Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh is an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, energy and transport. She is based at the University of Bath and is Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST).

Wolfgang Blau is the Global Managing Partner of Brunswick’s Sustainable Business Practice, advising multinational companies, universities, and NGOs on their climate and nature strategies. His recent work focuses on the insurance sector, consumer goods, and electricity grid operators. He co-founded the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, which trains journalists to deepen their understanding of effective and credible sustainability communication. Previously, he was the President International and Global Chief Operating Officer of Condé Nast, which, under his leadership, became the first publishing company globally to sign the UNFCCC Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action.

Joice Mendez is a migrant and climate advocate focused on the nexus of water, food and energy justice. Joice is a major voice of Latin America within leading youth and climate mechanisms, including the UNMGCY’s SDG7 Youth Constituency, the IRENA’s Director- General’s Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG7. She was a former Youth Climate Advisor of the UN Secretary-General. Ms Joice currently works as Latin American and Regional Lead at the Youth Climate Justice Fund. Joice co-founded several youth organizations, including the Latin American Observatory of Geopolitics of Energy, the triple border Environmental Education Observatory, the Paraguayan Youth for Water and Climate Networks, and the binational Youth Collective of the Parana Basin 3 from the Cultivating Good Water Initiative– a recipient of the UN-Water Best Practice Award in 2015.

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chair of the Global School of Sustainability at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has held posts at other UK and overseas universities, and as Chief Economist at both the EBRD and the World Bank. He was Head, UK Government Economic Service (2003–2007), and produced the Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was President of the Royal Economic Society (2018–2019). He was President of the British Academy (July 2013–2017) and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014). He was knighted for services to economics (2004), made a life peer (2007), and appointed Companion of Honour for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change in 2017. He has published more than 25 books and 200 articles. His latest book, The Growth Story of the 21st Century, is out now and published by LSE Press.