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Alex Rafalowicz has worked as a policy analyst, campaigner, organiser and strategist for climate justice for 15 years including with the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, the Climate Action Network, and 350.Org. He has worked on digital and electoral campaigns across the Americas, Europe, and Australia. He has a first class honours degree in law from the Australian National University and Masters in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research. He lives in Bogotá, Colombia with his family.

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Andrea is a long-time community organizer on issues of social, economic and environmental justice. She’s served with organizations ranging from credit unions to farmers markets and spent 10 years as the Executive Director of Canada’s largest membership-based environmental group, fighting to preserve biodiversity and protect Canada’s last remaining intact wilderness areas. In 2002 she was elected to the Vancouver School Board – a first for the Green Party in Canada – and went on to serve three terms on Vancouver City Council. As Vancouver’s first permanent Deputy Mayor she took the lead on many transformative policy initiatives including the bold plan to make Vancouver the world’s Greenest City and the Renewable City Strategy to transition Vancouver to 100% renewable energy.

Andrea has been recognized with several awards for her work including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award and the World Green Building Council Chairman’s Award. After retiring from politics in 2018, Andrea was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard for her civic leadership and was recently appointed an Adjunct Professor of Practice at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs where she teaches power literacy and connects future policy makers to practice. She continues to contribute to public debate in Canada as a commentator, columnist and public speaker

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Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and campaigner. His several books include The New Economics, Ecological Debt: Global Warming & the Wealth of Nations, Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? and recently Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to prosperity. Andrew co-founded the New Weather Institute and coordinator of the Rapid Transition Alliance. He is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, a Fellow of nef (the New Economics Foundation) where he was also Policy Director for ten years and established its Climate Change, Energy and Interdependence Programme. He is also the assistant director of Scientists for Global Responsibility. He co-founded the Green New Deal group, and co-authored and published the original Green New Deal, and devised Earth Overshoot Day.

A political economist and environmentalist, Andrew studied at the London School of Economics and has written widely on the political economy of both global and local economies. He coined the phenomenon of ‘Clone Town Britain’ and led nef’s work on the ‘Great Transition’. New Scientist magazine called him a ‘master at joined up progressive thinking.’

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Prior to joining Stand.earth, Anne was the Executive Director of Corporate Ethics International. At Corporate Ethics International, she led the Business Ethics Network project (BEN) for more than seven years, providing trainings and other resources to a diverse network of corporate campaign activists and community leaders. Anne and BEN moved to Stand.earth together, starting a new collaboration with the goal of strengthening BEN’s work for the broad corporate campaign movement, citizen activists, Indigenous leaders, and the Stand.earth team. Anne has also worked at the Oregon League of Conservation Voters and as a freelance journalist. She has a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Yale University and a Master’s degree in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Brenna Two Bears is Diné, Ho-Chunk, and Standing Rock Lakota. Brenna founded the Indigenous Peoples Education and Cultural Collective and supports the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Initiative as the Fossil Fuel Phase Out Communications Associate. She began her career fighting environmental racism in her tribal homelands from the age of 13. Since then, Brenna has focused on uplifting voices that often go unheard, including grassroots organizing, consultation on behalf of indigenous communities, and working with youth.

+ Read Carlos' Biography

Carlos Larrea holds his Ph.D. in political economy from York University, Canada, and has post-doctoral studies in health and development at Harvard University. He has a master in social sciences from Fundación Bariloche, Argentina. Carlos is currently professor at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador, and coordinates the area of environment and sustainability. He was the technical adviser of the Yasuni- ITT Inititative in Ecuador, and a consultant for international institutions such as UNDP, UNICEF, PAHO, ILO, UICN, World Bank and IDB. He has published about 15 books and 85 articles, and his current research interests are focused on international mechanisms for keeping unexploited fossil fuel reserves in biodiverse hotspots in developing countries, as well as low emission development paths for Andean an Amazon countries. His publications include the books Hacia una Historia Ecológica del Ecuadorand Atlas de las Desigualdades Socio-económicas en el Ecuador.

+ Read Carroll's Biography

Carroll Muffett is President of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a nonprofit organization that uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society. Carroll is a recognized expert on international environmental law and a leader in the emerging fields of climate litigation and climate-related financial and legal risks. Carroll is lead researcher on CIEL’s Smoke and Fumes investigation into the deep history of oil industry engagement on climate science. He is co-author of CIEL’s Fueling Plastics series, which examines the linkages between fossil fuels and the global plastics crisis; and a contributor to CIEL’s report on the greenhouse gas impacts of the plastics lifecycle. He is lead researcher and co-author of Fuel to the Fire, which examines the role of the fossil fuel industry in geoengineering.

Carroll is a member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Climate Accountability Institute.

+ Read Catherine's Biography

Catherine is the Founder & Executive Director of Destination Zero, a new organization focused on climate action and the global energy transition. Catherine served as the Executive Director of Climate Action Network – Réseau action climat (CAN-Rac) Canada from 2016 to mid-2021. Canada’s primary network of organizations working on climate change and energy issues, CAN-Rac is a coalition of more than 120 organizations operating from coast to coast to coast. Catherine joined CAN-Rac Canada after five years spearheading the energy and climate programs at the Ecology Action Centre, one of Atlantic Canada’s largest and longest-running environmental advocacy organizations.

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Fatih Uenal is a Political Psychologist at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. His academic work focuses on topics of social and ecological (in)justice, racism, speciesism, and climate change adaptation. For the Initiative, he works as a Data Scientist employing Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Neural Network & NLP) to automatically identify, filter, and visualize fossil fuel policies globally.

+ Read Freddie's Biography

Freddie Daley is currently working as a researcher at the University of Sussex. His academic work focuses on sustainable behaviour change, supply-side mitigation policy, climate justice and energy transitions. For the Initiative, he works as a research coordinator managing an international team of researchers for the supply-side policy tracker project.

+ Read Harjeet's Biography

Harjeet Singh is the Strategic Advisor: Global Partnerships to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.

Harjeet is a global expert on the issues of climate impacts, migration and adaptation and has been supporting countries across the world on tackling climate change. He is also Senior Advisor – Climate Impacts at Climate Action Network - International (CAN-I).

Until recently, he has led ActionAid International’s climate change work globally. He is a member of the United Nations’ Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management (TEG-CRM) under Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage.

He has served as a board member of Climate Action Network - International (CAN-I) and the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR). Harjeet has co-founded Satat Sampada, a social enterprise that promotes sustainable and environmental solutions such as organic food and farming in India and beyond.

He writes regularly on climate change and disaster resilience issues and tweets at @harjeet11.

+ Read Iman's Biography

Iman Bashir is an environmental lawyer working with Power Shift Africa. She works with a pan-African team of researchers, advocates, and policy experts to promote and influence climate-conscious policy within Africa in a post-COVID – 19 recovery context. She works to advocate for the marginalized communities that are disproportionately affected by climate change, defends their development rights, and ensures their voices are amplified and heard in decision-making in climate justice issues. Iman holds both a bachelor's in law and a bachelor's in environmental science from the University of Nairobi.

+ Read Jemma's Biography

A true communications strategist, Jemma loves to deep dive into narrative, storytelling and turning convoluted ideas into straight-forward inspiration. Prior to joining the Treaty team, Jemma's roles centered on working in coalition for ambitious environmental policy, including targeted political engagement with leading EU businesses as well as strategizing conservation policy priorities for US aquariums. A California native, Jemma has a Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

+ Read Jenn's Biography

Jenn began working with the Treaty Initiative in 2019. She began her career in environmental advocacy in 2004 with ForestEthics and has been providing administrative and operational support for forest conservation and climate campaigns since then. She was Program Manager at Stand.earth (formerly ForestEthics) and the Director of Operations for the Tar Sands Campaign. She has a PhD in Plant Developmental Biology and Molecular Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley and a BSc in Biology and Geology from McGill University.

+ Read Jessica's Biography

Prior to joining the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative as its Global Partnerships Coordinator, Jessica was the project manager for ActionAid’s South Asia Migration and Climate project, looking at how climate change is driving migration in South Asia, working in close collaboration with Climate Action Network South Asia and its partners. She began her career as an environmental policy lobbyist working for the UK Timber trade and the British retail industry. After some time spent supporting grassroots organisations in India, she began working on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) policy and strategy development at Tearfund, UK. She used her transferable skills, learning and experience, gained from working with corporates, to capacity-build civil society organisations in Asia and Africa to develop advocacy campaigns, plans and strategies, as part of a DFID-funded project. After Tearfund, she worked with the Global Network for Disaster Reduction, developing video case studies of their national partners’ work across multiple regions to showcase at the 2011 UN-ISDR convention in Geneva. She has worked as the International Advisor – Research & Communications on Resilience at ActionAid International where she helped develop ActionAid’s Resilience Framework. Along with an MSc in EU Environmental Policy and Regulation from Lancaster University, and a BSc in Environmental Science in Agriculture from Nottingham University, she has an MA in Creative Writing, and is a published novelist. She is based in Goa, India.

+ Read Lidy's Biography

Lidy is an activist from the Philippines working on economic, environmental, social and gender justice issues. She is the Coordinator of Jubilee South – Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD), Co-coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ), and member of the Coordinating Committee of the Global Alliance on Tax Justice (GATJ). She also serves as the Vice President of the Freedom From Debt Coalition (FDC) in the Philippines and Convenor of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ).

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Lili Fuhr heads the International Environmental Policy Division of the Heinrich Böll. She is a founding board member of the Climate Justice Fund, a board member of ETC Group and the executive editor of the Plastic Atlas. Lili has a German blog klima-der-gerechtigkeit and co-authored "Inside the Green Economy - Promises and Pitfalls".

+ Read Loukina's Biography

Loukina Tille is a 19-year-old Swiss climate activist who has been active in Fridays For Future since December 2018 and working at various levels: local, cantonal, national and international.

She was involved in the organisation of SMILE in August 2019, which brought together 400 young climate activists from 38 countries.

Loukina wants to contribute to halting global warming as far as possible and creating a zero-carbon society that follows the principles of climate justice.

She also attended the World Economic Forum in 2020 with fellow climate activists Vanessa Nakate, Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson.

+ Read Mark's Biography

Mark is the Founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and conceived the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis. He commissioned and was editor of Unburnable Carbon – Are the World’s Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble? In November 2011. Mark is responsible for management strategy, board matters and developing Carbon Tracker’s capital markets framework analysis. Its goal is to align capital markets with the remaining carbon budget, fulfiling the Paris climate agreement aim of ‘well below 2 degrees’. Mark has thirty years experience in sustainable financial markets to date, working for major institutional asset management companies. Mark is a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds firstly at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989 with the Ecology Funds, NPI with Global Care, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investor’s Industries of the Future Funds, leaving in 2009 to establish Carbon Tracker. Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003). Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, is a member of the Advisory Council of ImpactBase.org; a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’; a member of UNCTAD’s Sustainable Stock Exchange’s Green Finance Advisory Group; and is the Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK. Mark is an advisor to Consilium Capital where he holds his FCA licence and serves as a Fellow of Tribe Impact Capital. Mark has a BA in Politics & Economic History and an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics.

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Meena has been the Head of Programmes and Coordinator of Third World Network’s Climate Change Programme since 2007. She is an expert on climate change, especially on global negotiations including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). She is also a member of the board of Friends of the Earth International and honorary secretary to Friends of the Earth, Malaysia (Sahabat Alam). She has served as chair of Friends of the Earth International (2004-2008), an international organization with 77 member groups. She has been monitoring and reporting on the negotiations and providing analysis and support both to developing country governments as well as to civil society participants. Upon graduation in 1982, Meena and a colleague set up the first public interest law firm in Malaysia, which launched her legal practice assisting consumers. In the past 25 years, she has represented the organizations she works with at numerous conferences and presented papers on issues ranging from environmental and consumer protection to climate change, agriculture and fisheries, and globalization and trade.

+ Read Meredith's Biography

Meredith plays a lead role in the production and curation of strategic communications and outreach tools for climate leaders. Her enthusiasm for the field began during her time at Earthjustice where she investigated the social values that influence environmental engagement. Previously, Meredith explored the dynamics of personal and societal transformation with grassroots social change leaders as an assistant research scientist at the Research Center for Leadership in Action. Meredith has a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Vassar College and a Masters of Public Administration in Public Policy Analysis from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

+ Read Mohamed's Biography

Mohamed Adow is the Director and Founder of Power Shift Africa, a newly formed African non-governmental organization and think tank providing cutting edge analysis, solution focused policy and media engagement to mobilize climate action in Africa and leverage Africa’s voice internationally. Mohamed has worked for 18 years in the international development and environmental sectors, specializing in climate justice and clean energy. For over a decade, Mohamed has lead Christian Aid’s global climate policy and advocacy work specializing in developing countries issues, and supporting the organization’s climate policy and advocacy work in Africa, Europe and at the UNFCCC where he engages and influences governments and other stakeholders in favor of the world’s poor people and countries. He is a graduate of Environmental Studies.

+ Read Nakul's Biography

Based out of New Delhi, Nakul Sharma is part of CAN South Asia core team leading the delivery of Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Initiative Objectives in South Asia. Having done his Master’s in Renewable Energy his main area of interest is Clean Energy Advocacy, promoting local Action and Energy Policy & Trade and How an accelerated clean energy transition and cooperation can be a game changer form long term regional peace and Progress in South Asia.

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Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, working nationally and internationally with grassroots and frontline women leaders, policy-makers, and diverse coalitions to build women's leadership, climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future. Osprey is the Co-Director of the Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegations, and actively leads WECAN International's projects — from various trainings and work to shift the narrative on climate justice using a feminist lens, to engagements at United Nations climate conferences — from frontline delegations and direct actions, to campaigns such as the 'Women for Forests' program. Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women’s Climate Action Agenda', and co-founded the International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative (IWECI), the precursor initiative of WECAN International. Osprey is honored to serve on the Executive Committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and has been a core organizer of various International Rights of Nature Tribunals. She has served on the board of the Praxis Peace Institute and on the Steering Committee for The UN Women’s Major Group for the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Awards include National Women’s History Project Honoree, Taking The Lead To Save Our Planet, the Woman Of The Year Outstanding Achievement Award from the California Federation Of Business And Professional Women, and the Be the Dream Lifetime Achievement award. Osprey's writing has been featured in publications including The Guardian, Common Dreams, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, OpenDemocracy, and EcoWatch, and she is the author of the award-winning book,'Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature'.

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Peter Newell is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Besides working for academic institutions including the universities of Sussex, Oxford, Warwick and East Anglia in the UK and FLACSO Argentina, he sits on the board of directors of Greenpeace UK, is a board member of the Brussels-based NGO Carbon Market Watch and a member of the advisory board of the Greenhouse think-tank. He is associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics and sits on the board of the Global Environmental Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Environment and Development and Earth Systems Governance Journal. He is also co-founder and research director of the Rapid Transition Alliance. His single and co-authored books include Climate for Change; The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy; Governing Climate Change; Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power; Climate Capitalism; Transnational Climate Change Governance and Global Green Politics.

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Richard Folland has over 30 years’ experience as a strategic policy adviser and advocate, A long-time British diplomat and former head of UK Government international energy policy, he has also worked for JPMorgan and with institutional investors. Richard has worked on climate change and energy policy since 2004. He is the government and policy affairs adviser to the Carbon Tracker Initiative and in that capacity leads our European political engagement for the treaty initiative.

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Sanjay Vashist is Director of Climate Action Network South Asia and has been actively working towards mobilized civil society action on Climate policies in South Asian Countries and Region. Under his leadership, CAN South Asia have increased its membership base from 20 to 200+ NGOs spread in South Asian Countries. The network has successfully consolidated Climate Actions of NGOs in the region and has build bridges with Government as partners. The combined approach of implementation-networking-advocacy-training has scaled up the outcomes from Climate Actions through implementation and policy. The network has successfully documented the sectoral information in context with Climate impacts / responses in South Asia. The initiative has yielded desired results through informed climate policies in South Asian Countries. Previously he has worked as Advisor to Climate Policy Program of Heinrich Boell Foundation in India and Fellow with The Energy and Resource Institute in New Delhi; International Coordinator for Climate Action Network International (CANI) in Bonn and Natural Resource Scientist with Development Alternatives in New Delhi - coordinating the activities of ENGOs network also acting as focal point for ENGOs constituency of observers under UNFCCC. pursuing career in climate change science and action as well as Natural Resource Scientist among rural communities of Central India implementing community based projects objectives towards strengthening sustainable livelihoods. He has authored, co-authored and facilitating drafting of many technical papers framing climate solutions and finding convergence on policy-practice linkage. He has been team member of technical teams constituted by multi-lateral agencies to assess the impacts of climate variables of vulnerable communities and frame policy recommendations to address them on short term and long term basis in Asia and Pacific Countries. Academically he is a ‘Forester’ with Graduation and Post-Graduation in Forestry from India. He completed his Master in Agro Forestry from Gujarat Agriculture University and Graduation in Forestry from Konkan Krishi Vidhyapeeth, Maharastra. He has 14 years of experience in Natural Resource Management, Implementation of Adaptation in key sectors and following International Climate Change discussions on various platforms for future climate change regime.

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Simon Taylor is a co-founder and Director of Global Witness. Global Witness is a UK and US based Non-Governmental organisation, that campaigns to end environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system.

Simon began Global Witness’ oil and corruption campaign in 1999. This began a global effort at exposing malfeasance in the oil, gas and mining industries – the most corrupt industries on the planet - and a call for transparency and accountability for their operations extracting oil, gas and minerals. This work helped Global Witness shape and conceive the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Campaign, which Simon was the co-founder of in 2002. Today, PWYP is a global movement consisting of more than 1000 organisations spread across more than 50 countries aligned around holding companies and governments to account in the extractives sector. PWYP is increasingly focussing on the energy transition. Simon is an international civil society board member of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI).

Simon is also concerned about ensuring appropriate accountability for companies and their executives for criminality – for example, as a co-signatory of a complaint to the Milan Public Prosecutor’s office about the OPL 245 deal, obtained in Nigeria by International Oil Companies, Shell and Eni. The subsequent criminal investigation and prosecution of the companies and some of their highest executives for International Corruption, is before the Milan Court. A decision is expected in early 2021. All accused, and both companies, deny any wrong-doing.

Simon is also focussed on the fossil fuel industry’s corruption and co-option of the global political and societal space, and is engaged in Global Witness’ shift in focus, building on sectoral reform to shutting down the fossil fuel sector in a managed but urgent decline, commensurate with equity, and at a pace determined by a precautionary view of the science of the climate crisis.

+ Read Tasneem's Biography

Tasneem Essop is an expert on climate, energy, poverty and social justice issues and is the Founding Director of the Energy Democracy Initiative in South Africa.

South African born and based, Ms Essop has significant experience in the climate movement. She has held various senior government positions in South Africa. She was a global climate policy and strategy leader for environmental NGO WWF International and served as the Head of Delegation for the organisation at the UNFCCC including at the Paris COP. During this period she also served on the Board of the Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA) and was an active participant in the work of CAN International.

Tasneem is also serving her second term as Commissioner in the National Planning Commission of South Africa. She was also recently appointed to the Board of Sanparks, the leading conservation authority in South Africa.

Before joining WWF in 2008, she held the positions of Provincial Minister for the Environment, Planning and Economic Development and Provincial Minister of Transport, Public Works and Property Management in the Western Cape.

Before becoming a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Legislature in 1994, she was a trade unionist in COSATU Western Cape. She is a qualified teacher.

Her vast management and leadership experience include convening and building consensus around common goals amongst stakeholders from government, labour, business and communities, building collaborative partnerships, working in virtual teams across cultures, and building strong organisational governance, with an emphasis on finance.

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Tessa Khan is an international human rights and climate change lawyer and campaigner. She is the Director and founder of Uplift, a new organisation helping to move the UK towards a future free from fossil fuel production. She is co-founder and formerly Co-Director of the Climate Litigation Network and has spent more than a decade supporting grassroots, regional and international movements for justice. She is an awardee of the Climate Breakthrough Project.

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Tom BK Goldtooth, Executive Director of the international Indigenous Environmental Network. Tom has been awarded with recognition of his achievements throughout the past 39 years as an activist for social change within the Indigenous and environmental and climate justice movements. From the strength of his community organizing and leadership experience he has brought the local issues of environmental, economic, energy, climate, water and food justice and the rights of Indigenous peoples and rights of Mother Earth to the national and international levels. Tom is a recipient of the 2015 Gandhi Award and in 2016 presented Sierra Club’s John Muir award.

+ Read Viviana's Biography

Viviana is a French-Peruvian climate activist. Prior to joining the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Team, she has been working in civil society organizations for ten years in Peru, France and Brazil. Her different roles included international coordination and leadership to create contents, design communications strategies and influence decision-makers, especially on socio-environmental struggles. Viviana has a Master of International Relations and Development from the Institute of Latin American Studies (IHEAL), Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle.

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Daniela García Aguirre is a Colombian attorney and environmental engineer currently fellow of AIDA’s Clean Air Initiative. She holds a Masters of Laws degree in Environmental Law and Policy from Stanford University, California. Daniela has research experience in air quality measurement and monitoring, as well as in the development of environmental public policy from an environmental justice perspective. She has worked in academia advising and accompanying communities in the design of strategic litigation and proposals for judicial or policy solutions to prevent socio-environmental conflicts and guarantee the rights to health and a healthy environment.

+ Read Svitlana's Biography

Zero Fossil Fuels Campaign Manager for Laudato Si' Movement (Formerly - Global Catholic Climate Movement). Environmental lawyer for over twenty years, Svitlana holds a PhD in Environmental, Natural Resources, Land and Agrarian Law and a doctorate on Climate Change Law, Climate Governance and Climate Policy. She collaborated with many international institutions, including IUCNAEL, USAID, IRG, UNEP, US National Institute of Health Superfund Research Program (NIH) and CAN EECCA. After years of lecturing at the University, international expertise in environmental, energy and climate law and public advocacy on the environmental rights of local communities, including grassroot campaigning against the fossil fuels, Svitlana is a climate activist, green strategist and a campaign manager, passionate about climate justice, ending fossil fuels, green finance and green inclusive economy. Before joining the Laudato Si' Movement she designed and managed successful regional and national Climate, Fossil Free, 100% RE till 2050, Just/Green Recovery and Green Deal campaigns in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia for 350.org. The most recently Svitlana leads the implementation of FFNPT strategy of Laudato Si' Movement in some countries of a Global South.

+ Read Ken's Biography

Ken is a highly experienced, creative and successful UK political campaigner, with a successful track record of changing UK public policy for the better, with particular interest in and commitment to social and environmental justice issues.

He has been a Senior Political Adviser to the UK Labour Party twice during his career, advising on Employment, Environment, and Economics, respectively. He is a former head of media and politics for the UK steelworkers’ union Community. He has been a on several occasions been a political consultant. During his career he has been a trusted political and media relations adviser for senior figures from the world of politics, business, and civil society.

Ken has extensive experience of lobbying, networking, and influencing at a senior level of political decision-makers and policy influencers across the UK. This includes with Councillors, MPs, Peers, MSPs, MSs, civil servants of all levels, and Government Special Advisers and Ministers of all parties. Ken is also experienced at establishing and maintaining good working relationships with key external policy influencers in NGOs and think tanks, for example.

Many of the public policy change campaigns Ken has run have required the building and maintenance of cross-party and cross-organisational coalitions. Examples of these include: as a Political Consultant, he devised the successful public affairs campaign the British Association for Adoption and Fostering ran in support of legalising the right for unmarried couples – including same-sex couples – to adopt as part of the 2002 Adoption and Children Act. The strategy was based on focussing on the plight of the children trapped in the care system, not the status or sexuality of loving potential adopter couples. This received support from MPs of all parties; the integrated political, media and legal campaign he ran for Community which led to the creation of both the Pensions Protection Fund and the Financial Assistance Scheme, which protects the pensions of millions of working people and restored 90% of the expected pensions for 140,000 people facing poverty in retirement, respectively, and; the parliamentary and media campaign that he devised and ran for the UK Labour Party which was successful in forcing the Conservative Government to abandon plans to cut tax credits for 3.2 million families in 2015.

Most recently he worked for Global Witness as their UK Climate Campaigner focussing on UK oil and gas extraction.

Ken also serves on the National Executive of SERA, the UK Labour Party’s Environment Campaign. As the SERA delegate to the 2019 Labour Party Conference, Ken was instrumental in persuading key trade unions and Labour Shadow Ministers to support a motion calling for the next Labour Government to remove legislation that requires UK Governments to maximise economic recovery of oil and gas.