Speakers

Jaya  Adapa
Head of social impact and sustainability partnerships, YouTube
Habiba Ali
Managing director and CEO, Sosai Renewable Energies Company
Greg Asner
Director, ASUs Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science
Yetunde Ayo Oyalowo
Founder and CEO, Market Doctors
Diana Ayton-Shenker
CEO, Leonardo/ISAST
Hari Balasubramanian
Founding managing partner, EcoAdvisors, and co-founder, EcoInvestors Capital
Vanessa Barboni Hallik
CEO, Another Tomorrow
Xiye Bastida
Co-founder, Re-Earth Initiative
Liberato Bautista
President, Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations
Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir
Chair of the board, Reykjavík Global Forum & Senior Advisor on Women’s Leadership, UN Women
Mercedes Bustamante
Professor, University of Brasilia
Colin Butfield
Co-founder and executive director, Studio Silverback
Gillian Caldwell
Chief climate officer, USAID
Mark Campanale
Founder and executive chairperson, Carbon Tracker Initiative
Joji Cariño
Senior Policy Advisor, Forest Peoples Programme
Martin Chungong
Secretary general, Inter-Parliamentary Union
Helen Clark
Former prime minister of New Zealand and patron of The Helen Clark Foundation
Valencia Clement
Writer, entrepreneur and PhD candidate in Education Policy and Evaluation
Natalia da Silveira Arruda
YouthMappers Regional Ambassador Everywhere She Maps for Brazil and Colombia and PhD student
Geoff Dabelko
Professor and associate dean, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University
Maria Damanaki
Principal advisor, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
Admiral Piyal de Silva
Commander (retired), Sri Lankan Navy
Alex Dehgan
Co-founder and CEO
Conservation X Labs
Marta del Rio Villanueva
Founder, Wasi Organics
Gary Dirks
Director, LightWorks
Sylvia Earle
President and co-chair, Mission Blue
Amanda Ellis
Senior director for Global Partnerships and Networks, ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés
Former president, U.N. General Assembly, and co-chair of the Coalition for the U.N. We Need
Meagan Fallone
Chief impact officer, Innoterra Ag; director, Barefoot College International; Founder of Step Up Advisers
Helga Flores Trejo
Vice president and head of international public affairs, Bayer AG
Henrietta Fore
CEO, Holsman International
Bruce Friedrich
Co-founder and chief executive officer, The Good Food Institute
Maja Groff
International lawyer and convener of the Climate Governance Commission
Ali Hartman
Head of responsible investment, Tiger Global Impact Ventures
Renat Heuberger
Co-founder and CEO, South Pole
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Ghislain Irakoze
Founder and CEO, Wastezon
Naoko Ishii
Director of the Center for Global Commons, Institute for Future Initiatives
Maria Ivanova
Professor and director, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University
Ellen Jackowski
Chief sustainability officer and executive vice president, Mastercard
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Sophia Kianni
Founder and executive director, Climate Cardinals
Anthony Leiserowitz
Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Dawn Lippert
Founder and CEO, Elemental Excelerator
Peggy Liu
Chairperson, JUCCCE: Greening China Together
Leah Lizarondo
Founder and CEO, Food Rescue Hero
Augusto Lopez-Claros
Executive director and chair, Global Governance Forum
Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Independent sustainability adviser
Gavin McCormick
Co-founder and executive director, WattTime
Kathleen Merrigan
Executive director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems at ASU
Mahmoud Mohieldin
U.N. Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and the U.N. Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Frank Niepold
Senior climate education program manager and coordinator, NOAA
Carlos Nobre
Climate scientist and Amazonian expert, Institute for Advanced Studies at University of Sao Paulo
Lisa Palmer
National Geographic Research Professor at GWU, journalist, and author of “Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change”
Alexandra Palt
Chief corporate responsibility officer of L’Oréal and CEO of Fondation L’Oréal
Rachel Petero
Founder and CEO, Rise2025
Conservation International
Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Vicky Robertson
Chief executive and secretary, New Zealand Ministry of the Environment
Henk Rogers
Founder, Blue Planet Energy
M. Sanjayan
Conservation International
Peter Schlosser
Vice president and vice provost, ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Peter Seligmann
CEO, Nia Tero
Youba Sokona
Vice chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Leena Srivastava
Deputy director general – Science, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
George Stephanopoulos
Director, The Global KAITEKI Center
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Barbara Stinson
President, World Food Prize
Gunhild A. Stordalen
Founder and executive chairperson, EAT
Soumya Swaminathan
Chief scientist, World Health Organization
François Taddei
Chief exploration officer, Learning Planet Institute
Justin Worland
Senior correspondent, TIME
Riddhima Yadav
Sustainable investing group, Goldman Sachs