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Nana Aba Appiah Amfo

Acting vice-chancellor

University of Ghana

Iqbal Badruddin

Founder and coordinator

Fridays for Future Pakistan

Meg Baker

Director of education

Students Organising for Sustainability UK

Jessica Barlow

Executive director of the center for regional sustainability

San Diego State University

Sam Barratt

Chief of the youth, education and advocacy unit

UN Environment Programme

Phil Baty

Chief knowledge officer

THE

Guy Berger

Principal economist

Rufus Black

President and vice-chancellor

University of Tasmania

Christopher Boone

Dean of the college of global futures and professor in the school of sustainability

Arizona State University

Manfred Braune

Director of environmental sustainability

University of Cape Town

Marcos Buckeridge

Dean of the institute of biosciences

University of São Paulo

Basak Candemir

Head of research analytics (Europe and emerging markets)

Elsevier

Tafadzwa Chando

International coordinator

Climate Live

Leon Clarke

Research director of the center for global sustainability

University of Maryland

Anna Cole

Policy specialist and senior content consultant

THE

Marshall Curry

Programme manager

EPIC-N

Vanessa Debiais-Sainton

Head of the higher education unit

European Commission

David Duncan

Chief operating officer

University of Glasgow

Susan Gardner

Director of the ecosystems division

UN Environment Programme

Jo Grady

General secretary of the EI member organisation

University and College Union

Zamzam Ibrahim

Vice-president

European Students' Union

Shreya K.C.

Campaign coordinator

Mock COP26

Frederick Kakembo

Deputy vice-chancellor

Ndejje University

Larissa Kennedy

President

National Union of Students

Stephen Kiama Gitahi

Vice-chancellor

University of Nairobi

Robert Kopp

Professor of earth and planetary sciences and co-director of the office of climate action

Rutgers University

James Longhurst

Assistant vice-chancellor of environment and sustainability and professor of environmental science

University of the West of England

Fiona Macklin

Race to Zero campaign coordinator

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Nicky McGirr

Online courses programme manager

University of Reading

EJ Milner-Gulland

Tasso Leventis professor of biodiversity and head of the zoology department

University of Oxford

Wyn Morgan

Senior higher education advisor

FutureLearn

Jun Morohashi

Executive officer and regional programme coordinator for the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education

UNESCO

Joyce Msuya

Deputy executive director

UN Environment Programme

Ir Nizam

Director-general of higher education in the ministry of education and culture

Government of Indonesia

Magda Núñez

Student

Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola

Esther Obonyo

Director of the global building network

The Pennsylvania State University

Santa Ono

President and vice-chancellor

The University of British Columbia

Iain Patton

CEO

Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges

Laurie Patton

President

Middlebury College

Mamokgethi Phakeng

Vice-chancellor

University of Cape Town

Louise Richardson

Vice-chancellor

University of Oxford

Lisa Roberts

Chief executive and vice-chancellor

University of Exeter

Duncan Ross

Chief data officer

THE

Arif Satria

Rector

IPB University

Marc Schlossberg

Co-founder and co-director of the sustainable cities institute

University of Oregon

Eklabya Sharma

Vice-chancellor

TERI School of Advanced Studies

Rajendra Shende

TERRE Policy Centre

Chairman

Elizabeth Shepherd

Managing director of consultancy services

THE

Erica Smithwick

Professor of geography and associate director of the institutes of energy and environment

The Pennsylvania State University

Tim Sowula

Head of Content and Engagement

Times Higher Education

Cherop Soy

Campaign coordinator

Mock COP26

Charlie Sweetman

Campaign coordinator and devolution lead

Teach the Future

Lesley Thompson

Vice-president of academic and government strategic alliances (UK)

Elsevier

Patricia Thornley

Director of the energy and bioproducts research institute

Aston University

Matt Toombs

Director of partnerships and engagement for the COP26 unit

UK Government

Maryon Urbina Bernuy

Director of sustainability

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Ruzhu Wang

Vice-dean of the energy institute

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Harriet Waters

Head of environmental sustainability

University of Oxford

Mel Woods

Chair of creative intelligence

University of Dundee

Bin Yang

Provost and vice-president

Tsinghua University

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