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.

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

Martha Stevenson is the senior director of strategy and research on the forest team at WWF-US. In this capacity, she leads the development of wide-ranging strategies to help conserve the world's most important forests. Her efforts entail supporting companies and cities that are creating science-based targets to achieve the ambitious global sustainability goals for climate and nature. In addition, Martha identifies opportunities for companies to avoid deforestation, promote restoration, and better manage forests in critical landscapes. Martha has significant expertise in sustainable production and consumption systems, forestry, soils, science-based targets, life cycle assessment, soft commodities, and materials management. She uses her systems-thinking skills to build bridges and synergies across sustainability solutions. A published author, Martha has written articles and contributed to textbooks on sustainability assessment methods. She has also participated in United Nations Environment Programme panels on transparency and environmental data exchange between nations. In addition, Martha has spoken on topics ranging from the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation to science-based targets for nature and climate. Prior to joining WWF, Martha ran her own consultancy, advising large multinationals, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies on their sustainability programs. She also co-led the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, where she directed development of technical tools and guidance. Early in her career, Martha worked in environmental engineering, managing site investigations and brownfield projects, and as a research assistant examining optimal agroforestry systems for available soils in the Amazon. Martha holds a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry from the University of the South (Sewanee) in Tennessee.

Joyeeta Gupta is co-chair of the Earth Commission (2019-2021), set up by Future Earth and supported by the Global Challenges Foundation, together with Johan Rockström and Dahe Qin. She was co-chair of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6 (2016-2019), published by Cambridge University Press, which was presented to governments participating in the United Nations Environment Assembly in 2019, and was covered in newspapers worldwide. It has just won the Association of American Publishers PROSE award for Environmental Science.

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez was selected as CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility in June 2020. Rodriguez, a Costa Rican national, was a pioneer in the development of Payment for Ecosystem Services and strategies for forest restoration, ocean conservation, and decarbonization. During his three terms as Environment and Energy Minister, Costa Rica doubled the size of its forests, made its electric sector fully renewable, and consolidated a national park system that has made the Central American country a prime ecotourism destination. Rodriguez has also founded and served on the board of several environmental NGOs and tropical research institutes. After his second tenure as minister, he was Vice President for Global Policy at Conservation International for 12 years.

Ayisha Siddiqa is a Pakistani- American environmentalist, Poet and the Co-founder of Polluters Out and Fossil Free University. Her work focuses on uplifting the rights of marginalized and native communities while holding polluting companies accountable at the international level. She has helped organize multiple school strikes for climate with Fridays for Future MAPA, in New York, Glasgow and Stockholm.

Erin Billman has over 20 years of experience in the private and non-profit sectors. She has focused her career on working with organizations – both for- and non-profit – to best steward the natural world as a strategy toward long-term success. Erin holds an MBA in sustainable business and the environment from Wharton. Erin has led the Science Based Targets Network since launch. She is also on the board of Earthwatch Institute, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council for Nature-Based Solutions, and chair of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Expert Review Committee for its corporate nature benchmark.

Before joining SBTi, Luiz served as Director for Commodities and Finance at the World Resources Institute (WRI), leading the institute ́s work on sustainable global supply chains. At WRI he also directed the product development team for Global Forest Watch, technology-based solutions to monitor world ́s forests. In addition, Luiz has served on personal capacity on several external board positions, such as credit committee member of the &Green Fund, a multi-million blended-finance facility investing in sustainable agriculture, the innovation and sustainability board at Minerva Foods, the largest Latin American beef exporter, as well as steering committee deputy member for the Tropical Forest Alliance.

Sandrine Dixson-Declève is an international and European climate, energy, sustainable development, sustainable finance, complex systems thought leader. She 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: Chair, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR); Assembly Member, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Mission (DGR&I); TEG Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Platform (DGFISMA); United Nations: Food Summit Action Track 5 Resilience and for companies/organisations/institutes such as BMW, UBM, Climate KIC, UCL-Bartlett School of Enviornment and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Senior Associate for E3G, Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission (ETC) and WEALL. In 2017 Sandrine co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network (WECAN).

Jeremy Deller (b. 1966 in London; lives and works in London) studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute and at Sussex University. Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Britain in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He has been producing projects over the past two decades which have influenced the conventional map of contemporary art. He began making artworks in the early 1990s, often showing them outside conventional galleries.

Felicity is a coordinator for Global Choices' Arctic Angels, a youth-led intergenerational network advocating for the protection of our global commons. She grew up on the coast in Cornwall, UK and has always felt a strong affinity for the ocean and the protection of non-human beings. Since completing her MPhil degree in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge, Felicity has focused her skills and time for passionately communicating all aspects of the climate crisis, particularly with youth networks. Her love of film, literature and journalism is centred around her core belief that engagement with the public is what can most effectively lead to change.