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.

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.

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.

Ingmar is serial entrepreneur within financial communication and nominated for a DI Gasell Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Sweden’s Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year 2020, and Green Warrior 2021. Ingmar Rentzhog has been the chairman of the environmental think tank Global Challenge. He is on the board of Naventus Corporate Finance. He’s a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force and he was in 2022 appointed a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission.

Pradeep has overall responsibility for the strategic leadership and management of UNDP’s engagement with the global environmental vertical funds (GEF, GCF, AF, CBIT), overseeing a portfolio of over $5 billion in grant financing across 142 countries, covering ecosystems and biodiversity; forests; ocean and water governance; climate strategies and policy; climate change adaptation and mitigation; energy; and sustainable management of chemicals and waste. Previously, he served as the Senior Technical Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation and the Head of Programming for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) within UNDP Global Environmental Finance Unit, nurturing a portfolio spanning more than 90 countries and $1.2 billion in grant financing managed by UNDP. Before UNDP, he worked with the World Bank and the Munasinghe Institute for Development in Sri Lanka. A natural resource economist by training, Pradeep holds a M.Phil. from Cambridge University (UK) and a Ph.D. from Yale University (USA).

David Olsson is the co-founder and COO of We Don't Have Time.

Craig Leeson is an award-winning filmmaker, television presenter, news correspondent and media entrepreneur. He is a passionate oceans and mountain explorer, surfer, diver, and aviator. He is the writer/director and narrator of the multi-award winning documentary feature film “A Plastic Ocean” (2017 iTunes, Netflix, Amazon) and the writer/director/producer/narrator of The Last Glaciers (releasing now on IMAX 2022-23). “A Plastic Ocean” was ranked the number one documentary on iTunes in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada shortly after its release.

Giulia C. Braga is Program Manager of the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate global partnership program. A communication expert passionate about the role of storytelling and visual media in creating a better world, Giulia has international experience in global advocacy campaigns, youth engagement and private-public sector partnerships. She leads Connect4Climate’s strategic engagement with international organizations, civil society and the private sector and drives advocacy and youth engagement initiatives on climate change. An Italian national, Giulia constantly works on the strategic and creative production of high-profile international projects and campaigns such as the “Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home” public art projections and Youth4Climate. She manages the production and advocacy campaigns of documentaries supported by C4C, including Slater Jewell-Kemker’s “Youth Unstoppable”, the virtual reality immersive installation “X-Ray Fashion” and “The Great Green Wall”.

Emily is a historian and sociologist by training, with a keen interest in the interplay between narratives and social / environmental justice. At Resilient she manages the foundation's grassroots storytelling movement, 8billion, and has spent the past year working with filmmakers from the Sahel to train the next generation of storytellers and climate innovators.

An artist, an activist, and a tireless force, N'Djamena-born filmmaker Aché Ahmat Moustapha has devoted her life to chronicling and sharing impactful stories from across the communities of Chad. She was a leading contributor to Portraits of Chadian Women, a book documenting the lives of 100 disparate subjects, and founded the FETCOUM film festival to spark creativity and collaboration among up-and-coming storytellers in the region.

Susanné Wallner is Vice VD of Restart Earth. She was Business Manager ElectriVillage for Mariestad municipality, a UNESCO model area for sustainable development in Sweden. Mariestad’s unique ElectriVillage is testing and demonstrating sustainable transport and energy systems to meet climate goals. ElectriVillage includes renewable energy systems and is at the forefront when it comes to hydrogen, not least the hydrogen preschool that is currently being built with the same system solution and has the world's first solar-powered hydrogen filling stations. Susanné was previously Regional Councilor in the Jämtland / Härjedalen region with a focus on business. Susanné has also run her own company for 10 years in the wool industry.

Anders Wijkman is a Swedish opinion leader and author. He is honorary chairman of the global think tank Club of Rome and chairman of the Governing Board of Climate-KIC – a major public-private partnership at EU level for the promotion of innovation of a low-carbon society. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP.Since 2015 Anders is a member of the International Resource Panel (IRP) – a UN appointed expert body” to build and share the knowledge needed to improve the use of our resources worldwide”.

Boris van Westering is an independent climate development specialist. Boris is committed in his work to fixing the information ecosystem around climate change and supports programming efforts which connect media / journalism, civil society, academia and the public / private sector.

ARIJ editor-in-chief. He is a journalist and media consultant with over 30 years of experience as an editor, mentor and coach in the digital publishing and news industries. Al-Khatib conducted several training workshops and lectures on topics related to journalism including investigative, conflict, human rights and sensitive reporting. He worked with pan-Arab media outlets and different platforms (print, TV, online).

Lauren Alexander is a South African designer, artist, researcher and co-founder of Foundland Collective. Alexander is co-head of the Bachelor Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) and tutor at the Master Non Linear Narrative.

Monica P. Medina joined the Wildlife Conservation Society on June 1, 2023, as President and CEO. She oversees WCS in New York City and across the world in its mission to save wildlife and wild places. She has had a distinguished career in advancing conservation, science, and environmental policy on behalf of people and wildlife working at the highest levels of government, international diplomacy and in nonprofits, and academia. Just prior to WCS, Ms. Medina worked in the U.S. Department of State as the first U.S. Diplomat Designated to Advocate for Global Biodiversity and served as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.

My research focuses on the general circulation of the ocean and the role of various oceanic and atmospheric conditions that affect ocean currents and property distributions, and the role of the ocean in climate. I was a lead author of the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports Working Group I chapters on ocean observations. I am a principal investigator for global ship-based climate-standard observations, and for the emerging biogeochemical Argo profiling float array. I have authored or co-authored more than 170 publications and am lead author of a widely-used physical oceanography textbook.

I am a 5th year PhD Candidate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. My research focuses on microplastic pollution and its interaction with marine diseases in coastal areas, and how these interactions may change with the progression of climate change. I am a combination of a toxicologist and a microbial ecologist, and I am passionate about interdisciplinary research - in particular how climate change intersects with all of these areas.

As chair of The Ocean Race he is leading the work towards a “Universal Declaration of Ocean rights”, calling for the recognition of the inherent rights of the Ocean. Since 1973 The Ocean Race has been the toughest test of a team in sport, now it is also the worlds fastest ocean science fleet and education program for hundreds of thousands of children across the world. With over 35 years of Round the World Racing experience Richard Brisius is a passionate round the world sailor and Ocean advocate dedicated to the restoration and sustainability of our planet's marine ecosystems.

Dr. Sarah Das is a climate scientist and educator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and an ambassador with the U.S. organization Science Moms. She has led over 20 scientific expeditions to Greenland and Antarctica, providing new insight into how climate change is impacting our polar regions, and why that matters for the rest of our planet. After close to three decades bearing witness to the rapidly melting polar ice sheets, much of her focus now is on developing science-based solutions to improve coastal community resilience to rising seas, training the next generation of climate scientists, and communicating the importance of understanding and acting on climate change with policy makers and the public.