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Welcome to Exponential Climate Action Summit V




Earth Day, April 22, 2022

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We Don't Have Time is, together with our partners, proud to announce the fifth
Exponential Climate Action Summit, exploring the role of nature in the race to
zero. We need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century to keep
the global temperature below 1,5°C. While the focus has primarily been on
reducing fossil fuel dependency, there is no viable route to limiting global
warming and building resilience without urgently protecting, managing, and
restoring nature. Join us to learn how nature-based solutions can help us
deliver a third of the greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2030 to meet the
Paris Agreement.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

ALL TIMES IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN SUMMER TIME (CEST) / EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME (EDT).
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SECTION I: GLOBAL ACTION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT — PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

14:00 / 08:00 AM — Welcome to the broadcast

Introduction: 

 * Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO & Founder, We Don't Have Time
 * Johan Falk, CEO & Co-founder, The Exponential Roadmap Initiative
 * Fredrik Jejdling, Executive Vice President and Head of Business Area
   Networks, Ericsson

14:10 / 08:10 AM — Where we are, how we got here, and the road ahead of us

Keynotes:

 * Nick Nuttall, Host, Strategic Communications Director, and former
   spokesperson/ Head of comms. UNFCCC, We Don't Have Time

Panel:

 * Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
 * Sara-Elvira Kuhmunen, President, Sáminuorra
 * Susan Chomba, Director of Vital Landscapes, World Resources Institute
 * Anders Wijkman, Opinion leader, author, and Honorary president of Club of
   Rome


SECTION II: NATURAL CARBON CAPTURE STARTS WITH SEEDS

14:35 / 08:35 AM —  Restoring nature at speed and scale

Keynotes & Panel:

 * Yishan Wong, CEO, Terraformation
 * Yee Lee, VP Growth, Terraformation
 * Ivo Mulder, Head of Climate Finance Unit, UN Environment Programme
 * Dr. Anja Gassner, Global Landscapes Forum
 * Stephen Smith, Managing Director, Bankers Without Boundaries .

15:10 / 09:10 AM —  Examples from the ground

Keynote:

 * Maria José Iturralde, CEO & Founder, Humans for Abundance

Q&A:

 * Kehkashan Basu, Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation

15:15 / 09:15 AM — Seeds for the future

Keynote:

 * Kirsty Shaw, Head of Ecological Restoration & Tree Conservation, Botanic
   Gardens Conservation International

Panel:

 * Åsmund Asdal, Seed Vault coordinator, Nordic Genetic Resource Center, NordGen
 * Dr. Kate Hardwick, Restoration Ecology Coordinator, Royal Botanic Gardens,
   Kew

15:35 / 09:35 AM — Wrap-up

Panel:

 * Dr. Marian Chau, Head of Seed Banking, Terraformation
 * Owen Gaffney, Co-founder, Exponential Roadmap Initiative


SECTION III: BUSINESS, NATURE, AND THE RACE TO ZERO

15:40 / 09:40 AM — Business, Nature, and The Race to Zero

Keynotes & Panels:

 * Owen Gaffney, Co-founder, Exponential Roadmap Initiative
 * Johan Falk, CEO & Co-founder, Exponential Roadmap Initiative
 * Catarina Paulson, Head of Sustainability, Alfa Laval
 * Emma Stewart, Sustainability Officer, Netflix
 * Maria Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business Coalition
 * ‍Eva Karlsson, CEO, Houdini


SECTION IV: STOCKHOLM+50: IT'S TIME FOR URGENT ACTION

‍16:30 / 10:30 AM – Stockholm+50: It's time for urgent action

Keynotes:

 * Anders Berger, Public Affairs Director, Volvo Group
 * David Collste, Post-doctoral researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre at
   Stockholm University
 * Dr. Lewis Akenji, Managing Director, Hot or Cool Institute
 * Lena Belly-Le Guilloux, Campaign and Participation Adviser, Earth4All
 * Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of the Club of Rome

Panel:

 * Mattias Frumerie, Head of Delegation to UNFCCC, Sweden's Ministry of the
   Environment
 * Kristina Persson, Senior Advisor, FAIRTRANS
 * Stanley Johnson, International Ambassador, Conservative Environment Network


SECTION V: THE LEGACY OF GLOBAL ACTION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

17:25 / 11:25 AM — The legacy of global action for the environment

 * Karma Wangdi, Head Of Operations, Television for the Environment
 * Altanbagana Bayarsaikhan, National Project Manager, planetGOLD Mongolia
 * Mats Pellbäck Scharp, Ericsson
 * Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO & Founder, We Don't Have Time

Music:

 * Sara-Elvira Kuhmunen, President, Sáminuorra


17:45 / 11:45 AM — SUMMARY AND END OF STOCKHOLM STUDIO SESSION


18:00 / 12:00 PM — START OF WASHINGTON, D.C. STUDIO SESSION


SECTION I: ENVIRONMENT IN TIME OF WAR

18:00 / 12:00 PM ‍

 * Kathleen Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG
 * Iryna Stavchuk, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural
   Resources of Ukraine for European Integration, Ukraine
 * Carl Bruch, Director of International Programs, the Environmental Law
   Institute (ELI)
 * Stefan Smith, Senior Programme Manager, Disasters & Conflicts, UNEP
 * Michael Bothe, Professor Emeritus of Public Law, J.W. Goethe University,
   Frankfurt/Main
 * José R. Allen, International Environmental Lawyer, the Environmental Law
   Institute (ELI)


SECTION II: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

19:00 / 1:00 PM ‍

 * John Piotti, President & CEO, American Farmland Trust
 * L. Hunter Lovins, President, Natural Capitalism Solutions
 * Anthony Myint, Executive Director & Co-founder, Zero Foodprint
 * Elizabeth Pearce, CEO, SymSoil Inc
 * Merlin Yockstick, Founder, Blue Planet Science Group & RegenIOWA


SECTION III: INVESTING WITH INTENT

20:00 / 2:00 PM

 * Dr. Klaus Kunz, Head of ESG / External Engagement and Performance Reporting,
   Bayer
 * Niall O'Sullivan, AMEA Chief Investment Officer, Investment Solutions, Mercer
 * Max Messervy, Senior Sustainable Investment Consultant, Mercer
 * Cara Williams, Senior Partner, ESG Strategy Leader, Mercer
 * Inge West, Senior Sustainable Investment Specialist, Mercer Investment
   Solutions
 * Andy Karsner, Senior Strategist at X & Former Assistant Energy Secretary for
   Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy


SECTION IV: NATURE NEEDS CIRCULARITY

21:00 / 3:00 PM

 * Pär Larshans, Director of Sustainability, Ragn-Sells
 * Linnéa Sellberg, Project Leader and Owner Representative at Ragn-Sells
 * Eva Hunnius Ohlin, Senior Advisor for Energy and Environment at the Embassy
   of Sweden in Washington, DC


21:30 / 3:30 PM — END OF EARTH DAY BROADCAST

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HOSTS


CATARINA ROLFSDOTTER-JANSSON

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SE
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Host, We Don't Have Time

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is a program host, moderator, keynote speaker and
author specializing in sustainable development, primarily climate action.
Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations,
municipalities, and universities. She is chairwoman of the independent think
tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), content director at A Sustainable
Tomorrow, and one of the founding partners of the global climate organization
Our Kids´ Climate which is active in 23 countries.


NICK NUTTALL

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Host, Strategic Communications Director, We Don't Have Time

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.

https://www.earthday.org


DR. SWETA CHAKRABORTY

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US
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Risk and behavioral scientist, President, US Operations We Don't Have Time

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is a risk and behavioral scientist. She is recognized as
an expert communicator who helps household decision-makers better understand
existing and emerging risks to be better prepared to thrive on a rapidly
changing planet.

http://swetachakraborty.com


PATRICK KIARIE

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KE
)
, 
Representative of We Don't Have Time Kenya

Patrick Kiarie is an Eco-Warrior, and the Representative of We Don't Have Time
Kenya and a small scale businessman. He is passionate about climate change and
how to transform small business enterprises into circular and green businesses.
Patrick won last year's WDHT Climate idea - Borrowing from the future. Borrowing
from the future is an idea based to be a model program for educating young
people on climate change and building a platform for the youth to contribute to
innovations in climate change. Recently, Patrick was nominated among the top 10
most influential youths in Kenya.


SELECTED SPEAKERS


INGER ANDERSEN

 (
DK
)
, 
Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive
Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Ms. Andersen has more than
30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental
sustainability, strategy and operations.

https://www.unenvironment.org/people/inger-andersen


IVO MULDER

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NL
)
, 
Head - Climate Finance Unit, UNEP

Ivo Mulder has over sixteen years of professional experience working for UNEP,
private consulting firms, and with non-governmental organizations. He has
published more than fifty reports, blogs and articles and sits on the Steering
Committee of a number of initiatives. Ivo is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts (RSA) and a member of the Dutch Association of Sustainable Investors
(VBDO). Ivo leads UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit (CFU), and oversees a growing
portfolio of various initiatives and finance facilities that actively unlock
public and especially private capital towards sustainable land use with positive
impacts for the climate, nature, and people.


KEHKASHAN BASU

 (
CA
)
, 
Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation

Kehkashan Basu, M.S.M. is an iconic global influencer, environmentalist,
champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, Climate Reality Mentor,
author, musician, peace, and sustainability campaigner. She is the recipient of
Canada's Meritorious Service Medal and the only Canadian to win the
International Children’s Peace Prize. Kehkashan is the Founder-President of
global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, which works at a
grassroots level in 26 countries, empowering young people and women, especially
those from vulnerable communities, in the sustainable development process and
she has spoken at over 300 United Nations and other global fora. She is the
youngest Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions, Co-Lead of UN Women
Generation Equality Forum's Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate
Justice, the Co-Chair of the University of Toronto's SDG Student Advisory
Council, Council Lead of the Toronto-St. She continues to work tirelessly to
amplify the voices of young people, women and girls in decision-making
processes.


JOHAN FALK

 (
SE
)
, 
CEO & Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative

Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate
and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative,
with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead
author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former
Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk
was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen
Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of
Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading
up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the
Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business
exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.

https://exponentialroadmap.org/https://exponentialroadmap.org/1-5c-business-playbook/


INGMAR RENTZHOG

 (
SE
)
, 
CEO and founder of We Don't Have Time

Official “eco-warrior” according to The Sun and “Mark ZuckerVert” according to
FranceTV2, Ingmar is serial entrepreneur and nominated for a DI Gasell Award,
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Veckans Affärer Supertalent, Sweden’s
Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year. He’s a
member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force.

http://www.wedonthavetime.org


YEE LEE

 (
US
)
, 
VP Growth, Terraformation

Yee Lee was the first team member to join Terraformation and currently serves as
VP Growth. Prior to helping start Terraformation, he was a serial entrepreneur
and founder. Yee began his career in Silicon Valley as an early team member at
PayPal and, over the course of 25 years, has served in engineering and product
management roles at companies like eBay, Google, Skype, TaskRabbit, and
Facebook. Yee founded four startup companies in the social network, eCommerce,
and fintech sectors. And he has been an angel investor in over 100 tech startup
companies. In his role at Terraformation, Yee leads the Growth team, focused on
finding ways to help foresters be more successful and to start more new forestry
projects in order to accelerate the growth of the global regenerative forest
restoration industry.


STEPHEN SMITH

 (
GB
)
, 
Managing director, Bankers without Boundaries

Steve spent 27 years at Morgan Stanley, a large investment bank, in London,
working within global equity sales and covering some of the major institutions
and hedge funds. He worked very closely with the Capital Markets division to
help with capital raising for companies, including being involved with 150 IPOs
in Europe. He worked with the ESG group at the firm to enhance the profile of
the banks efforts in this area. Since leaving Morgan Stanley has has completed a
Sustainable Finance course at CISL at Cambridge University, and is a graduate of
University of York, where he studied Economics, Politics and Public Choice.


ÅSMUND ASDAL

 (
NO
)
, 
Seed Vault coordinator, Nordic Genetic Resource Center, NordGen

Åsmund Asdal is a Norwegian horticulturist and ecologist who, for the past 25
years, has been working with projects on the conservation and use of plant
genetic resources (PGR) on a national and Nordic regional level. Before that, he
was working as a researcher, project manager, and through the 1990ties head of a
research station in the now called Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research.
From 2000 to 2015, he was in charge of the Norwegian national program for
conservation and use of plant genetic resources, from 2006 organized through the
Norwegian Genetic Resource Center. Asdal has been involved in Nordic plant
genetic resource activities from the mid-1990s. He has been a board member and
conducted projects and working groups within the Nordic Gene Bank, from 2008
re-organized into the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen). From 2015 he has
been employed at NordGen as Coordinator of Operation and Management of the
Svalbard Global Seed Vault.


DR. ANJA GASSNER

 (
DE
)
, 
Senior Scientist and Science Advisor

Anja is a Senior Scientist at World Agroforestry and policy and science advisor
to the Global Landscape Forum (GLF). The GLF is the world’s largest
knowledge-led platform on sustainable land use, dedicated to achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. Anja has worked for
25 years on rural development programs in the tropics that aim at both
livelihood and natural positive outcomes. Together with colleagues and partners
her aim is to accompany governmental agencies to achieve their commitments to
international conventions and treaties through mainstreaming Agroforestry
interventions into national and sub-national policies and planning.


ANDERS WIJKMAN

 (
SE
)
, 
Opinion leader, author & Honorary president Club of Rome

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”.


YISHAN WONG

 (
US
)
, 
CEO, Terraformation

Yishan is bringing Silicon Valley’s expertise in scaling to the climate
movement. Dedicated to restoring the planet’s forests to solve climate change,
Yishan leads the company to build and deploy tools to tackle the largest
bottlenecks to mass-scale reforestation. Terraformation’s technology includes
off-grid seed banks that process and stores millions of seeds, tracking and
monitoring platforms to enable project transparency, solar-powered desalination,
and more. Terraformation’s goal in 2022 is to establish the world’s largest
decentralized native seed banking network. Prior to founding Terraformation in
2020, Yishan served as the CEO of Reddit, and Director of Engineering at
Facebook and was part of the engineering team that led to the exponential growth
of Paypal. Yishan studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He
lives on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi with his family and dogs.


MARIA JOSÉ ITURRALDE

 (
EC
)
, 
CEO & Founder, Humans for Abundance

María José (Chochi) Iturralde has dedicated much of her life to bridging her
experiences as an educator and innovator with her passion for environmental
sustainability. She is an experienced and highly creative entrepreneur and the
visionary behind Humans for Abundance, the social enterprise that she founded in
2019. She began her career in school settings and, before fully transitioning to
environmental work, she led a primary school in Quito and founded four other
companies mostly focused on the well-being and growth of humans and their
relationships with themselves and with nature. She uses her understanding of the
emotional drives that shape human behavior to design and implement successful
human-to-human connection models and systems.


KIRSTY SHAW

 (
UK
)
, 
Head of Ecological Restoration & Tree Conservation, Botanic Gardens Conservation
International

Kirsty is Head of Ecological Restoration and Tree Conservation at Botanic
Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). She has worked at BGCI since 2012,
and established the BGCI Africa office in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2017. Since joining
BGCI, Kirsty has been working with botanic gardens and other partners across
Africa on tree conservation and forest restoration projects, particularly
focused on getting a broader mix of native species, including threatened
species, into restoration and tree planting projects.


DR. MARIAN CHAU

 (

)
, 
Head of Seed Banking, Terraformation

Dr. Marian M. Chau is the Head of Seed Banking for Terraformation and the
founder and Co-Chair (2016-2024) of the IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group,
a collaboration of over 100 specialists worldwide that provides expertise to the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature. For over 5 years, Marian
served as the Seed Conservation Laboratory Manager at Lyon Arboretum and
Research Leader for the Hawai‘i Seed Bank Partnership, and was lead author on a
publication summarizing over 20 years of seed storage research in Hawai‘i. She
completed a sponsored Technical Training Attachment at the Millennium Seed Bank
- the world’s largest seed bank for native species, at the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, England; and her mentors also include leading experts at the USDA
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation.

https://www.terraformation.com/blog/dr-marian-chau-head-of-seed-banking


DR. KATE HARDWICK

 (

)
, 
Conservation Partnership Coordinator at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, Royal
Botanic Gardens

As a Conservation Partnership Coordinator in the Seed Conservation section, my
job is to develop and maintain Millennium Seed Bank partnerships, projects, and
networks, particularly in Asia. We aim to secure the safe storage of seeds from
the world’s bankable plant species, whilst promoting plant conservation,
sustainable utilization of plant resources, habitat restoration, and the
improvement of livelihoods. I am also involved in several research projects that
explore the use of seeds in ecological restoration, with an emphasis on tropical
forests and temperate grasslands.


EMMA STEWART

 (
US
)
, 
Netflix Sustainability Officer

Emma Stewart, Ph.D., is Netflix’s first Sustainability Officer, where together
with teams from across the company, she seeks to bring Netflix's carbon
footprint to net zero, raise environmental awareness through film and television
series, and spur conversation on climate action among our hundreds of millions
of members in 190 countries. She previously led World Resources Institute’s
global work on urban efficiency, climate, and finance. She served on the Board
of the U.S. Green Building Council and software company Ecomedes. She has been a
member of the professional faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and
Stanford Graduate School of Business where she taught “Intrapreneurship for
Sustainability”. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, The Guardian, Tribune,
The Huffington Post, Environmental Law Journal, among others. She is a
contributing author to Corporate Responses to Climate Change and The
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Business, and her work is featured in books Frugal
Innovation and The Big Pivot. Emma was rated a “Badass Woman in Sustainability”
by GreenBiz, a "top 3 speaker" by The Economist Summits, and has been named a
“one of the most powerful women under 45” and an “urban pioneer” by FORTUNE
Magazine, a “sustainability insurgent” by MIT Sloan Management Review, and one
of the “Top 10 Women in Sustainability” by American Builders. Her work has been
featured in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial
Times, Reuters, L.A. Times, and Environmental Law Journal, among others. She is
a contributing author to Corporate Responses to Climate Change and The
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Business, and her work is featured in 3 books:
Frugal Innovation, The Big Pivot, and Chief Sustainability Officers at Work. She
holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from Stanford University
and a B.A. with Honors in Human Sciences from Oxford University.


MARÍA MENDILUCE

 (
ES
)
, 
CEO, We Mean Business Coalition

María Mendiluce is the CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition and has 25 years of
experience in sustainable development, energy, and climate action. The Coalition
brings together seven leading international organizations: BSR, The B Team, CDP,
Ceres, CLG Europe, Climate Group, and the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD). She sits on the Executive Board of the Science-Based
Targets initiative (SBTi) which has over 2,800 companies engaged. She actively
took part in the founding and is a member of the Board of the Mission Possible
Partnership that works to develop decarbonization roadmaps for seven
hard-to-abate sectors including cement and steel. María also co-founded the SME
Climate Hub which is building a one-stop shop for smaller companies for their
net-zero commitments. Formerly being the Managing Director and member of the
Senior Management Team at WBCSD, María established transformative industry
projects. She has also held senior positions at the Economic Bureau of the
Spanish Prime Minister, in the CEO’s office of Iberdrola, and at the
International Energy Agency.


EVA KARLSSON

 (
SE
)
, 
CEO, Houdini Sportswear

Houdini Sportswear has worked with the circular and regenerative business for
many years and has become a source of inspiration for other companies. The
inspiration is taken from nature and the goal is to have 100% circular products
already in 2022. Houdini works according to the motto "reimagine everything" and
strives for a change of system to a regenerative way of living and working.


CATARINA PAULSON

 (
SE
)
, 
Head of Sustainability, Alfa Laval

Born in Mexico City, Catarina Paulson has worked within sustainability since
1994 in companies such as Volvo Cars, Volvo Group, AkzoNobel, and TetraPak
before joining Alfa Laval in 2014. A graduate of Swarthmore College in
Pennsylvania she holds a B.A. in Political science/international relations, a
diploma in Marketing with a focus on environmental communication and has studied
human technology and personnel administration. At Alfa Laval she has been
instrumental in the development of the sustainability strategy for 2030 and in
ensuring a road map for zero scopes 1&2 and halving scope 3 emissions by 2030 is
established.


DAVID COLLSTE

 (
SE
)
, 
Post-doctoral researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University

Collste is a postdoctoral researcher at the Planetary Boundaries Research Lab.
He studies feedback between human development, the economy, and planetary
boundaries. Collste has a background in system dynamics, economics, political
science, and resilience thinking. Collste co-leads the module on systems
thinking at Stockholm Resilience Centre’s Master’s program, and lectures on
ecological economics and system dynamics modeling. In his Ph.D. thesis, he
studied different approaches to assessing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable
Development Goals. Before joining Stockholm Resilience Centre, he worked at the
United Nations on the 2030 Agenda and SDGs. He has also worked at the Swedish
Society for Nature Conservation (Naturskyddsföreningen). Collste holds a joint
Ph.D. degree in Sustainability Science from Stockholm University and Economics
from CERDI at Université Clermont Auvergne in France.


DR. LEWIS AKENJI

 (

)
, 
Managing Director, Hot or Cool Institute

As Managing Director, Lewis oversees strategic development, program
implementation, and staff management at Hot or Cool. Previously, Lewis has
served as Executive Director of SEED, founded as a UN partnership at the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development to promote entrepreneurship for
sustainable development. Prior to that, he was Director for Sustainable
Consumption and Production at the think tank Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies. He has consulted with organizations including United Nations
agencies, the Asian and African Development Banks, the European Commission, the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and has served as technical or
science-policy adviser to several national government delegations, including
Finland, Japan, Sweden, Indonesia, Hungary. Lewis conceived and led the
1.5-Degree Lifestyles project, analysing potential contribution of lifestyle
changes to the aspirational 1.5 °C target under the Paris Agreement on climate
change. He co-lead the United Nations One Planet programme on Sustainable
Lifestyles and Education. He has an M.Sc. Sustainable Resource Management
(Technical University Munich, Germany) and a Ph.D. Political Economy (University
of Helsinki, Finland).


MATTIAS FRUMERIE

 (
SE
)
, 
Head of Delegation to UNFCCC, Swedish Ministry of Environment

Mattias Frumerie is Sweden's chief climate negotiator and Head of Delegation to
UNFCCC. Mr. Frumerie has spent most of his professional career in the Swedish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in roles such as head of Strategic communications,
head of EU internal market, head of EU policy as well as postings in Budapest
and Brussels. Mr. Frumerie has also served as an EU advisor in the Prime
Minister's office.


KRISTINA PERSSON

 (
SE
)
, 
Senior Advisor, FAIRTRANS

Kristina Persson has all her grown-up life in various ways tried to improve how
society functions, including pushing for the green transformation. When she
worked at the secretariat for future studies at the Prime Ministers (Olof Palme)
Office, she understood the magnitude of threats facing mankind if political
decisions continue to be taken without a long-term and holistic view on society.
She has since then tried party politics, worked in civil society, and had
leading positions in the public sector. Not until now, 50 years later there is
beginning to be an understanding among both the general public and our political
leaders of our dependency on nature and on each other. She is afraid, however,
that it will take too long until this is put into practice, which makes her both
sad and angry.


STANLEY JOHNSON

 (
UK
)
, 
International Ambassador, Conservative Environment Network

Educated, Oxford, Iowa, and Columbia, Universities. Joined of World Bank in
1966. Worked with Maurice Strong as part of the preparatory team in the run-up
to the first UN Conference on Human Environment and attended the Conference in
Stockholm on June 1072 as a delegate for International Planned Parenthood
Federation. Author of a dozen books on environment and population, including
UNCED 1992; World Population and the United Nations; and UNEP: first forty
years. Former MEP and Vice-Chairman of European Parliament Environment
Committee. Senior environment officer at EU Commission, Brussels. Holder of
awards from WWF, Greenpeace, RSPB, RSPA, etc. Winner of Newdigate Prize for
Poetry. Author of 11 novels.


KARMA WANGDI

 (
UK
)
, 
Head Of Operations, tve (Television for the Environment)

tve is a UK-registered charity founded by the United Nations Environment
Programme, WWF-UK, and Central Television (now part of ITV) in 1984. Our mission
is to use the power of storytelling to drive real world change for a more
sustainable future. We work with filmmakers and partners worldwide to run media
projects, make films and work to promote effective, evidence-based storytelling
about environmental issues


ALTANBAGANA BAYARSAIKHAN

 (
MN
)
, 
planetGOLD Mongolia

Altanbagana Bayarsaikhan is National Project Manager at the Global Environment
Facility-supported planetGOLD project in Mongolia. He has decades of experience
in managing a number of international development projects funded by SDC and
USAID, and worked in the small scale and large scale mining sector for the last
several years.


MATS PELLBÄCK SCHARP

 (
SE
)
, 
Head of Sustainability, Ericsson

Mats is Head of Sustainability at Ericsson with responsibility for climate
action, circular economy, energy performance and triple bottom line impact of
products, services and company operations. Taking this role after restructuring
the Health & Safety organization in the company. During mats leadership the
company has set targets that are accepted to be on a 1.5°C by the Science Based
Target initiative. Mats has initiated and participated in various research
projects e.g. as a member of the steering group for the Exponential Climate
Action Roadmap report as well as the ICT & SDGs Report with Columbia University
on how information technology has the potential to accelerate halving of global
carbon emissions as well as reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Before
rejoining Ericsson, among several other leading roles e.g. Head of
Sustainability at Sony Ericsson launching the Green Heart brand for mobile
phones and accessories.


OWEN GAFFNEY

 (
SE
)
, 
Co-founder Exponential Roadmap Initiative, Stockholm University

Owen is a global sustainability writer, analyst and strategist. He is based at
the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Stockholm Resilience
Centre. He is also a Future Earth Senior Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow (New
Zealand) and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. He is interested in
big-picture narratives of the past and future of people on Earth (and beyond).
He has published in Science and Nature and is a regular contributor to New
Scientist. He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and Rethink magazine and is
on the editorial board of the Anthropocene magazine.


FREDRIK JEJDLING

 (
SE
)
, 
Executive Vice President and Head of Business Area Networks, Ericsson

Fredrik Jejdling is Executive Vice President and Head of Business Area Networks
at Ericsson since November 7, 2017. He runs the company’s largest business area
with full P&L responsibility and brings to this role years of experience with
customers in diverse markets. He also oversees the global production and
progress of Ericsson’s radio and transport products and services across all
mobile technology generations.


SARA-ELVIRA KUHMUNEN

 (
SE
)
, 
President, Sáminuorra

Sara-Elvira Kuhmunen, a 21-year-old from Jokkmokk, is the President of the Sami
youth organization Sáminuorra since 2001. She is passionate about the Climate
issue and Sami self-determination.


PÄR LARSHANS

 (
SE
)
, 
Co-host, Director of Sustainability, Ragn-Sells

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.


EVA HUNNIUS OHLIN

 (
SE
)
, 
Senior Advisor for Energy and Environment at Embassy of Sweden

Eva Hunnius Ohlin works in the Trade and Economic Affairs section at the Embassy
of Sweden in Washington DC since 2011. In her role as the embassy’s advisor for
energy and environment, she reports on US energy, climate and environment policy
as well as transportation policy and promotes Swedish green technologies.


LINNÉA SELLBERG

 (
SE
)
, 
Project leader and Owner Representative at the Swedish Environmental Company
Ragn-Sells

Linnéa Sellberg has a Bachelor of Business Management and an Agronomist degree
from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and works as a
project leader at Ragn-Sells. Furthermore, Linnéa is an owner representative and
one of the fourth generation family members working within the company.


DR. ANDERS BERGER

 (
SE
)
, 
Public Affairs Director, Volvo Group

Dr. Anders Berger, Director Public Affairs, is a transport solution specialist
at Volvo Group with extensive engagement in the public discourse of transport
efficiency, e-mobility, automation and connectivity related to the environmental
and efficiency challenges of the road transport system.


SUSAN CHOMBA

 (

)
, 
Director of Vital Landscapes at World Resources Institute

Dr. Susan Chomba is the Director of Vital Landscapes for Africa at the World
Resources Institute (WRI). She leads the institution’s work on Forests, Food
systems and People which includes forest landscape restoration, sustainable
agriculture/food systems and thriving rural livelihoods in Africa.


CARA WILLIAMS

 (
UK
)
, 
Senior Partner, ESG Strategy Leader, Mercer

Cara Williams, Senior Partner, is ESG Strategy Leader for Mercer. Located in
London, Cara leads the program of work to articulate and amplify Mercer’s ESG
value proposition and positioning, embed sustainability in the journey to a
bright future, and drive highly-practical, relevant and value-added outcomes
both internally and externally. Cara oversees the Mercer’s Private Wealth
businesses in Canada and India, and also works with Mercer’s multinational
clients to deliver the best of Mercer’s broad Wealth solutions to assure
positive financial outcomes for organizations and their employees. Cara presents
regularly on global ESG, sustainability, diversity and investment trends.


NIALL O’SULLIVAN

 (
IRL
)
, 
AMEA Chief Investment Officer, Investment Solutions, Mercer

Niall is responsible for the design, implementation and ongoing supervision of
Mercer Investment Management’s fund solutions for all AMEA clients, and
Discretionary Management services. He joined Mercer in 2010 from QED in Dublin,
where he developed solution-driven investment opportunities with banks and
insurance companies. Prior to this, he created derivative-based solutions at
Bank of Ireland Global Markets, including the bank’s LDI product range.


MAX MESSERVY

 (
US
)
, 
Senior Sustainable Investment Consultant, Mercer

Max Messervy is a Senior Sustainable Investment Consultant in Mercer’s U.S.
Sustainable Investment team. Max provides advice on sustainable investment
strategies, climate change, and impact investment approaches throughout
investment processes. Max advises institutional investors across a range of
segments, including pension funds, endowments, insurers, multi-lateral
development finance institutions, and other stakeholders in the investment value
chain. Max was a lead and/or co-author of reports on increasing institutional
investors’ impactful allocations to African infrastructure and private market
assets in 2018 and 2021, as well as a guide for integrating sustainable
investment approaches into corporate retirement plans in a project with the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).


DR. KLAUS KUNZ

 (
GER
)
, 
Head of ESG / External Engagement and Performance Reporting, Bayer

Dr. Klaus Kunz holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and a degree in economics. He
joined Bayer in 2001 and has gained 20 years of experience directing business
strategic topics in R&D at a global level, taking leadership roles in research,
R&D project management, regulatory and public / governmental affairs,
sustainability and business stewardship. Since February 2022 he is leading ESG
Strategy. Klaus is passionate about driving innovation and change,
cross-cultural collaboration, politics and history, also holding a lectureship
for chemistry at the University of Aachen. He is married with three children.


INGE WEST

 (
UK
)
, 
Senior Sustainable Investment Specialist, Mercer Investment Solutions

Inge West is a Senior Sustainable Investment Specialist in Mercer’s European
Investment Solutions business, based in London. She is responsible for advising
and driving the implementation of sustainable investment practices across the
Mercer Investment Solutions offerings with a focus on integrating environmental,
social and governance (ESG) factors, sustainability trends, climate change, and
stewardship within the investment process. Prior to this Inge spent three years
in Mercer’s dedicated Global Sustainable Investment team, advising institutional
investors on and contributing to intellectual capital in sustainable investment.


JOHN PIOTTI

 (
US
)
, 
President & CEO, American Farmland Trust

John Piotti has worked at the forefront of sustainable agriculture since the
early 1990s, first in Maine, and now nationally. In 2016, he became President of
American Farmland Trust, bringing new energy to this storied organization that
launched the conservation agriculture movement. Under John’s leadership, AFT has
engaged in the most comprehensive study of American land use ever conducted,
helped secure billions of dollars in federal funding to protect farmland and
promote climate-smart agriculture, and launched new initiatives that advance
regenerative farming practices and support next generation farmers. Prior to
joining AFT, John served as President of Maine Farmland Trust, which during his
tenure became recognized as one of the most innovative and impactful
farm-support groups in the nation. John has also served in the Maine State
Legislature, where he chaired the Agriculture Committee and was later elected
House Majority Leader. In 2013, John was named to Maine Magazine’s inaugural
list of one of the 50 people who have done the most for the state. In 2005, he
received a prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship, which he used to study
agricultural policy in Europe. John holds three degrees from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology: in engineering, public policy, and systems management.


ANTHONY MYINT

 (
US
)
, 
Executive Director, Zero Foodprint

Anthony Myint is a chef-turned climate crusader and Zero Foodprint is a
non-profit leading public private collaborations with state agencies in CA and
regional governments in CO to scale regenerative agriculture. ZFP is building a
regenerative economy through which businesses and citizens can directly change
how food is grown to restore the climate. A few cents per purchase funds compost
application, cover crop planting and other healthy soil practices, overseen and
validated by Conservation Districts, Cooperative Extensions and other local
experts. The long term goal of the public-private collaborations is to mirror
the transformative collective action of CCA policy for renewable energy, but
applied to climate beneficial agriculture. (and if you want more detail) Since
2020 ZFP has awarded over $800k to 53 regenerative agriculture projects on 5000
acres expected to sequester a modeled 32,000 tons of CO2e. Anthony is known in
the restaurant industry as the Co-Founder of Mission Street Food (SF Chronicle's
Most Influential Restaurant of the Past Decade", Mission Chinese Food (NYTimes
Restaurant of the Year - 2012) and The Perennial (Bon Appetit's "Most
Sustainable Restaurant in the Country").


IRYNA STAVCHUK

 (
UKR
)
, 
Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for
European Integration

Mrs. Stavchuk is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Environmental
Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for European Integration. Before
assuming this role, she was the Deputy Minister of Energy and Environmental
Protection of Ukraine. Prior to joining the Ukrainian cabinet, Mrs. Stavchuk
worked at the National Environmental Center of Ukraine, where she coordinated
work in the development and implementation of climate protection policy in
Ukraine and participated in UN International Negotiations on climate change.
Mrs. Stavchuk graduated with honors from the Faculty of Heat Power Engineering
of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Environmental and
Economic Monitoring. She received her second higher education at the
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (Lund, Sweden)
with a degree in Environmental Management and Politics.


CARL BRUCH

 (
US
)
, 
Director of International Programs, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Carl Bruch is the Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law
Institute (ELI) and the founding President of the Environmental Peacebuilding
Association (EnPAx). His work focuses on environmental peacebuilding (especially
after conflict), environmental governance, adaptation, and environmental
emergencies. He has helped dozens of countries— including in many
conflict-affected countries—throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe
strengthen their environmental laws, institutions, and practices. He has edited
more than ten books and authored more than 80 journal articles, book chapters,
and reports. He is an adjunct professor at American University School of
International Service. He holds a JD from the Northwestern School of
Environmental Law of Lewis & Clark College, an MA in physics from the University
of Texas-Austin, and a BS in physics (with additional majors in mathematics and
anthropology) from Michigan State University.


STEFAN SMITH

 (
KEN
)
, 
Senior Programme Manager, Disasters & Conflicts, at UN Environment Programme
(UNEP)

Stefan is a senior programme manager with the United Nations Environment
Programme working on resilience and response to disasters & conflicts, strategic
planning, programme delivery reporting, and operations management and oversight.
He has a background in international news agency journalism and news analysis,
editorial and operational management in multiple fragile and conflict contexts
and under state and non-state actors. He has covered themes including electoral
processes, human rights, genocide and international justice, displacement and
refugee crises, environment, nuclear proliferation, humanitarian interventions,
complex militant attacks, intelligence operations and the operations and
dynamics of several Islamist and other non-state militant groups.


JOSÉ R. ALLEN

 (
US
)
, 
International Environmental Lawyer, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Jose has been practicing law for 45 years. For over 30 years he was a partner at
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and represented clients in a wide range of
environmental litigation matters as well as in a broad variety of other matters.
Before entering private practice Jose worked as an Assistant Attorney General in
the then newly-formed Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts
Attorney General’s Office. He then joined the Environmental and Natural
Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where
he represented the United States and its agencies in environmental enforcement
and defense matters throughout the country. While at Justice he served as chief
of the Environmental Defense Section, representing EPA in matters arising under
all the federal statutes administered by the agency including, CERCLA, RCRA, the
Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the
Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide Act. He later became chief of the Natural
Resources Section which is responsible for representing federal agencies such as
the Department of Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of
Defense in litigation arising under NEPA and other federal natural resources
laws. Jose also served as a Commissioner on the United Nations Compensation
Commission (UNCC) which was created in the aftermath of the First Gulf War to
require Iraq to pay reparations to national governments, companies, and
individuals who had suffered monetary losses as the result of Iraq’s unlawful
invasion and occupation of Kuwait. As a member of the panel appointed by the UN
Security Council to review claims by governmental entities for environmental and
natural resources damages resulting from the war, Jose and his co-commissioners
recommended that Iraq pay over $4 billion in reparations to affected states for
environmental and natural resource damages. The panel’s report and
recommendations were adopted in full by the UN Security Council. This was the
first time in international law where a country was required to pay reparations
for environmental and natural resource damages resulting from war. The United
Nations recently announced that Iraq had fulfilled its obligations to pay all
claimants compensation awarded by the UNCC, which totaled $52.4 billion. Jose
was lured out of retirement over a year ago to resume the representation of a
client in two of the longest running Superfund cases in the country. Jose is a
graduate of Yale College and Boston College Law School.


DR. MICHAEL BOTHE

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GER
)
, 
Professor Emeritus of Public Law, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main

Michael Bothe is Professor emeritus of Public Law at the J.W. Goethe University
Frankfurt/Main. He held a Chair in Public International Law at the Universities
of Hannover and Frankfurt (where he also was Dean), and served as a visiting
professor in many universities around the world. He was a research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in
Heidelberg, later served as chair of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board
and is currently a member of the Kuratorium. He was president of the German
Society for International Law and of the European Environmental Law Association
as well as President of the International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission
and Chairperson, and still is a member, of the German Committee for
International Humanitarian Law. He served as a delegate or adviser in a number
of international conferences (including the Diplomatic Conference for the
Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law 1974-1977) and
as a counsel before the International Court of Justice and the German Federal
Constitutional Court. He is the author of many books and articles on questions
of international law (in particular as it relates to legal restraints on the use
of military force and to the protection of the environment), comparative public
law, European law and constitutional law. He received the Giuseppe Ciardi Prize
for he law of armed conflict, the Elisabeth Haub Prize for international and
comparative environmental law, the Henry Dunant Medal of the International Red
Cross/Red Crescent Movement and the Prize of the Institute of International
Humanitarian Law (San Remo).


KATHLEEN ROGERS

 (
US
)
, 
President, Earth Day Network

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Kathleen has developed
Earth Day Network into a year-round policy and activist organization. Now more
than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day in 192 countries. Kathleen has
been at the vanguard of developing innovative financial mechanisms to support
green buildings and schools. Kathleen also founded Earth Day Network’s
groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green program, which has now recorded close to 3
billion individual actions to improve the environment.


ELIZABETH PEARCE

 (
US
)
, 
Founder, SymSoil Inc

Elizabeth Pearce is the founder of SymSoil Inc, a soil health company created in
response to soil degradation. In 2021, SymSoil began collaborating with
RegenIowa to convert 1 million acres of conventional farms to regenerative
farming. She became concerned with issues related to climate change and food
security while a portfolio manager at Northern Trust, thinking about farmland as
an asset class. RegenIowa has challenged farmers to adopt regenerative
agriculture by 2025, through rapid and robust restoration of the complete soil
microbiome and soil health.


L. HUNTER LOVINS

 (
US
)
, 
President, Natural Capitalism Solutions

A founding professor of sustainable business management at the Bard MBA, Hunter
lectures at universities around the world. Named a Master at the De Tao Academy
in Shanghai, she is a founding mentor of the Unreasonable Institute that coaches
social enterprises around the world. An entrepreneur, herself, L. Hunter Lovins
is a founder and Chief Impact Officer of Change Finance, an impact investing
firm. Hunter is founder and President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. A
consultant to scores of industries and governments worldwide, including
International Finance Corporation, Unilever, Walmart, the United Nations and
Royal Dutch Shell, as well as sustainability champions Interface, Patagonia and
Clif Bar, she has briefed heads of state, leaders of the numerous local
governments, the Pentagon, and about 30 countries, as well as the UN, World
Economic Forum and the US Congress. She sits on the Executive Committee of the
Club of Rome, the Steering Committee of Partners for a Planetary Emergency, the
Convening Committee of Colorado Regenerative Recovery Coalition and Capital
Institute Advisory Board. Author of 16 books and hundreds of articles, Hunter
has won dozens of awards, including the European Sustainability Pioneer award,
and the Right Livelihood Award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium
Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon. Her most
recent book, A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life won a
Nautilus Award.


MERLIN YOCKSTICK

 (
US
)
, 
Founder of Blue Planet Science Group, RegenIOWA, and Co-Founder of EarthRegenx

Author - Instructional Designer – Founder of Blue Planet Science Group,
RegenIOWA and Co-Founder of EarthRegenx , a 501C3. Merlin is engaged in
designing a 50-state initiative to develop a regenerative approach starting in
Iowa and with Agriculture to help communities, and states build healthy- robust
economies that are beyond sustainability. He is an activist interested in
transforming America’s health care system and sits on the Iowa Healthiest State
Initiative and the Committee for Community Health Improvement, powered by
Wellmark. Merlin’s focus is on the fundamentals of Water, Soil/Food/Agriculture,
Education and Health. He has a transformative purpose of engaging youth,
community and business leaders in “building smart and regenerative communities
and states, and is designing a bottom up – top-down “systemic” approach in Iowa
as a model for our nation and world. Merlin is a member of Smart Growth America,
U.S. Water Alliance and is an active participant in the Singularity University
HUB group that is advancing the Exponential Growth of Information Technology.
Merlin’s love for nature and commitment to the stewardship of our Blue and Water
Planet is the central theme of his vision for business and humanitarian
endeavors 2022 and beyond.


JILLIAN SEMAAN

 (
US
)
, 
VP, Sustainability at Ketchum

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SANDRINE DIXSON-DECLÈVE

 (
BE
)
, 
Co-President of the Club of Rome

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).


ELIZABETH MCGEVERAN

 (
US
)
, 
Director of investments, McKnight Foundation

As McKnight’s director of investments since 2019, Elizabeth McGeveran oversees
the team that manages the Foundation’s $3 billion endowment. With her leadership
and vision, the Foundation committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas
emissions across its entire portfolio by or before 2050—the nation’s first of
the 50 largest private foundations to do so. McGeveran designed a market-rate
solutions-oriented portfolio that aligns with the Foundation’s mission,
advancing climate solutions, and equitable communities and economies. Across the
entire endowment, one of every three invested dollars is mission-aligned.
McGeveran first joined McKnight in 2014 to lead its impact investing program.
She helped pave the way for the Foundation as a leading impact investor,
identifying investment opportunities that are building the world we want to live
in. As an investment leader since 1999, McGeveran with others was an early actor
in developing environmental social and governance (ESG) approaches across the
industry. As senior vice president for governance and sustainable investment at
F&C Asset Management, a London-based commercial asset manager (now BMO Global
Asset Management), she built this firm’s market-leading socially responsible
investment team. McGeveran is an independent trustee of funds at Boston Trust
Walden, a longtime leader in incorporating ESG into its investment approach. She
an original member of the U.S. Advisory Committee for the FTSE4Good indexes, and
currently volunteers on the investment committee at the University of St. Thomas
in her hometown of St. Paul. McGeveran grew up outside Boston and graduated from
Carleton College in Minnesota.

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HOSTS


CATARINA ROLFSDOTTER-JANSSON

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SE
)
Host, We Don't Have Time

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is a program host, moderator, keynote speaker and
author specializing in sustainable development, primarily climate action.
Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations,
municipalities, and universities. She is chairwoman of the independent think
tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), content director at A Sustainable
Tomorrow, and one of the founding partners of the global climate organization
Our Kids´ Climate which is active in 23 countries.

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NICK NUTTALL

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UK
)
Host, Strategic Communications Director, We Don't Have Time

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.

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DR. SWETA CHAKRABORTY

 (
US
)
Risk and behavioral scientist, President, US Operations We Don't Have Time

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is a risk and behavioral scientist. She is recognized as
an expert communicator who helps household decision-makers better understand
existing and emerging risks to be better prepared to thrive on a rapidly
changing planet.

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PATRICK KIARIE

 (
KE
)
Representative of We Don't Have Time Kenya

Patrick Kiarie is an Eco-Warrior, and the Representative of We Don't Have Time
Kenya and a small scale businessman. He is passionate about climate change and
how to transform small business enterprises into circular and green businesses.
Patrick won last year's WDHT Climate idea - Borrowing from the future. Borrowing
from the future is an idea based to be a model program for educating young
people on climate change and building a platform for the youth to contribute to
innovations in climate change. Recently, Patrick was nominated among the top 10
most influential youths in Kenya.

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SELECTED SPEAKERS


INGER ANDERSEN

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DK
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Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive
Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Ms. Andersen has more than
30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental
sustainability, strategy and operations.

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IVO MULDER

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NL
)
Head - Climate Finance Unit, UNEP

Ivo Mulder has over sixteen years of professional experience working for UNEP,
private consulting firms, and with non-governmental organizations. He has
published more than fifty reports, blogs and articles and sits on the Steering
Committee of a number of initiatives. Ivo is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts (RSA) and a member of the Dutch Association of Sustainable Investors
(VBDO). Ivo leads UNEP’s Climate Finance Unit (CFU), and oversees a growing
portfolio of various initiatives and finance facilities that actively unlock
public and especially private capital towards sustainable land use with positive
impacts for the climate, nature, and people.

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KEHKASHAN BASU

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CA
)
Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation

Kehkashan Basu, M.S.M. is an iconic global influencer, environmentalist,
champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, Climate Reality Mentor,
author, musician, peace, and sustainability campaigner. She is the recipient of
Canada's Meritorious Service Medal and the only Canadian to win the
International Children’s Peace Prize. Kehkashan is the Founder-President of
global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, which works at a
grassroots level in 26 countries, empowering young people and women, especially
those from vulnerable communities, in the sustainable development process and
she has spoken at over 300 United Nations and other global fora. She is the
youngest Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions, Co-Lead of UN Women
Generation Equality Forum's Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate
Justice, the Co-Chair of the University of Toronto's SDG Student Advisory
Council, Council Lead of the Toronto-St. She continues to work tirelessly to
amplify the voices of young people, women and girls in decision-making
processes.

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JOHAN FALK

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SE
)
CEO & Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative

Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate
and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative,
with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead
author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former
Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk
was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen
Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of
Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading
up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the
Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business
exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.

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INGMAR RENTZHOG

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SE
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CEO and founder of We Don't Have Time

Official “eco-warrior” according to The Sun and “Mark ZuckerVert” according to
FranceTV2, Ingmar is serial entrepreneur and nominated for a DI Gasell Award,
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Veckans Affärer Supertalent, Sweden’s
Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year. He’s a
member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force.

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YEE LEE

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US
)
VP Growth, Terraformation

Yee Lee was the first team member to join Terraformation and currently serves as
VP Growth. Prior to helping start Terraformation, he was a serial entrepreneur
and founder. Yee began his career in Silicon Valley as an early team member at
PayPal and, over the course of 25 years, has served in engineering and product
management roles at companies like eBay, Google, Skype, TaskRabbit, and
Facebook. Yee founded four startup companies in the social network, eCommerce,
and fintech sectors. And he has been an angel investor in over 100 tech startup
companies. In his role at Terraformation, Yee leads the Growth team, focused on
finding ways to help foresters be more successful and to start more new forestry
projects in order to accelerate the growth of the global regenerative forest
restoration industry.

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STEPHEN SMITH

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GB
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Managing director, Bankers without Boundaries

Steve spent 27 years at Morgan Stanley, a large investment bank, in London,
working within global equity sales and covering some of the major institutions
and hedge funds. He worked very closely with the Capital Markets division to
help with capital raising for companies, including being involved with 150 IPOs
in Europe. He worked with the ESG group at the firm to enhance the profile of
the banks efforts in this area. Since leaving Morgan Stanley has has completed a
Sustainable Finance course at CISL at Cambridge University, and is a graduate of
University of York, where he studied Economics, Politics and Public Choice.

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ÅSMUND ASDAL

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NO
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Seed Vault coordinator, Nordic Genetic Resource Center, NordGen

Åsmund Asdal is a Norwegian horticulturist and ecologist who, for the past 25
years, has been working with projects on the conservation and use of plant
genetic resources (PGR) on a national and Nordic regional level. Before that, he
was working as a researcher, project manager, and through the 1990ties head of a
research station in the now called Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research.
From 2000 to 2015, he was in charge of the Norwegian national program for
conservation and use of plant genetic resources, from 2006 organized through the
Norwegian Genetic Resource Center. Asdal has been involved in Nordic plant
genetic resource activities from the mid-1990s. He has been a board member and
conducted projects and working groups within the Nordic Gene Bank, from 2008
re-organized into the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen). From 2015 he has
been employed at NordGen as Coordinator of Operation and Management of the
Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

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DR. ANJA GASSNER

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DE
)
Senior Scientist and Science Advisor

Anja is a Senior Scientist at World Agroforestry and policy and science advisor
to the Global Landscape Forum (GLF). The GLF is the world’s largest
knowledge-led platform on sustainable land use, dedicated to achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. Anja has worked for
25 years on rural development programs in the tropics that aim at both
livelihood and natural positive outcomes. Together with colleagues and partners
her aim is to accompany governmental agencies to achieve their commitments to
international conventions and treaties through mainstreaming Agroforestry
interventions into national and sub-national policies and planning.

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ANDERS WIJKMAN

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SE
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Opinion leader, author & Honorary president Club of Rome

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”.

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YISHAN WONG

 (
US
)
CEO, Terraformation

Yishan is bringing Silicon Valley’s expertise in scaling to the climate
movement. Dedicated to restoring the planet’s forests to solve climate change,
Yishan leads the company to build and deploy tools to tackle the largest
bottlenecks to mass-scale reforestation. Terraformation’s technology includes
off-grid seed banks that process and stores millions of seeds, tracking and
monitoring platforms to enable project transparency, solar-powered desalination,
and more. Terraformation’s goal in 2022 is to establish the world’s largest
decentralized native seed banking network. Prior to founding Terraformation in
2020, Yishan served as the CEO of Reddit, and Director of Engineering at
Facebook and was part of the engineering team that led to the exponential growth
of Paypal. Yishan studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He
lives on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi with his family and dogs.

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MARIA JOSÉ ITURRALDE

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EC
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CEO & Founder, Humans for Abundance

María José (Chochi) Iturralde has dedicated much of her life to bridging her
experiences as an educator and innovator with her passion for environmental
sustainability. She is an experienced and highly creative entrepreneur and the
visionary behind Humans for Abundance, the social enterprise that she founded in
2019. She began her career in school settings and, before fully transitioning to
environmental work, she led a primary school in Quito and founded four other
companies mostly focused on the well-being and growth of humans and their
relationships with themselves and with nature. She uses her understanding of the
emotional drives that shape human behavior to design and implement successful
human-to-human connection models and systems.

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KIRSTY SHAW

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UK
)
Head of Ecological Restoration & Tree Conservation, Botanic Gardens Conservation
International

Kirsty is Head of Ecological Restoration and Tree Conservation at Botanic
Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). She has worked at BGCI since 2012,
and established the BGCI Africa office in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2017. Since joining
BGCI, Kirsty has been working with botanic gardens and other partners across
Africa on tree conservation and forest restoration projects, particularly
focused on getting a broader mix of native species, including threatened
species, into restoration and tree planting projects.

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DR. MARIAN CHAU

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Head of Seed Banking, Terraformation

Dr. Marian M. Chau is the Head of Seed Banking for Terraformation and the
founder and Co-Chair (2016-2024) of the IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group,
a collaboration of over 100 specialists worldwide that provides expertise to the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature. For over 5 years, Marian
served as the Seed Conservation Laboratory Manager at Lyon Arboretum and
Research Leader for the Hawai‘i Seed Bank Partnership, and was lead author on a
publication summarizing over 20 years of seed storage research in Hawai‘i. She
completed a sponsored Technical Training Attachment at the Millennium Seed Bank
- the world’s largest seed bank for native species, at the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, England; and her mentors also include leading experts at the USDA
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation.

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DR. KATE HARDWICK

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Conservation Partnership Coordinator at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, Royal
Botanic Gardens

As a Conservation Partnership Coordinator in the Seed Conservation section, my
job is to develop and maintain Millennium Seed Bank partnerships, projects, and
networks, particularly in Asia. We aim to secure the safe storage of seeds from
the world’s bankable plant species, whilst promoting plant conservation,
sustainable utilization of plant resources, habitat restoration, and the
improvement of livelihoods. I am also involved in several research projects that
explore the use of seeds in ecological restoration, with an emphasis on tropical
forests and temperate grasslands.

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EMMA STEWART

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US
)
Netflix Sustainability Officer

Emma Stewart, Ph.D., is Netflix’s first Sustainability Officer, where together
with teams from across the company, she seeks to bring Netflix's carbon
footprint to net zero, raise environmental awareness through film and television
series, and spur conversation on climate action among our hundreds of millions
of members in 190 countries. She previously led World Resources Institute’s
global work on urban efficiency, climate, and finance. She served on the Board
of the U.S. Green Building Council and software company Ecomedes. She has been a
member of the professional faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and
Stanford Graduate School of Business where she taught “Intrapreneurship for
Sustainability”. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, The Guardian, Tribune,
The Huffington Post, Environmental Law Journal, among others. She is a
contributing author to Corporate Responses to Climate Change and The
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Business, and her work is featured in books Frugal
Innovation and The Big Pivot. Emma was rated a “Badass Woman in Sustainability”
by GreenBiz, a "top 3 speaker" by The Economist Summits, and has been named a
“one of the most powerful women under 45” and an “urban pioneer” by FORTUNE
Magazine, a “sustainability insurgent” by MIT Sloan Management Review, and one
of the “Top 10 Women in Sustainability” by American Builders. Her work has been
featured in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial
Times, Reuters, L.A. Times, and Environmental Law Journal, among others. She is
a contributing author to Corporate Responses to Climate Change and The
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Business, and her work is featured in 3 books:
Frugal Innovation, The Big Pivot, and Chief Sustainability Officers at Work. She
holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from Stanford University
and a B.A. with Honors in Human Sciences from Oxford University.

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MARÍA MENDILUCE

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ES
)
CEO, We Mean Business Coalition

María Mendiluce is the CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition and has 25 years of
experience in sustainable development, energy, and climate action. The Coalition
brings together seven leading international organizations: BSR, The B Team, CDP,
Ceres, CLG Europe, Climate Group, and the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD). She sits on the Executive Board of the Science-Based
Targets initiative (SBTi) which has over 2,800 companies engaged. She actively
took part in the founding and is a member of the Board of the Mission Possible
Partnership that works to develop decarbonization roadmaps for seven
hard-to-abate sectors including cement and steel. María also co-founded the SME
Climate Hub which is building a one-stop shop for smaller companies for their
net-zero commitments. Formerly being the Managing Director and member of the
Senior Management Team at WBCSD, María established transformative industry
projects. She has also held senior positions at the Economic Bureau of the
Spanish Prime Minister, in the CEO’s office of Iberdrola, and at the
International Energy Agency.

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EVA KARLSSON

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SE
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CEO, Houdini Sportswear

Houdini Sportswear has worked with the circular and regenerative business for
many years and has become a source of inspiration for other companies. The
inspiration is taken from nature and the goal is to have 100% circular products
already in 2022. Houdini works according to the motto "reimagine everything" and
strives for a change of system to a regenerative way of living and working.

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CATARINA PAULSON

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SE
)
Head of Sustainability, Alfa Laval

Born in Mexico City, Catarina Paulson has worked within sustainability since
1994 in companies such as Volvo Cars, Volvo Group, AkzoNobel, and TetraPak
before joining Alfa Laval in 2014. A graduate of Swarthmore College in
Pennsylvania she holds a B.A. in Political science/international relations, a
diploma in Marketing with a focus on environmental communication and has studied
human technology and personnel administration. At Alfa Laval she has been
instrumental in the development of the sustainability strategy for 2030 and in
ensuring a road map for zero scopes 1&2 and halving scope 3 emissions by 2030 is
established.

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DAVID COLLSTE

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SE
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Post-doctoral researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University

Collste is a postdoctoral researcher at the Planetary Boundaries Research Lab.
He studies feedback between human development, the economy, and planetary
boundaries. Collste has a background in system dynamics, economics, political
science, and resilience thinking. Collste co-leads the module on systems
thinking at Stockholm Resilience Centre’s Master’s program, and lectures on
ecological economics and system dynamics modeling. In his Ph.D. thesis, he
studied different approaches to assessing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable
Development Goals. Before joining Stockholm Resilience Centre, he worked at the
United Nations on the 2030 Agenda and SDGs. He has also worked at the Swedish
Society for Nature Conservation (Naturskyddsföreningen). Collste holds a joint
Ph.D. degree in Sustainability Science from Stockholm University and Economics
from CERDI at Université Clermont Auvergne in France.

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DR. LEWIS AKENJI

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Managing Director, Hot or Cool Institute

As Managing Director, Lewis oversees strategic development, program
implementation, and staff management at Hot or Cool. Previously, Lewis has
served as Executive Director of SEED, founded as a UN partnership at the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development to promote entrepreneurship for
sustainable development. Prior to that, he was Director for Sustainable
Consumption and Production at the think tank Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies. He has consulted with organizations including United Nations
agencies, the Asian and African Development Banks, the European Commission, the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and has served as technical or
science-policy adviser to several national government delegations, including
Finland, Japan, Sweden, Indonesia, Hungary. Lewis conceived and led the
1.5-Degree Lifestyles project, analysing potential contribution of lifestyle
changes to the aspirational 1.5 °C target under the Paris Agreement on climate
change. He co-lead the United Nations One Planet programme on Sustainable
Lifestyles and Education. He has an M.Sc. Sustainable Resource Management
(Technical University Munich, Germany) and a Ph.D. Political Economy (University
of Helsinki, Finland).

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MATTIAS FRUMERIE

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SE
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Head of Delegation to UNFCCC, Swedish Ministry of Environment

Mattias Frumerie is Sweden's chief climate negotiator and Head of Delegation to
UNFCCC. Mr. Frumerie has spent most of his professional career in the Swedish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in roles such as head of Strategic communications,
head of EU internal market, head of EU policy as well as postings in Budapest
and Brussels. Mr. Frumerie has also served as an EU advisor in the Prime
Minister's office.

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KRISTINA PERSSON

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SE
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Senior Advisor, FAIRTRANS

Kristina Persson has all her grown-up life in various ways tried to improve how
society functions, including pushing for the green transformation. When she
worked at the secretariat for future studies at the Prime Ministers (Olof Palme)
Office, she understood the magnitude of threats facing mankind if political
decisions continue to be taken without a long-term and holistic view on society.
She has since then tried party politics, worked in civil society, and had
leading positions in the public sector. Not until now, 50 years later there is
beginning to be an understanding among both the general public and our political
leaders of our dependency on nature and on each other. She is afraid, however,
that it will take too long until this is put into practice, which makes her both
sad and angry.

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STANLEY JOHNSON

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UK
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International Ambassador, Conservative Environment Network

Educated, Oxford, Iowa, and Columbia, Universities. Joined of World Bank in
1966. Worked with Maurice Strong as part of the preparatory team in the run-up
to the first UN Conference on Human Environment and attended the Conference in
Stockholm on June 1072 as a delegate for International Planned Parenthood
Federation. Author of a dozen books on environment and population, including
UNCED 1992; World Population and the United Nations; and UNEP: first forty
years. Former MEP and Vice-Chairman of European Parliament Environment
Committee. Senior environment officer at EU Commission, Brussels. Holder of
awards from WWF, Greenpeace, RSPB, RSPA, etc. Winner of Newdigate Prize for
Poetry. Author of 11 novels.

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KARMA WANGDI

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UK
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Head Of Operations, tve (Television for the Environment)

tve is a UK-registered charity founded by the United Nations Environment
Programme, WWF-UK, and Central Television (now part of ITV) in 1984. Our mission
is to use the power of storytelling to drive real world change for a more
sustainable future. We work with filmmakers and partners worldwide to run media
projects, make films and work to promote effective, evidence-based storytelling
about environmental issues

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ALTANBAGANA BAYARSAIKHAN

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MN
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planetGOLD Mongolia

Altanbagana Bayarsaikhan is National Project Manager at the Global Environment
Facility-supported planetGOLD project in Mongolia. He has decades of experience
in managing a number of international development projects funded by SDC and
USAID, and worked in the small scale and large scale mining sector for the last
several years.

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MATS PELLBÄCK SCHARP

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SE
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Head of Sustainability, Ericsson

Mats is Head of Sustainability at Ericsson with responsibility for climate
action, circular economy, energy performance and triple bottom line impact of
products, services and company operations. Taking this role after restructuring
the Health & Safety organization in the company. During mats leadership the
company has set targets that are accepted to be on a 1.5°C by the Science Based
Target initiative. Mats has initiated and participated in various research
projects e.g. as a member of the steering group for the Exponential Climate
Action Roadmap report as well as the ICT & SDGs Report with Columbia University
on how information technology has the potential to accelerate halving of global
carbon emissions as well as reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. Before
rejoining Ericsson, among several other leading roles e.g. Head of
Sustainability at Sony Ericsson launching the Green Heart brand for mobile
phones and accessories.

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OWEN GAFFNEY

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SE
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Co-founder Exponential Roadmap Initiative, Stockholm University

Owen is a global sustainability writer, analyst and strategist. He is based at
the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Stockholm Resilience
Centre. He is also a Future Earth Senior Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow (New
Zealand) and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. He is interested in
big-picture narratives of the past and future of people on Earth (and beyond).
He has published in Science and Nature and is a regular contributor to New
Scientist. He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and Rethink magazine and is
on the editorial board of the Anthropocene magazine.

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FREDRIK JEJDLING

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SE
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Executive Vice President and Head of Business Area Networks, Ericsson

Fredrik Jejdling is Executive Vice President and Head of Business Area Networks
at Ericsson since November 7, 2017. He runs the company’s largest business area
with full P&L responsibility and brings to this role years of experience with
customers in diverse markets. He also oversees the global production and
progress of Ericsson’s radio and transport products and services across all
mobile technology generations.

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SARA-ELVIRA KUHMUNEN

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SE
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President, Sáminuorra

Sara-Elvira Kuhmunen, a 21-year-old from Jokkmokk, is the President of the Sami
youth organization Sáminuorra since 2001. She is passionate about the Climate
issue and Sami self-determination.

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PÄR LARSHANS

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SE
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Co-host, Director of Sustainability, Ragn-Sells

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.

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EVA HUNNIUS OHLIN

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SE
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Senior Advisor for Energy and Environment at Embassy of Sweden

Eva Hunnius Ohlin works in the Trade and Economic Affairs section at the Embassy
of Sweden in Washington DC since 2011. In her role as the embassy’s advisor for
energy and environment, she reports on US energy, climate and environment policy
as well as transportation policy and promotes Swedish green technologies.

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LINNÉA SELLBERG

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SE
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Project leader and Owner Representative at the Swedish Environmental Company
Ragn-Sells

Linnéa Sellberg has a Bachelor of Business Management and an Agronomist degree
from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and works as a
project leader at Ragn-Sells. Furthermore, Linnéa is an owner representative and
one of the fourth generation family members working within the company.

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DR. ANDERS BERGER

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SE
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Public Affairs Director, Volvo Group

Dr. Anders Berger, Director Public Affairs, is a transport solution specialist
at Volvo Group with extensive engagement in the public discourse of transport
efficiency, e-mobility, automation and connectivity related to the environmental
and efficiency challenges of the road transport system.

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SUSAN CHOMBA

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Director of Vital Landscapes at World Resources Institute

Dr. Susan Chomba is the Director of Vital Landscapes for Africa at the World
Resources Institute (WRI). She leads the institution’s work on Forests, Food
systems and People which includes forest landscape restoration, sustainable
agriculture/food systems and thriving rural livelihoods in Africa.

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CARA WILLIAMS

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UK
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Senior Partner, ESG Strategy Leader, Mercer

Cara Williams, Senior Partner, is ESG Strategy Leader for Mercer. Located in
London, Cara leads the program of work to articulate and amplify Mercer’s ESG
value proposition and positioning, embed sustainability in the journey to a
bright future, and drive highly-practical, relevant and value-added outcomes
both internally and externally. Cara oversees the Mercer’s Private Wealth
businesses in Canada and India, and also works with Mercer’s multinational
clients to deliver the best of Mercer’s broad Wealth solutions to assure
positive financial outcomes for organizations and their employees. Cara presents
regularly on global ESG, sustainability, diversity and investment trends.

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NIALL O’SULLIVAN

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IRL
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AMEA Chief Investment Officer, Investment Solutions, Mercer

Niall is responsible for the design, implementation and ongoing supervision of
Mercer Investment Management’s fund solutions for all AMEA clients, and
Discretionary Management services. He joined Mercer in 2010 from QED in Dublin,
where he developed solution-driven investment opportunities with banks and
insurance companies. Prior to this, he created derivative-based solutions at
Bank of Ireland Global Markets, including the bank’s LDI product range.

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MAX MESSERVY

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US
)
Senior Sustainable Investment Consultant, Mercer

Max Messervy is a Senior Sustainable Investment Consultant in Mercer’s U.S.
Sustainable Investment team. Max provides advice on sustainable investment
strategies, climate change, and impact investment approaches throughout
investment processes. Max advises institutional investors across a range of
segments, including pension funds, endowments, insurers, multi-lateral
development finance institutions, and other stakeholders in the investment value
chain. Max was a lead and/or co-author of reports on increasing institutional
investors’ impactful allocations to African infrastructure and private market
assets in 2018 and 2021, as well as a guide for integrating sustainable
investment approaches into corporate retirement plans in a project with the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

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DR. KLAUS KUNZ

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GER
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Head of ESG / External Engagement and Performance Reporting, Bayer

Dr. Klaus Kunz holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and a degree in economics. He
joined Bayer in 2001 and has gained 20 years of experience directing business
strategic topics in R&D at a global level, taking leadership roles in research,
R&D project management, regulatory and public / governmental affairs,
sustainability and business stewardship. Since February 2022 he is leading ESG
Strategy. Klaus is passionate about driving innovation and change,
cross-cultural collaboration, politics and history, also holding a lectureship
for chemistry at the University of Aachen. He is married with three children.

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INGE WEST

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UK
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Senior Sustainable Investment Specialist, Mercer Investment Solutions

Inge West is a Senior Sustainable Investment Specialist in Mercer’s European
Investment Solutions business, based in London. She is responsible for advising
and driving the implementation of sustainable investment practices across the
Mercer Investment Solutions offerings with a focus on integrating environmental,
social and governance (ESG) factors, sustainability trends, climate change, and
stewardship within the investment process. Prior to this Inge spent three years
in Mercer’s dedicated Global Sustainable Investment team, advising institutional
investors on and contributing to intellectual capital in sustainable investment.

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JOHN PIOTTI

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US
)
President & CEO, American Farmland Trust

John Piotti has worked at the forefront of sustainable agriculture since the
early 1990s, first in Maine, and now nationally. In 2016, he became President of
American Farmland Trust, bringing new energy to this storied organization that
launched the conservation agriculture movement. Under John’s leadership, AFT has
engaged in the most comprehensive study of American land use ever conducted,
helped secure billions of dollars in federal funding to protect farmland and
promote climate-smart agriculture, and launched new initiatives that advance
regenerative farming practices and support next generation farmers. Prior to
joining AFT, John served as President of Maine Farmland Trust, which during his
tenure became recognized as one of the most innovative and impactful
farm-support groups in the nation. John has also served in the Maine State
Legislature, where he chaired the Agriculture Committee and was later elected
House Majority Leader. In 2013, John was named to Maine Magazine’s inaugural
list of one of the 50 people who have done the most for the state. In 2005, he
received a prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship, which he used to study
agricultural policy in Europe. John holds three degrees from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology: in engineering, public policy, and systems management.

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ANTHONY MYINT

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US
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Executive Director, Zero Foodprint

Anthony Myint is a chef-turned climate crusader and Zero Foodprint is a
non-profit leading public private collaborations with state agencies in CA and
regional governments in CO to scale regenerative agriculture. ZFP is building a
regenerative economy through which businesses and citizens can directly change
how food is grown to restore the climate. A few cents per purchase funds compost
application, cover crop planting and other healthy soil practices, overseen and
validated by Conservation Districts, Cooperative Extensions and other local
experts. The long term goal of the public-private collaborations is to mirror
the transformative collective action of CCA policy for renewable energy, but
applied to climate beneficial agriculture. (and if you want more detail) Since
2020 ZFP has awarded over $800k to 53 regenerative agriculture projects on 5000
acres expected to sequester a modeled 32,000 tons of CO2e. Anthony is known in
the restaurant industry as the Co-Founder of Mission Street Food (SF Chronicle's
Most Influential Restaurant of the Past Decade", Mission Chinese Food (NYTimes
Restaurant of the Year - 2012) and The Perennial (Bon Appetit's "Most
Sustainable Restaurant in the Country").

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IRYNA STAVCHUK

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UKR
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Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for
European Integration

Mrs. Stavchuk is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Environmental
Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for European Integration. Before
assuming this role, she was the Deputy Minister of Energy and Environmental
Protection of Ukraine. Prior to joining the Ukrainian cabinet, Mrs. Stavchuk
worked at the National Environmental Center of Ukraine, where she coordinated
work in the development and implementation of climate protection policy in
Ukraine and participated in UN International Negotiations on climate change.
Mrs. Stavchuk graduated with honors from the Faculty of Heat Power Engineering
of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Environmental and
Economic Monitoring. She received her second higher education at the
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (Lund, Sweden)
with a degree in Environmental Management and Politics.

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CARL BRUCH

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US
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Director of International Programs, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Carl Bruch is the Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law
Institute (ELI) and the founding President of the Environmental Peacebuilding
Association (EnPAx). His work focuses on environmental peacebuilding (especially
after conflict), environmental governance, adaptation, and environmental
emergencies. He has helped dozens of countries— including in many
conflict-affected countries—throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe
strengthen their environmental laws, institutions, and practices. He has edited
more than ten books and authored more than 80 journal articles, book chapters,
and reports. He is an adjunct professor at American University School of
International Service. He holds a JD from the Northwestern School of
Environmental Law of Lewis & Clark College, an MA in physics from the University
of Texas-Austin, and a BS in physics (with additional majors in mathematics and
anthropology) from Michigan State University.

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STEFAN SMITH

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KEN
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Senior Programme Manager, Disasters & Conflicts, at UN Environment Programme
(UNEP)

Stefan is a senior programme manager with the United Nations Environment
Programme working on resilience and response to disasters & conflicts, strategic
planning, programme delivery reporting, and operations management and oversight.
He has a background in international news agency journalism and news analysis,
editorial and operational management in multiple fragile and conflict contexts
and under state and non-state actors. He has covered themes including electoral
processes, human rights, genocide and international justice, displacement and
refugee crises, environment, nuclear proliferation, humanitarian interventions,
complex militant attacks, intelligence operations and the operations and
dynamics of several Islamist and other non-state militant groups.

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JOSÉ R. ALLEN

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US
)
International Environmental Lawyer, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Jose has been practicing law for 45 years. For over 30 years he was a partner at
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and represented clients in a wide range of
environmental litigation matters as well as in a broad variety of other matters.
Before entering private practice Jose worked as an Assistant Attorney General in
the then newly-formed Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts
Attorney General’s Office. He then joined the Environmental and Natural
Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., where
he represented the United States and its agencies in environmental enforcement
and defense matters throughout the country. While at Justice he served as chief
of the Environmental Defense Section, representing EPA in matters arising under
all the federal statutes administered by the agency including, CERCLA, RCRA, the
Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the
Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide Act. He later became chief of the Natural
Resources Section which is responsible for representing federal agencies such as
the Department of Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of
Defense in litigation arising under NEPA and other federal natural resources
laws. Jose also served as a Commissioner on the United Nations Compensation
Commission (UNCC) which was created in the aftermath of the First Gulf War to
require Iraq to pay reparations to national governments, companies, and
individuals who had suffered monetary losses as the result of Iraq’s unlawful
invasion and occupation of Kuwait. As a member of the panel appointed by the UN
Security Council to review claims by governmental entities for environmental and
natural resources damages resulting from the war, Jose and his co-commissioners
recommended that Iraq pay over $4 billion in reparations to affected states for
environmental and natural resource damages. The panel’s report and
recommendations were adopted in full by the UN Security Council. This was the
first time in international law where a country was required to pay reparations
for environmental and natural resource damages resulting from war. The United
Nations recently announced that Iraq had fulfilled its obligations to pay all
claimants compensation awarded by the UNCC, which totaled $52.4 billion. Jose
was lured out of retirement over a year ago to resume the representation of a
client in two of the longest running Superfund cases in the country. Jose is a
graduate of Yale College and Boston College Law School.

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DR. MICHAEL BOTHE

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GER
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Professor Emeritus of Public Law, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main

Michael Bothe is Professor emeritus of Public Law at the J.W. Goethe University
Frankfurt/Main. He held a Chair in Public International Law at the Universities
of Hannover and Frankfurt (where he also was Dean), and served as a visiting
professor in many universities around the world. He was a research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in
Heidelberg, later served as chair of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board
and is currently a member of the Kuratorium. He was president of the German
Society for International Law and of the European Environmental Law Association
as well as President of the International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission
and Chairperson, and still is a member, of the German Committee for
International Humanitarian Law. He served as a delegate or adviser in a number
of international conferences (including the Diplomatic Conference for the
Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law 1974-1977) and
as a counsel before the International Court of Justice and the German Federal
Constitutional Court. He is the author of many books and articles on questions
of international law (in particular as it relates to legal restraints on the use
of military force and to the protection of the environment), comparative public
law, European law and constitutional law. He received the Giuseppe Ciardi Prize
for he law of armed conflict, the Elisabeth Haub Prize for international and
comparative environmental law, the Henry Dunant Medal of the International Red
Cross/Red Crescent Movement and the Prize of the Institute of International
Humanitarian Law (San Remo).

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KATHLEEN ROGERS

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US
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President, Earth Day Network

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Kathleen has developed
Earth Day Network into a year-round policy and activist organization. Now more
than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day in 192 countries. Kathleen has
been at the vanguard of developing innovative financial mechanisms to support
green buildings and schools. Kathleen also founded Earth Day Network’s
groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green program, which has now recorded close to 3
billion individual actions to improve the environment.

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ELIZABETH PEARCE

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US
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Founder, SymSoil Inc

Elizabeth Pearce is the founder of SymSoil Inc, a soil health company created in
response to soil degradation. In 2021, SymSoil began collaborating with
RegenIowa to convert 1 million acres of conventional farms to regenerative
farming. She became concerned with issues related to climate change and food
security while a portfolio manager at Northern Trust, thinking about farmland as
an asset class. RegenIowa has challenged farmers to adopt regenerative
agriculture by 2025, through rapid and robust restoration of the complete soil
microbiome and soil health.

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L. HUNTER LOVINS

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US
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President, Natural Capitalism Solutions

A founding professor of sustainable business management at the Bard MBA, Hunter
lectures at universities around the world. Named a Master at the De Tao Academy
in Shanghai, she is a founding mentor of the Unreasonable Institute that coaches
social enterprises around the world. An entrepreneur, herself, L. Hunter Lovins
is a founder and Chief Impact Officer of Change Finance, an impact investing
firm. Hunter is founder and President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. A
consultant to scores of industries and governments worldwide, including
International Finance Corporation, Unilever, Walmart, the United Nations and
Royal Dutch Shell, as well as sustainability champions Interface, Patagonia and
Clif Bar, she has briefed heads of state, leaders of the numerous local
governments, the Pentagon, and about 30 countries, as well as the UN, World
Economic Forum and the US Congress. She sits on the Executive Committee of the
Club of Rome, the Steering Committee of Partners for a Planetary Emergency, the
Convening Committee of Colorado Regenerative Recovery Coalition and Capital
Institute Advisory Board. Author of 16 books and hundreds of articles, Hunter
has won dozens of awards, including the European Sustainability Pioneer award,
and the Right Livelihood Award. Time Magazine recognized her as a Millennium
Hero for the Planet, and Newsweek called her the Green Business Icon. Her most
recent book, A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life won a
Nautilus Award.

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MERLIN YOCKSTICK

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US
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Founder of Blue Planet Science Group, RegenIOWA, and Co-Founder of EarthRegenx

Author - Instructional Designer – Founder of Blue Planet Science Group,
RegenIOWA and Co-Founder of EarthRegenx , a 501C3. Merlin is engaged in
designing a 50-state initiative to develop a regenerative approach starting in
Iowa and with Agriculture to help communities, and states build healthy- robust
economies that are beyond sustainability. He is an activist interested in
transforming America’s health care system and sits on the Iowa Healthiest State
Initiative and the Committee for Community Health Improvement, powered by
Wellmark. Merlin’s focus is on the fundamentals of Water, Soil/Food/Agriculture,
Education and Health. He has a transformative purpose of engaging youth,
community and business leaders in “building smart and regenerative communities
and states, and is designing a bottom up – top-down “systemic” approach in Iowa
as a model for our nation and world. Merlin is a member of Smart Growth America,
U.S. Water Alliance and is an active participant in the Singularity University
HUB group that is advancing the Exponential Growth of Information Technology.
Merlin’s love for nature and commitment to the stewardship of our Blue and Water
Planet is the central theme of his vision for business and humanitarian
endeavors 2022 and beyond.

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JILLIAN SEMAAN

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US
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VP, Sustainability at Ketchum

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SANDRINE DIXSON-DECLÈVE

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BE
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Co-President of the Club of Rome

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).

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ELIZABETH MCGEVERAN

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US
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Director of investments, McKnight Foundation

As McKnight’s director of investments since 2019, Elizabeth McGeveran oversees
the team that manages the Foundation’s $3 billion endowment. With her leadership
and vision, the Foundation committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas
emissions across its entire portfolio by or before 2050—the nation’s first of
the 50 largest private foundations to do so. McGeveran designed a market-rate
solutions-oriented portfolio that aligns with the Foundation’s mission,
advancing climate solutions, and equitable communities and economies. Across the
entire endowment, one of every three invested dollars is mission-aligned.
McGeveran first joined McKnight in 2014 to lead its impact investing program.
She helped pave the way for the Foundation as a leading impact investor,
identifying investment opportunities that are building the world we want to live
in. As an investment leader since 1999, McGeveran with others was an early actor
in developing environmental social and governance (ESG) approaches across the
industry. As senior vice president for governance and sustainable investment at
F&C Asset Management, a London-based commercial asset manager (now BMO Global
Asset Management), she built this firm’s market-leading socially responsible
investment team. McGeveran is an independent trustee of funds at Boston Trust
Walden, a longtime leader in incorporating ESG into its investment approach. She
an original member of the U.S. Advisory Committee for the FTSE4Good indexes, and
currently volunteers on the investment committee at the University of St. Thomas
in her hometown of St. Paul. McGeveran grew up outside Boston and graduated from
Carleton College in Minnesota.

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