CEO andPresident

Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance of more than 100 institutional investors representing over $10 trillion in assets. Media includes: New York Times, Huffington Post, Blue & Green Tomorrow.

Founder and CEO

An internationally recognized environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert, Farhana Yamin has advised leaders and countries for 20 years. COP 21 in Paris will be her 18th UN climate summit. She will be advising the delegation of the Marshall Islands. In addition to founding Track 0 she is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, a visiting Professor at University College London and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Climate Change at the World Economic Forum. Farhana is in Paris for COP21. Media experience includes: Vogue, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post.

Climate Scientist

Dr Jessica Blunden is a climate scientist with ERT Inc, working in the Center for Weather and Climate at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina. She has co-authored more than a dozen peer reviewed publications and serves as a lead editor for the State of the Climate report, an annual peer reviewed report published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that examines climate and climate change across the globe. Media includes: CBS National Radio, Associated Press, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post.

Poet| Instructor| Co-Director

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a Marshall Islander poet, spoken word artist, and teacher. She has used her poetry to highlight the struggles of her people including social justice issues such as the threat of climate change for her islands. Kathy is in Paris for COP21. Media includes: CNN, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, The Guardian.

Independant Senior Advisor to government, business and civil society organizations

Suzanne Kelly Lyall is a Senior Policy Advisor to public, private sector and non-governmental organizations on environmental, foreign policy and security issues. She co-developed and led PISA (Partnership for International Strategies in Asia)’s Climate Leadership Institute to identify and provide targeted leadership, skill building and intra-ministerial dialog for policy makers, researchers and thought leaders working on climate change issues in Southeast Asia. Media Experience: CCTV, Vice, PISA.

Founding Director

Deepa Gupta is currently the Founding Director of Jhatkaa.org, a grassroots advocacy group that holds decision makers accountable and defends human rights through mass public participation. She is a leading voice within the global climate movement and in 2008 she co-founded the Indian Youth Climate Network to engage hundreds of thousands of youth across India in advocacy and public education. Media includes: Hindu Times, radio, online.

Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service

Dana R. Fisher is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between environmentalism and democracy—most recently focusing on environmental stewardship and American climate politics. Dana is in Paris for COP21. Media includes: Nature Climate Change, America Behavioral Scientist, fivethirtyeight.

Senior Climate Scientist and Director of Climate Science for the Climate and Energy Program

Brenda Ekwurzel works on the national climate program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). She is leading UCS's climate science education work aimed at strengthening support for strong federal climate legislation and sound U.S. climate policies. Media includes: CNN (Dobbs, Situation Room), Fox News (O’Reilly, Cavuto), ABC World News with Charles Gibson, Good Morning America, USA Today, NPR.

Senior Methane Policy Coordinator

Daphne Wysham Daphne Wysham is leading the Center for Sustainable Economy’s policy and advocacy work on climate change. Daphne has worked on research and advocacy at the intersection of climate change, human rights, fossil fuels, international finance, carbon markets and sustainable economies since 1996. Her path-breaking research and advocacy has resulted in shifts in public policy and investment at the national and international level.Media includes: Fox News, C-SPAN, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, NPR.

CEO

Soma Bhadra, CEO of PROTEUS Consulting, is an Innovation Consultant and Technology Integrator across Water, Energy, and CleanTech Sectors. Soma has the intuitive ability for identifying gaps in markets and developing new markets in those gaps. Soma has a BE is Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering and Science University, India; and a MS in Environmental Engineering from University at Buffalo (SUNY), and has over 14 years of experience in design, construction, and operation of water, wastewater, ultra-pure, and recycled water treatment plants and conveyance systems. Media includes: San Diego Local Reporter: padma Nagappan, Water Efficiency Magazine, KPBS.

Senior Scientist and Deputy Director, Science Center Program

Kim Knowlton, PhD, is senior scientist and Deputy Director, of the Science Center Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), researching and publishing on links between global warming and health, specifically mortality in a changing climate; interactions between climate, ozone and pollen; and disease. Media includes: NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, Reuters.

Community Manager

Sonja Ebron was the chief executive officer of blackEnergy, an organizer of energy buying groups that help people use their utility bills to support black communities. She has published research articles in such areas as high-impedance faults, artificial intelligence in power systems, renewable distributed generation, and innovative teaching methods. Ms. Magazine recently labeled Ebron a change agent for "the belief that environmental and social consciousness can create satisfaction in the soul and the wallet." Media includes: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Virginian-Pilot.

Professor and Chair of Atmospheric Sciences

Cecilia M. Bitz is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Washington and is also faculty in the university's Program on Climate Change and the Future of Ice Initiative, with a research focus on ice and climate interactions, especially involving sea ice. She testified before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Arctic climate change. Media includes: NPR All things considered, Associated Press, LA Times, Science Magazine, BBC.

Emerita Senior Fellow (Professor), Woods Institute for the Environment

Terry L. Root is a Senior Fellow/University Faculty Emerita at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor Emerita by courtesy in Biology at Stanford University, and a Fellow at the California Academy of Science. Root was a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change that in 2007 was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore. In addition she was a lead author for the Third Assessment Report (2001) and a Review Editor for the Fifth Assessment Report (2014). Media includes: ABC, NBC, PBS, New York Times.

Creator/Host/Producer

Betsy Rosenberg is an award winning broadcast news veteran turned green radioactivist. After working as a reporter/anchor for the CBS Radio network for several decades, Betsy decided to dedicate herself to bringing environmental content and consciousness to the mainstream media airwaves and audiences. Betsy has been trained by Al Gore’s Climate Project and is a public speaker and presenter on environmental issues, especially on the impacts of climate change and lack of mainstream media coverage as being part of the problem. Media includes: CBS Radio, Air America Radio, Fox TV, CNN, Hedline News, SF Chronicle.

CEO

Andrea Strimling Yodsampa is the CEO of DEPLOY/US, a not-for-profit dedicated to pragmatic, market-based climate and energy solutions. Her areas of expertise include energy and environmental policy, climate change, clean technology, national security, international affairs, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, public-private partnerships, civil-military cooperation, negotiation and consensus building.

Senior Scientist and Professor

Julienne Stroeve received a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder, in 1996, for her work in understanding Greenland climate variability. Subsequently she has been a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Her Arctic research interests include atmosphere-sea ice interactions, sea ice predictability, climate change and associated impacts. Recent research is focused on understanding rapid Arctic change and what this will mean for the rest of the planet. Media includes: Weather Channel, History Channel, Science Discovery.

Professor

Dr. Vivian E. Thomson is Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences and Politics at the University of Virginia. Dr. Thomson is an environmental policy expert with 30 years of practical and academic experience at the local, state, national, and international levels. She was Vice Chair and Member of the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board (appointed by Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine), 2002-2010. The Board adopts regulations and sets air pollution policy for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Media includes: Washington Post, American Public Media's Marketplace, WAMU (American University), WLRN (Miami), WINA (Charlottesville).