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Monica Araya is the Transport Lead within the COP26 Climate Champions Team. Her work focuses on accelerating the transition to zero-emission road transportation with a strong focus on coalition building and demand acceler- ation. She has founded several initiatives in Latin America to engage leaders in government, business and civil society, including Costa Rica Limpia. She has a doctorate in Environmental Management from Yale University and hosts a podcast on climate, technology and science. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at University of California, Merced. She graduated from Asmara University, Eritrea and received her PhD from UC Berkeley. Professor Berhe is a soil scientist and leader on scientific issues involving soil, , and equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education. She is a member of the inaugural class of the New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and Past Chair of the US National Committee on Soil Science at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Michel Berry has been Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (1981–2008), Director of the Centre de Recherche en Gestion at École Polytechnique (1975–91), founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Gérer et Comprendre (1985–2015), member of the International Programs Committee, American Academy of Management (1994–2002), and is founder and director of the École de Paris du management (1993–present). Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois are three students at École Polytechnique. They were able to join this prestigious engineering school after two years of intensive classes in maths and physics. They got to know each other as neighbours on campus and through their weekly boxing matches! They chose to get involved in the school’s sustainable development asso- ciation in their desire to understand and commit to ecological issues. This breeding ground was conducive to the emergence of a reflection on their role as students and future workers. Dominique Bureau works at the French Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition. He currently chairs its Economic Council for Sustainable

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Development and its Green Tax Commission. He is also Chairman of the French Authority for Official Statistics and a lecturer at the École Polytechnique, in charge of the steering committee of the Chair for Sustainable Development. Camila Bustos graduated from Brown University with honours in Environmental Studies and International Relations, where she studied inter- national climate change policy. After university, she worked as a researcher at Colombian-based NGO Dejusticia, researching issues related to business and human rights, climate-induced displacement, and the human rights movement. She is a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and a second-year law student at Yale Law School. Camila is interested in working at the intersection of climate change and human rights litigation. Bobby Chan, this long-haired, music-loving environmental lawyer, leads one of the world’s most effective direct-action eco-vigilante organizations. Inspired by their Catholic faith, he and a dozen other colleagues enforce con- servation laws that usually go ignored by local police, environmental officers and coastguards. They confiscate chainsaws from loggers, boats from illegal fishermen and guns from poachers. Several of his friends have died in this campaign, but he believes that radical action is essential. Susan Clayton is Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She has written or edited six books, including Psychology and Climate Change (2018). Her PhD in Social Psychology is from Yale University. Her research focuses on the human relationship with nature, how it is socially constructed, and how it can be utilized to promote environmental conservation. She is a lead author on the upcoming Sixth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Philippe Cury is a senior scientist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), , working in marine ecology. He is the President of the Scientific Council of the Monaco Institute of Oceanography. He has been working in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, California, South Africa and France to analyse the effect of climate on fisheries and how to implement the ecosystem approach to fisheries. He has published more than 150 articles in the main international journals and has received several scientific achievements and awards. Anneliese Depoux leads the Centre Virchow-Villermé, a French-German research centre for Public Health, with a branch in Paris – Université de Paris – and another one in Berlin – Charité Universitätsmedizin. The Centre has pio- neered work on the health impacts of climate change and is widely recognized as a European hub for research on this emerging topic. Dr Depoux is herself a leading voice in the communication of these issues to the general public: she

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Carbone 4, a climate strategy consulting firm. He is Chairman of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation. He has co-chaired several official missions and is co-author of several books and hosts the blog ‘Chroniques de l’anthropocène’. Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School in New York City. Emmanuel Guérin is the Executive Director for International Affairs at the European Climate Foundation. Emmanuel also serves as the Director of the International Climate Politics Hub. Before joining the ECF, he worked for the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, as Special Advisor to France’s Climate Change Ambassador and led the drafting team for the Paris Agreement. Emmanuel taught and researched at Sciences Po, Columbia University, and the London School of Economics. Sophie Handford is the founder of School Strike 4 Climate NZ and coor- dinated the movement alongside others during its first year. She graduated from Kāpiti College in 2018 and has now gone on to become New Zealand’s youngest elected council member on the Kāpiti Coast District Council. She is determined to be able to say she has done everything in her power to create a more beautiful world for generations to come. Geoffrey Heal is a professor at Columbia Business School, noted for his work on environmental and resource economics and economic theory. He chairs the board of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, is a member of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, sits on the advisory board of the Environmental Defense Fund and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has written 18 books. His latest, Endangered Economies, sets out the economic case for environmental conservation. Stephen B. Heintz is President and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). He set the path to align the Fund’s financial investments with its mission, resulting in its 2014 divestment from fossil fuels. Heintz has devoted his career to strengthening democracy. He serves as a co-chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. Before joining the RBF, Heintz co-founded Dēmos and served as Executive Vice-President and COO for the EastWest Institute. Physicist turned economist, Claude Henry is Professor of Sustainable Development at Sciences Po, Paris. He is President of the Scientific Council of Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI), Paris. He has previously been at Columbia University as Adjunct Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, and at École Polytechnique as Head of Research in Economics, and as Professor of Public and Environmental

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Economics; he has taught in the same fields at Université de Lausanne. He is co-author with Laurence Tubiana of Earth at Risk: Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability, published by Columbia University Press. He has served for five years on the Conseil d’Analyse Économique in Prime Minister Lionel Jospin’s office. Alice C. Hill is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment Climate Change Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Hill previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Resilience on the National Security Council staff. Earlier in her career, she was a judge and prosecutor in California. She serves on the boards of the Environmental Defense Fund and Munich Re Group’s US-based compa- nies. She is the recipient of Yale University’s Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis and co-author of Building a Resilient Tomorrow. Research Director (Emeritus) at the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA), Jean Jouzel is an expert in climate and glaciology. He was vice-chair of the Scientific Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2002 to 2015. He was awarded the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Gold Medal in 2002 and the Vetlesen Prize in 2012. He is a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, the third assembly in France. Ma Jun is Chairman of the Green Finance Committee of the China Society for Finance and Banking, member of the People’s Bank of China’s Monetary Policy Committee, and Chair of the Supervisory Workstream of the Central Banks’ and Supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System. Alessia Lefébure (PhD) is Vice-Dean of the French School for Public Health (EHESP), in charge of Academic Affairs. She previously ran the Columbia University Alliance, a joint initiative for innovation in global research and education. Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po Rennes, she taught at Columbia University in New York, Sciences Po Paris and Tsinghua University in Beijing. A sociologist by training, and an internationally recognized expert in global education, she is a member of the Board of the Red Cross Foundation. Georgina M. Mace, DBE FRS, was Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems and Director of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research (CBER) at University College London. Her research interests have been in measuring the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change. She contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, the IPCC and IPBES. She was a member of

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In 2015, she was declared a ‘leading global thinker’ by the authoritative American magazine Foreign Policy. David R. Montgomery is a MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington. He studies landscape evolution and the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies. An author of award-winning popular-science books, he has been featured in documentary films, network and cable news, and on a wide variety of TV and radio programmes. His books have been translated into nine languages. Patti Moore is a JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence) candidate at Vanderbilt Law School, specializing in environmental law and the effects of both public and private governance on our changing climate. She has received Vanderbilt Awards for Scholastic Excellence for her work in legal writing and her research on the feasibility of a carbon label in the fashion industry. Her current research centres on creating a model supply chain contract with a focus on supplier sustainability. Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is a young African climate and environmental rights activist, founder and organizer of Fridays For Future Uganda. She is one of the leading figures in the environmental movement in Africa; she was among the climate activists who attended the C40 World Mayors Summit in 2019 as well as the COP25 in Madrid. She misses classes at Kampala International University every Friday to strike for a safe environment with a view to ral- lying government, corporate organizations and communities to take climate action. She leads a lake-shore clean-up activity on Lake Victoria to beat plastic pollution. Luisa Neubauer is one of the co-organizers of Fridays For Future and the most prominent representative of the German movement in the media. She works for various NGOs on topics such as climate protection, intergenera- tional justice and is acting against poverty. In 2018, she met the Swedish pupil at the UN climate conference and was one of four German delegates to the G7 youth summit in Canada. At the end of 2019, she took part in the climate conference in Madrid, together with Greta Thunberg and other activists. In early 2020, she attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. In January 2020, Luisa Neubauer and Fridays For Future protested against Siemens’s participation in the planned Australian hard coal mine Carmichael. Luisa Neubauer completed a bachelor’s degree in Geography in 2019. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in Resource Analysis and Management at the Georg August University in Göttingen. Together with Alexander Repenning, she published the book From the End of the Climate Crisis – A Story of Our Future in 2019.

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Sadrach Nirere is a young Ugandan climate activist and social entrepreneur with a commitment to social, economic and environmental causes. He is knowledgeable about climate change communication, sustainability and devel- opment. He is a connoisseur-level learner at the World Bank, with a Bachelor of International Business and a Diploma in Sustainable Business. As a native of an agricultural rural district, Sadrach witnessed how climate breakdown is crippling his region and, for this reason, he is co-founder and coordinator of Africa’s largest Fridays For Future movement. Danny Noonan is a climate change lawyer, campaigner and scholar. He was the Global Program Coordinator at Our Children’s Trust from 2018 to 2020, where he worked to support youth-led climate legal actions in countries throughout the world, and steered the successful development and launch of lawsuits in Canada and Mexico. He is a co-founder and team member of Breach Collective, a climate justice organization based in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of International and Global Studies from the University of Sydney and a JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence) from Sydney Law School. Adenike Titilope Oladosu is a young Nigerian climate activist, eco-feminist, and the initiator of the Fridays For Future movement in Nigeria. She graduated in Agriculture Economics from the Makurdi University of Agriculture. She specializes in equality, security and peace building across Africa, especially in the Lake Chad region. In 2019, she attended COP25 in Madrid, where she gave an address about climate change in Africa and how it affects lives. Concern for her child led Phyllis Omido, Goldman Prize-winning activist, to expose the dire pollution being discharged from a battery-recycling factory into a poor local community in Mombasa. Using science and politics to press her case, she has defied death threats and forced the closure of the plant. Omido is now leading the campaign for courts to recognize the human right to a healthy environment. Jeremy Oppenheim, founder of SYSTEMIQ and Chair of the Blended Finance Taskforce, is lead author of New Climate Economy’s Better Growth, Better Climate and co-lead author of Food and Land Use Commission’s Growing Better: 10 Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use. He acts as advisor to multiple governments, asset managers, development banks, companies and foundations on system transformation, energy policy, green investment and resource productivity. Previously, Jeremy worked for 24 years for McKinsey, serving leading companies across finance, consumer goods, technology, healthcare and energy. Ridhima Pandey is a 12-year-old environment activist and student in lower secondary education, . Her father Dinesh Pandey is an environment

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Business Administration. She worked as a researcher in the litigation team at Colombian-based NGO Dejusticia, providing scientific and quantitative evidence. Valentina is currently the analytics’ team coordinator at the Truth Commission in Colombia. She is interested in the use of data science for the promotion of human rights. Gökşen Şahin is a project manager at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe who worked with the families on the front line of the climate crisis taking the European Union to court in the historic People’s Climate Case. Previously, she worked with Turkish NGOs and grassroot movements to phase out coal in the country and create a Turkish NGO network focusing on climate policies. As a fierce defender of independent media, she has produced environmental radio shows at ’s only independent radio, Open Radio (Acik Radyo), to provide a space for local environmental defenders. Michael Sharp is a barrister practising in New Zealand, specializing in Māori indigenous law, climate change and administrative law issues. He has postgraduate degrees in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Waikato. Michael contributes articles to academic publications and is involved in a number of pro bono law initiatives. A fierce advocate for the rights of Amazon forest people and nature, Maria do Socorro Costa Silva – Dona Socorro, as she is best known – leads opposition to the world’s biggest alumina refinery outside China. It is located in Bacarena, Pará, – the most deadly state for environmental defenders in the most murderous country in the world. Several of her colleagues have been assassi- nated, but she continues to campaign for the Amazon to have more powerful political representation and a more central role in the world. Nicole Smith, FCIArb and FAMINZ (Arb), is a barrister practising in New Zealand, specializing in arbitration and dispute resolution, sitting as an arbi- trator and adjudicator and also acting as an advocate in New Zealand-based and international arbitrations. She is also a UK solicitor and a partner in a UK law firm (Keystone Law). Nicole focuses on cross-border disputes in relation to trade, construction, finance, energy and environmental and climate change issues. Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute at London School of Economics. He was Chief Economist at both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1994–99) and the World Bank (2000–03). He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003–07, and led the Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics (2004), made a life peer (2007), and appointed Companion of Honour for

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Technical Committee of the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) and is a member of the Lead Faculty of the Earth System Governance Network. Laurence Tubiana is CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF). In addition, she is the Chair of the Board of Governors at the French Development Agency (AFD). Before joining the ECF, Laurence was France’s Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21, and as such a key architect of the landmark Paris Agreement. Following COP21, she was appointed High Level Champion for Climate Action by the UN. Laurence brings decades of expertise and experience in climate change, energy, agriculture and sustainable development, working across government, think tanks, NGOs and academia. Throughout the years, Laurence has held several academic positions, including as a Professor and Scientific Director for the International Development and Environmental Studies Master degrees at Sciences Po, Paris; and Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, New York. Katrien van der Heyden is a sociologist with a Master of International Politics and a Master of Gender Studies. She works as an independent consult- ant, project manager, trainer and evaluator. Her main topics are gender, climate change and diversity. In over 20 years as a foreign correspondent, Jonathan Watts has covered nuclear disasters, earthquakes, tsunamis and gang wars, but all pale in signif- icance compared to the collapse of the world’s natural life support systems. From pollution in China to deforestation in Brazil, he has reported on the envi- ronmental front line for more than a decade and now specializes in this area. As editor of the part of the book on ‘Defenders’, he finds hope in courageous activists guarding their land and our Earth. Anuna De Wever Van der Heyden is a Belgian climate activist who started the Fridays For Future movement in Belgium (Youth for Climate) and led youth for 22 consecutive weeks to strike in Brussels. She organized a climate panel composed of Belgian scientists who wrote a Belgian climate plan and became the symbolic face of a generation of young activists in Belgium. Erik Woodward is a JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence) candidate at New York University School of Law, where he studies public international law as it relates to climate change governance and policy. Prior to law school he was focusing on soft-law approaches that low-lying island states can utilize to preserve their sovereignty in the context of sea-level rise. He is passionate about designing and implementing just international adaptation and mitigation strategies to the climate crisis.

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Xiaofan Zhao is an assistant professor in the Division of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. She earned a Bachelor of Science in environmental engineering (with honours and with distinction) and a Master of Science in management science and engineering, both from Stanford University. She holds a doctoral degree in public administration from Tsinghua University.

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