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Senior Resident Fellow, Climate and Energy Program, Third Way
Host, Writer, and Producer, NowThis
Fashion Designer; Author; Speaker
Founder, CEO, and Managing Director, Sustainable Capital Advisors
Founder and CEO, BrightAction
Co-Founder and Policy Director, Carbon180
Administrator, Organized Village of Kasaan
CEO, Xprize
Executive Director, The CLEO Institute
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Founder and President, American Conservation Coalition
Founder, BlocPower
Chief Executive Officer, Clean Energy Buyers Association
President and CEO, Natural Resources Defense Council
Chief Technology Officer, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Climate Justice Activist; Youth Plaintiff, Juliana v. United States
Climate Justice Activist; Co-Founder, Re-Earth Initiative
Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, and Senior Vice President, Atlantic Council
Executive Director, WINGS
Senior Advisor, Transformational Investing In Food Systems
Chief Strategy Officer and Interim Co-CEO, Service Year Alliance
Mayor, City of Cleveland, Ohio
Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School, Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, and Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University SIPA
Chief Sustainability Officer, Google
Director, Florida Conservation, Ocean Conservancy
Governor, State of Oregon
Founder and President, Ecospherics
Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Arizona State University; Writer, Director, and Producer, Carbon Nation
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Cultural Philanthropist; Founder, The ReefLine
Mayor, City of New Orleans
AVP, Global Environmental Sustainability, AT&T
EVP, Group President-Utilities, Chief Customer Officer, Xcel Energy
Co-Founder and CEO, Rewoven; Co-Founder, Future of Fashion Indaba
Associate Dean of Research, Professor, and Co-Director, Master of Professional Science in Urban Sustainability and Resilience, University of Miami School of Architecture
Director, US Strategic Sustainability Consulting, Ramboll Management Consulting
Executive Director, Wallowa Resources
Co-Founder and COO, Oklo Inc.
Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice; Rural Development Manager, Equal Justice Initiative
Senior Director, International Climate Policy, Center for American Progress
Senior Policy Fellow, Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, microTERRA
Co-Founder and Principal, Vocero
Board of Directors, Love the Everglades Movement
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Co-Founder, Chief of What’s Next, and Chair, Center for Good Food Purchasing
Business Development Lead, CalWave Power Technologies
Executive Director, High Tide Foundation
President and CEO, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
Chairman, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
President and CEO, Carnival Corporation & PLC
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company (Festival Underwriter)
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Music Producer
Co-Executive Director, Community Strategies Group, The Aspen Institute
President and CEO, CryoLogistics Refrigeration Technologies Ltd.
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Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Energy and Environment)
Founder and Executive Director, Sports and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance
Head of Corporations and Supply Chains, North America
Marine Biologist; Artist, Co-Founder, Coral Morphologic
Executive Director, Global Warming Mitigation Project
President, Howard University; Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine
Founder and CEO, Living Seawalls
President, University of Miami
Chief Executive Officer, Living Ink
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Policy Campaigns Co-Director, National Young Farmers Coalition
Minister of Planning and Economic Policy, Republic of Costa Rica
Mayor, City of Miami Beach; Co-Founder and Attorney, Gelber Schachter & Greenberg PA
Founder and CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Chief Heat Officer, Miami-Dade County
Chair, International Advisory Council, APCO Worldwide; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
President for International, Aspiration
Chairman of the Board, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited; Chair, India Resources Trust
Vice Dean and Professor of Practice, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory’s, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University
Principal, Rene Gonzalez Architects
Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer, Valor Equity Partners
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President and CEO, Smart Electric Power Alliance
Executive Editor, Cipher
Chief Executive Officer, Offshore NA, Orsted
Managing Director, Engagement and Innovation, Elemental Excelerator
Freelance Journalist; Food Columnist, The Washington Post
Senior Correspondent, Telemundo
Executive Editor, Covering Climate Now
Reporter, Pro Sustainable Business, The Wall Street Journal
Vice President, Biodiversity & Conservation, XPrize Foundation
VP, Worldwide Sustainability
K-12 Student
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President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Founder and Partner, Bjarke Ingels Group
Associate Director, Ocean and Climate, Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute
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Vice President, Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, Apple; Former Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Generate Capital
Co-Founder and CEO, Taru Naturals
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Form Energy, Inc.
President and CEO, Rare
Executive Director, Green 2.0
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Partner, McKinsey & Company
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Program and Outreach Director, Debris Free Oceans
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kee Farms
Senior Advisor, Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute; Founder and Principal, Prosperity Strategies
Head of Environment and Sustainability, North America, Maersk
Communications Coordinator, Center for Native American Youth, The Aspen Institute
Chief Resilience Officer, City of Miami Beach
President, Ridgely Walsh
President, Environmental Defense Fund
President and Chief Executive Officer, NextEra Energy Resources
Executive Director, Food and Society Program and Editor in Chief, Ideas: The Magazine of the Aspen Institute
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Senior Executive Editor, National Geographic
Partner, Rhodium Group
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lebec Consulting
Interim Executive Director, Donors of Color Network
Senior Research Scientist and Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale School of the Environment
Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings
Mayor, Miami-Dade County
CEO and President, Royal Caribbean International
Global Environmental Executive, Bank of America
Director of Research and Senior Research Scholar, SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Chief Executive Officer and President, Ceres
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Co-Founder and President, Jubilee Justice
President and CEO, Virgin Voyages
Founder and Principal, Climate and Nature Solutions; Former Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Prime Minister’s Cabinet, Government of Canada
Vice President, Corporate Sustainability at Mastercard
Staff Writer, Atlantic
CEO, The Nature Conservancy
COO, Green Alpha Advisors, LLC
President and Chief Executive Officer, ClimateWorks Foundation
Co-Founder and President, Quadrivium Foundation
Governor, State of New Jersey
Senior Fellow, Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center, The Atlantic Council; Chief Heat Officer, City of Athens, Greece
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Climate Changemakers
President & Chief Executive Officer, Resources for the Future
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Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Director, Geopolitics of Energy Project, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Running Tide
Director of Arts and Culture, Headwater People Consulting; Secretary, Youth Advisory Board, Center for Native American Youth, The Aspen Institute
Vice President of Development, Florida Power & Light Company
Founder and CEO, Ciudad Luz
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Engineer; Investor; Technical Advisor to the Chairman, Kleiner Perkins
Founder, SeaDragon FoundationCo-founder, Global SeaForest Foundation & TrustC0-founder, SeaDragon Studios
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
Head of the Environmental, Social, and Governance Solution Group, Wells Fargo
Sustainability Manager, City of Miami Beach
Managing Director, Enduring Earth
Executive Director, Center for Native American Youth, The Aspen Institute
President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
CEO, Clear Path and ClearPath Action
President of Miami Dade College
Principal, C6 Solutions; Co-Founder and Writer, Climate Tech VC
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Superintendent, Everglades National Park and Dry Tortugas National Park
CEO and Founder, CLIP
Filmmaker; Managing Director of Storytelling, Nia Tero
President & CEO, Trust for Public Lands
Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Global Water Challenge; Board Chair, Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Chief Executive Officer, GoPowerEV
Research Analyst, Global Warming and Mitigation Project
Vice President, Education & Engagement, National Park Foundation
Assemblywoman, District 39, California State Assembly
Founder and Executive Director, American Flood Coalition
Founder, President, and CEO, Dacra
CEO, Mission Possible Partnership and McKinsey Senior Partner Emeritus (Festival Underwriter Presenter)
Weather Anchor, NBC's Today
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Co-Founder and CEO, Blue Ocean Barns
CEO, Conservation International
Professor and Director, FPL-FIU Solar Research Center, Florida International University
President & CEO, MSC Cruises
Head of the K-12 Climate Action initiative at the Aspen Institute
Executive Director, Aspen Digital, Aspen Institute
Founder, Operation Fish Drop
Technical Advisor, Alphabet; Former CEO and Executive Chairman, Google
Founder and Chief Education Officer, Coastal Culinary Academy
President and CEO, National Park Foundation
Architect; Partner, OMA
Co-President and Partner, Valor Equity Partners; Fund Manager, Valor Siren Ventures
Founding Principal, Shulman + Associates; Director of Graduate Programs in Architecture, University of Miami School of Architecture
Vice President of Sustainable Workplaces and Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors
Chief Executive Officer, Florida Power and Light
Commissioner, National Basketball Association
Deputy Director, Aspen Tech Policy Hub, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute
Co-Founder and CEO, Solstice
Chief Executive Officer, Diligent Corporation
Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
President and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Starwood Capital Group
Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University
Founder, BASICO, and student, University of Miami
Co-founder and CTO, Renewell Energy
Mayor, Miami
Vice President, Worldwide Economic Development, Amazon
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Historic Preservation & Architecture Officer, City of Miami Beach
Documentary Filmmaker; Environmental Journalist, Sea Change Project
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Trust for Public Land
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Executive Director, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, The Aspen Institute
Partner and Segment Leader of Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure, Guidehouse
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Co-Founder and President, Debris Free Oceans; Program and Outreach Director, Herbert W. Hoover Foundation
Walden Consulting, LLC and Former Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee
Director of Natural Resources, Vivid Economics
Port Director, PortMiami
Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Distributed Sun
Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock Alternative Investors
President, Bluesource
Co-Founder and General Partner, Azolla Ventures; Co-Founder, Prime Impact Fund
Senior Director at the Miami Herald
Senior Correspondent, Time Magazine
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Head of Strategy, Sustainable Investing at Goldman Sachs and Non-Resident Fellow at The Aspen Institute
Founder and President, Hip Hop Caucus
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Deputy National Climate Advisor, White House Climate Policy Office