Speakers and Chairs

W. Brian Arthur

External Professor

Santa Fe Institute

Scarlett Benson

Co-Director of Knowledge Generation

Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), based at SYSTEMIQ

Liz Bentley

Chief Executive

Royal Meteorological Society

Colin Butfield

Executive Director

Studio Silverback

Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs

Co-director of the Centre for Sustainability Transitions and the South African Research Chair in Social Ecological Systems and Resilience

Stellenbosch University

Niklas Boers

Professor of Earth System Modelling

Technical University of Munich

Sandrine Dixson-Declève

Co-President, The Club of Rome; Project Lead, Earth4All

Doyne Farmer

Director of the Complexity Economics programme

Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School

Carl Folke

Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics

Stockholm Resilience Centre

Dennis Garrity

Chair of the Board of the Global EverGreening Alliance

Global EverGreening Alliance

Frank Geels

Professor of System Innovation

University of Manchester

Ashish Ghadiali

Climate Justice Strategic Consultant

Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter

Daniel Godfrey

Independent Non-Executive Director

Moneybox

Nik Gowing

Founder and co-author of the Thinking the Unthinkable project

Margot Hurlbert

David King

Founder & Chair Centre for Climate Repair, Cambridge

University of Cambridge

Luke Kemp

Research Associate

University of Cambridge

Steve Lade

Science Co-lead at the Earth Commission Secretariat

Future Earth

Tim Lenton

Director of the Global Systems Institute

Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter

Simon Levin

Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the director of the Center for BioComplexity

Princeton University

Oliver Morton

Senior Editor

Economist

Manjana Milkoreit

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology and Human Geography

University of Oslo

Ilona Otto

Professorship in Societal Impacts of Climate Change

Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz

Laura Pereira

Exxaro Research Chair

Global Change Institute at University of Witwatersrand

Patricia Pinho

Deputy Science Director

Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)

Kate Raworth

Ecological Economist

University of Oxford

Stefan Rahmstorf

Professor of Physics of the Oceans

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Keywan Riahi

Director of the Energy, Climate and Environment (ECE) Program

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

Johan Rockström

Director

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Justin Rowlatt

Coming soon

Colin Scott

World Bank consultant

Simon Sharpe

Director of Economics for the UNFCCC Climate Champions, and a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute

UNFCCC Climate Champions, and World Resources Institute

Femke Sleegers

Initiator Social Tipping Point Coalition and Advertising Fossil Free

Reclame Fossielvrij

Thomas Stocker

Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics

University of Bern

Gaia Vince

Journalist, writer and broadcaster, and an honorary senior research fellow at UCL

Laura Wellesley

Senior research fellow in the Environment and Society Programme

Chatham House

Ricarda Winkelmann

Professor of Climate System Analysis

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research