Previously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.

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

Anders Bang Kiertzner has a decade of experience working with strategic design and innovation management. Anders has a background in Cultural Studies and has dedicated his career to maturing and transforming corporate strategy and decision-making, with the goal of achieving a more sustainable and circular future.

Kristine has been working with timber all her life. She is raised on a farm in Krødsherad. where she still lives, grows grain and manage the forest. She did her study in timber engineering and her PhD in building physics, with a thesis on wooden claddings. She has been working in industry and research, producing, and developing structures in sawn wood, gluelam and CLT. Her research is on building process, moisture and welfare connected to wood sensors.

Pärtel-Peeter Pere is a Member of Parliament of Estonia and works as a green transition adviser at Tallinn University of Technology. He has worked as an urban strategist and co-founded a place management company Future Place Leadership, headquartered in Stockholm. To deal with his climate anxiety, he wrote an album called “False expectations” that deals with the false promises of techno-optimism and the pending climate catastrophe.

Founder of the Urban Morphology and Complex System Institute Serge Salat is an architect, urban planner, economist, and the founder of the Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute in Paris. He is a global expert in urban morphology and city design, spatial planning, urban energy, smart cities, urban finance and complex systems management. He advises the IPCC, GEF, UNEP, UN-Habitat, World Bank, the Chinese government and many cities, including the municipalities of Shanghai and Chongqing. Serge Salat holds three PhDs in Architecture, Economy, and History of Civilizations. He is a recipient of the prestigious GFHS Outstanding Individual Award for his work on urban sustainability.