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Global Lead for Solid Waste Management & Circularity with the World Bank’s Global Urban Department

Jan Schlichtmann

Environmental Lawyer & Author; Subject of the Book & Film "A Civil Action"

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Bilaal Rajan

UNICEF Canada Ambassador, internationally-recognized motivational speaker, children's and environmental activist, author and fundraiser

Avipsa Mahapatra

Climate Campaign Director at Environmental Investigation Agency

Jamie Margolin

Climate Change Activist; Author; Founder & Co-Executive Director of Youth-Led Climate Action Group "Zero Hour"

Abrahm Lustgarten

Investigative Reporter, Speaker on Climate Change & Author of "On The Move" About America's Great Climate Migration

Natalie Kyriacou OAM

Environmental & Social Impact Leader, Australian Top Innovator & Australia’s Top ‘Green’ Voice

Kartik Chandran

Environmental Engineer & Professor at Columbia University; Global Leader in Sustainable Wastewater Treatment & Engineered Resource Recovery

Sophia Kianni

Climate Activist & Founder of Climate Cardinals; Member of the UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change

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Alan van Capelle

Executive Director at Friends of the High Line; Adjunct Professor of Public Service at New York University

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Wes Jackson

Founder and Former President of The Land Institute

Meg Lowman

National Geographic Explorer, Researcher, Scientist; Outdoors Enthusiast, Storyteller & Author; Forest Conservation and Sustainability Advocate

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Riddhima Yadav

Climate Strategist & Sustainability Business Leader

Safia Minney

Founder of People Tree, Developer of the First Organic and Fair Trade Clothing Supply Chain; Recognized as "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" by World Economic Forum

Steven Solomon

The Author of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, & Civilization

Leslie Dodson

Reporter & Videographer Covering International Finance, Economics, and Politics

Edward P. Joseph

Senior Fellow & Lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Justin Worland

Senior Correspondent at Time

Sage Lenier

Climate Change Activist

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