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

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.

David has developed a technology platform called the Universal Processing Plant which eliminates waste from food processing, utilizes waste from other food processors and allows the waste on farm to be monetized. The 100% utilization of the total crop and the feed stock has material impact on cost of goods and the overall nutritional value of food ingredients. The Future of Food demands that we utilize everything and waste nothing. David, though his Universal Processing Plant is delivering on this future with a plan to is implementable today and transitions into tomorrow’s food requirements.

Brett Jenks has championed behavior change in conservation for more than 20 years. As CEO, Brett leads Rare’s global mission to empower and inspire people to adopt sustainable behaviors and practices, and protect vital natural resources. Under Brett’s leadership, Rare has created large-scale, global partnerships with foundations, NGOs and governments to tackle environmental challenges like overfishing, unsustainable land use practices, and climate change with a people-centered approach rooted in behavioral science.

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.

Prof. Mark Sutton is chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI), a joint project of the IGBP and SCOPE and is co-chair of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN), a body of the UN-ECE Geneva Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution. His work in these areas has included preparing options for revision of the UNECE Gothenburg Protocol and developing a vision of how the global nitrogen Since 2012 Prof Sutton has been working with the UNEP supporting their work through the Global Programme of Action on the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA), leading the provision of science advice the GPA 3rd Intergovernmental Review (IGR-3, Manila). This subsequently led to his leadership of the Global Overview on Nutrient Management for UNEP ‘Our Nutrient World’ in 2013. In recent years, Prof. Sutton has focused on developing the links between ammonia and other nitrogen compounds in the environment.

Master of Sience from Chalmers University of Technology. Long career in chemical industry with several CEO positions in large global corporations and has been Chairman of the Swedish Chemicals Association. Now Chairman of the BioInnovation fund and board member of a few mid size companies. Most important is my job as CEO of EasyMining that has developed,and is commercializing, circular technologies that produces nutrients in a way that directly and indirectly is reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Anna Lundbom joined EasyMining, an innovation company within Ragn-Sells Group, in May 2020 as the Marketing and Product Sales Manager. She is focusing on leading the project to commercialize EasyMining´s nitrogen removal and recovery process along with business development for the company´s other processes and products. Anna joined the Ragn-Sells Group, one of the Nordic’s largest waste management companies, in 2012 and has been working with business development and sales in various positions. Previous to Ragn-Sells, she worked as a management consultant. Anna is a graduate of Linköping’s University and holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management. Thrilled to be a part of creating circular solutions for nutrients and other important materials, Anna is devoted to creating cooperation between companies and raise the awareness of the legislative hindrances that exists.

Gemma is a Lecturer of the Environment and Disasters at the University of Manchester. Her research explores the everyday geographies and politics of climate change, and her research has particularly focused on South America and the Caribbean.

Lisa A. Levin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. She has studied deep-sea ecosystems and their response to climate change and human disturbance for the past 40 years. Levin is co- founder and co-lead of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative, co-lead of the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy and contributed to multiple IPCC reports.

Slav leads the Sustainable Debt team for NatureVest – The Nature Conservancy’s impact investing arm – which deploys debt conversions, ‘blue bonds’, and public-private structures to mobilize capital for marine and terrestrial conservation.

Jean-Paul Adam is the Director for Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Cassie Flynn is the Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP. The portfolio supports over 150 countries to take bold climate action. She previously served as the Strategic Advisor on climate change to UNDP’s Administrator and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji as COP23 President. Cassie is an internationally recognized expert on the treaty negotiations on climate change and has been a featured expert by CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, and other publications. Cassie earned her master's degree from Yale University and undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College.

Raquel Lagunas is the Head of Gender Equality at UNDP, based in New York, with more than 25 years of experience working on gender equality in different development settings. She has advised Governments across the world and large Development Organizations, such as the World Food Programme, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and IUCN, and worked closely with non-governmental organizations and grass root women’s movements across Latin America. Raquel has worked closely with academia, including leading a master’s degree in the Gender Studies Programme at the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internationales (ICEI), serving as a senior researcher for think tanks in Madrid and lecturing at SIPA/Columbia University and Duke University. She holds an MA in International Studies: Gender and Development, and a second one in Sexual Sciences from Universad de Alcalá, as well as a BA in Philosophy from Universidad de Salamanca.

Usha Rao-Monari is the Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As Senior Adviser to Blackstone’s Infrastructure Group, Ms. Rao-Monari is an investment professional with almost 30 years of investment experience, particularly in the infrastructure area. She previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Global Water Development Partners, a Blackstone portfolio company, and held several senior positions, notably as Director of the Sustainable Business Advisory Group at the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group. She currently serves on the Boards of a number organizations in the field of sustainable development and has held a number of Board and advisory positions in the areas of water, natural capital, biodiversity and environment.

Vladislav Kaim is a young Moldovan economist and climate action and sustainability advocate with vast experience at the UN level, as well as on multiple national and local platforms in Eastern European region. His main fields of advocacy have been green jobs for youth, just transition, green and sustainable economic growth and reforms to the multilateral climate finance agenda. In July 2020, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appointed Mr Kaim to be one of his Youth Advisors on Climate Change and oversee the implementation of his Climate Strategy. Vladislav is also the contact point on green jobs at YOUNGO, official youth constituency to the UNFCCC, and 2021 IMF Youth Fellow.

H.E. Professor Hani Sewilam, the Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, is a professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Management. He worked as the Managing Director of the UNESCO Chair in Hydrological Changes and Water Resources Management at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and he was also the University Rector’s Delegate for African Countries.

Thomas Hahn is an ecological economist. He is co-leader of a large research program for Just Transition and Fair Transformation to a Fossil-Free Future. We co-produce knowledge and policies with the Swedish trade unions and other grassroot civil society organizations.

Nick Robins is Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute. The focus of his work is on how to mobilise finance for climate action in ways that support a just transition, promoting the role of central banks and regulators in achieving sustainable development and investigating how the financial system can support the restoration of nature. Nick is co-founder of Carbon Tracker and also co-founder of Planet Tracker and previously worked at UNEP, HSBC, Henderson Global Investors, the International Institute for Environment and Development, as well as the European Commission.

With many years of experience of environment issues, Karin in 2016 became Secretary-General for Sweden’s largest environmental organization, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC). She has previously held positions at Stockholm International Water Institute, Ministry of the Environment and other civil society organizations such as Fairtrade and the Church of Sweden. Karin holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental chemistry. The first United Nations Climate Change Conference she attended was COP3 in Kyoto.

PhD in Natural Resource Management. Program director FAIRTRANS (Fair Transformation to a Fossil Free Future). According to Web of Science top 1% Highly cited Scholars in the world 2019, 2020.

Dalia Eid is 2nd Vice Chair of Vision, Sweden’s fifth largest union with over 200 000 members in the public sector. Dalia is also a leadership strategic in the municipality of Nyköping and is highly engaged in leadership, development and how to organise at the workplace – with the aim to make work life better.

Bert De Vel is responsible for the climate policy advocacy work of the ITUC at the global level, functioning as focal point for the trade unions at the UNFCCC. He has worked since 2009 for the trade unions, first at the biggest Belgian trade union, then at the ITUC.

Emma Clark is CEO of ecoX Global Pte Ltd, a company which specializes in research and commercialisation of world-leading solutions that support decarbonization. Current projects led by Emma include the Production of Green Hydrogen from Wastewater and a world-first process that more effectively recovers critical metals from solids, such as ores and e-waste, while totally regenerating all oxidizers and reagents used.

.Jillian leads Sustainability at Ketchum where she drives initiatives and provides counsel related to ESGs, Food and Agriculture, Sustainability, Environmental Justice, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She has spent much of her career advocating for both human and planetary health centered around sustainable solutions like new technologies, regenerative agriculture, alternative proteins, biodiversity, and soil health. Previously she was appointed in the Obama Administration at the United States Department of Agriculture where she created and implemented government initiatives that focused on sustainable agriculture in food deserts, disadvantaged and low-income communities throughout the United States addressing food access issues and nutrition.

Niranjali leads ActionAid’s US office, working to build a more just and sustainable world. She is an international lawyer and activist with expertise in climate finance, human rights, and equity.

Tim is a founder and the CEO of Tradewater, a mission-based B Corp focused on preventing catastrophic climate change by strategically targeting non-CO2 gases, which accelerate warming in the short term. He provides strategic direction for the firm in all business areas. He is developing new programs to further Tradewater’s mission and expand its impact. He's also working to open new markets and facilitate the firm’s international expansion. Tim brings to Tradewater 40 years of experience in carbon programs, environmental policy, hazardous waste cleanup, and pollution prevention. He founded Wabashco in 2008 to develop carbon offset and renewable energy projects in the Midwest, and in 1998 he co-founded the Delta Institute, a nonprofit organization to improve environmental quality and promote community and economic development in the Great Lakes Basin. Tim has worked for a range of environmental organizations in both the private and non-profit sectors.

Anders Finnson is a Senior Environmental Advisor at Svenskt Vatten (Swedish Water). He is specialized in policy, media, and technical issues on the water environment. Since 2017, he is a member of the Advisory board of the Swedish Chemicals Agency, as well as a member of the European Water Companies Association. He is also a member of the Swedish Eco-labeling Committee since 2008, and a board member of the NGO Toilet Without Borders.

Systems ecologist working with transformation and change in the fields of sustainable nutrient management, eutrophication and clean waters. Check out: http://www.balticstewardship.org/

Caroline works at the European Environment Agency on chemicals in water, focusing particularly on the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment and Water Framework Directives. She’s inspired by the importance, responsibilities and opportunities of treating our sewage to protect human health and the environment. Prior to working at the EEA, Caroline worked in water and marine policy at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and as a marine researcher at CEFAS in the UK. She studied Environmental Science at Plymouth (UK), before working at the Water Research Centre and then doing her PhD in Environmental Chemistry at the University of East Anglia.

Shannon Hader, MD, MPH, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of Programmes at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and a prominent leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States and globally, is the dean of the School of International Service at American University. Before accepting the position at the UN, Dr. Hader served as Director of the Division of Global HIV and TB at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also has served as Vice President and Director at Futures Group International (now Palladium); as Senior Deputy Director of the HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Administration at the District of Columbia Department of Health; Senior Scientific Advisor to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at the US Department of State.

Simon Nicholson is an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC. His research and teaching focus on global environmental governance, the intersections of technology and the environment, and carbon removal and solar radiation management responses to climate change. Simon is Director of American University’s cross-campus Center on Environment, Community, and Equity. He is also co-Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy and Director of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment.