Speakers

Agnes Leina, Executive Director and Founder of Il’laramatak Community Concerns

Aida Cardenas, Executive Director, Building Skills Partnership

Aiden R. Gallagher, Actor and Environmental Activist

Alec Baldwin, Actor and Host of Here’s the Thing!

Alexandra Palt, Chief Sustainability Officer, L’Oreal

Allard Castelein, President & CEO, Port of Rotterdam Authority

Alycia Kellman, Chief Legal Officer, SunFunder

Ambassador Macharia Kamau, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kenya

Amory Lovins, Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

Andrea Marr, Senior Program Manager, Willdan

Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Host, Andrea Mitchell Reports

Aniket Shah, Head of Sustainable Investing, Oppenheimer Funds

Anirban Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer, The Mahindra Group

Anita Arjundas, Managing Director, Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd

Antha Williams, Environment Program Lead, Bloomberg Philanthropies

Assemblymember Mark Stone, 29th California Assembly District

Barry Parkin, Chief Procurement and Sustainability Officer, Mars, Inc.

Basil Seggos, Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Basima Abdulrahman,  Founder & CEO, KESK Green Building Consulting

Benedict Libanda, CEO, Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia

Benoît Potier, CEO and Chairman of Air Liquide and Co-chair of the Hydrogen Council

Bernard J. Tyson, Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente  

Bernice Dapaah, Founder and CEO, Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative

Betty T. Yee, State Controller, the State of California

Bill Bien, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Alliances and Strategy, Signify (formerly Philips Lighting)

Bob Fisher, Co-founder and Trustee, Pisces Foundation

Bridget Burns, Director, Women’s Environment and Development Organization

Bruce Karas, Vice President of Environment, Sustainability, Safety and Technical Information, Coca-Cola North America

Carole Saint-Laurent, Deputy Director, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature

Carolina Rosero, Chair of Ecuador’s Inter-institutional Committee on Sustainable Palm Oil, Environmental Policy Manager, Conservation International, Ecuador

Charlotte Pera, President and CEO, ClimateWorks Foundation

Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global Optimism and Convenor, Mission 2020  

Claire Curry, Head of Digital Industry, Bloomberg NEF

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader

Cory Beattie, Wildland Firefighter and Student

Cristina Mittermeier, Photographer, National Geographic

Cynthia Ong, Board Chair and Chief Executive Facilitator (ChEF), Forever Sabah

Damià Calvet i Valera, Minister of Territory and Sustainability, Government of Catalonia

Dana Tizya-Tramm, Tribal Councillor, Vuntut Gwitchin Government, Old Crow, Yukon Territory

Daniela V. Fernandez, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance

Danny Kennedy, Managing Director, California Clean Energy Fund

Dave Matthews, Singer-Songwriter  

Davida Herzl, Co-Founder & CEO, Aclima Inc.

Dawn Lippert, CEO, Elemental Excelerator and Director of Innovation and Community, Emerson Elemental

Dolores Huerta, Founder & President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation

Dr. Alice Akinyi Kaudia, Co-Chair, Climate and Clean Air Coalition

Dr. Alice Ekwu, Honorable Commissioner, Ministry of Climate Change and Forestry, Cross River State, Nigeria

Dr. Amal-Lee Amin, Chief of the Climate Change and Sustainability Division, Inter-American Development Bank

Dr. Amy Luers, Executive Director, Future Earth

Dr. Aparna Bole, Co-chair, Health Care Without Harm Board

Dr. Ellen Dorsey, Executive Director, Wallace Global Fund

Dr. Etosha Cave, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Opus 12

Dr. Gale TC Rigobert, Parliamentary Representative for Micoud North and Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development

Dr. Gemedo Dalle Tussie, Minister, Ethiopian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Chair of UNFCCC LDC Group

Dr. Gerard van Olphen, CEO, APG Group

Dr. Günther Thallinger, Member of the Board of Management, Allianz SE, Investment Management, ESG

Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University

Dr. Jesper Nygård, CEO, Realdania

Dr. Jesse Levinson, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer, Zoox

Dr. Jianyu Zhang, President & CEO, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (USA) NA

Dr. Laura Stachel, Co-Founder & Executive Director, We Care Solar

Dr. M. Sanjayan, CEO Conservation International

Dr. Mae Jemison, Astronaut  

Dr. Maria Neira, Director, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization

Dr. Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice and Former President of Ireland

Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University

Dr. Sarah White, Deputy Director of Equity, Climate and Jobs, California Workforce Development Board

Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

Dr. Woong-Chul Yang, Vice Chairman, Hyundai Motor Company

Durwood Zaelke, Founder and President, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development

Dymphna van der Lans, CEO Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Eileen Rockefeller Growald, Co-founder, Growald Family Fund

Emilie Mazzacurati, Founder & CEO, Four Twenty Seven

Emily Chang, Anchor and Executive Producer, Bloomberg Technology

Emily Chew, Managing Director, Global Head of ESG Research and Integration, Manulife Asset Management

Emily Kirsch, Founder & CEO, Powerhouse

Emily Rooney, President, Agricultural Council of California

Emma Howard Boyd, Chair, United Kingdom Environmental Agency

Enei Begaye, Co-Founder, Black Mesa Water Coalition

Eric Davidson, President, American Geophysical Union

Erica Mackie, Co-founder & CEO, Grid Alternatives

Eriel Deranger, Director, Indigenous Climate Action

Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Program

Eva Svedling, State Secretary to the Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate, Sweden

Executive Mayor Patricia de Lille, Cape Town

Favianna Rodriguez, Executive Director, CultureStrike

Former Governor Bill Ritter, State of Colorado

Former Governor Jennifer Granholm, State of Michigan

Former Vice President Al Gore, United States of America

Frances Seymour, Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute

Francesca DeBiase, Chief Supply Chain and Sustainability Officer, McDonald’s

Francisca Oliveira de Lima Costa, Coordinator, Organization of Indigenous Teachers of Acre

Gary Cohen, President & Co-Founder, Health Care Without Harm

George Koutsaftes, President, Honeywell Advanced Materials

Georgios Papadimitriou, CEO of Enel Green Power North America

Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Giza Gaspar Martins, Director of Climate Change Office, Ministry of Environment, Angola

Governing Mayor Raymond Johansen, City Council of Oslo, Norway

Governor Aristóteles Sandoval, State of Jalisco  

Governor Dannel P. Malloy, State of Connecticut

Governor David Ige, State of Hawaii

Governor Jay Inslee, State of Washington

Governor Phil Murphy, State of New Jersey

Governor Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico

Governor Víctor Manuel Noriega, San Martin

Greg Dalton, Host of Climate One

H.E. Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates

H.E. Ola Elvestuen, Minister of Climate and Environment Norway

Hans-Christian Gabrielsen, President, The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions

Harrison Ford, Vice-Chair, Conservation International  

Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Co-Chair, International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change

Hon. Bob Loughman, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu

Honorable Sharon E. Burke, Senior Advisor and Director, Resource Security Program, New America

Ibrahim Al Zubi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Majid Al Futtaim Holding LLC

Irene Lanzinger, President, British Columbia Federation of Labour

Isabel Fernandez Niemann, Head of Wholesale Banking and Member of the Management Board Banking, ING

James Gore, District Supervisor, County of Sonoma, California

James Lee Witt, CEO, Witt Global Partners

James Mahoney, Strategy and Public Policy Executive, Bank of America

Jamie Margolin, Founder and Executive Director, Zero Hour

Jane Goodall, Primatologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace

Janet Lamkin, President, California, United Airlines

Janis Jones, CEO, Ocean Conservancy

Jay Gould, President & CEO, Interface, Inc.

Jay Koh, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Lightsmith Group

Jean-Bernard Lévy, Chairman & CEO, Électricité de France  

Jean-Marc Torre, Senior Executive Vice President and Head of the Commercial Banking Group, Bank of the West

Jeff Schlesinger, President and CEO, LeasePlan USA

Jeff Seabright, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever

Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International

Jeremy Oppenheim, Energy Transitions Commission Programme Director, SYSTEMIQ Founder and Managing Partner

Jesper Brodin, President and CEO, IKEA Group

Jim Mahoney, Global Public Policy Executive, Bank of America James Mahoney, Strategy and Public Policy Executive, Bank of America

Johan Rockström, Professor of Environmental Sciences at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Incoming Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Co-chair of Future Earth Advisory Board  

John Kilroy Jr., President and CEO, Kilroy Realty Corporation

John Kornerup Bang, Head of Sustainability Strategies and Shared Value Initiatives, Maersk

John Podesta, Founder and Director, Center for American Progress

Jonathan Pershing, Program Director of Environment, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Jonathan Previtali, Director of Technology and Technical Services, Wells Fargo Renewable Energy & Environmental Finance

Jonathan Taylor, Vice-President, European Investment Bank

Josué Tanaka, Managing Director, Operational Strategy and Planning, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, EBRD

Judith Redmond, Owner, Full Belly Farms

Julie Packard, Executive Director Monterey Bay Aquarium

Julio Cordano, Head of the Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile

Kahori Miyake, Executive Officer, AEON

Kat Taylor, CEO and Co-Founder, Beneficial State Bank

Kate Hampton, CEO, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Katharina Stenholm, Senior Vice-President, Chief Cycle and Procurement Officer, Danone

Kathleen McLaughlin, Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart

Kathy Calvin, President and CEO, UN Foundation  

Kathy Gerwig, Vice President, Employee Safety, Health & Wellness and Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser Permanente

Kavita Prakash-Mani, Leader of Global Practice on Markets, WWF

Ken Alex, Director, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, State of California

Kevin Johnson, President and CEO, Starbucks  

Kevin Rabinovitch, Global Director of Sustainability, Mars, Inc.

Kosi Latu, Director-General, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

Kristian Fok, Chief Investment Officer, Cbus Super Fund

Kristof Vereenooghe, CEO, EVBox

Lakshmanan Chidambaram, President, Americas Strategic Verticals, Tech Mahindra

Laura Phillips, Senior Vice President for Global Sustainability, Walmart

Laura Tuck, Vice President, Sustainable Development, World Bank

Laurence Tubiana, CEO, European Climate Foundation

Leanne Enoch, Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

Lehua Kamalu, Captain, Polynesian Voyaging Society

Leigh Madeira, Co-Founder & Partner, Blue Forest Conservation

Lesley Griffiths, Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs, Wales, United Kingdom

Lisa Bate, Chair of the Board, World Green Building Council

Lisa Jackson, Vice President, Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, Apple

Lisa Jordan, Executive Director of the SHINE Campaign

Lise Kingo, CEO & Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact

Liz O’Neill, Executive Vice President and President, Product, Innovation & Supply Chain, Levi Strauss & Co.

Lord Mayor Frank Jensen, City of Copenhagen, Denmark

Lord Mayor Prof. Dr. Eckart Würzner, City of Heidelberg, Germany

Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics

Lt. Governor Byron Mallott, State of Alaska

Lucas Joppa, Chief Environmental Officer, Microsoft

Mahindra Singhi, CEO, Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited

Major General David S. Baldwin, Adjutant General, California National Guard

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Global Lead, Climate and Energy, WWF International

Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce  

Maria Josella Pangilinan, Program Manager for Conservation International’s Climate Change Resilience Program in the Philippines

Mark Ghilarducci, Director, Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, State of California

Mark Tercek, CEO, The Nature Conservancy

Mary Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board

Matt Petersen, President & CEO, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator

Matt Rodriquez, Secretary for Environmental Protection, State of California

Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, City of Rotterdam

Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris

Mayor Bill de Blasio, City of New York

Mayor Cllr Zandile Gumede, The eThekwini Municipality, South Africa

Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles

Mayor Federico Gutiérrez-Zuluaga, City of Medellín

Mayor Giuseppe Sala, City of Milan, Italy

Mayor Gregor Robertson, City of Vancouver, Canada

Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, City of Warsaw, Poland

Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Salt Lake City

Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Honolulu

Mayor Lionel Johnson, Jr., City of St. Gabriel, Louisiana

Mayor London Breed, City of San Francisco  

Mayor Mauricio Rodas, City of Quito, Ecuador

Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon, Dhaka South City Corporation

Mayor Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Accra, Ghana

Mayor Mukta Tilak, Pune Municipal Corporation

Mayor Nanda Jichkar, Nagpur Municipal Corporation

Mayor Sylvester Turner, Houston

Mayor Ted Wheeler, City of Portland, Oregon

Mayor Wasim Akhtar, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Pakistan

Michael Sabia, President and CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

Miguel Arias Cañete, Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, European Commission

Miguel McKelvey, Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer, WeWork

Ming Dengli, Chief, Science, Technology and International Cooperation Division, Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau

Minister Inia Seruiratu, Minister for Agriculture, Rural & Maritime Development, and National Disaster Management, Fiji

Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann, Government of Baden-Württemberg

Miya Yoshitani,  Executive Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network

Nainoa Thompson, President, Polynesian Voyaging Society

Nancy Pfund, Founder & Managing Partner,  DBL Partners

Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility

Nat Simons, Co-founder, Prelude Ventures  

Nina Gualinga, Co-founder and President, Hakhu Amazon Design

Nina Jensen, CEO, REV Ocean

Ovie Mughelli, Founder & CEO, Ovie Mughelli Foundation  

Pasquale Romano, President & CEO, Chargepoint

Patricia Serrano, ProAmazonia Program, United Nations Development Program, Ecuador

Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever  

Paul Simpson, CEO and Co-Founder, CDP

Pawan Mehra, Director and CIO, cKers Finance

Peter Damgaard Jensen, CEO, Pensionskassernes Administration A/S (PKA)

Peter Thomson, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean

President Hilda Heine, Republic of the Marshall Islands

President János Áder, Republic of Hungary

President Stefano Bonaccini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, Republic of Fiji

Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Barbados

Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University

Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation

Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy

Rebecca Moore, Head of Google Earth, Earth Engine, and Outreach, Google

Rémy Rioux, CEO, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Chair, International Development Finance Club (IDFC)

Rep. Kristin Jacobs, Florida House of Representatives

Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council

Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO

Risalat Khan, Global Campaigner, Avaaz Foundation  

Robbie Hunter, President, State Building & Construction Trades Council of California

Robert Gibbs, Chief Communications Officer, McDonald’s Corporation

Rocky Dawuni, Musician and Humanitarian Activist

Ronald O. Nichols, President, Southern California Edison

Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary General, Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara

Ryan Popple, President and CEO, Proterra

Sam Teicher, Founder and Chief Reef Officer, Coral Vita

Sarah Kearney, Founder and Executive Director, PRIME Coalition

Scott Jacobs, Co-founder and CEO, Generate Capital

Secretary George P. Shultz, Former United States Secretary of State  

Secretary John Kerry, Former United States Secretary of State  

Secretary John Laird, California Natural Resources Agency

Secretary Karen Ross, Department of Food and Agriculture, State of California

Secretary Ray Mabus, Former United States Secretary of the Navy

Ségolène Royal, Chair of Désirs d’Avenir pour la Planète, Ségolène Royal Foundation, COP21 President

Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii

Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation  

Sheela Patel, CEO, Chair of Slum Dwellers International & Founding Director of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Center

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Environmental, Cultural and Human Rights Advocate

Shilpa Patel, Director of Mission Investing, Climateworks Foundation

Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy, City of London

Sri Manjunatha Prasad, Commissioner, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

Stella Li, Senior Vice President, BYD Company Limited and President, BYD Motors Inc.

Stephen Chege, Director of Corporate Affairs, Safaricom Limited

Stephen Cotton, Secretary General, International Transport Workers’ Federation

Steven Satterfield, Executive Chef and Co-Owner, Miller Union

Stientje van Veldhoven, Minister for the Environment, The Netherlands

Stientje van Veldhoven, Minister for the Environment, The Netherlands  

Suzanne DiBianca, Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations, Chief Philanthropy Officer, Salesforce

Tanya Müller García, Secretary of Environment, Mexico City

Ted Monk, Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Sodexo

The Honorable Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica

The Honorable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Canada  

The Honorable David Speirs, Minister for Environment and Water, South Australia

The Honorable Denis Naughten, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Ireland

The Honorable Eduardo Batllori Sampedro, Minister of Environment and Urban Development, Yucatán, Mexico

The Honorable Fabiola Muñoz-Dodero, Minister of Environment, Peru

The Honorable Franz Untersteller, Minister of Environment, Climate and the Energy Sector, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The Honorable James Shaw, Minister for Climate Change, New Zealand

The Honorable Paul Wheelhouse, Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, Scotland

The Honorable Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The Honorable Shane Rattenbury, Ministry for Climate Change and Sustainability, Australian Capital Territory

The Honorable Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare, Minister of Environment and Rural Development, Somaliland Region

The Honorable Verónica Geese, Secretary of State for Energy, Government of the Province of Santa Fe

The Honorable Wong Kam-sing, Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong

The Rt Hon Mark Field MP, Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom

Thomas Bareiß, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany

Thomas Brostrøm, President, Ørsted North America

Tom Fanning, Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company

Tom Steyer, Founder & President, NextGen America

Trevor Houser, Partner, Rhodium Group

Vaishali Sinha, Chief Sustainability, Social Responsibility and Communications Officer, ReNew Power

Van Jones, President & Co-Founder, Dream Corps

Victor Friedberg, Founder and Chairman, FoodShot Global

Vien Truong, CEO, Green For All

Violet Shivutse, Huairou Commission, Community Resilience Fund

Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and Assistant Director General of UNESCO

Wael Hmaidan, CEO, CAN International

Wang Tianqi, Director General, Jiangsu Environmental Protection Bureau

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International

Wu You, Deputy Secretary General, Shenzhen Municipal Government

Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, State of California

Yasuo Takahashi, Vice Minister of Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Zwide Jere, Managing Director, Total Land Care