Patricia Espinosa is the Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change since 2016. Ambassador of Mexico to Germany since 2012 and from 2001 to 2002, Ms. Espinosa was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, bringing more than 30 years of experience at highest levels in international relations, specialized in climate change, global governance, sustainable development, gender equality and protection of human rights.

Marieke van Doorninck is deputy mayor of Amsterdam since 2018. She is responsible for Spatial Development and Sustainability. She introduced the Amsterdam Donut Economy, made name with sustainable and green city planning and has high ambitions in turning the city towards a circular economy. In a dense city with hardly any free space left the city government needs clever solutions to have a vivid economy, affordable housing and space to breathe. To get the city within the boundaries of what is ecologically sound economics is a daily challenge in her portfolio. Making sure the people of Amsterdam understand and support the policies in place for a sustainable future is key. Van Doorninck is convinced the Energy Transition is only successful if everyone can profit, in particular those who have a hard time making both ends meet. Therefore she puts extra focus on including people with the lowest income in this transition.

Be inspired by Vinisha Umashankar! She is a Grade 10 student, an artist, a TEDx speaker, an innovator, and an environmentalist. She lives in Tiruvannamalai, a rural town in Tamil Nadu, India. She is well-known for her innovation, the Solar Ironing Cart. She was the only school student and the youngest Earthshot Prize 2021 finalist. She spoke along with Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. At the World Leaders' Summit, her 5-minute speech went viral on social media and may have been seen 30 million times. Despite her age, Vinisha advocates change through innovation. Learn how Vinisha took her idea from sketch to prototype and how her innovation could transform the lives of 10 million ironing vendors.

Gabriela Bucher is the Executive Director of Oxfam International, a global network which fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. Ms Bucher is a passionate advocate for social justice and is deeply committed to tackling economic and gender inequality.

Ms Bucher is also a member of the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development and sits on the Advisory Council of the Grand Challenge on Inequality and Exclusion.

Ms Bucher, who grew up in Cali, Colombia, worked alongside children and communities affected by Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict and contributed to peace building efforts. She studied philosophy and literature in Bogotá, and History and Civilizations at EHESS in Paris. Prior to Oxfam, Ms Bucher was the Chief Operating Officer at Plan International, and led Fundación Plan Colombia.

Navneet Kapoor has been with A.P. Moeller ‐ Maersk since June 2017 and has held various responsibilities, including holding the roles of Chief Transformation Officer and Head of Global Shared Service Centres, before being appointed to the Company’s Management Board in March 2021 . In February 2020, Mr. Kapoor was appointed Chief Technology and Information officer and since March 2021 serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology & Information officer. With a career spanning over 25 years , he has assumed diverse leadership roles within the omnichannel retail, financial, manufacturing and engineering research industries across multiple geographies spanning India, North America, Japan and Thailand. Mr. Kapoor holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering.

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. He leads the Board area SAP Product Engineering and has global responsibility for all business software applications.
Before, Saueressig was chief information officer and global head of IT Services at SAP. As CIO, he was responsible for SAP’s IT strategy and execution following a cloud-first approach. Saueressig started his career at SAP in consulting for CRM implementations. He spent several months in SAP Labs Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California, and was a Board assistant for several years.
Saueressig has a degree in Business Information Technology from the University of Cooperative Education in Mannheim (Germany) and a joint executive MBA from ESSEC Business School (France) and Mannheim Business School (Germany).

My mission is to scour the globe for technologies that can transform the Lufthansa Group airlines towards a more sustainable future operation, and then implement them into our organization. The CleanTech Hub focuses on scaling and commercializing homegrown tech from within the group companies and establishing partnerships with startups and corporates in the areas of aircraft retrofits, SAF and alternative fuels, digital solutions, waste and circular economy, and everything between and beyond, comprising new powertrains, hydrogen, electric, hybrid, etc. I have a background in logistics, aviation, IT, and have lived and worked in 6 countries.