Xavier started his career at Louis Dreyfus Communications (later known as Neuf Cegetel) in Paris in 2001, before joining Louis Dreyfus Commodities in Geneva as Attaché to the CEO, where he was in charge of the business plan and carried out several projects in Asia. He then joined Direct Energie in 2007 where he was in charge of Business Development before founding Neoen in 2008. Xavier graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jean-Jacques Barbéris is General Management and Executive board member at Amundi. Jean-Jacques is head of Institutional and Corporate Clients Coverage and supervises the ESG department. Jean-Jacques is also chairman of Amundi Germany and of CPR asset management.

Before joining Amundi, Jean-Jacques acted as advisor for Economic and Financial affairs in the staff of the French President of the Republic, where he served from 2013-2016. Prior to this, he was a member of staff of Pierre Moscovici, French Minister of Economy and Finance.

Between 2009 and 2010, Jean-Jacques chaired the European group of experts on climate finance in the negotiations at UNFCCC. During that time, he also participated in different studies on the economics of climate change, such as Jean Tirole’s report published before the Copenhagen UNFCC conference in 2015.

Jean-Jacques started his career in the French Treasury Directorate General where he served from 2008 to 2012.

Jean-Jacques was a lecturer in advanced economics at Sciences-Po Paris From 2009 to 2012. He is also chairman of the French think tank “En Temps Réel”, dedicated to European politics.

Jean-Jacques is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum since 2019.

He is also a vice-chairman of Finance for Tomorrow, the French financial association devoted to sustainable finance.

Kate Brandt serves as Google’s Chief Sustainability Officer and leads sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations, products and supply chains.  In this role, Kate partners with Google’s data centres, real estate, supply chain, and product teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to strategically advance sustainability.

Previously Kate served as the US's first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer where she was responsible for promoting sustainability across Federal Government operations.

Prior to the White House, Kate held several senior roles in the U.S. Federal Government including Senior Advisor at the Department of Energy, Director for Energy and Environment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, and Energy Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy.

Kate serves on the boards of EVgo, BSR, The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and Corporate Eco Forum.

Kate received a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She graduated with honours from Brown University.

April Chin serves as the Co-CEO at Resaro, an AI assurance company specialising in independent, third-party testing of mission-critical AI systems.

April's commitment to Responsible AI began in 2019 at BasisAI, where she played a pivotal role in driving the adoption of governance-by-deployment approaches in AI solutions among enterprises. She has also led multidisciplinary initiatives on the operationalisation of AI governance frameworks into executable processes for business and technology teams.

Drawing from over a decade of experience as a former Singapore Administrative Service officer, April has collaborated closely with senior government officials and C-suite leaders to shape future-ready policies that are anchored on governance principles. As a thought leader in this field, April shares her expertise as a Futures Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and as an Advisor-Expert at the Chandler Institute of Governance.

Lauren Dunford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Guidewheel, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, TED speaker, and regular speaker at Davos and Stanford. She believes how we make things matters—for people and for the planet. A leading voice on "physical AI," Lauren is bringing intelligence to the machines that power the real economy. Backed by top investors and scaling rapidly across five continents, Guidewheel already helps 400+ manufacturers—including Johnson & Johnson, Hershey, and Cargill—boost productivity by up to 2X while cutting energy costs and emissions by 15-20%.

Carine Smith Ihenacho is the Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, the manager of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund. She is responsible for exercising the fund’s ownership rights and promoting good governance and responsible business conduct with the fund’s investments in over 8,000 companies. This includes the development and implementation of the fund’s climate initiatives.

Ms. Ihenacho is passionate about the role of sustainable finance and how it can support the climate transition. She has an extensive career in law and finance and has served as a non-executive director of several boards and advisory councils. Carine holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, a Master of Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics, and a law degree from the University of Oslo.

Dr. Sarah B. Kapnick is the Global Head of Climate Advisory in the Commercial and Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan. She oversees the Firm’s climate through leadership strategy and advises the bank's clients on intersecting topics around finance, climate science, and national security. She has received several recognitions for her work at J.P. Morgan and her Climate Intuition series, including being named to the 2025 TIME100 Climate, Bloomberg Green “Ones to Watch” and Fin-Erth lists. She was previously with the bank’s Asset and Wealth Management division.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Kapnick was Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She previously spent a decade at NOAA leading climate risk research and development.

Dr. Kapnick earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Kyung-Ah is Chief Sustainability Officer at Temasek. She is responsible for advancing Temasek's sustainability strategy to climate resilient, net zero portfolio and to enable nature positive and inclusive growth. She also oversees the integration of ESG across Temasek's global portfolio, including new investments and engagements with portfolio companies to deliver long-term sustainable returns.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the finance industry, the majority of which was dedicated to building and leading the global environmental markets initiatives at Goldman Sachs and advancing innovative finance solutions to address climate change. She was the head of Environmental Markets and Innovation and a member of the Sustainable Finance Steering Group. She joined Goldman Sachs in Mergers & Acquisitions and worked in Investment Banking in New York and Hong Kong. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was at McKinsey in South Korea and South Africa.

Kyung-Ah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yonsei University in Korea. She serves on the board of ClimateWorks Foundation and is a non-executive board director of Clifford Capital Holdings. She is a Fellow of the 2023 class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Dr. Ma Jun is a prominent advocate for sustainable development and green finance, with significant influence both domestically and internationally. In mainland China, he serves as Chairman of the Green Finance Committee and President of the Institute of Finance and Sustainability.

In Hong Kong, he leads the Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA) and contributes to various committees focused on green finance and sustainable development. Internationally, he chairs the Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) and co-chairs several global green finance initiatives. With over three decades of experience, Dr. Ma has held key roles, including Co-Chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, Chief Economist at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), and positions with Deutsche Bank, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

As a pioneering leader in green finance, Dr. Ma has played a ground-breaking role in advancing China’s green finance ecosystem. He organized the country’s first green finance guidelines and bond taxonomy and initiated regional pilot programs. Globally, he has been instrumental in shaping the G20 Green Finance Framework, the Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road Initiative, and the International Platform on Sustainable Finance (IPSF) Common Ground Taxonomy. His contributions to initiatives such as the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) on biodiversity and the CASI platform have further solidified his reputation. Under his leadership, his teams have supported over 20 governments and financial institutions in developing green finance strategies, earning him numerous international accolades.

Dr. Ma earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in 1994 and a master’s degree in Management Science from Fudan University in 1988.

Shannon Miller is CEO and Founder of Mainspring Energy, the leading manufacturer of linear generators. Mainspring began commercial deployments of its fuel-flexible, local power generators  in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities across the U.S. A former National Science Foundation Fellow, Shannon was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy C3E Award 2022 in the Entrepreneurship category and named Energy Central “Champion in Innovation” in 2023 in recognition for her energy industry leadership. She holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. 

Mr. Mizuno is a globally recognized financial executive and a leading advocate for sustainable investment. As Founder and CEO of Good Steward Partners, LLC, he continues to promote responsible financial practices and long-term value creation across markets and sectors. He currently serves as Special Advisor to Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Independent Board Member of LiveWire Group Inc., and Mission Committee Member at Danone S.A. 

Previously, Hiro served as Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investment, Special Advisor to CEO of MSCI Inc., Board Member of Tesla, Inc., Executive Managing Director and CIO of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF). 

Earlier in his career, Hiro held leadership roles in private equity and banking, including as Partner at Coller Capital in London and in various international positions at Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd., working across Japan, Silicon Valley, and New York.

Beyond his executive roles, Hiro remains deeply engaged in global initiatives focused on climate change, biodiversity, and financial innovation working closely with leading institutions to drive systemic change in capital markets and advance sustainability goals.

Hiro also contributes actively to academia as Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, Executive in Residence at Oxford Saïd Business School etc.

Bob Mumgaard leads the strategic vision and direction of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the world's leading, largest, and best capitalised fusion energy company. Under his leadership, Commonwealth Fusion Systems is paving the way for clean, abundant fusion energy to drive the energy transition. 

Since co-founding Commonwealth Fusion Systems with a mission to commercialise the high-field approach to fusion, Mumgaard has grown the company to 800 employees and raised more than $2 billion from the world’s leading climate investors including Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, The Engine, oil majors including Eni and Equinor, and long-term strategic investors including Temasek and Tiger Global, among others.

Mumgaard performed his PhD work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he contributed to the design of several small superconducting tokamaks for a variety of physics missions using high temperature superconductors (HTS). Prior to co-founding Commonwealth Fusion Systems, as an MIT fellow, Mumgaard focused on how entrepreneurship, risk-retirement strategies, and partnerships could increase the speed of fusion from laboratory to market. He organised and led a team identifying strategies to utilise private finance and traditional academic resources to speed the path to fusion energy resulting in a collaboration model with MIT and the launch of Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

Mumgaard holds a PhD in Applied Plasma Physics and a MS in Nuclear Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering and BS in Engineering Physics from the University of Nebraska.

Amit Narayan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, scaled, and exited multiple technology companies. He is currently the Founder and CEO of GridCARE, a pioneering company focused on unlocking existing power capacity on the electric grid, and Founder and CEO of Aina Climate AI Ventures, a venture fund and company creation studio dedicated to catalyzing AI-driven solutions for planetary-scale climate impact.

Previously, Amit founded and led AutoGrid from inception in 2011 through its acquisition by Schneider Electric in 2022. AutoGrid Flex has been consistently ranked #1 globally for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), deployed in over 20 countries and managing more than 8 GW of capacity.

Earlier, Amit was Director of Smart Grid Research at Stanford University and a founder and executive in semiconductor design automation. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur.

Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam and Professor in Water Systems and Global Sustainability at the Stockholm University. He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues and led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. Professor Rockström is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. He is i.a. chair of the Earth Commission, the Earth League, Chief Scientist of Conservation International, and elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Before founding Westbeck, Will was a partner and Head of the Natural Resources team at CQS from 2008 to 2015. He managed several resource funds with combined AUM around $1 billion, including the City Natural Resources High Yield Trust for six years. During this time, he received several industry awards, including the 2011 Investment Week Best Specialist Investment Trust, the 2012 Investors Chronicle Best Commodity Trust, and the 2012 Investment Week Best Commodity and Resources Trust. Prior to CQS, Will managed the L/S commodity strategy at Landsbanki Securities (2004–2007). He was head of market making in UK FTSE 250 stocks at Panmure Gordon (1999-2004). He held various positions across 13 years at UBS (1986-1999) and started his career at Morgan Grenfell.

Mr Teo Chee Hean was appointed Chairman of Temasek Holdings on 9 October 2025, after joining the Board as Deputy Chairman in July 2025. He also serves as Senior Advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of the Republic of Singapore.

Mr Teo was appointed Singapore’s Senior Minister from 2019 to 2025 and served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2009 to 2019. He also concurrently served as Coordinating Minister for National Security from 2011. In these roles, he oversaw the National Security Coordination Secretariat, the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, the National Population and Talent Division and the National Climate Change Secretariat under the Prime Minister's Office.

Mr Teo's career spans political office and the defence sector. He had served as Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Defence, Minister for Education, and Minister for the Environment, as well as Minister of State in the Ministries of Finance, Communications and Defence. He entered politics in 1992 as a Member of Parliament in Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and was subsequently re-elected six times in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. Before being elected to political office, he served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) where he held various command and staff appointments in the Republic of Singapore Navy and the Joint Staff, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral as Chief of Navy in 1991.

Mr Teo had previously served on the GIC Board where he also chaired the GIC International Advisory Board. He has also served on the boards of IRAS, PSA, Nanyang Technological University and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

Mr Teo holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Electrical Engineering and Management Science from the University of Manchester, a Master of Science degree (with distinction) in Computing Science from Imperial College London, and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was named a Littauer Fellow.

Connor Teskey is CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, with over $1 trillion of assets under management across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate and credit. He is also the head of Brookfield’s Renewable Power & Transition group, responsible for investments and operations across a range of energy infrastructure investments. He is a member of Brookfield’s Executive Committee. Mr. Teskey joined Brookfield in 2012 and has held a variety of investment and management roles. Prior to Brookfield, he worked in corporate debt origination at a Canadian bank. Mr. Teskey holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Shriti Vadera is the Chair of Prudential plc, the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab, which advises on leveraging the World Bank’s interventions to scale up private finance mobilisation for development and climate change, and Chatham House’s Panel of Strategic Supporters and Advisers.  She is Chair of The Royal Shakespeare Company and Co-Chair of the UK’s Creative Industries Council.  She was previously the Chair of Santander UK, a director of AstraZeneca and senior independent director of BHP. 

Shriti has over 40 years of experience spanning public and private sectors, in the UK and internationally. She started her career as an investment banker for 15 years with a particular focus on emerging markets.  She joined the Council of Economic Advisers, HM Treasury in 1999, leading on policy areas for business, productivity, private finance, and international development issues.  From 2007-2009, she was a UK government minister in the Cabinet Office, Business Department and International Development Department.  She was best known for leading the UK government’s response to the financial crisis, as a key architect of its pioneering bank recapitalisation and funding plan in 2008, and helped design the outcomes of the G20 London Summit in 2009.