Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström is a Swedish professor and joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. He is a strategist on how resilience can be built into land regions short of water, and has published over 100 papers in fields ranging from practical land and water use to global sustainability.
Dr. Saleemul Huq
Saleemul Huq OBE is a Bangladeshi-British scientist and is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development based in Bangladesh, and Professor at Independent University, Bangladesh. He is an expert in the field of climate change, environment and development.
Dr. Adelle Thomas
Adelle is Senior Caribbean Research Associate for the IMPACT project and part of the Science team at Climate Analytics. She is also a Senior Fellow at The University of The Bahamas. Her focus is on aspects of social vulnerability, adaptation strategies and loss and damage.
Dr. Anjali Tripathi
Dr. Anjali Tripathi is an astrophysicist who researches how planets form and evolve. She is an avid science communicator, whose talks have been featured by TED.com, the Smithsonian, WGBH, and others.
Dr. Hannah Wakeford
Dr. Wakeford is a lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Bristol, UK. Hannah leads a group investigating the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets using space-based telescopes.
Dr. Wakeford is the co-lead of the Space Telescopes Advanced Research Group for the Atmospheres of Transiting Exoplanets (STARGATE), a collaboration which spans institutes across the UK and USA. Her work focuses on characterising the atmospheres of exoplanets through observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, and working towards a better understanding of how exoplanets can be explored further with Webb.
Dr. Francina Dominguez
As a hydroclimatologist, Dr. Francina Dominguez’s work is focused on the interactions between the land and the atmosphere, and more specifically, on changes in hydrology and climate due to human modification of the land surface and greenhouse gas emissions. The two primary lines of research in her group look at land-atmosphere interaction from two perspectives: 1) the effect of climate variability and change, primarily extreme events, on surface hydrology and 2) the effect of changes in surface hydrology on climate.
Dr. Matt Thompson
Dr. Matt Thompson trained as a field archaeologist and spent several years working in commercial archaeology before moving into museums and heritage sector. He has experience working in a number of regional and national museums in a curatorial and managerial capacity. He was previously Director of Collections and Education at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust and is currently the Head Collections Curator for English Heritage.
Dr. Malcolm Dick
Dr. Malcolm Dick was born in Lichfield, lives in Sandwell and works in Birmingham.
He is Director of the Centre for West Midlands History in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham, where, amongst other things, he convenes the MA in West Midlands History and runs various public day schools.
Sherri Goodman
Sherri Goodman is an experienced leader and senior executive, lawyer and director in the fields of national security, climate change, energy, science, oceans and environment. Goodman is Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security.
Bruno Rodríguez
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.
Dr. Christiane Fröhlich
Dr. Christiane Fröhlich is a research fellow at the GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. She is particularly interested in the intersection between forced migration, global environmental change, and socio-political upheaval, and in related questions of mobility and climate justice.
Dr. Christopher Clack
Dr. Clack is the CEO of Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC (VCE®). He is pursuing a path that leads the way for a more intelligent electric power system design, in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Jim Williams
Dr. Jim Williams is a professor in the Energy Systems Management program at the University of San Francisco and a global thought leader on low-carbon energy systems. He also directs the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project for the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and is a senior research fellow with Evolved Energy Research.
Adam Reed
Adam Reed is the Senior Advisor at Associated Universities, Inc. He provides impartial and nonpartisan advice to the National Commission on Grid Resilience, a bipartisan blue-ribbon commission devoted to improving the resilience of the nation's power grid to both natural and human threats. Reed specializes in energy policy consulting, research, education, workshops, and outreach for clients in the private sector, academia, and government.
Dr. Harini Nagendra
Dr. Harini Nagendra is Director of Research Center at Azim Premji University, and leads the University’s Center for Climate Change and Sustainability. Over the past 25 years, Harini has been at the leading edge of research examining conservation in forests and cities of South Asia from the perspective of both landscape ecology and social justice.
Chris Dorsi
Chris Dorsi is the Director of the Montana Weatherization Training Center. He's spent the last 40 years developing best practices for the housing industry, publishing respected textbooks and technical curricula, developing training programs, and operating private construction organizations.
Leah Stokes
Dr. Leah Stokes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She authored the book Short Circuiting Policy, and contributed to the anthology All We Can Save. Leah Stokes co-hosts the podcast A Matter of Degrees.
John Mandyck
John Mandyck is the CEO of Urban Green Council. Prior to his current role, he capped a 25-year career as Chief Sustainability Officer for United Technologies Corporation. He also serves as a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Business.
Kunlé Adeyemi
Kunlé Adeyemi is an architect, designer and development researcher whose works are internationally recognized for originality and innovation. He is the founder and principal of NLÉ, an architecture, design and urbanism practice focused on innovating cities and communities.
David Adeleke
David Adeleke is a writer, media analyst, and communications strategist. Adeleke currently leads the Communications team at Nestcoin and manages its media property, Breach.
Previously, Adeleke was Head of Communications at Eko Atlantic City. He is a Media and Journalism Fellow at the Charles Koch Institute.
Mark Lash
Mark Lash is the president of the United Steelworkers Union Local 1066, which represents about 1,400 members at U.S. Steel's Gary Works.
Lori Latham
Lori serves as a business development representative with Wessler Engineering.
Lori also serves as a member of the Live Lake County Tobacco Prevention Coalition, Chair of the Secondhand Smoke Committee; Chair of the Environmental and Climate Justice Committee of the NAACP Gary Branch; and as a Board Member of the Project Rebuild Foundation and Brown Faces in Green Spaces organization.
Dr. Leslie Harris
Dr. Leslie Harris is an American historian and scholar of African American Studies. She is a professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She has focused on complicating the ideas we all hold about the history of African Americans in the United States, and finding ways to communicate these new ideas to the general public.
Karen Freeman-Wilson
The Honorable Karen Freeman-Wilson is President and CEO of the Chicago Urban League. She was mayor of her hometown of Gary, Indiana from 2012 through 2019. She was the city’s first female mayor and the first female African American mayor in Indiana.
Marie-Claire Graf
Marie-Claire is a Swiss based youth advocate, global change maker and speaker for just sustainable development and ambitious climate action. She initiated and is leading several associations and movements in the fields of climate action, sustainable development, youth and women empowerment and education such as the Sustainability Week International.
Heeta Lakhani
Heeta Lakhani is a climate educator with The ClimAct Initiative. She has a Masters of Science in Environmental Studies and Resource Management from TERI University, India. She is a firm believer in the power of youth participation in grassroots and international processes.
Chandelle O'Neil
Chandelle O'Neil is a sustainable energy specialist and human rights advocate from Trinidad and Tobago. They went to university and worked in Canada where they obtained their Bachelor’s of Engineering in mechanical engineering (with distinction) specialized for sustainable energy systems design and worked in process engineering for waste reduction and improving efficiencies at large international companies including Johnson & Johnson.
Dr. Frans de Waal
Dr. Frans de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates.
Cassie Flynn
Cassie Flynn is an internationally recognized expert on climate change, advisor to the UNDP Administrator, and former advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji.
Athena Aktipis
Athena Aktipis is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Arizona State University, co-Director of the Human Generosity Project and Director of Human and Social Evolution.
Dr. Siobhan McDonnell
Dr. Siobhan McDonnell is a lawyer and anthropologist with over 20 years of experience working with Indigenous people in Australia and Oceania on land rights, gender, and climate change issues. She is a Senior Lecturer at Crawford School of Public Policy, and has been a lead negotiator on climate change for the Vanuatu and Fiji governments.
Rachel Kyte
Rachel Kyte is the 14th dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Prior to joining Fletcher, Kyte served as special representative of the UN secretary-general and chief executive officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). In her UN role and as CEO of SEforAll, Kyte led efforts to promote and finance clean, reliable and affordable energy as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.