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The Great Unraveling? August 21-24, 2020 Participant Biographies The conference organizers have done their best to share the most accurate and up-to-date information about participants, but errors or old information inevitably happen. Please contact Liz Duxbury ([email protected]) if you have any corrections to be made and we will redistribute the bios packet at the end of the conference. Daniel Aldana Cohen Daniel is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the niversity of Pennsylvania— focusing on the intersections of climate, politics, and inequality—and is the co- author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal. More... Ruth Andrade Ruth leads the regenerative impact strategy for Lush, is a Trustee/co-founder of Re.Alliance—a collective of practitioners bringing regenerative design to the humanitarian sector—and a member of the conference organizing committee. More... Nichole Argo Ben Itzhak Nichole is Director of Research and Field Advancement at Project Over Zero and an academic researcher whose work on intergroup dynamics has been published in leading journals and in consulting with governments, media groups, and policy think tanks to bring the science of intergroup conflict and cooperation into practice. More... Nnimmo Bassey Nnimmo is director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), based in Nigeria, a steering committee member of Oilwatch International, former chair of Friends of the Earth International, and former Executive Director of Nigeria’s Environmental Rights Action. More… Monamie Bhadra Haines Monamie is an Assistant Professor of Global Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Nanyang Technological University, focusing on the political and cultural implications of energy transitions in the developing world, specifically in Asia. More... Andrew Bowman Andrew is President of the Land Trust Alliance, former Program Director at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and a Trustee of the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. More... Tom Brookes Tom is the Executive Director for Strategic Communications at the European Climate Foundation and Managing Director, Energy Strategy Centre. More... Nick Buxton Nick is a communications consultant at the Transnational Institute—working actively on issues of climate change, militarism, and economic justice—and is co-editor of The Secure and The Dispossessed - How the Military And Corporations Are Seeking To Shape A Climate-Changed World. More... Danielle Celermajer Danielle is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney—with particular expertise in human rights and theories and practices of justice—and leads the Faculty’s Multispecies Justice FutureFix researchprogram. More... Stan Cox Stan is lead scientist at the Land Institute and is author of several books, including Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing and The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can. More... Leslie Davenport Leslie is practicing integrative psychotherapist, founding member of the Institute for Health & Healing, and the author of Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change. More... Tim DeChristopher Tim is a co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center and a well-known climate activist who was imprisoned for 21 months for his actions to disrupt an auction for oil and gas leases near national park land in Utah, USA. More... Navroz Dubash Navroz is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, where he conducts research and writes on climate change, energy, air pollution, water policy, and the politics of regulation in the developing world. More:... Mark Engler Mark is a writer, an editorial board member at Dissent, a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. More... Rufino Escasany Rufino is an engineer and co-founder and director of Aspiring Citizens Cleantech, a Singapore-based technology company that offers data-driven solutions to address challenges in urban transportation, energy and pollution. More... John Fellowes John is Programme Director at the Hong Kong-based Full Circle Foundation and co-editor of the Asian Primates Journal. More... Daniel Fung Daniel Fung is the former Solicitor General of Hong Kong and Founding Chair of Cambridge Global Champions, which is designed to combat existential challenges which lie beyond the ability of individual sovereign states acting alone or in combination to resolve. More... Wing Fung Wing is a Hong Kong-based social entrepreneur and philanthropist, focused on climate mitigation efforts, and member of the conference organizing committee. Rebecca Gibbs Rebecca is former project lead on climate economics at UK Parliament, who now work on social adaptation to climate change. More... Adam Greenfield Adam is an urbanist and author who has written and consulted widely on issues at the intersection of design, technology and culture, with an increasing focus on how these things interact in (and condition our experience of) cities. More... Deepa Gupta Deepa is the founder and former Executive Director of Jhatkaa.org, an Indian advocacy organization, and co-founder of the Indian Youth Climate Network. More... Nate Hagens Nate is the co-founder of Institute for the Study of Energy and the Future, a well-known speaker on the big picture issues facing human society, and currently teaches a systems synthesis Honors seminar at the University of Minnesota. More... Lukas Haynes Lukas is Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Fund and member of the Center for Climate and Security’s Advisory Board, and formerly Vice President of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. More... Richard Heinberg Richard is an author of 13 books, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. More... Ken Henshaw Ken is Executive Director of the Nigeria based NGO We the People. He is a researcher and campaigner for ecological justice for local communities in Nigeria affected by climate change and fossil fuel extraction. More... Jason Hickel Jason is an economic anthropologist at the London School of Economics—focusing on global inequality, political economy, post-development, and ecological economics— and author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. More... Chung-Wha Hong Chung-Wha is the Executive Director of Grassroots International, a global justice advocacy and grantmaking organization, and a long-time activist working on health care, worker rights and human rights issues. More... Daniel Hoyer Dan is a historian who currently holds a postdoctoral position at SESHAT: Global History Databank Project, a large-scale, interdisciplinary and comparative project hosted by the Evolution Institute and the University of Oxford. More... Andrea Ixchiu Hernandez Andrea is an organizer and journalist for Red Tz’ikin and Prensa Comunitaria focusing on issues of national policy, analysis of art, culture and the environment, as well as human rights of indigenous peoples. More... Dahr Jamail Dahr is a journalist and author, known for his reporting of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and is now focusing on anthropogenic climate disruption and the environment, including in The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption. More... Astrid Kann Rasmussen Astrid is Chair of V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, Observer at the Villum Foundation, and member of the Board of Directors at Partners for a New Economy. More... Hans Kann Rasmussen Hans is Chair of the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. Kristian Kann Rasmussen Kristian is Trustee of the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation and Observer at the Villum Foundation. Jee Kim Jee is Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, former Executive Director of the Narrative Initiative and, and previously part of the Civic Engagement and Government team at the Ford Foundation. More... Ashish Kothari Ashish is co-founder of Kalpavriksh, an Indian environmental NGO, a former member of the Steering Committees of the World Commission on Protected Areas, and former member of the Board of Directors of Greenpeace International and Greenpeace India. More... Irene Krarup Irene is the Executive Director at V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation and former Vice Consul and Cultural Affairs Attaché of Denmark to the United States. More... Sönke Kreft Sönke is the Executive Director of Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, a PhD candidate, Wageningen University Public Administration and Policy Group, and previously led the Climate Policy Team at the German NGO Germanwatch. More... Leonardo Lacerda Leonardo is the Director of the Environment Programme at the Oak Foundation, which focuses on climate change, marine conservation, and wildlife conservation and trade. More... Alnoor Ladha Alnoor was a founding member and the Executive Director of /The Rules, board member of Greenpeace International USA, writer and speaker, and visiting lecturer at a number of universities. More... Dana Lanza Dana is the founder and Executive Director of Confluence Philanthropy and the past Executive Director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. More... Kristian Cedervall Lauta Kristian is the Associate Dean for Education at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen and author of Disaster Law, which investigates how a change in the way disasters are understood and managed affects fundamental notions of duty, responsibility and justice. More... Laurie
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