Speakers

Co-Hosts

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Michelle Wyman

Executive Director, National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)

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Chad Frischmann

Senior Director of Research and Technology, Project Drawdown

Keynote & Plenary Speakers

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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)

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Virginijus Sinkevičius

Commissioner, Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Commission

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Sachem Wushouwunan Kesikbesek Maxé Rua (Sanchem HawkStorm)

Hereditary sachem (chief) of the Schaghticoke People

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Warren Washington

Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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Vanessa Nakate

Founder, Rise Up Movement, Young Leader for the UN SDGs

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Carlos Duarte

Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

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Amanda Joy Ravenhill

Executive Director, Buckminster Fuller Institute

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Daniel M. Kammen

Professor and Director for the Center for Environmental Policy and the department of Nuclear Engineering at University of California, Berkeley

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Christian Kroll

Founder & CEO, Ecosia

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Jonathan Foley

Executive Director of Project Drawdown

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Joanna Drake

Deputy Director-General of Environment, EU Commission

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Andreas Khulmann

CEO German Energy-Agency (dena)

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Christina Kwauk

Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings

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Martin Frick, Ph.D.

Deputy of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Food System Summit 2021

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Katharine Hayhoe

Political Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law, co-director of the Climate Center at Texas Tech University

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Randy Burd

Board Director, NCSE; Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Long Island University

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Karim Ahmed

Secretary-Treasurer, NCSE Board of Directors; Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther

Founder & Director, End Climate Silence

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Inger Anderson

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme

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Joyashree Roy

Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University & National Fellow, INCSSR

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Nawashahu Yawanawa-Bergin (Sara)

Caceque (Chief), Aldeia Shukuvana Yawanawa

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Peggy Liu

Chairperson of JUCCCE

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Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset)

Indigenous rights activist, lawyer and spiritual teacher

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AY Young

Performer, batterytour.com and Young Leader for the UN SDGs

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Amy Luers

Global Lead, Sustainability Science at Microsoft

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Dr. Preeti Soni

Chief - Climate Change, Resilience and Energy at UNDP

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Shloka Nath

Head of Sustainability, Tata Trusts, Head of Policy & Advocacy, Tata Trusts, Executive Director, India Climate Collaborative

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Charles Michel

Food Educator and Activist

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Youba Sokona

Vice Chair, IPCC

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Crystal Chissell

Senior Director of Partnerships, Project Drawdown

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Darren Ranco

Chair, Native American Programs and Director of Native American Research, University of Maine

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Serena Sowers

Senior Client Manager and Vice President in the Public Sector Solutions Division, Swiss Re

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Susan Gardner

Director of Ecosystems Division, UNEP

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Laura Weiland

Senior Advisor for Special Projects, National Council for Science and the Environment

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Sally Ann Ranney

President & Co-Founder, GLOBAL CHOICES

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Christiana Figueres

Founding Partner, Global Optimism; Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Xiye Bastida

Co-Founder, ReEarth Initiative

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Kate Raworth

Co-founder, Doughnut Economics Action Lab

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Dr. Ajay Mathur

Director General of TERI and Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, India

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Alexandria Villaseñor

Climate Activist, Earth Rising

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Roy Straver

Drawdown Europe Research Association and Co-Director of the Climate Cleanup Foundation

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Lynda Hopkins

Supervisor, County of Sonoma

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Martin Stuchtey

Professor for Resource Strategy and Management at the University of Innsbruck and Founder and Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ

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Marques Anderson

Founder/Director, World Education Foundation

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Gunhild Stordalen

Founder and Executive Chair, EAT Forum

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Sandra Postel

Director, Global Water Policy Project

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Carl Ganter

Director, Circle of Blue; CEO, Vector Center

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Valerie Luzadis

Chair, NCSE Board of Directors; Professor, The State University of New York, ESF

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Marina Melanidis

Founder and Partnerships Director, Youth4Nature

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Dennis Garrity

Chair of the Board of the Global EverGreening Alliance, Chair, Landcare International, and Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification

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Sir Andy Haines

Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, LSHTM

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Peter Schlosser

Vice President and Vice Provost, Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University

Jamie Alexander

Project Drawdown Director of Drawdown Labs

Jimena Alvarez

PhD Student at Lancaster University

Senorpe Asem-Hiablie

Steering Committee Member
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Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor, Institutes of Energy and Environment, Penn State

Shalanda Baker

Professor of Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University and Co-Founder and Co-Director, Initiative for Energy Justice

Kevin Bayuk

Project Drawdown Senior Fellow, Financial Modeling

Alden Bevington

Product Manager, Drawdown Solutions Platform

Aruna Chandrasekhar

Independent Journalist and Writer from India

Thomas Crowther

Scientific Advisor, UN Trillion Tree Campaign, Professor of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zürich

Anna Escuer

Lead for Carbon & Water Global Sustainability Team at Google

Gabrielle Batzko

NCSE Drawdown USA Scholar, Appalachian State University

Isaias Hernandez

Environmental Educator and Creator, QueerBrownVegan

Mark Hertsgaard

Executive Director, Covering Climate Now

Evan Hynes

Founder at Climatebase - Mobilizing the world's top talent to solve the climate crisis

James Sanders

NCSE Drawdown USA Scholar, Rice University

Dana Kawaoka-Chen

Executive Director for Justice Funders

Sean Kinghorn

Global Sustainability Leader, Intuit

Richard Mabion

Founder, Breaking the Silence Conference (BTS) in Kansas City, Kansas

Fernanda Matsuoka

Chief Operating Officer, Youth Climate Leaders

Cheikh Mbow

Adjunct Associate Professor, Environmental Science at Michigan State University

Ruth Metzel

Global Restoration Lead at Conservation International

João Pedro Gouveia

Senior Researcher at Project Drawdown and CENSE, NOVA, University of Lisbon; and Board Member, DERA

Rashid Sumaila

Professor at Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Fisheries Economics Research Unit and Canada Research Chair

Asad Rehman

Executive Director, War on Want

Mark E. Ritchie

Professor at Mark Ritchie Research Lab, Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences

Vivian Saxon

Communications Director and Founder, Global Warming Mitigation Project

Yoni Shiran

Industrial Systems and Business Model Manager, SYSTEMIQ

Kynan Tegar

Filmmaker, If Not Us Than Who, Dayak Iban tribe from Sungai Utik, West Kalimantan

Nico Valencia

Senior Manager, Strategic Education Partnerships, Intuit

Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti

Founder, Green Generation Initiative

Kate Weiner

Creative Director, Loam

Ryan Allard

Project DrawdownSenior Fellow for Transportation and Buildings

David Anderson Hooker, PhD

Associate Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding

Elizabeth Bagley

Project Drawdown Director of Drawdown Learn

Jeff Baradelli

Meteorologist and Climate Contributor to CBS News, New York City

Maxime Beaugrand

Director of the Paris Office for IGSD

Marilyn Brown

Interim Chair & Regents' Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology

Christopher Contos

NCSE Drawdown USA Scholar, Rowan University

David Brooks

Technology Enthusiast, Futurist, and Programmer, CoLab Cooperative

Kailea Frederick

Editor at Loam, Mother and First Nations Woman

Miranda Gorman

Project Drawdown Senior Fellow, Industry

David Hernández Palmar

Filmmaker and Film Programmer, If Not Us Than Who

Clover Hogan

Founder and Executive Director, Force of Nature

Barbara J. Love

Consultant, Coach, Author, Lecturer, Climate Change Activist, Personal & Organizational Transformation Specialist

Emilia Jankowska

Senior Fellow - Oceans at Project Drawdown

Silpa Kaza

Urban Development Specialist, World Bank

Kirsten Love

Director of Market Development, Tradewater

Dr. Albert Maipisi

Senior Lecturer at the Women’s University in Africa

Elouise Mayall

Community Working Group; UKYCC (UK Youth Climate Coalition)

Mamta Mehra

Project Drawdown Senior Fellow, Land Use and Research Program Officer

Deidra Parrish Williams

Leader, Global Corporate Social Responsibility, Trane Technologies

Robin Pelc

Project Drawdown Research Fellow, Oceans

Karla Readshaw

Strategic Partner Manager, Education, Intuit

Tom Richard

Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment Bioenergy and Bioresource Engineering