Vanessa started her activism in 2019, when she began a solitary strike after becoming concerned with unusually high temperatures in her home country. Vanessa has since been outspoken about a variety of climate issues. Vanessa initiated a project, instaling solar panels and institutional cooking stoves in schools. Reducing the amount of used firewood, cutting down emissions and ensuring clean cooking also enables learning experiences for students, their parents and teachers about the importance of protecting the planet.

An expert on global risk arising from the systemic changes occurring in the natural environment Professor Gail Whiteman is the founder of Arctic Basecamp and Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter’s Business School (UK).
She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Frontier Risk and was a scientific keynote speaker at WEF’s 2020 session at Davos “What’s at Stake: The Arctic” alongside panellists including Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin and Former US Vice President, Al Gore. Also Professor-in-Residence at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and is actively involved in building science-based targets collective business action, including those for a future low-carbon economy. Her research utilises organisation theory on information flows to analyse how a range of actors (companies, civil society, and local communities) make sense of ecological risk, and how these actors transform and build resilience across scales given environmental pressures and social inequities.

Diederik Samsom (10 July 1971) is a Dutch environmentalist and former politician who led the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) from 2012 to 2016. Since November 2019, Diederik Samsom is Head of Cabinet for Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans.
Member of the Dutch House of Representatives between 30 January 2003 and 14 December 2016, Samsom was elected PvdA parliamentary leader as well as party leader on 16 March 2012. Before his election to the House of Representatives, he was CEO of a green energy company and a campaigner for Greenpeace Netherlands. After leaving the Dutch parliament, he worked as an energy consultant and led negotiations on the built environment leading up to the Dutch climate agreement presented on 28 June 2019.

Beth is an internationally respected environmental leader and advocate. She joined Patagonia from her position as Deputy Chief Executive at Client Earth, an environmental NGO with a unique approach – using the power of the law to create systemic change.
In response to the widespread suffering caused by Covid, in 2020, Beth used her spare time to initiate and lead a team of volunteers from across the nature sector to develop the National Nature Service: a programme to tackle the problems of nature’s decline and rising unemployment. Prior to ClientEarth, Beth spent four years at the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, as Director of Fundraising and Communications.

Dr. James Rogers is Founder and CEO of Apeel Sciences, a company that’s fighting the global food waste crisis by using materials found in nature to help food last longer — a sustainable approach to the world’s growing food demands. James leads corporate strategy and Apeel’s team of award-winning scientists in developing plant-based technologies that keep fruits and vegetables fresh two to three times longer. James received dual undergraduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also received his MS in Economics. In 2020, James was named a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader” for addressing climate change, world hunger, and sustainable food systems.

Boris Herrmann is a professional offshore sailor from Hamburg. On 8th November 2020 Boris set off on the Vendee Globe, a solo non-stop race around the globe as the first German to ever attempt this mission. He arrived after 80 days at sea, sailing through the Southern Ocean in the toughest conditions in the world and completed this emission free. The team’s main mission is to create awareness around climate change and solutions. He carries the message A Race We Must Win on his sails and is furthering scientific knowledge on all his sailing missions with an onboard laboratory.

Dr. Sabine Mauderer has been Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank since September 2018. She is responsible for the Directorates Markets and Human Resources. In this capacity, she is a member of the Steering Committee of the “Central banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)”. Prior to her current responsibilities, she held several senior positions at the KfW Banking group and worked as a senior adviser at the Federal Ministry of Finance as well as the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. Sabine Mauderer graduated in law, holds a PhD by the Osnabrück University and an Executive MBA by the ESSEC & Mannheim Business School.

Cees joined OVG Real Estate 10 years ago to be the head of the Sustainability Center. His first project was the first LEED Platinum TNT HQ and the first sustainable lab/office/factory, the Danone Innovation Center, both initiated by his team. The well-known office building The Edge in Amsterdam was the best example of smart and sustainable development and become a blueprint of the future of working and according to BREEAM, the most sustainable office building in the world. Today Cees is one of the initiators of the new company EDGE, a tech scale-up of OVG. With over 15 healthy, sustainable and tech EDGE buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London and the US, this seems to be the answer to disruption in the global real estate market.

Nico Rosberg is well-known as the 2016 Formula 1 World Champion. Since leaving the racing series, he is passionately committed to the issue of sustainability. As an entrepreneur and investor in green technologies and mobility startups, he represents visionary innovations that make the world a little better. In numerous projects around the world, he also contributes to the topic of environmental protection, health, equality and justice. In 2019, he co-founded the GREENTECH FESTIVAL, a global platform for pioneering sustainable ideas that takes place annually in Berlin. Since 2021, he has been competing with Rosberg X Racing in Extreme E, a racing series that aims to draw attention to the consequences of global climate change.