Aakanksha’s bio is coming soon!
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.
Ali has spent fifteen years working across the private, public, and NGO sectors and has held a range of climate leadership positions including at IKEA, Bord Bia (Irish Food Board), and Green-Schools.
She has led the scaling of multiple climate programmes and has supported a range of organisations in the development and implementation of climate strategies. More recently, Ali has supported a wider range of societal actors in their efforts to drive collective climate action, particularly in navigating corporate engagement on climate issues and challenging industry inaction and greenwashing.
She holds MSc Business Sustainability from University College Dublin, MSc Sustainable Development from Dublin City University, and a BSc Environmental Management from Technological University Dublin.
Dr. Amiera Sawas is a feminist researcher and advocate who works at the intersections of climate change, gender justice, public participation and the social contract. Amiera has almost 20 years experience working on these issues across academia, the private sector, think tanks and NGOs, with her most previous roles at Climate Outreach, ActionAid and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College. Amiera has a PhD on water, climate and human rights in Pakistan and is a contributing author to the IPCC sixth assessment report on gender and climate security. As a person of both Syrian and Irish heritage, with close links to Pakistan, she has lived life with an acute awareness of the impacts of colonial histories and believes passionately in the need to decolonise.
Anisa brings over ten years of experience in administration and operations to the table, having held various administrative and operations-related positions in the private and academic sectors. Her passion lies in making a positive impact in the field of climate action and she is eager to collaborate with a dynamic team that shares her enthusiasm for addressing this pressing climate issue. Her academic journey led her to pursue a Master in Translation and Interculturality in Sevilla, Spain, reflecting her deep passion for languages and diverse cultures. Anisa is multi-lingual, speaks and writes both English and Spanish, and is a professional translator of English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English. Currently residing in Accra, Ghana, with her family, Anisa is committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment to contribute to positive impacts.
Anna brings over 15 years of nonprofit experience to the Treaty, with the last decade spent working on environmental philanthropy. She’s worked with funders across the US, Europe and the UK, including individuals, foundations, family offices and the European Commission. Prior to her current role, Anna worked at the Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales and Environmental Defense Fund.
Becca is a Filipina advocacy storyteller, whose dream is to elevate the role of science communication in public awareness and remind the Philippines of its identity as a maritime nation. Her experience working for an international non-government organization empowered her to serve in the most vulnerable provinces in her country, where she documented stories on renewable energy, peacebuilding, and sustainable livelihoods.
She began her climate communications journey in college as a leader for youth organizations focused on digital media production, skin diving, and marine conservation. She holds a BA in Broadcast Communication from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Collen Ngundu is a seasoned international development professional with over 20 years of experience implementing donor-funded projects in low and middle-income countries. He has held various positions in the international development and non-profit sectors, utilising his cross-functional expertise in project management, finance, compliance, governance, ethics, grants management, processes and controls, and operations to drive continuous improvement and excellence in all organisational operations. Collen is passionate about ensuring that these functions provide effective and efficient support to the organisation's operations and enable accountability to stakeholders. He is also passionate about servant leadership and stewardship of the resources entrusted to an organisation. In his previous roles, he managed multi- and bilateral funding portfolios of more than $100 million. Collen is a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) and Associate Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA), with a Post-graduate Diploma in Public Financial Management from the University of London (CeFiMS, SOAS) and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration (majoring in finance) from Solusi University. He resides with his wife and two sons in Centurion, South Africa.
Gemma is a proud tamaitai Samoa and a lawyer with experience in public policy and international law in both public and international sectors. She has extensive litigation experience from her time at the Attorney General’s Office in Samoa and represented Government on a range of issues from land disputes to contract law to multilateral agreements. As a public servant in a small island developing state, Gemma has a strong passion for creating strategic, dynamic and effective solutions while also cultivating a positive learning environment where peers can interact with and between projects for input and learning. In 2022 and 2023 she was contracted as technical advisor to the Pacific SIDS on ocean issues and provided coordination and organizational efficiency across the 12 PSIDS members in New York in processes such as UNOC22 and in negotiations such as BBNJ and Plastics. Her intersectional experience has given her a unique approach to identifying and resolving issues as well as creating robust and efficient working relationships. As a Pacific Island woman, she believes fully in the power of grassroots work, of empowering youth and marginalised communities and supporting Pacific leadership in the multilateral system, including in climate change discussions.
Gillian’s biography is coming soon!
Before joining the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty as Digital Content Manager, Ha worked as multidisciplinary Art Director and Filmmaker for brands and agencies. With a strong passion for wildlife conservation, social justice and climate change, she founded a creative consultancy brand - Earthetica in 2019. Since then, she has been actively worked for nonprofits that support social and environmental movements across the world. She passionately believes in storytelling and design to encourage a more equitable and greener world.
Harjeet Singh is an activist advocating for climate and social justice globally. His work has involved assisting countries in responding to disasters, climate impacts, migration, and in bolstering adaptation and resilience programmes.
He is the Global Engagement Director at the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. Previously, he served as the Head of Global Political Strategy at Climate Action Network (CAN) International and led ActionAid's climate justice work globally.
Harjeet has been a board member of both CAN International and the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR).
Currently, he is also a member of the United Nations' Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management, under the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage.
Harjeet co-founded Satat Sampada, a social enterprise dedicated to promoting sustainable environmental practices, such as organic food and farming, in India and beyond.
He has authored and overseen numerous publications in the field of climate justice and disaster resilience. He tweets at @harjeet11
Joe’s biography is coming soon!
Laura is an Ecofeminist organiser and communicator from the Andean native peasant community in Cómbita, Boyacá, Colombia which has been organising against mining and to restore native culture and wisdom. Laura has organised previously with Fridays For Future and Pacto X El Clima in Colombia. She has a Masters in Education, Gender and International Development from University College London.
Lucas is an urbanist and advocate for inclusive, climate-friendly cities and societies. He previously led global research and engagement initiatives for BYCS, an NGO supporting community-led urban change through cycling. He has also worked in various capacities for the academic and non-profit sectors in Los Angeles and Montreal, focusing on urban futures and social justice. Lucas has a BA in anthropology and international development from McGill University and a MsC in urban geography from Utrecht University. He currently lives in Amsterdam, and can communicate comfortably in English, French, and Spanish.
Michael helped launch the campaign for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2019. He has supported climate justice campaign and strategies to scale, online and offline, for over a decade. He has helped lead campaigns and mass-mobilisations around the world with the Online Progressive Engagement Network (OPEN), 350.org, the Centre for Australian Progress, the Climate Council, GetUp! and Oxfam International.
Nathalia is a Brazilian journalist based in the countryside of Rio, and an activist for human rights, social justice, environmental policies, sustainable development, climate change and the rights of traditional communities and indigenous peoples. For over 13 years, she has used her communication skills for social change, to shape the perceptions and attitudes of people, institutions and decision makers, to catalyze systemic transformation, and to help educate and empower people and leaders in all levels. She has worked for global organizations such as 350.org, Greenpeace, GCCA and other national and regional organizations in Latin America.
Nathan is a human ecologist with 11 years experience working as a coordinator, communicator, analyst and strategist in the global climate justice movement, including with the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice and most recently the COP26 Coalition. He is currently based in Ibagué, Colombia.
Rebecca is Deputy Director of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and helps to oversee the Initiative’s diplomacy, legal and policy programmes. Rebecca has worked in renewable energy policy within the NSW Government in Australia, and on matters relating to the global just transition in her role at the Grantham Research Institute. She previously provided legal and strategic advice to the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group within the climate negotiations, was a member of the LDC Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiative technical advisory group and is a convenor of the International Justice Initiative at the University of Tasmania. She has qualifications in law, economics and environmental change and management, and is also currently undertaking a part-time PhD on the role of transnational advocacy networks in establishing new Treaty regimes at the Australian National University
Saoi O’Connor is a climate justice organiser, writer and poet from rural Ireland. They work with the international Climate Strike movement, and are the current Global North coordinator of the Alliance of Non-Governmental Radical Youth (ANGRY).
Seble Samuel is an Ethiopian-Canadian community organizer and climate justice campaigner. Based in Addis Abeba, she is the Head of Africa Campaigns and Advocacy for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, campaigning to stop fossil fuel expansion and propel a just energy transition and development alternatives. She is also a co-founder of the urban sustainability non-profit Lem Ketema, where she co-founded Menged Le Sew, Ethiopia’s open streets movement, co-created Cycle Techyalesh, a free women’s bicycle school, and coordinates Ye Zembil Melse, a national campaign for a plastic-free Ethiopia. Seble holds a BA in Geography and Anthropology from McGill University and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford.
Shantini is a dedicated non-profit professional with over a decade of Operations and People experience under her belt. Prior to joining the FFNPT, she was Operations Director at OpenMedia, a national digital rights advocacy group, and Managing Director at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, a fantastically weird celebration of international theatre. She is passionate about creating healthy, sustainable organizations that empower people to change the world. Shantini and her family are settlers on unceded Stó:lō territory where they are privileged and grateful to explore and enjoy the beautiful lakes, rivers, and mountains that have been stewarded by the Stó:lō people for thousands of years.
For 15 years, Shibayan has championed social change, leading significant campaigns for refugee rights, human rights, and climate justice. His passion is empowering frontline communities by amplifying their voices and facilitating narrative control through creative strategies. More than just an advocate, Shibayan sees these communities as his teachers. Without formal degrees, Shibayan's knowledge is self-taught and honed through collaborations with frontline communities, Indigenous groups, and people fighting for their rights. Originally from India, he now lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he shares his life with his cat, Gini. Beyond his core work, Shibayan fuels his passion for climate action through Asia Climate Hour, a Climate Newsletter and Podcast, raising awareness of critical issues in Asia.
Tunaimati’a Jacob brings his plethora of experience in a wide array of fields to the Treaty team, ranging from operations to management to finance. A matai (Samoan chief) as well as a member of Samoa’s Tama O le Mau Brigade, Jacob maintains a grassroots approach to his work in the Pacific Campaign’s community engagements.
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.
Ziona is a multilingual, international communications expert with over 13 years of experience developing audience and evidence-driven messaging strategies. Prior to joining Treaty, Ziona was the Canada Media Director for Stand.earth where she led a variety of media initiatives that supported strategic public relations and messaging goals for policy campaigns. Ziona was also previously a Communications Officer with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) where she supported policy researchers who work with governments, civil society, communities and businesses on climate and conflict-related risks, adaptation, mitigation, and energy subsidies. She was also with the Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA) where she was the North America Communications Manager for the GCCA’s rapid response communications service, The Tree. Before getting involved in climate communications, Ziona worked in both the non-profit and private sectors, including healthcare, academia, technology and the arts.
Zoë (she/her) is a computer scientist and political scientist who is passionate about the intersection of technology/data and social justice. Prior to joining the Treaty, she was the Data and Technology Manager for Rights & Democracy, a progressive grassroots organization committed to empowering communities of Vermont and New Hampshire. She has worked for several years in local and state politics in the New England region of America, helping use technology to advance interests of underrepresentated populations. Zoë is a graduate of the University of Vermont and is currently based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Tzeporah has been designing and winning campaigns in Canada and internationally for 30 years. She is the Co-founder and International Program Director at Stand.earth, the Founder and Steering Committee Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, and serves as a member of the Advisory Group for InfluenceMap. She is the former co-director of Greenpeace International’s Climate Energy Program and the Co-founder of ForestEthics. She has held positions advising the British Columbia government and was appointed by the Alberta Government to Co-Chair the Oil Sands Advisory Working Group. Tzeporah holds an honorary doctorate of law from the University of British Columbia and was an adjunct professor at York University for 5 years. She publishes and speaks widely on fossil fuels and climate change, and is the author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge. In 2019, Tzeporah was awarded the Climate Breakthrough Award of $2 million dollars to develop a bold new global climate strategy. In 2021, she gave a widely viewed TED Talk presenting the case for a global treaty to phase out fossil fuels, and in 2024 she was named among TIME’s 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders. Twitter: @ tzeporah
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
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.’
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.
Catherine Abreu is an internationally recognized, award-winning climate justice advocate with 15 years of experience in the heart of the global climate movement. She is the newly appointed Director of the International Climate Politics Hub, a global network of high-impact organizations and individuals working to accelerate climate action in the realm of multilateralism. Recognized for her diplomacy, communications, and coalition-building skills, she's one of the world’s top 100 climate policy influencers according to Apolitical. Catherine is honoured to have been named 2023’s National Hero by Canada’s Walk of Fame. She is one of 14 appointed members of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body, the legally-mandated expert body tasked with providing advice to government on pathways to meet its climate commitments. She serves as an advisor to the Canadian Climate Institute and sits on the Boards and steering committees of several organizations, including Climate Action Network Canada, Canada’s Affordability Action Council and the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Catherine is the recipient of the 2020 Jack Layton Progress Prize for her transformative work, and was named to Canada’s Clean50 in 2018. Her expertise makes her a vital figure in climate policy and action, shaping global discussions on the transition toward clean energy.
Fleur’s biography is coming soon!
Married to Maelin Pickering and father to Francisco and Antonia, Rev. James Bhagwan currently the General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, which is comprised of 33 Churches and 10 National Councils of Churches across 19 Pacific Island states and territories.
He is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church in Fiji. A former award winning producer and radio/tv host, he holds a Bachelor of Divinity with Honours from the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji and Masters of Theology in Christian Social Ethics from the Methodist Theological University in Seoul, South Korea. He is involved in social justice issues and ocean health. He is a Board Member for Pacific Women Lead, and is one of the Trustees for the Pacific Disability Forum and the Fijian traditional voyaging society, the Uto Ni Yalo Trust.
José’s biography is coming soon!
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).
Lili Fuhr (she/her) is the Director of CIEL’s Fossil Economy Program. In that role, Lili leads a team of dedicated attorneys and campaigners working to transform our economic system to urgently address the political, social, and economic realities of the triple crisis of climate, biodiversity, and pollution by exposing the risks and impacts of false solutions, with particular attention to petrochemicals, agrochemicals, carbon capture and storage, and geoengineering technologies.
Prior to joining CIEL, Lili headed the International Environmental Policy Division of the Heinrich Böll Foundation for 15 years.
Lili is a board member of the ETC Group, and sits on the international Steering Committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.
Lili studied Geography, Political Science, Sociology and African Studies in Cologne, Tübingen, Strasbourg and Berlin. She was born in Cologne, Germany, and lives in Berlin with her two daughters, a step son and her husband.
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.
Matthew is a public interest lawyer who has counselled governments, international and non-governmental organizations in multilateral negotiations on trade, climate, energy and sustainable development.
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.
Mitzi Jonelle Tan is a climate justice activist based in Metro Manila, Philippines. She is the convenor and international spokesperson of Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), the Fridays For Future (FFF) of the Philippines. She is also active in FFF International, advocating for climate justice and making sure that voices of Most Affected Peoples and Areas (MAPA)’s strikers are heard, amplified, and given space. She first became an activist in 2017 after integrating with indigenous leaders of her country which pushed her to realize that collective action and system change is what we need for a just and greener society.
Mohamed Adow is the Founder and Director of Power Shift Africa, which he formed in 2018 to mobilize climate action in Africa and shift climate and energy policies to zero carbon. He is an international climate policy expert and ardent advocate for the people of developing nations - who are disproportionately affected by climate change but play almost no role in causing it. Prior to launching Power Shift Africa, Mohamed led Christian Aid’s global climate policy and advocacy work for over a decade, specializing in developing countries’ issues, and supporting the organization’s climate policy and advocacy work in Africa, Europe and at the UN climate negotiations.
Niranjali Amerasinghe, Executive Director, ActionAid USA as a replacement to represent the Federation on the Steering Committee. Niranjali has extensive experience with international climate negotiations, forest governance, and accountability. She was previously a senior associate at the World Resources Institute and led the Finance Center’s policy work on international climate finance and the Green Climate Fund. She holds an LL.M in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School.
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'.
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.
Dr Richard Denniss is the Chief Economist and former Executive Director of The Australia Institute. He is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, and a former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU, Richard was described by Mark Kenny in the Sydney Morning Herald as "a constant thorn in the side of politicians on both sides due to his habit of skewering dodgy economic justifications for policy". The Australian Financial Review listed Denniss and Ben Oquist of The Australia Institute as equal tenth-place on their 'Covert Power' 2018 list of the most powerful people in Australia.
Prior to his appointment at The Australia Institute, Denniss was Senior Strategic Advisor to Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown and was also Chief of Staff to Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja, former Leader of the Australian Democrats. He was also a Lecturer in Economics at the university of Newcastle.
Richard has regular columns in the Australian Financial Review and the Guardian as well as writing regular essays for The Monthly. He publishes regularly in academic journals and has written 6 books including Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (with Clive Hamilton), An introduction to Australian Public Policy (with Sarah Maddison), Minority policy: rethinking governance when parliament matters (with Brenton Prosser) Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense, Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World and the June 2018 Quarterly Essay, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cara’s biography is coming soon!
Andrés Gómez is an energy and climate justice activist working at the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty initiative. He is an environmentalist, petroleum engineer and researcher in fossil fuels, climate, post-petroleum societies and environmental transitions. He has participated in discussions, processes and national and international publications on the exploitation of unconventional oil fields, fracking, and post-oil transitions. He is also a member of the Fracking Free Colombian Alliance.
Alexandre Naulot has 15 years of campaign and advocacy experience, especially in Europe. As campaign and advocacy manager, he has developed political strategies, engaged in advocacy with high-level decision-makers, and coordinated pan-European campaigns involving numerous CSOs and movements. Alexandre has worked with prominent organizations such as Oxfam and WeMove Europe, driving forward impactful initiatives on climate and social justice.
Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of economics at Denison University (on leave), and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He is also a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development, an expert group member with the International Tax Task Force, and serves as senior advisor with Power Shift Africa. He has recently served as Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development at the Organisation of Southern Cooperation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Kaboub is an expert on designing public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity. His recent work focuses on Just Transition, Climate Finance, and transforming the global trade, finance, and investment architecture. His most recent co-authored publication is Just Transition: A Climate, Energy, and Development Vision for Africa (May 2023, published by the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development). He has held a number of research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute (NY), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (MA), the Economic Research Forum (Cairo), Power Shift Africa (Nairobi), and the Center for Strategic Studies on the Maghreb (Tunis). He is currently based in Nairobi, Kenya and is working on climate finance and development policies in Africa. You can follow him on Twitter @FadhelKaboub and you can read his Global South Perspectives on substack where he blogs regularly.
Michael brings over 6 years of experience driving social impact projects. He has worked with funders from both the public and private sectors. Michael joins the Treaty as a Development Coordinator and is passionate about sustainable development. Michael holds an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an LLM in Intellectual Property & Maritime Law from the University of Hertfordshire. He is currently based in London, UK.
Michael Sheldrick is a policy entrepreneur and a driving force behind the efforts of Global Citizen to end extreme poverty. As a Co-Founder and Chief Policy, Impact, and Government Affairs Officer, he leads the organization's campaigns to mobilize support from governments, businesses, and foundations. He is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World (Wiley: April 2024).
With a career that spans the world of pop and policy, Michael has worked with an impressive roster of international artists such as Beyoncé, Coldplay, Idris and Sabrina Elba, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Priyanka Chopra, Rihanna and Usher, as well as prominent political leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and former Australian Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd.
He has co-produced some of the world's most impactful social campaigns and events, including the annual Global Citizen Festival in New York, the Guinness World Record-winning virtual concert One World: Together At Home, and the Nelson Mandela 2018 centennial celebration, Mandela 100. These initiatives have reached millions of people in over 150 countries and helped secure over $40 billion in support for local and regional organizations working to provide access to essential resources such as healthcare, education, and climate resilience.
A sought-after speaker and author on policy advocacy, sustainable development, and corporate responsibility, Michael has shared his insights at conferences and summits worldwide. His insights have also featured in leading outlets including Forbes, The Guardian, The Hill, HuffPost, Nikkei and Fairfax Media, and his voice heard on major news networks such as ABC, BBC, France 24, Sky News and CNN.
He has been recognized as a finalist for the 2017 Young Commonwealth Person of the Year and serves on: the board of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global citizens; the Leadership Council of aable, a fintech company connecting compassionate investors with underserved communities; and the Advisory Board of the Nigerian Solidarity Support Fund. He is also a co-host of the Global Town Hall, a North-South, East-West meeting featuring world leaders and leading minds to connect with global citizens.
Prince Papa brings over 15 years of dynamic experience in advocacy, program administration, coordination, and management within global non-profit organizations. His work, spanning across Africa and the world, is dedicated to environmental and social justice.
In his remarkable career, Prince co-founded and advised 350 Kenya Power Shift, served as Sub-Saharan Field Organizer at 350.org, and held pivotal roles such as Africa Regional Programs Coordinator and Manager at the Laudato Si' Movement. He also made significant contributions as a board-chair of the iconic deCOALonize Kenya campaign.
Academically, Prince holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce-Finance and an MBA with a focus on strategic management. His strategic acumen has led to the successful shaping and execution of numerous regional and global campaign strategies. Fluent in English and Swahili, he is currently expanding his linguistic repertoire by studying French.
Prince's exceptional communication and report-writing skills are complemented by a creative flair honed through years as a dance and theater artist. This creative mindset, combined with his strategic expertise, makes him a recognized trainer, mentor, and coach in various capacities and settings.
Christine is a seasoned communication professional with over a decade of experience across multiple sectors, including media, telecommunications, real estate, and the development sector. She launched her career as a journalist, dedicating 7 years to the field before advancing to various roles in traditional and digital communication. Christine has been actively involved in the climate justice movement, providing essential communications support to campaigns dedicated to ending the fossil fuel era. She is passionate about promoting a sustainable future for all and amplifying the voices of frontline communities. Christine holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Communication Management, a Higher Diploma in Mass Communication, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Studies.
Selina’s bio is coming soon!
Alexis a young Kichwa indigenous leader from Santa Clara in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Alexis has been protecting the Piatua River on which his peoples’ livelihood depends upon. He has been on the forefront organising the defense against land degradation and the construction of an ilegal hydroelectric dam on the river that would be devastating for all life in the river, as well as the communities along the riverbank. Together his people have successfully paused the project and exposed corruption in the justice system that was meant to protect the Kichwa People of Santa Clara. Actuality he help to Amazonian organizations in Ecuador in different importan points for to auto determinate his communities.
Fany Kuiru Castro, a prominent leader of the Uitoto people in Amazonas, Colombia, is a tireless defender of indigenous and environmental rights. She is the General Coordinator of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), advocating for the protection of 80% of the Amazon by 2025.
Daughter of chiefs, Fany advises on legal and political issues, focusing on women's rights and cultural preservation. She played a key role in recognising the Great Indigenous Territory of the Predio Putumayo Reservation. Fany holds a law degree from Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino and a Master's in Political and International Studies from Universidad del Rosario, making her the first indigenous woman in Colombia to achieve this.
Fany is listed among the "100 Latinos Most Committed to Climate Action" and recognised as one of the "Leaders for the Planet."
Chris Kif is a climate activist with extensive experience in digital campaigning, movement building, mobilisations, digital fundraising, training, data analytics, and communications. With nearly a decade at 350.org as the Africa Digital Campaign Manager and Africa & Arab World Digital Campaigner, he has trained hundreds of climate activists globally and helped launch numerous climate justice coalitions, including the AfrikaVuka platform, which connects over 300 organisations in Africa. Outside of his professional work, Chris is also passionate about coaching football (soccer).
Dearbhla Richardson is a climate justice activist from Cork, Ireland. She recently graduated from the BSc International Development Programme at University College Cork. With over seven years of experience in organizing local, national, and international campaigns, Dearbhla has been a strong advocate for climate action, human rights, grassroots activism, and social justice. Last year, she worked as Concern Worldwide's Youth Climate Ambassador and as the Environmental & Sustainability Representative in her university's Student Union. In these roles, Dearbhla made significant contributions, such as advocating for the redistribution of COP28 & COP29 badges to climate activists from the global south, implementing anti-greenwashing guidelines at her university, and engaging with key government officials to advance climate justice initiatives and increase climate adaptation funding in the NGO sector.
Rachel’s bio is coming soon!
Tori Tsui is a climate justice campaigner and writer from Hong Kong, now based in the UK. She is the Climate lead advisor for Brian Eno’s Earth Percent. Her debut book It’s Not Just You explores the intersections between the mental health and climate crisis, it was short-listed for the Wainwright prize. She has worked across different campaigns including Stop Rosebank, Unite for Climate Action and Sail to the COP.
Maria Reyes is a queer Mexican climate and human rights activist, member of Climate Activist Defenders and the Alliance of Non Governmental Radical Youth (ANGRY). She works as a bridge so that the most vulnerable communities in the face of the climate crisis can access international spaces and resources. She has campaigned around water issues and against petroleum companies in Mexico and Internationally she has been an advocate for fossil fuels divestment and equitable phase out. She is an international spokesperson on topics like just transition, water scarcity, the intersection between the climate crisis and gender inequality, among others. She has attended various UN Climate Conferences, leading efforts to drive resources so that Global South climate activists and land defenders can attend too. Currently she focuses on building infrastructure for the protection of environmental defenders and building political education in the youth climate movement, as well as shifting narratives in the climate space around false solutions and energy transition.
Kumi Naidoo is a human rights and climate justice activist from South Africa. He was Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 through 2015) and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 through 2019). Naidoo also served as the Secretary-General of CIVICUS, the international alliance for citizen participation, from 1998 to 2008. He was an activist against the apartheid regime and its educational system in South Africa. Naidoo’s activism went from neighborhood organizing and community youth work to civil disobedience with mass mobilisations against the white controlled apartheid government. He has written about his activism in this period in his memoirs titled, “Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker”.
Eric Njuguna is a Nairobi based trans climate justice organizer. She is the global co-coordinator of ANGRY (Alliance of non-governmental radical youth). She works with youth led groups to fight for a fossil free and debt free global south.
She has previously worked with 350.org, UNICEF and Oxfam Novib.
She has campaigned against the fossil fuel industry's undue influence in global climate negotiations, fought against false solutions like carbon markets, climate geo-engineering, pushed back against global north countries disposing off plastic waste in the global south. She also has also worked to advise movement funders in designing participatory grant making models that dismantle power dynamics between them and movements.
She sits on the steering committee of the african movement building space and previously sat on the board of climate vanguard.
Heidy Collanqui Narvaez is a vegan social communicator passionate about climate change and environmental conservation. She currently coordinates the communications area of the Encuentro de Juventudes por Escazú and previously led the Environmental University Network of the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno. Her career includes the development of communication campaigns and audiovisual content focused on biodiversity conservation, sustainability and inclusive participation with various organizations. In addition, she has organized events that promote youth commitment to climate change and their involvement in decision-making spaces in the territory.
Tom’s biography is coming soon!
Gabrielle Cabodil (she/her) is a Filipina decolonial climate justice activist with a decade of experience in the nonprofit and activism space. She is most noted for being Global Operations Manager of environmental justice movement, Break Free From Plastic, for 4 years and as one of the 2024 recipients of the Global Citizen Youth Leader Award. Prior to the climate justice focus, she developed her intersectional lens to social justice in working with grassroots organizations, such as the LGBTQ+ rights movement, disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the Philippines, reproductive health for women in urban poor communities, and children's rights. She holds a degree in Organizational Communication from De La Salle University (Manila, Philippines) and has been pursuing her MSc Social Justice & Community Action degree from The University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) since 2022.
Danielle came to the Fossil Fuel Treaty from Stand.earth as the Executive Assistant to our International Program Director. Prior to that, Danielle worked in a variety of roles at Canada’s leading educational retreat center from Executive Assistant to the CEO, to managing logistics for groups and conferences. She started her career working for Canada’s largest adventure travel company where for a decade she led small group tours throughout South America, managed the Responsible Tourism department, and created an award-winning Foundation that developed and supported over 25 grassroots projects worldwide.
Danielle graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Environmental Studies, participated in a year-long study abroad program in Ecuador, and wrote a thesis paper exploring the impact of the Oil Industry on Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Having lived, worked, studied, or volunteered on all seven continents, Danielle’s most memorable experiences were the years spent living and working with Indigenous communities in the Andes and the Amazon. She is delighted to now be part of an organization that is committed to working in solidarity with Indigenous peoples, frontline activists, communities, and organizations around the world to protect our beautiful planet.
Liz is an activist passionate about collective efforts to address climate change, protect nature and wage peace for all people and our planet. She served as the Founding Executive Director of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, an organization of Nobel Peace Laureates amplifying feminist peace movements globally from 2006-2021 and previously served as Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. She lived in Thailand and Cambodia for 10 years, where she worked extensively with local peace and justice advocacy organizations and co-founded the Coalition for Peace and Reconciliation. At home on the unceded territory of Algonquin Anishinaabe she co-founded Ecology Ottawa and serves on the board of Community Associations Forum on Environmental Sustainability and as well as her local community association.