Co-Hosts
Keynote & Plenary Speakers
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
Sachem Wushouwunan Kesikbesek Maxé Rua (Sanchem HawkStorm)
Hereditary sachem (chief) of the Schaghticoke People
Warren Washington
Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Carlos Duarte
Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Daniel M. Kammen
Professor and Director for the Center for Environmental Policy and the department of Nuclear Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
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Martin Frick, Ph.D.
Deputy of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Food System Summit 2021
Katharine Hayhoe
Political Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law, co-director of the Climate Center at Texas Tech University
Randy Burd
Board Director, NCSE; Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Long Island University
Karim Ahmed
Secretary-Treasurer, NCSE Board of Directors; Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center
Inger Anderson
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme
Joyashree Roy
Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University & National Fellow, INCSSR
Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset)
Indigenous rights activist, lawyer and spiritual teacher
Shloka Nath
Head of Sustainability, Tata Trusts, Head of Policy & Advocacy, Tata Trusts, Executive Director, India Climate Collaborative
Darren Ranco
Chair, Native American Programs and Director of Native American Research, University of Maine
Serena Sowers
Senior Client Manager and Vice President in the Public Sector Solutions Division, Swiss Re
Laura Weiland
Senior Advisor for Special Projects, National Council for Science and the Environment
Christiana Figueres
Founding Partner, Global Optimism; Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Dr. Ajay Mathur
Director General of TERI and Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, India
Roy Straver
Drawdown Europe Research Association and Co-Director of the Climate Cleanup Foundation
Martin Stuchtey
Professor for Resource Strategy and Management at the University of Innsbruck and Founder and Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ
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Valerie Luzadis
Chair, NCSE Board of Directors; Professor, The State University of New York, ESF
Dennis Garrity
Chair of the Board of the Global EverGreening Alliance, Chair, Landcare International, and Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Peter Schlosser
Vice President and Vice Provost, Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University
Speakers
Steering Committee Member
Conference Speaker
Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor, Institutes of Energy and Environment, Penn State
Professor of Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University and Co-Founder and Co-Director, Initiative for Energy Justice
Scientific Advisor, UN Trillion Tree Campaign, Professor of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zürich
Senior Researcher at Project Drawdown and CENSE, NOVA, University of Lisbon; and Board Member, DERA
Professor at Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Fisheries Economics Research Unit and Canada Research Chair
Professor at Mark Ritchie Research Lab, Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Consultant, Coach, Author, Lecturer, Climate Change Activist, Personal & Organizational Transformation Specialist
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment Bioenergy and Bioresource Engineering
Founder and leader of the Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability at Trane Technologies (CEES)
