from the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Marcelo Behar is a sociologist and a lawyer who graduated from the University of São Paulo. He has worked in many N.G.O.s and as a journalist on foreign politics at daily newspaper Folha de São Paulo. He served as chief of staff in the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, where he was responsible for the Brazilian Disarmament Campaign. He was also vice minister in the country’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Natura &Co is a Founding Member of Transform to Net Zero, a cross-sector initiative to accelerate the transition to a net zero global economy.

Claire Bergkamp is the C.O.O. of Textile Exchange, a global nonprofit that develops, manages and promotes a suite of leading industry standards, as well as collecting and publishing vital industry data and insights that enable brands and retailers to measure, manage and track their use of preferred fibre and materials. Before joining Textile Exchange, she was worldwide sustainability and innovation director at Stella McCartney. She is also on the Steering Committee for the UNFCCC’s Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, where she is co-chair for the Raw Materials Working Group.

Julia M. Blocher is a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research, a leading global research center based in Germany. She is also president of the International Youth Federation, an international nonprofit youth organization network. Her research and advocacy focuses on the linkages between climate change impacts and migration patterns in developing countries, particularly of youth.

Rebecca Blumenstein is a deputy managing editor of The New York Times. She is a graduate of Garber High School and the University of Michigan. She worked previously at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a China-based team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

Nicolas Brown’s feature film “The Serengeti Rules” won 23 major awards, including an Emmy for outstanding nature documentary. His films have won four Emmys, two BAFTAs and over 60 major festival awards. Titles include “H2O: The Molecule That Made Us,” “Earth: A New Wild” for PBS, “Climate Chaos” with Sir David Attenborough, as well as “Human Planet” and “Earth’s Natural Wonders” for the BBC. His latest film, “The Letter, is a work in progress about Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.

Jane Burston is Clean Air Fund’s founding executive director. Before bringing together donors to set up the Clean Air Fund, she was head of climate and energy science in the U.K. government, where she was responsible for the U.K. greenhouse gas inventory and a £45 million science program and previously led a team of 150 scientists working on energy and environment at the National Physical Laboratory. She was featured among WIRED’s changemakers of tomorrow and was named as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

William Butler-Adams joined Brompton in 2002, becoming director in 2006 and managing director in 2008. During his tenure, the company has grown from an annual turnover of £2 million with 27 staff to £70 million turnover and over 650 staff. He is a chartered engineer and previously worked for DuPoint, Nissan and ICI. Creating urban freedom for happier lives, Brompton now boasts around 850,000 customers around the world. The company exports over 75% of its bikes to 47 countries through a network of 1,600 independent bike stores, alongside 10 of its own flagship stores from Milan to New York and Shanghai to Paris.

Relic Plastic was founded in 2018 as a community engagement project called Precious Plastic Lancaster to discuss the fantastic applications of plastic and the negative impact that its over consumption and linearity has on our planet. The opportunity to change people's minds about what is considered 'waste' also led to producing 100% recycled plastic products for clients and developing an ‘all under one roof’ transparent recycling system raising the value of recycled plastic.

Veronica Chambers is an award-winning author and the lead editor of Narrative Projects, a team dedicated to telling multi-platform stories at The New York Times. Based in London, her most recent book is “Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter.” She has taught writing at several colleges and universities including Bowdoin in Maine, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Massachusetts, and the Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, she writes often about her Afro-Latina heritage.

Aya Chebbi is a multiaward-winning Pan-African feminist. She rose to prominence as a voice for democracy and shot to global fame as a political blogger during the 2010–2011 Tunisian Revolution. She served as the first-ever African Union Special Envoy on Youth and the youngest diplomat at the African Union Commission in the Chairperson’s Cabinet (2018–2021). She is currently the chair of Nala Feminist Collective. She received the 2019 Gates Foundation Campaign Award and was named among Forbes Africa’s 2020 list of Africa’s 50 Most Powerful Women.

Lauren Chin worked as a strategy consultant at EY. Interfacing with C-suite executives to both facilitate strategic conversations and gauge client needs, she honed her skills on various projects across SMEs to large multinational corporations. After pivoting to a climate track through the start of her M.Sc. in energy, society and sustainability at the University of Edinburgh, she has gained a wealth of knowledge in sustainability and climate change – leading to her employment at the university’s Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability. Aside from driving and managing the center’s projects around COP26, she has also worked as a research consultant for Green Angel Syndicate – the U.K.’s only climate-focused angel investing syndicate. She has conducted numerous in-depth interviews to understand green investment strategies and investor thoughts around innovation. She and her team also placed second in the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge, where they presented to leading figures in the sustainable finance world.

Ertharin Cousin is a visiting scholar at the Center on Food Security and the Environment. She is also a distinguished fellow of global agriculture at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Mya-Rose Craig is a prominent 19-year-old British Bangladeshi environmentalist and race activist. In 2021, she released her first book, "We Have a Dream,” And shared a stage with Greta Thunberg during the 2020 climate strikes. In 2022, she will be releasing her memoirs, “Birdgirl.” She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol in recognition of her campaigning efforts for equality in the environmental movement and thought to be the youngest British recipient of the award.

Academy award-winner Matt Damon is an actor, screenwriter, producer and humanitarian, who has garnered international acclaim for his work both on and off screen. Inspired by international travel with his family throughout Mexico and Guatemala as a youth, he has long been devoted to environmental and social issues. Learning about the immense challenges of accessing safe water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa, he decided to create the H20 Africa Foundation. In 2009, he teamed up with Gary White to merge their organizations and launch Water.org.

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Es Devlin is an artist and designer who is known for creating large-scale installations and environments that combine music, language and light. Her practice originates in collaborations in theater (“The Lehman Trilogy”), opera (“Carmen on the Lake” at Bregenz, Austria) and Olympic ceremonies in London and Rio. She has also created renowned stage sculptures with Beyoncé, The Weeknd, Billie Eilish, U2 and Kanye West, seen by mass audiences around the world.

Sandrine Dixson-Declève 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, including chair of the Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation, Assembly member of the Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Mission, former member of the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, member of the Platform on Sustainable Finance and member of the United Nations Food Systems Summit Action Track 5: Resilience. She sits on the boards of BMW, EDP, UCB, Climate–KIC, the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources at UCL and the Institute for European Environmental Policy.

Niall Dunne joined Polymateria as C.E.O. in 2018 to tackle the global crisis of plastic waste and lead the company towards its mission of advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution. He is a passionate advocate of business aligning behind an inspiring purpose that can optimize its strategy, differentiate its brand and motivate its culture, thereby enabling sustainable long-term growth.

​​Chris Elliot is currently professor of food safety and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published more than 480 peer-reviewed articles, many of them relating to the detection and control of agricultural, food and environmental-related contaminants. Protecting the integrity of the global food supply is his key research topic and he is active in many countries across the world.

Tasneem Essop is currently the executive director of Climate Action Network International. She has just completed her second term as commissioner of the National Planning Commission in South Africa, appointed by the president, and leads the work on climate change and the just transition. She previously headed the climate team at WWF International and served as its head of delegation at the UNFCCC. She became a member of the Provincial Parliament in the Western Cape in 1994 and held the positions of provincial minister of transport, public works and property management from 2001 to 2004, as well as provincial minister for the environment, planning and economic development from 2004 to 2008.

Hannah Fairfield is The Times’s climate editor. She joined The New York Times in the graphics department in 2000, and has focused on data visualization and visual storytelling. She has also taught information design at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Barry Fisher has extensive experience in the youth sector. He joined Keep Scotland Beautiful from the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, where latterly he held the role of Scotland director. Prior to this, he worked with the Ocean Youth Trust Scotland. The environment has always played a massive part in all his past employment roles as he sought to engage young people with activities dependent on clean, healthy environments. He has an honors degree in management and tourism from the University of Glasgow. He currently sits on the boards of Ocean Youth Trust Scotland and Remembering Srebrenica Scotland.

Before joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Olivia Finch gained 10 years of consultancy experience in environmental planning and CSR, providing environmental, sustainability and energy advice to public and private clients in order to ensure the delivery of sustainable projects. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher within a team of leading academics and consultants for LSE Enterprise – the consultancy service of the London School of Economics – where her work focused on regulatory systems influencing emissions trading and water management incentives. read geography at Worcester College, Oxford before completing a master’s degree in nature, society and environmental policy, also at Oxford.

Nicholas St. Fleur is a general assignment reporter at Stat covering racial health disparities. He won the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for young science journalists and was a 2020 Knight-Wallace Reporting fellow. Prior to joining Stat, he worked at The New York Times as a science reporter and as a freelance contributor covering archaeology, paleontology and space. He completed the science communication program at the University of California, Santa Cruz and graduated from Cornell University.

One of Scotland’s busiest broadcasters and Sony Award winner, Janice Forsyth has presented and produced many TV and radio programmes for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. She currently co-presents a Scottish arts, entertainment and music program called “The Afternoon Show” on BBC Radio Scotland and is the co-founder and executive producer of “The Big Light,” a podcast network from Scotland featuring the very best of contemporary Scottish culture with a fast-growing international community of listeners.

Stephenie Foster is a strategist, organizational leader and connector with broad expertise in business, politics and law. She has decades of experience on Capitol Hill, as well as in the executive branch, the nonprofit sector and the legal profession. She has guided high-profile initiatives and used her legal experience to counsel corporations, foundations, individuals and government officials.

Jerome Foster II is an environmental activist, voting rights advocate, and emerging technology engineer. He sits on President Biden’s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Based in New York City, but born and raised in Washington, D.C., he served as an intern for civil rights campaigner John Lewis, who died in 2020, and served as board member for the DC State Board of Education. He now serves as executive director of OneMillionOfUs, which educates and mobilizes young people to register and turn out to vote.

Matt Frei has fronted Channel 4 News coverage from Paris and Brussels after the terrorist attacks, reported on the aftermath of the Brexit vote from Berlin to Rome and covered five U.S. presidential elections. He has also produced three documentaries on the rise and fall of Donald Trump. He has won multiple awards including a BAFTA, RTS Journalist of the Year, the Peabody Award, DuPont Award, the Bayeaux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents and, most recently, an International Emmy Award for News for his coverage of the Hong Kong protests.

Working under the pseudonym Bill Posters, Barnaby Francis is an artist-researcher, author and activist who is interested in making disinformation into art. His works often interrogate truth, trust, persuasion and power relations that exist in the public space and online. He works collaboratively across the arts, sciences and advocacy fields on conceptual, sculptural, new media, net, installation and synthetic art. In 2019 his synthetic (deep fake) artworks released on Instagram featuring Mark Zuckerberg went viral leading to global press coverage and unexpected — and contradictory — official responses from Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. His latest project, Eco-Bot.Net, is currently exposing climate change disinformation and corporate greenwashing on social media during COP26.

Daphne Frias is a 23-year-old youth activist. She is unapologetically Latina. Daphne has cerebral palsy, and uses a wheelchair to ambulate. She is fiercely proud to be a loud champion for the disabled community. She got her start shortly after the Parkland shooting by busing 100+ students from her college campus to the nearest March For Our Lives (MFOL) event. In July 2019, she was appointed as the New York State director for March For Our Lives and completed her one year tenure there in June2020. She is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. His foreign affairs column for the paper reports on U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, the Middle East, international economics, the environment, biodiversity and energy. He is the author of seven best-selling books, including “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” and “Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.”

Vanessa Friedman was named fashion director and chief fashion critic for The New York Times in 2014. Before joining the paper, she was the inaugural fashion editor of the Financial Times, beginning in 2003. Along with editing the Style pages and the Luxury360 vertical, she wrote a weekly column for the Saturday FT and created the FT's annual Business of Luxury conference.

Vanessa García Polanco works with food, agriculture, climate and sustainability stakeholders to create and strengthen sustainable and just food systems and communities with research, policy and programmatic interventions. She advocates for sustainable agriculture policies and racial equity in agriculture for young, BIPOC, small and diverse growers as the federal policy director of the National Young Farmers Coalition. She creates partnerships and works with networks to address systematic inequalities in our society as a board member of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, Michigan Food and Farming Systems and Campo Alante radio station. She is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Ryan Gellert is C.E.O. of Patagonia Works and Patagonia. Prior to his appointment to this global role, he spent six years as Patagonia’s general manager of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During that time, he elevated Patagonia to a position of leadership in Europe’s outdoor industry and environmental communities, overseeing all sales, marketing, environmental and operational activities for the brand.

David Gelles is the Corner Office columnist and a business reporter for The New York Times. He has written about mergers and acquisitions, media, technology and more for the paper. Before joining The Times, he was a reporter for the Financial Times in New York and San Francisco. While at the FT, he conducted an exclusive jailhouse interview with Bernard L. Madoff. He is the author of “Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business From the Inside Out.”

François Gemenne is a specialist in environmental geopolitics and migration governance at the University of Liège, where he is an FNRS (Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research) senior research associate and director of the university’s Hugo Observatory. He also heads the Observatory of Climate Change Impacts on Defense and Security, launched by the French Ministry of Defense, jointly with Julia Tasse at IRIS, the French Institute for Strategic and International Affairs. He is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and also lectures on climate change and migration policies at universities including Sciences Po and Sorbonne University in Paris.

Jeffrey Gettleman, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is a veteran foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He specializes in covering conflict and has written vivid reports from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Congo and more than 50 other countries. He has served as bureau chief in New Delhi and Nairobi, among other places. He studied philosophy at Cornell University before winning a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford. He is the author of “Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival.”

Dr. Adrian Glover is a merit researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. He leads the Deep-Sea Systematics and Ecology Research Group, specializing in deep-sea and polar environmental science. A current focus of the group is the study of biodiversity in regions of dramatic climate change and potential resource exploitation, with a number of projects in the Antarctic and tropical deep-sea regions. His research group is leading projects to study the fundamental science of these regions to inform future studies into the impacts of climate change and resource extraction, such as deep-sea mining, as well as furthering our fundamental knowledge of life in some of the planet’s least-explored ecosystems.

Rei Goffer served in the Israeli Air Force for 10 years, managing R&D projects and cross-branch operations. He is passionate about developing technologies that change lives and transforming seemingly crazy ideas into reality. He holds a B.A. in economics from Ben-Gurion University, an M.B.A. from the M.I.T. Sloan School and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Lorna Gold is director of movement building with FaithInvest. Prior to her current role, she led Trócaire’s policy, research and advocacy activities in Ireland for almost two decades. She holds a Ph.D. in economic geography from the University of Glasgow. She is chair of the board of the Laudato Si’ movement and a member of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission Economic Taskforce. Her most recent book, “Climate Generation: Awakening to Our Children’s Future,” was described by Naomi Klein as “an anguished journey into the heart of the climate crisis.” It tells her personal story of waking up to the ecological emergency as a mother, academic and activist. Her academic research interests include the just transition, civil society movements and the role of faith groups in climate activism.

Leandra R. Gonçalves is an assistant professor in the Institute of Marine Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo. She is also a research fellow in the Earth System Governance project. She is a biologist and holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of São Paulo. Her main research interests are ocean and coastal governance, including different topics such as marine litter, gender equity and the interface between science and policy. She has also been involved in the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development process in Brazil and is a lead author at the U.N. Environment Program’s “Global Environmental Outlook.”

Al Gore served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” He is the founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is also founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management.

In 2011, Nina Gualinga represented the Sarayaku youth at the final hearing before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica where the Sarayaku won their historic victory against the Ecuadorian government for violating their rights and territory in drilling for oil. In 2014, she joined global calls to keep oil in the ground at the People’s Climate March and COP21. In 2015, she joined a large delegation from Sarayaku at COP21 in Paris advocating for the protection of living forests and in 2016 she joined a historic march uniting Indigenous women of seven nationalities in defense of rights and territories.

Doug Gurr is the director of the Natural History Museum in London and a former chairman of the Science Museum. He previously pursued a commercial career, serving latterly as C.E.O. of Amazon UK and president of Amazon China. He is also chairman of the British Heart Foundation, a nonexecutive director at the Department of Health and a trustee of the Landmark Trust.

Ravi Gurumurthy is C.E.O. of Nesta, the U.K.’s innovation agency for social good. In March 2021, Nesta published its ambitious 10-year strategy, which aims to improve the lives of millions through mission-led innovation. He previously founded and led the Airbel Impact Lab at the International Rescue Committee, where he was responsible for designing, testing and scaling products and services for people affected by crises in over 40 countries, from reducing acute malnutrition to expanding employment for refugees.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports for the foreign affairs series “Unreported World” and presents the award-winning “Ways to Change the World” podcast. He also hosts major live political debates for Channel 4 and commentates on events such as the Paralympics. He is patron and trustee of the medical charity Duchenne UK and a trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Dylan Hamilton is a teenage climate justice activist from Scotland. He began striking from school for the climate in early 2019 at the age of 14 and has continued every Friday since. He even refused to go to school daily ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections in 2021. Through his work with Fridays For Future Scotland, he has helped with organizing the largest climate protests in the country's history, amassing over 40,000 demonstrators. He also works with other activists internationally, attending COP25 in Madrid and representing the U.K. at the Youth4Climate pre-COP event in Milan. He is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Josh Haner is a staff photographer and the photo futurist at The New York Times. He was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography and has spent the last seven years working across the globe to document the pressing and wide-ranging realities of climate change. In drone footage and still photography from the ground, he explores the consequences faced by a warming world. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in symbolic systems and a B.A. in studio art. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.

Matthew Hannon works as a Senior Lecturer at Strathclyde Business School. His research examines the business models, policies and technologies necessary to accelerate the transition to a socially equitable, net-zero economy. He sits on Scottish Power Energy Networks’ Customer Engagement Group and USwitch’s Green Tariff Accreditation Panel. He is a council member of the British Institute of Energy Economics and chair of the community energy charity South Seeds. Finally, he is co-founder and host of the “Local Zero” podcast, which champions local action to tackle climate change.

Phoebe Hanson is a climate and social activist and the chief operating officer of Force of Nature, a youth-led start-up empowering Gen Z to step up, rather than shut down, in the face of the climate crisis. She embeds activism and sustainability in every facet of her life, always striving to do the best for our people and planet, while encouraging others to do the same. She has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities on sustainability and within the ever growing network of young people, educators, businesses and policymakers working to create a better world. Alongside Force of Nature, she serves as a board member of the Manchester Climate Change Partnership. She is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Finn Harries is a British designer, filmmaker and co-founder of Earthrise Studio. He is currently studying at the University of Cambridge to complete an M.Phil. in architecture and urban design.

Thomas Heatherwick is a British designer whose prolific and varied work over two decades is characterized by its ingenuity, inventiveness and originality. Defying the conventional classification of design disciplines, he founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring the practices of design, architecture and urban planning together in a single workspace. He leads the design of all Heatherwick Studio projects, working in collaboration with a team of highly skilled architects, designers and makers. Based in London, Heatherwick Studio is currently working on approximately 30 projects in ten countries. The studio has recently completed a new public centerpiece for Hudson Yards in New York, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town and Coal Drops Yard, a major new retail district in King’s Cross, London. Mr. Heatherwick has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Royal Academician and, in 2004, became the youngest Royal Designer for Industry.

Isaias Hernandez is an environmental educator and the creator of QueerBrownVegan, where he creates introductory forms of environmentalism through colorful graphics, illustrations and videos. He seeks to provide a safe space for like-minded environmentalists to advance the discourse around the climate crisis. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor's degree in environmental science and believes that the climate crisis is an educational crisis.

Philipp Hildebrand is vice chairman of BlackRock and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee. He oversees the BlackRock Investment Institute and BlackRock Sustainable Investing. He joined BlackRock in 2012. Prior to this, he served as chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. In this role, he was also a director of the Bank for International Settlements, the Swiss governor of the International Monetary Fund and a member of the Financial Stability Board, of which the leaders of the G20 appointed him vice chairman in 2011. Previously, he was chief investment officer of a Swiss private bank and a partner at Moore Capital Management in London.

Clover Hogan is a 22-year-old climate activist, researcher on eco-anxiety and the founding executive director of Force of Nature, a youth nonprofit mobilizing mind-sets for climate action. She has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities on sustainability, consulted within the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies and supported students in over 50 countries to realize their power as changemakers.

Guy Hudson is the co-founder and C.E.O. of Loam, deploying the full power of microbiology with a focus on developing microbial products for agriculture that address climate change and create lasting value for farming businesses. He has spent his career working on new business models in climate and clean tech, initially building a social enterprise and later with corporates, governments and multilateral organizations.

Freddie Huppé Campbell is a proud Métis woman who currently resides on the traditional, unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin nation, also known as Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. She leads Indigenous Clean Energy's Global Hub, focusing on the acceleration of renewable energy microgrids in Indigenous, island, coastal and remote communities as a core component of just, global climate action. She is the co-host and co-producer of the “Decolonizing Power” podcast series featuring a global network of leaders, including young innovators, sprinting toward a sustainable, fair and impactful clean energy future.

Alex Hynes was appointed managing director of the ScotRail Alliance in June 2017. Two years later, he was promoted to the broader role of managing director of Scotland’s Railway and currently leads the delivery of Scotland’s Railway services through the ScotRail Alliance, a unique and industry-leading partnership between Abellio ScotRail and Network Rail Scotland. He has over 20 years of industry experience and a proven track record of delivering rail improvement and investment programs.

Chris James founded Engine No. 1 based on his vision that capitalism can be harnessed for positive change and companies that align the interests of their shareholders and stakeholders are better, stronger companies as a result. He has more than 30 years of experience investing in and building businesses across multiple industries in transition.

Oliver Jeffers is a visual artist and author working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance and sculpture. Curiosity and humor are underlying themes throughout his practice as an artist and storyteller. While investigating the ways the human mind understands its world, his work also functions as comic relief in the face of futility. His engagements and practice are truly international in scope. His critically acclaimed picture books have been translated into over 50 languages and sold over 14 million copies worldwide, with two being translated into feature films.

Slater Jewell-Kemper has been making films since she was six years old. An award-winning filmmaker and climate activist, she has been featured in Forbes twice and selected by The Hollywood Reporter as one of 15 filmmakers under 30 to watch. She is an accomplished speaker and is frequently invited to speak on film and climate change panels to represent the voice of youth. She lives in a self-built tiny house on wheels on her farm in southern Ontario, Canada.

Andy Karsner is a technology entrepreneur, investor, conservation activist, and energy and environmental policymaker. He was most recently Managing Partner at Emerson Collective, where he founded and led Elemental, its climate tech equity and philanthropy portfolio. His entrepreneurial leadership has been associated with both venture capital and private equity responsible for guidance and/or holdings in some of the most successful technology startups over the last ten years, including Tesla, Nest, Codexis, C3, Recurrent, Carbon 3D, and Boom. Previously, he was US Assistant Secretary and America’s top regulatory official for energy efficiency.

Professor Sir David King is founder and chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge. He is also chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, an affiliate partner of SYSTEMIQ, a founding member of the Clean Growth Leadership Network and senior strategy adviser to the president of Rwanda. He was the U.K. government chief scientific adviser between 2000 and 2007and the foreign secretary’s special representative on climate change from 2013 to 2017.

Sandy Knapp is a botanist who focuses on the nightshades (Solanaceae). Her work ranges from taxonomy to phylogenetics and evolution, with a focus on the wild relatives of important crops like tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants. She has spent much time in the field collecting plants, mostly in South America. She is the author of several popular books on the history of science and botanical exploration, including the award-winning “Potted Histories: An Artistic Voyage Through Plant Exploration” (2004) and, most recently, “Extraordinary Orchids” (2020).

Cassidy Miligruak Kramer was raised 30 miles above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, a hub village on the northwestern coast of Alaska. She is an Inuk and grew up with a blend of traditional Iñuit and modern practices. Since early childhood, she has learned to hunt, fish, trap and gather from land and sea and shares her catch with families in her community. She is passionate about the continuation of the Iñupiat cultural way of life and has already seen evidence of changes in her environment due to global warming.

Jennifer Kuhl comes to climate organizing from a health perspective. Raised by a doctor and an occupational therapist and learning about the grave impacts of climate change on people’s health propelled her into youth climate organizing while at university. She helped to launch Leadnow.ca, a digital campaigning organization prioritizing climate and democracy. In addition, she worked with the BC Health Coalition in Vancouver, advocating for improved and expanded public health care for all, including undocumented people. She is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and a member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community. She is president of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad and Conservation International’s Lui-Walton senior indigenous fellow. She also serves as a U.N. Sustainable Development Goal advocate, Conservation International board member and Earthshot Prize Council member.

Sophie Lambin is the founder and C.E.O. of Kite Insights, as well as the editorial partner of the Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society and curator of The New York Times Climate Hub at COP26. With two decades of professional services and consulting experience, she is a globally recognized thought leader on gender and climate action. Over the years, she has developed global content strategies, produced high-profile strategic content and led the development of research-based insights for leaders across different industry sectors and geographies.

David Lammy is the Labour Party MP for Tottenham, England, where he was born and raised. After being elected for the seventh time in December 2019, he was appointed shadow secretary of state for justice. As part of this role, he built on his landmark review of the criminal justice system, which explored the treatment of and outcomes for Black and minority ethnic people in British courts and prisons.

Mark Landler is the London bureau chief of The New York Times. In 27 years at The Times, he has been bureau chief in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, White House correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, European economic correspondent and a business reporter in New York. He is the author of “Alter Egos" (Random House), a comparative study of the foreign policy of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lyndsey Layton is a deputy editor on the Climate desk at The New York Times, where she oversees coverage of climate politics and policy. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University, Connecticut and previously worked at The Washington Post, where she was a climate editor, politics editor and a reporter on the National and Metro staff.

Kai-Fu Lee is the C.E.O. of Sinovation Ventures and New York Times best-selling author of “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.” He is the former president of Google China and was a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He is co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum. He has a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon. His numerous honors include being named among the Time 100 and Wired 25 Icons lists. He is based in Beijing.

Tim Lenton is the director of the Global Systems Institute and chair in climate change and Earth system science at the University of Exeter. His reading of James Lovelock’s books on Gaia, when he was an undergraduate, ignited his passion for studying the Earth as a whole system, forming the foundations of his research to date. For his Ph.D., he studied what regulates the nutrient balance of the ocean and the oxygen content of the atmosphere. In his first job he built a simple coupled carbon cycle and climate model and led the development of the Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system model, or GENIE.

Lindsay Levin is founder and C.E.O. of Leaders’ Quest, based in New York. She works with C.E.O.s on business purpose and connects leaders across disciplines to accelerate solutions to some of the world’s big issues. She is co-founder of the Future Stewards coalition, which aims to build a regenerative future where everyone can thrive within the means of the planet; and of TED Countdown, a global movement to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis.

Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, based in Senegal. She joined The Times in 2019 after three and a half years covering West Africa for The Guardian, reporting on the chocolate industry’s devastation of the rainforests in Ivory Coast, the government’s cover-up of a rape crisis in the Democ
ratic Republic of Congo and tensions between herders and farmers in the highlands of Nigeria. She grew up in southern and East Africa and, as a reporter, was based in Mexico City, London and Johannesburg before moving to Dakar.

World champion poet and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Emtithal Mahmoud advocates for refugees and disadvantaged communities the world over. In 2018, she walked 1,000 kilometers for peace from Darfur to Khartoum, mobilizing thousands ahead of Sudan’s 2019 revolution. In 2020, she served as an independent, unaffiliated adviser to the Juba peace talks, creating unprecedented recommendations on civil liberties, gender equality, refugee rights and more

​​Dr. Poonam Malik is an entrepreneurial academic business strategy leader and an investor in Innovation. She is a member of the GlobalScot network, a climate champion for the Scottish Enterprise Board and sits on the board of Skills Development Scotland. She has held leadership roles across the public, private, higher education and social enterprise sectors. Recently appointed as head of investments at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, she brings expertise in life sciences, biotech, health and digital and medical technology businesses. She is passionate about women’s leadership, diversity, equality, inclusive values and climate change.

​​Michael E. Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society , the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries and five books, including “The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet” (PublicAffairs, 2021).

Wanjira Mathai is the vice president and regional director for Africa at the World Resources Institute (WRI). She formerly served as co-chair of WRI’s Global Restoration Council and as a senior adviser to the Global Restoration Initiative. She is the current chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation and the former chair of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya.

Dr. Erica McAlister is senior curator of diptera (flies) and siphonaptera (fleas) at the Natural History Museum, London. Her research focuses on taxonomy and biodiversity of flies and other insects, as well as unlocking data from historic specimens. She is the author of “The Secret Life of Flies” and “The Inside Out of Flies” and presenter of “Metamorphosis: How Insects Transformed Our World” and “Who’s the Pest?” on BBC Radio 4. She is also a visiting lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Harper Adams University in Shropshire, England.

In 2001, Stella McCartney launched her eponymous luxury fashion house and showed her first collection in Paris later the same year. A lifelong vegetarian, she has never used leather, feathers, skin or fur in any of her designs since day one — a revolutionary stance, then and now. Since those first seeds were planted, the brand has continued to grow its sustainability thought leadership through material and supply-chain innovation, as well as partnerships and more.

William McDonough is a leader in E.S.G. and sustainable design and adviser to corporate and government leaders. He co-authored “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things,” and recently articulated the Circular Carbon Economy, a framework for carbon management. He presented the concept at COP25 and at opening workshops for the 2020 G20. He received Presidential Awards for Sustainable Development and Green Chemistry. Time magazine recognized him as one of 2007’s Heroes for the Environment and Fortune named him #24 in the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.

Sara Menker is founder and C.E.O. of Gro Intelligence, makers of an A.I.-powered decision engine spanning climate, agriculture and the economy. Previously, she was a vice president in Morgan Stanley’s Commodities group. She is a member of the U.N. Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Action and a trustee of the Mandela Institute For Development Studies. She was named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute.

As part of Philips’s overall purpose to improve people's health and well-being, Robert Metzke leads the company’s activities on sustainability. He drives strategy toward innovative, sustainable business models and embedding sustainable and circular ways of working across the organization, with a specific focus on environmental responsibility and expanding access to health care in underserved communities. Before joining Philips, he worked at McKinsey & Company as a consultant in strategy and innovation in health care and public sectors. He has a background in journalism, science publishing and academic research.

Robin Millington brings deep experience of working on global issues requiring transformative change. She has worked extensively in the climate, land-use and food sectors, most recently with the EAT Foundation and the European Climate Foundation. She brings senior management experience in philanthropy and industry, having headed organizations including the Centre for European Policy Studies and Wetlands International.

Currently the founder and C.E.O. of Clarity and the founder and former C.E.O. of hotel booking app Blink (acquired by Groupon), Rebeca Minguela is an entrepreneur. Previously, she worked in tech and digital at large corporations, including as global head of digital transformation at Santander senior director of product and operations at Groupon , as well as in private equity at Bain Capital and management consulting at Boston Consulting Group. She has also worked as an engineer at the German Aerospace Center, Siemens and IBM. She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a European Young Leader and an adviser to several start-ups. Additionally, she and her ventures have been featured in top publications, including Forbes, The Economist and the FT. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M.Sc. in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid, both with distinction.

Jennifer Morgan is a leading expert on climate issues and civil society advocacy. Voted by Apolitical as one of the world's top 20 most influential people in climate policy, she is currently the executive director of Greenpeace International. As well as managing the organization, she is a public figure who represents Greenpeace in the media and at moments ranging from U.N.F.C.C.C. meetings and the World Economic Forum to strikes, marches and rallies around the world.

Dr. Deb L. Morrison is an activist-scholar engaged in collaborative design partnerships from local to global scales focused on mobilizing and accelerating just climate action. She is an adviser to the Smithsonian Education Office, a fellow for the SDG Publishers Compact and a leader within ClimateECOS, the U.N. education, communication and outreach community. She is an official observer and active participant in the UNFCCC ACE (Action for Climate Empowerment) program, the Facilitative Working Group of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform and the PCCB (Paris Committee on Capacity-Building) Network. She is the founder of CLEAR Environmental.

Nick Mulvey is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Having built strong career foundations as a young artist via a deep dive into ethnomusicology through his music studies in Spain, Cuba and at SOAS in London, he went on to gain critical acclaim as the hang drum playing member of Portico Quartet, signing with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records and gaining a Mercury Prize nomination in 2008. Now a solo artist with two albums and a second Mercury Prize nomination under his belt, he is maturing into an exceptional artist with a depth of skill and knowledge that allows him to push his sound in multiple directions.

Simon Mundy covers environmental and sustainability issues for the FT’s award-winning Moral Money platform and the wider Financial Times. He began his reporting career in Johannesburg, where he covered Southern Africa for the FT before a period writing on the London financial sector. He then spent seven years in Asia, heading the FT bureaus in Seoul and Mumbai. In 2019, he began a two-year journey traveling across six continents to research “Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis,” published in October 2021.

Gonzalo Muñoz was nominated by the Chilean presidency and the United Nations as the high-level climate champion for COP25, to mobilize climate action among nonstate actors around the world, as well as advise the presidency of the conference.

Dr. Michal Nachmany is the founder and C.E.O. of Climate Policy Radar, a not-for-profit tech start-up mapping and analyzing global climate policy pathways using A.I. She is a visiting fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, where she previously led the work to build evidence-based data tools for national legislation and policy, as well as for low-carbon investment. She is also adviser to Climate Action 100+, a fellow of the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers Initiative and a regular speaker in the U.K. and international media.

Kumi Naidoo is currently a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin and honorary professor of practice at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. He lectures at Fossil Free University and serves as special adviser to the Green Economy Coalition. He also serves as global ambassador to Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. He is a visiting fellow at Oxford and an honorary fellow at Magdalen College Oxford.

Vanessa Nakate, 24, is a climate activist from Uganda and founder of the Africa-based Rise Up Movement. She began striking for the climate in her home town of Kampala in January 2019, after witnessing droughts and flooding devastating communities in Uganda. She now campaigns internationally to highlight the impacts of climate change already playing out in Africa, as well as promoting key climate solutions such as educating girls. In 2020, Vanessa was named a U.N. Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as being listed one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the Year and the 100 most influential young Africans. She is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

James Napier has spent overt 10 years working in the energy and sustainability sector, initially as the general manager of Honeywell’s energy business and latterly as a leader and innovator in small, technology-focused businesses in the sector. He has been involved in large-scale energy efficiency projects in both the public and private sectors, as well leading the development of new offerings focused on supporting the transition to a more flexible, low-carbon energy system.

In 2009, Divya Nawale was a fresh engineering graduate from India, chosen to join an expedition to Antarctica as a youth environmental champion among hundreds of applicants. This set her on a trajectory to choose a career in climate action. Over the past decade, she has traveled and worked across all seven continents on sustainability and clean energy projects in the corporate and development sector. From grassroots activities like setting up solar-powered microgrids in the Himalayas, to engaging with Arctic policymakers in Reykjavik, and even going back to help lead expeditions in the Antarctic.

Gina Neff is executive director of University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy and professor of technology and society at the University of Oxford. Her award-winning research focuses on the impact of the rapid expansion of digital information environments on workers, workplaces and our everyday lives. She also led the team that won the 2021 Webby Award for the best educational website, “The A–Z of AI,” which reached over a million people in 17 different languages.

Luisa Neubauer is one of the co-organizers of Fridays for Future and the most prominent representative of the German movement in the media. In 2018, she met Swedish student Greta Thunberg at the U.N. Climate Change Conference and then started the movement in Germany together with other activists. Since then, she has met various heads of state and government, participated in the U.N. Climate Conference in Madrid and the World Economic Forum in Davos. In January 2020, she protested together with Fridays for Future against Siemens’s participation in the planned Carmichael coal mine project in Australia, and met former C.E.O. Joe Kaeser several times.

Rachel Nixseaman is a passionate youth and community worker with particular interests in youth participation, climate action and democratic processes. Shehas been involved with the third sector for over 16 years through a range of volunteering and employment roles and has led youth engagement programs on local, national and international platforms. She is currently the project operations manager with YMCA Bellshill & Mossend, overseeing the delivery of its youth engagement programs, as well as supporting national work led by YMCA Scotland.

Friederike (Fredi) Otto is a senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, one of Imperial College London's six hubs for research, innovation and influence on global challenges. She is a physicist who, after completing her doctorate in philosophy of science from the Free University Berlin in 2011, joined the University of Oxford as director of its Environmental Change Institute before joining Imperial in October 2021.

Relic Plastic was founded in 2018 as a community engagement project called Precious Plastic Lancaster to discuss the fantastic applications of plastic and the negative impact that its over consumption and linearity has on our planet. The opportunity to change people's minds about what is considered 'waste' also led to producing 100% recycled plastic products for clients and developing an ‘all under one roof’ transparent recycling system raising the value of recycled plastic.

​​Martin Palmer is C.E.O. of FaithInvest, an international nonprofit founded in 2019 to grow the scale and impact of faith-based investing. He has worked across faiths on the environment for over 30 years, having co-founded the Alliance of Religions and Conservation with Prince Philip in 1995. He has written many books on religious and environmental topics, translated ancient Chinese texts and is a lay preacher in the Church of England. He has helped every major faith around the world develop environmental programs over the last 35 years and is the multifaith adviser on the “Laudato Si’” film.

Ridhima Pandey is a 13-year-old girl based in Uttarakhand India. She filed a petition in March 2017 against the Government of India in the National Green Tribunal (NGT), asserting that the Indian government has failed to fulfill its duties to her and the Indian people to mitigate climate change. Now she has filed an appeal against the decision of NGT in the Supreme Court of India.

Ian Parsons works as a conservation architect on heritage projects for larger firms of architects. Current projects include an agricultural heritage center in East Lothian and the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. His involvement with energy-efficient design started during the first oil crisis of 1973 with the pioneering low-impact design initiative in Cornwall, focusing solar panel and wind turbine installations as well as low-energy house designs. Based in Inverclyde since 2014, he appreciates the unique, yet often ignored, characteristics of the area.

In 2011, Nina Gualinga represented Sarayaku youth at the final hearing before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica where Sarayaku won their historic victory against the Ecuadorian government for violating their rights and territory for oil drilling. In 2014, she joined global calls to keep oil in the ground at the People’s Climate March and COP21. In 2015, she joined a large delegation from Sarayaku at COP21 in Paris advocating for the protection of “Living Forests” and in 2016 she joined a historic indigenous women’s march uniting indigenous women of 7 nationalities in defense of rights and territories.

John Paul Jose is a young environmental and climate activist from India. Hailing from an agricultural family and vulnerable geography, he has experienced first-hand ecological destruction and climate crisis. His love for nature since childhood combined with current environmental reality inspired him toward activism. He has experience collaborating with N.G.O.s like Greenpeace, as well as the U.N. Major Group for Children and Youth, the U.N. Environment Program and the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification. He has also worked with TERI, the Energy and Resources Institute and the Youth Council of TED’s Countdown Summit. He is a youth ambassador at Earth.org and the High Seas Alliance, as well as deputy director general of Zero Hour Southeast Asia. He has expertise in regenerative permaculture, rewilding and coastal management and is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Jess Pepper is a Climate Reality leader and coordinator for Climate Reality UK for COP26. Since founding Climate Café in 2015, she now supports and connects Climate Cafés globally. She works in sustainable transport and the Climate Emergency Summit series, as well as supporting community climate action. She sits on the board of the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Jennifer Phin is a Scottish businesswoman currently serving as managing director of A.C. Whyte and Company, a leading energy efficiency contractor in the construction industry. She believes that the U.K. and Scotland need a “carbon army” to help achieve our climate targets and address skills shortages, engaging our young people in meaningful opportunities and rising above the snobbery surrounding vocational training.

Psychiatrist and explorer Bertrand Piccard made history by accomplishing two aeronautical firsts — flying around the world nonstop in a balloon and, more recently, in a solar-powered airplane without fuel. A leading voice for considering the environment through the lens of qualitative economic growth, his Solar Impulse Foundation has succeeded in its most recent mission of identifying 1,000 profitable solutions to protect the environment and improve quality of life.

Alison Porter is a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors, a position she has held since joining the firm in 2014. She is responsible for co-managing the global technology leaders and sustainable future technologies strategies. Prior to Henderson, she was at Ignis Asset Management (formerly Resolution and Britannic Asset Management) as an investment analyst, portfolio manager and head of U.S. equities.

Varshini Prakash is the co-founder and executive director of Sunrise, a movement of young people working to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process through the Green New Deal. She has been a leading voice for young Americans, including helping to lead a mass demonstration for the Green New Deal with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that went viral and put the climate crisis at the top of the political agenda for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Dr. Silvia Pressel is a merit researcher and the senior research lead in the Life Sciences Department of the Natural History Museum, London. She is a botanist and her research aims to improve understanding of the partnerships that most plants, including many crop species, form with soil fungi, how these beneficial partnerships evolved, contribute to ecosystem functions and may respond to change, with important implications for conservation, habitat restoration and for sustainable agriculture.

Katherine Priestley is the founder and managing director of Park Vale Capital, an investment company focused on biotechnology, clean technology and energy efficiency, intelligent systems and the industrial internet of things, as well as deploying machine learning through evolutionary technology in a variety of applications. Park Vale is particularly focused on solving the problem of rapid deployment of hard- and clean-tech innovation to revolutionize how we power our infrastructure and industries to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.

Lavanya Rajamani is a professor of international environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Yamani fellow in public international law at St. Peter's College, Oxford. She specializes in the fields of international environmental and climate change law. She has authored and edited several books and articles in this field, including the second edition of “The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law” ( 2021), the ASIL prize-winning “International Climate Change Law” (2017) and “Innovation and Experimentation in the International Climate Change Regime” (2020). She serves as coordinating lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report and has also served as a consultant and legal adviser, among other responsibilities, to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat and Alliance of Small Island States. She was also part of the UNFCCC core drafting and advisory team for the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Janet Ranganathan is the vice president for research, data and innovation at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a global research organization that addresses the urgent sustainability challenges related to food, forests, water, climate, energy, cities and the ocean. She leads WRI’s efforts to harness the data revolution, combining open data, information technologies, artificial intelligence and human networks to drive more transparent and accountable management of the planet’s resources. She established WRI’s Data Lab and helps ensure WRI’s family of “data watches” provides trusted, actionable information.

Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st-century realities. She is the creator of the doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab.

Inge Relph is executive director and co–founder of Global Choices, a U.S. and U.K. nonprofit working in innovative ways to protect the global commons, prioritizing protection of the Central Arctic Ocean ice shield. Female led and genuinely intergenerational, Global Choices mentors a network of over 30 Arctic Angels, wise young climate leaders active in 25 countries. A respected thought leader and policy innovator around systems change, global governance, peace and security, she has also worked internationally on clean tech and climate finance projects. She was senior policy adviser to the Elders during the landmark COP21 talks in Paris and the SDG agreements.

Alain Revah is chief marketing and strategy officer at Ÿnsect. Prior to Ÿnsect, he held the role of vice president of business and corporate development at Poshmark, based in San Francisco. He started his career building digital communities for Amazon, Major League Baseball and About.com. He co-founded Ulteo (acquired by AZ Network) and helped launch Telegroup. He holds two master’s degrees in law and international business from the Paris-Sorbonne Universityand speaks nine languages.

As C.E.O., Grant F. Reid has led substantial transformation at Mars. With operations in more than 80 countries, 130,000 associates and net sales of over $40 billion, Mars has a significant environmental footprint and touches millions of people. With this scale comes great responsibility and Mr. Reid is working to ensure the company’s sustainability and positive impact on the world for generations to come — in keeping with the company’s purpose: The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today.

Katie Reid is the Children’s Voices program manager at Children’s Parliament, Scotland’s center of excellence for children’s participation and engagement. She leads on the organization’s climate and environment work, with a focus on realizing children’s rights to participate in climate action and decision-making processes. Over the last year, she has been the project lead for children’s participation in Scotland’s Climate Assembly – the first climate citizens’ assembly to directly involve children – and its legacy program, Climate Changemakers.

Magi Richani is the founder and C.E.O. of Nobell Foods, a company making dairy products from plants to create a radically more sustainable food system. Nobell is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Robert Downey Jr. ‘s FootPrint Coalition and has raised over $100m to commercialize its first product: cheese. Prior to founding Nobell, Magi was a project manager at Shell. She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Texas Austin and a master’s degree in engineering and project management from UC Berkeley.

Based in London, Whitney Richardson is The Times’s global events manager, bringing together New York Times journalists with subscribers around the world. She was previously the photo editor covering business and technology. Prior to this, she was a producer of “The Lens” blog, where she co-produced for the 2015 and 2016 New York Photo Portfolio Review, as well as reported on the evolving trends of the photo industry. Her writing focuses on the intersection of art, technology and media in developing markets. She has lectured on trends in the media landscape at Harvard, Yale and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Johan Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues. He led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years of experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

Bruno Rodríguez is the founder and leader of Youth for Climate (Jóvenes por el Clima) Argentina, the Argentinian representation of the leading youth movement Fridays For Future. He is the author of the climate emergency declaration bill that was passed in the Argentinian Senate in 2019 and has organized some of the largest rallies and protests in Latin America. Since he was 14 years old, he has worked in some of the poorest neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, helping communities impacted by extreme floods and heatwaves, educating social workers on climate justice and traveling to the north of Argentina to amplify the demands of indigenous people in Salta and Tucumán provinces, where he was born. He is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Shirley Rodrigues was appointed as London deputy mayor for environment and energy in October 2016. She has devised and delivered environmental policies and programs in London, as well as nationally and internationally, for governments and philanthropic organizations, including, most recently, overseeing a global cities and climate change grants portfolio at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.

Susan Ruffo is Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation on Climate and the Ocean. Previously, she served as associate director for climate preparedness at the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Barack Obama, executive director of the Circulate Initiative and managing director of international initiatives at Ocean Conservancy. She began her career as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State, serving in China, Argentina, Nigeria and Washington, D.C. She has degrees in economics and political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jacqueline Savitz is Oceana’s chief policy officer for North America. She oversees Oceana’s campaigns in the United States, Mexico and Belize to build fishery abundance and protect our oceans from the impacts of pollution and climate change. She is a co-founder and a member of the board of directors of Global Fishing Watch, an online platform that offers the first free global view of commercial fishing, in partnership with SkyTruth and Google. Prior to her work at Oceana, she served in various capacities for other environmental N.G.O.s, including Coast Alliance, the Environmental Working Group and Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Antonina Scheer is a researcher at the Transition Pathway Initiative based at the London School of Economics, a project that assesses the carbon emissions and targets of some of the world's highest-emitting corporations. She collects corporate data and compares companies' emissions pathways with sector-specific benchmarks to inform investors and the public on whether the companies in question are aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. She is building her knowledge of the mitigation options in transportation, steel production and, in particular, electricity generation. She is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Mark Schleifstein is an environment reporter for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, and co-author of the 2018 special section, “The Drowning Coast,” which appeared in both The New York Times and The Times-Picayune. His reports on Hurricane Katrina were among Times-Picayune stories awarded 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for public service and breaking news reporting. He is co-author of the 2006 book "Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms," about Katrina. He also co-authored the 2002 series, "Washing Away," which warned that New Orleans could be flooded by hurricane storm surges, as well as the 1996 series, "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed?", which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Robyn Scott is co-founder and C.E.O. of Apolitical, a global network and learning platform for government. Prior to Apolitical she founded several companies and social enterprises, wrote an acclaimed memoir about growing up in Botswana, and worked for the Financial Times. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Gates Foundation Cambridge scholar. She has a B.Sc. in bioinformatics from Auckland University and a master’s degree in bioscience enterprise from Cambridge University.

Jess Search is the C.E.O. of Doc Society. Previously, she was a commissioning editor at Channel 4 and a founder of Shooting People, the online filmmakers network. She also sits on the board of the Institute for Public Policy Research and has an M.B.A. from Cass Business School. She likes to moderate for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Skoll World Forum, the Trust Women Conference and Doc Society’s Good Pitch.

Having spent nearly three decades working in and around financial markets, first as a trader and then as a journalist, Steve Sedgwick co-anchors CNBC’s flagship program “Squawk Box Europe.”

Somini Sengupta, the international climate reporter for The New York Times, tells the stories of communities and landscapes most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. A George Polk Award-winning foreign correspondent, she has reported from a Congo River ferry, a Himalayan glacier, the streets of Baghdad and Mumbai, and many places in between. As The Times’s United Nations correspondent, she reported on global challenges from war to women’s rights. Her first book, “The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young,” was published in 2016 by W.W. Norton. She grew up in India, Canada and the United States, graduating from the University of California at Berkeley.

Joana Setzer is an assistant professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research explores the role of courts in climate governance. She leads the Grantham Research Institute’s Climate Change Laws of the World project – the most comprehensive global resource on climate policy, legislation and litigation. She practiced as an environmental lawyer in Brazil and regularly advises international organizations, governments and N.G.O.s.

Seumas (aged 11), Margaret (aged 12) and Atholl (aged 11) live in the Western Isles and are members of the Children’s Parliament in Scotland. Since October 2020, the children have been part of Scotland’s Climate Assembly – the first citizens’ assembly to directly involve children – and are continuing to influence climate action at local and national levels. They continue to work together with over 100 children across Scotland, as well as the support of their team mascot, Brochan the hedgehog.

Ignacio Galán is chairman and C.E.O. of Iberdrola, and chairman of ScottishPower, Avangrid and Neoenergia. His pioneering vision for international expansion and energy transition has transformed Iberdrola into one of the largest in the sector, with a presence in countries such as Spain, the U.K., the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland and Romania. He is a member of the Electricity Cluster at the World Economic Forum, the Steering Committee of the European Round Table for Industry and the JPMorgan International Council.

Kaime Silvestre is a Brazilian climate activist and human rights lawyer. Born in the Amazon, he relentlessly advocates for humanitarian action and for protection of the rainforest, its wildlife and the people who depend on it. He is also part of the Generation Climate Initiative.

Ezekiel Simperingham is the global lead on migration and displacement for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. His work includes strategy and policy, emergencies and operations, community programs, advocacy, diplomacy and accountability. He is an international lawyer with extensive experience working in conflict- and disaster-affected countries across the globe. He has authored several publications on refugee law, climate-related displacement, international criminal justice and housing, land and property rights. He is a member of the U.N.F.C.C.C. Task Force on Displacement.

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American novelist, widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. He began publishing novels in 1984. His work has been described as "humanist science fiction" and "literary science fiction." He himself has been a proud defender and advocate of science fiction as a genre, which he regards as one of the most powerful of all literary forms.

Chris Stark is C.E.O. of the Climate Change Committee, the U.K.’s statutory climate advisers. He led the committee’s work to recommend a net-zero target for the U.K., and has developed detailed advice on the path to carbon neutrality. He speaks regularly on the urgent need to confront climate change.

Martin Stepek has been C.E.O. of the Scottish Family Business Association since its inception in 2005. Prior to this he was co-owner and director of his family’s business, J. Stepek Ltd. He has co-authored academic papers, particularly on the absence of appropriate support mechanisms for the sector. He is also an award-winning poet and a writer on his Polish-Scottish heritage. In addition, he teaches the largest mindfulness mental health class in Scotland.

Mark Stephen is a BBC broadcaster, producer, after-dinner speaker, Burns performer, MC and conference chairman. He is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2016, he became a fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, joining a long line of prestigious names including Livingstone and Shackleton. In 2017, he chaired a two-day conference for the Scottish government “Scotland and the New North,” under the auspices of the Arctic Circle N.G.O.

Having recently graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) in environmental resource management, Finlay Taylor has consolidated his longstanding interest in the environment and is keen to see how Scotland as a nation can help manage and mitigate the impacts of climate change, particularly how trees as a natural carbon sink can play their part. As part of Scotland’s Young People’s Forest volunteer initiative, he assists on the co-designing process with the ultimate goal of creating a forest designed, developed and managed by young people, which is aligned to his interest in the restoration of Scotland's natural forests.

Peter ter Kulve is president of Unilever’s Home Care business and a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive. He also serves as chairman of Unilever Myanmar and the firm’s wellness subsidiary Olly. He joined Unilever in 1988 and has held various senior roles across Asia and Europe. Prior to his current role, he had dual responsibility as chief digital and growth officer, in which he led the end-to-end digitalization of the company, and president of Southeast Asia and Australasia, one of Unilever’s largest and most profitable country clusters.

Leah Thomas is an intersectional environmental activist and eco-communicator based in Southern California. She is passionate about advocating for and exploring the relationship between social justice and environmentalism, and is the founder of the Intersectional Environmentalist platform.

Matt Thompson is the editor of the Headway team at The New York Times. Before joining The Times, he served as editor in chief at Reveal, executive editor of The Atlantic and director of vertical initiatives (and mischief) at NPR. He lives in Vallejo, California.

Greta Thunberg, 18, is a Swedish climate activist who started a school strike in front of the Swedish Parliament in August 2018. Since then, her solo protest has inspired millions of people to join school strikes for climate action all over the world. She has addressed decision makers at U.N. climate summits in New York, Poland and Madrid, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and in several national parliaments. In 2019, Time magazine selected her as Person of the Year. Alongside being an activist, she is currently attending high school in Stockholm, Sweden.

Nigel Topping is the U.K.’s high-level climate action champion, appointed by the U.K. prime minister in January 2020. He works alongside the Chilean high-level climate action champion, Gonzalo Muñoz. The role of the high-level champions is to strengthen collaboration and drive action from businesses, investors, organizations, cities and regions on climate change, and to coordinate this work with all governments and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Mariam Traore Chazalnoël is a senior policy officer with specific expertise in migration, the environment and climate change. She is based at the United Nations Migration Agency (IOM) headquarters in Geneva. She has been working on policy issues related to climate change and migration since 2013 and has authored and edited several articles and publications on this topic. She has been working with the IOM since 2008 in different positions in Geneva, New York and Bamako, Mali.

Laurence Tubiana is C.E.O. of the European Climate Foundation (ECF). In addition to her role at ECF, she is chair of the Board of Governors at the French Development Agency and a professor at Sciences Po, Paris. Before joining ECF, she was France’s climate change ambassador and special representative for COP21 and, as such, she was a key architect of the landmark Paris Agreement. Following COP21 and through COP22, she was appointed U.N. high-level champion for climate action.

Paul van Zyl served as the executive secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He also co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice, an organization that works in over 40 countries that have endured massive human rights violations under repression and conflict. He is also a co-founder and C.E.O. of Maiyet, an ethical luxury fashion brand. Most recently, heco-founded The Conduit, which serves as a home for those committed to improving the world by harnessing the power of creativity and entrepreneurship, bringing together a diverse community of people passionate about social change.

Adina Vălean is the European commissioner for transport. Before taking office in December 2019, she was a member of the European Parliament for 12 years, latterly serving as its vice president. As an MEP, she served as chairwoman of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. She was also a member of the Romanian Parliament between 2004 and 2007. She holds a master’s degree in European integration studies and security and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.

Gloria Walton is an award-winning community organizer, writer and speaker, and the C.E.O. and president of The Solutions Project. She is described as one of the United States’ most exciting “next generation” political leaders, and was named as Inside Philanthropy’s new president to watch in 2020. She does her part to create the future we want by resourcing and amplifying climate justice solutions from communities at the frontlines of the crisis where innovation, hope and power is growing beyond our wildest dreams.

Elizabeth Wathuti is a passionate environmentalist and climate activist from Kenya. She is the founder of Green Generation Initiative and head of campaigns and coordinator of the Daima coalition for the protection of urban green spaces at the Wangari Maathai Foundation. She is serving as the Global South Youth co-chair for the COP26 Civil Society and Youth Advisory Council. She is also a youth council member
of Reserva: The Youth Land Trust. Due to her outstanding passion, leadership and personal
commitment to environmental conservation and societal issues, she has received many honors, such as the Wangari Maathai Scholarship Award, the Diana International Award, Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation’s Africa Green Person of the Year Award, the Young Climate Champion award by the Global Climate Fund and the Commonwealth Youth Award, among many others.

Rose Wamalwa was born in a rural area in Kenya and, like most girls in her village, she spent her childhood walking long distances to fetch water. She dreamed about growing up and doing something about this problem, which limits the potential of so many women and girls in her region. After completing university, she was selected as a Global Women’s Water Initiative fellow. She has accumulated vast experience coordinating and managing international projects, having also worked with Women’s Earth Alliance and Women’s Global Connection, among others.

Lydia Wanjiku Kibandi is the C.E.O. at Lensational, a nonprofit social enterprise that aims to elevate the voices of underrepresented women through photography. Her passion for elevating women’s voices is evident not only through her academic work in photojournalism, but also through her intimate involvement with the women she works with and her strategic direction steering Lensational forward. She has earned recognition as a young leader in her country and was a nominee for Business Daily Africa’s Top 40 Under 40 women in leadership 2019.

Pam Warhurst CBE has been an activist and adviser for over 40 years. From serving as leader of a Local Authority, chair of an acute health trust, board member of several national environmental bodies chair of the board of the U.K. Forestry Commission, to Yorkshire representative on the Committee of the Regions in Europe and chair of a Town Deal board, she has occupied a front-row seat on how government operates and invests at all levels.

Gary White is the co-founder and C.E.O. of Water.org and WaterEquity, nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering people in the developing world to gain access to safe water and sanitation. He developed Water.org’s WaterCredit Initiative, creating new financing options for poor populations to meet their water supply and sanitation needs. He also developed and now leads WaterEquity, the first-ever impact investment manager dedicated to ending the global water crisis in our lifetime, with an exclusive focus on raising and deploying capital to water and sanitation businesses that serve people living in poor communities throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Giles Whittell is world affairs editor at Tortoise, where he also edits the “Sensemaker” newsletter. He was previously chief leader-writer at The Times of London and a correspondent for the paper in Washington, D.C., Moscow and Los Angeles. His books include “Bridge of Spies,” a biography of snow and “The Greatest Raid,” a new history of the commando raid on St. Nazaire in March 1942.

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is an author, strategist, teacher and one of 15 “women who will save the world,” according to Time magazine.” Her books on climate include the best-selling anthology “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis”; “The Drawdown Review: Climate Solutions for a New Decade”; the New York Times best seller “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming”; and “Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change.” A former Rhodes scholar, she is co-founder of The All We Can Save Project, in support of women leading on climate, and co-host of the podcast “A Matter of Degrees.”

Ellen Windemuth is C.E.O. of WaterBear Network, overseeing the strategy and direction of the new free streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet. Prior to WaterBear, she was owner and C.E.O. of Off the Fence, having founded the company in 1994. Under her leadership, Off the Fence acquired, produced and co-produced over 6,000 hours of content. She is a seasoned executive producer and distributor and has produced over 500 hours of content to date She executive produced “My Octopus Teacher,” which won this year’s BAFTA and Oscar for best documentary feature.

"Musical weirdo and visionary" Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a U.N. Women role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition, “The Art of Music in the Digital Age: A Series of World-First Designs,” at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Her latest innovation is an environmental protest piece built using 800,000 years of our planet’s climate data to visualize rising CO2 levels. Her interactive video installation “From Green to Red” was unveiled at the Nobel Prize Summit, premiered at the London Design Biennale and will be shown at COP26.

Farhana Yamin is an internationally recognized environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert. She has advised leaders and ministers on climate negotiations for 30 years, representing small islands and developing countries and attending nearly every major climate summit since 1991. In addition to founding Track 0, she is an associate fellow at Chatham House, a senior advisor to SYSTEMIQ, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and visiting professor, University of the Arts London. She was voted No. 2 on the BBC Woman’s Hour Power List 2020, with the judges describing her a “powerhouse of climate justice” and is active in numerous community-based initiatives and social justice movements.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist, U.N. messenger of peace and the youngest person ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As co-founder of Malala Fund, she is building a world where every girl can learn and lead without fear.

Patrick Youssef joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2005 and has completed several missions in Sudan, Chad, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay. Between 2010 and 2013, he was the deputy head of operations for the Near and Middle East, covering Yemen, Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council. He was head of the delegation in Iraq for more than 2 years, before being appointed deputy regional director for Africa in 2016. In this role, he managed ICRC operations in the Maghreb, the Sahel, the Lake Chad basin and West Africa.

Vittoria Zanuso is the executive director of the Mayors Migration Council (MMC), a mayor-led organization that helps cities influence global responses on migration and displacement. Prior to joining the MMC, she held multiple positions at the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative. Originally from Milan, she holds an M.P.A. in international policy and management from the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a B.A. in politics from Queen Mary University of London.

Mark Zimring directs a multidisciplinary, cross-regional team to advance the Nature Conservancy’s large-scale fisheries program, which focuses on building healthy and sustainable fisheries, reducing bycatch of vulnerable species, decreasing unsustainable fishing and improving socioeconomic returns for communities.