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Francisco Seixas da Costa is President of the Club of Lisbon, non-executive administrator of Jerónimo Martins SGPS and Mota-Engil Africa NV and Consultant for Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He was Ambassador to the UN, OSCE, UNESCO, Brazil and France, Secretary of State for European Affairs and Executive Director of North-South Centre. Member of the Advisory Boards of the Economics School, University of Coimbra and the Human and Social Sciences School, NOVA Lisbon University. Graduated in Social, Political Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Maja Markovčić Kostelac has been the Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) since January 2019. Starting as a maritime lawyer, she has since gained wide experience in the maritime field, in both the public and private sectors. Before joining EMSA, Maja Markovčić Kostelac was State Secretary for Croatia’s Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure. In this role, she led the Croatian delegation in a range of international forums at the United Nations, the International Maritime Organisation and the International Labour Organisation. She has also served as Director of the Croatian Shipowners’ Association (Mare Nostrum).

António Guterres is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to his appointment, he served for 10 years as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was Member of the Portuguese Parliament for 17 years. From 1981 to 1983, António Guterres was Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He was Vice-President of the Socialist International from 1992 to 1999 and President from 1999 until mid-2005. He founded the Portuguese Refugee Council and the Portuguese Consumers Association (DECO). Mr. Guterres is a member of the Club of Madrid, a leadership alliance of former presidents and prime ministers. He graduated in Engineering from the

António Costa Silva chairs the National Monitoring Commission for the Recovery and Resilience Plan. He authored the document “Strategic Vision for the Economic Recovery Plan of Portugal 2020-2030”, requested by the Portuguese government. He has a long career as a manager in the energy domains and carried out projects in various countries: Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Algeria, Tunisia, Angola, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. He is a Retired Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.

Júlia Seixas is been, since November 2021, Pro-Rector of the NOVA Lisbon University with responsibility for the area of Sustainability and she is also Coordinator of the platform “NOVA 4 The Globe”. Since 2017 she was nominated head of the Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering at the NOVA School of Science and Technology. She is a senior researcher on Energy & Climate at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE). She is a fellow of the Portuguese Engineering Academy.

Reiji Takeishi is a Professor of Resources Economics and Development Economics at Tokyo International University. He is a member and paper reviewer of IAEE (International Association for Energy Economics). He worked for the Arabian Oil Company (1983-1987) in Saudi Arabia and, in Japan, for the Institute of Energy Economics (1991-1994), the Information Center for Petroleum Exploration and Production (1994-1997) and the Fujitsu Research Institute (1997-2007). He is a bachelor’s in law from Tohoku University and a Doctor in Social sciences from Waseda University.

Saliem Fakir is the Executive Director of The African Climate Foundation. He was Head of the Policy & Futures Unit of WWF South Africa for 11 years. At Stellenbosch University, he was Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Planning and Associate Director of the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy. He was Director of the World Conservation Union, South Africa, for eight years. He is a regular contributor to Engineering News, Business Day and the Daily Maverick.

Arnaud Breuillac was a member of the Executive Committee and Exploration & Production (E&P) President of TotalEnergies until December 2021. He joined Total in 1982 and served in the E&P Division in the UK, Abu Dhabi, Indonesia, Angola and in the Refining Division in France. In 2006, he integrated the Management Committee of the E&P Division as SVP Continental Europe & Central Asia. In 2010, he served as President E&P for the Middle East and became a member of the Group’s Management Committee.

Catarina Roseta-Palma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Iscte-IUL. She is an expert in environmental and natural resource economics and has taught and published research on water management, sustainable development and energy. She worked as a consultant for the Regional Water Boards, the Portuguese Environment Ministry and the European Commission. She was in the Commission for Green Fiscal Reform (2014). She is a member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - vice-president in 2012-2013.

Nuno Ribeiro da Silva is the President of ENDESA Group, Portugal. He chairs the National Strategic Council for Environment of CIP (Confederation of Portuguese Business). He is advisor for CNADS (National Council of Sustainable Development), and Member of the Board of OMIP (Iberian Market). He was Secretary of State for Energy (1986-1991), Secretary of State for Youth (1991-1993) and MP (1992-1996). He has a bachelor’s in engineering and Economics and a master’s in Economics, Policy and Energy Planning from the University of Lisbon.

Takayuki Nogami had been the Chief Economist of Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) since 2004. He is a Visiting Associate Professor at Teikyo University. He is experienced in the oil and gas business, doing global oil and gas market/industry analyses for JOGMEC and oil market analysis for the International Energy Agency (IEA). He has a bachelor’s in Economics from Waseda University, a Master’s in Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in Energy Management and Policy from École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs (ENSPM), France.

Assunção Cristas is an Associate Professor at NOVA School of Law. She coordinates the Master´s in Law and Economics of the Sea – Ocean Governance and is Director of the NOVA OCEAN Knowledge Centre. She is Head of the Environment Practice Area and Environmental Social and Governance Integrated Services Platform of Vieira de Almeida Advogados. She was the Minister responsible for the Sea (2011-2015), MP (2009-2011 and 2015-2020), and Leader of the Party CDS-PP (2016-2020). She is PhD in Private Law since 2005.

António Sarmento is the President of the board of WavEC Offshore Renewables, a Lisbon-based company. He is also President of the Steering Committee of the AIR Centre (Atlantic International Research Centre). He was the co-founder and a board member, from 2006 to 2010, of the Ocean Energy Europe Association. He has been working actively in the field of wave energy since 1978. He is a Retired Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon.

Eugénia Barroca is a consultant for the Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA), Lusophone and Europe Representative, President and Co-founder of the SOA Ocean Hub Portugal. She is an Ambassador for Blue School and, in 2019/2020, was Atlantic Ocean Youth Ambassador of Portugal on AANChOR. In 2021, she was scientific consultant for Mocho Coxo, on the “Rios Urbanos” series. She has been active in several environmental volunteering projects, national and international. She has a degree in Marine Biology from the University of Algarve.

Tiago Pitta e Cunha is currently President of the Executive Committee of the Oceano Azul Foundation and has worked for about two decades on Ocean policies. He was an Advisor for Science, Environmental and Maritime Affairs to the President of Portugal, European Commission Coordinator for the development of the European Union Integrated Maritime Policy, Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations, responsible for Ocean affairs. He represented the EU at the UN General Assembly for Ocean affairs.

Henri Baguenier, manager of renewable energy companies, chaired and cofounded Novenergia (2008-2019). He was professor and director of master’s degrees on Energy Policy at Universidade de Lisboa (1983-1990) and University of Paris (1985-2008). He was an energy and environment adviser for Portuguese governments (1983-1989) and the EC (1990-2000). He participated in the preparation of the EU Directive on Renewable Energy (2001) and the Portuguese Law on Independent Production of Electricity (1988). He is a Doctor in Mathematical Economics and Econometric Models.

Melissa Stark is Accenture’s Global Lead for Renewables and Energy Transition Services, with over 26 years in the utilities and energy industry. She worked on projects across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. She holds a patent for the “Real-time S-curves” tool that uses science and engineering drivers to estimate the cost evolution of nascent technologies. She published extensively and holds an MBA in Transportation from Northwestern University and a BSc in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

Paula Abreu Marques is deputy director at DG ENER.A and head of unit in the EC department of Energy, managing the interface with other EU institutions, rotating Presidencies and outreach to Member States. She was responsible for the EU renewables' policy, overseeing the Renewables' Directive (REDII), the 2020 Energy System Integration and Hydrogen Strategies. She graduated in Economics at NOVA Lisbon University and has a master's degree in European Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges.

Xavier Lorenzo Rousseau is the Head of Corporate Strategy and Market Analysis at Snam - one of the world’s leading energy infrastructure operators, with a large international footprint, ranking among Italy’s largest listed companies. He investigates long term scenarios on the future of energy, as well as decarbonisation pathways. He also works on innovation and strategic transformation initiatives, with a focus on energy transition and renewable gases and in defining prospects for the gas infrastructure’s new role and international expansion.

Cássia Moraes is the founder and CEO of Youth Climate Leaders. She was Deputy Executive Coordinator at the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change. After graduating, she worked in various organisations such as the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and CIVICUS. She has a master’s in public administration and development from Columbia University (New York) and a bachelor’s in international relations from the São Paulo State University, UNESP.

Gabriela Iacobuta is an expert on climate and sustainable development policy and a Researcher at the German Development Institute /Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, where she works in DIE’s Environmental Governance Programme. The focus of her work is on climate change mitigation measures around the world, through means of national and international efforts, as well as on the interactions between these climate policies and measures with other sustainable development areas, including ways of more just transitions towards sustainability.

José Félix Ribeiro has been a consultant for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since 2012. He is a member of IPRI and a contributor to IDN and IUM. He worked at GEBEI (1971-1972 and 1975-1986), JNICT (1986-1994), was Deputy Director General (1995-2006) and Senior Advisor (2007-2011) of the Department of Foresight and Planning. He published extensively in international economics, geopolitics, prospective and development strategies. He graduated in economics from ISEG (1971) and holds a PhD in International Relations from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (2012).

Jun ARIMA is a Project Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo. Previously he worked for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (1982-2015), having been Director General of the JETRO London Office (2011-2015) and Head of Country Studies Division at the International Energy Agency, in Paris (2002-2006). He had been mainly engaged in international energy and climate policy, including the IEA, APEC, EAS and UNFCCC. He was one of the chief negotiators for UN climate talks.

Diogo Silva is a member of Climáximo. He is an economist, trainer and freelance consultant in social innovation and communication. He grew up in the associative movement and had his first job in a project to fight youth unemployment in a Lisbon social neighbourhood. After three years in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, since 2019, he has been dedicated to activism for climate justice. He produced several podcasts, was a member of Extinction Rebellion and co-founded the collective Art for Change.

Gabriela Polo is a development practitioner, having supported multiple efforts to protect the Ocean, preserve biodiversity, change behaviours, and empower local communities across Latin America. She is currently helping people and nature thrive at Rare, as a Program Manager for its Fish Forever in Central America. Her work is on helping to revitalize coastal marine habitats and secure the livelihoods and resilience of fishers and their communities. She holds a Master’s in Sustainable Development Practice from the University of Florida.

Luiana Guerra, is an Angolan who co-founded and is Executive Director of the non-governmental organisation for development EcoAngola – green movement for the promotion of peace in the country. She has a background in climate leadership, having attended the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). She is an environmentalist and was an Ambassador of the Green Movement in EcoAngola. She graduated in Health and Safety at Work from Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tecnologias e Ciências de Luanda.

Matt Scott leads Storytelling at the Project Drawdown, the world's leading climate solutions resource. He has developed impact stories with Nike, USAID, the Australian Government, the White House, among others. From 2016 to 2020, he engaged more than one hundred thousand people from more than one hundred and fifty countries in the world's largest global hackathon with NASA. He has more than one hundred interviews with changemakers and released a film through his initiative to "pass the mic", Let's Care.

Monica Nagashima is Japan Country Manager at InfluenceMap, an independent think-tank that elaborates metrics for measuring corporates’ influence over climate policy and that coordinates the Japan Energy Transition Initiative (JETI). Previously, she conducted Liquified Natural Gas and Hydrogen policy research studies at the Institute of Energy Economics in Japan. She holds an MA in Environment and Energy Policy from Sciences Po, an MA in International Relations from Peking University, and a BA in Environment and Information Studies from Keio University.

Vitória Kramer is an Impact Officer at Global Shapers Porto Alegre and Coordinator of the Youth Climate Leaders at the Rio Grande do Sul Hub. She is an activist with an interest in climate justice, cities and climate change and youth engagement. Master's student in Urban and Regional Planning at PROPUR/UFRGS and BA in International Relations at the same university. She is experienced in promoting multi-sectoral cooperation projects, designing social impact projects and coordinating communication strategies for educational projects.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the President of the Portuguese Republic. With a Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Legal and Political Sciences in 1985, he is Full Professor at the Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas, School of Law of the University of Lisbon. He was President of the Social-Democratic Party (1996-99) and Vice-President of the European People’s Party. He has been Secretary of State, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, and a member of the Council of State (2000-2001 and 2006-2016). He has been a Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, and he has lectured at Agostinho Neto and Eduardo Mondlane Universities and the University of Eastern Asia. He was a founder of  Expresso and Semanário newspapers. He was a member of the committee that drew up the first Press Law, and member of the Constituent Assembly.