Zeid is the President and CEO of the International Peace Institute. Previously, Zeid served as the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights after a long career as a Jordanian diplomat, including as his country’s Permanent Representative to the UN and Ambassador to the United States. He served on the UN Security Council, was a configuration chair for the UN Peace-Building Commission, and began his career as a UN Peacekeeper in the former Yugoslavia. A key figure in the creation of the International Criminal Court, he also authored the first strategy to combat sexual exploitation in UN Peacekeeping. Zeid is a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela. Zeid holds a PhD from Cambridge University and is currently a Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University, and Professor in Water Systems and Global Sustainability at Stockholm University. Rockström gained international recognition with the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework, which has since become a standard of sustainability science. He is deeply involved in research activities related to the Earth System and global sustainability, with the overarching research question: “What is the safe operating space for Humanity’s future on Earth, and which sustainable transformations that can take us there?”

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Johan is the owner and chair of Ferd, a Norwegian family investment company. In 2007 he launched NMI-Nordic Microfinance Initiative together with the government of Norway. The same year Ferd started “investing” in social entrepreneurs and have since then scaled 26 of them through the business unit Ferd Social Entrepreneurs. Ferd initiated the accelerator Impact Start-Up which is active in Norway and Sweden. Ferd has recently used “soft loans” to save the migration between Masai Mara and Serengeti and “social bonds” to engage municipalities in creating effective initiatives.

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Together with 25 female cousins Maria co-founded The Eva Ahlström Foundation that supports underprivileged women and children. Maria initiated Ahlström Collective Impact, a unique collaboration to make strategic investments in support of the United Nation’s SDGs. Maria is the inaugural Chair of UNICEF International Council, a global community of philanthropists who want to bring together their funding, leadership and expertise to advance children’s rights in partnership with UNICEF.

Stig is Founder of CTRF and CEO & Founder Fremr. For the past two decades Stig has worked within the finance sector, establishing several successful business ventures. Stig created CTRF to pursue brilliant scientific ideas that increase the chances of preserving a livable planet. Stig has a PhD in physics from the University of Oslo and an MBA from the Norwegian School of Management (BI).

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Per Heggenes is the former CEO of the IKEA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of INGKA Foundation, the owner of the IKEA Group of companies. As the Foundation’s first CEO in 2009, Per presided over the Foundation’s evolution into a global, grant-making philanthropy funding programs in more than 35 countries. In 2012, Per was appointed to the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children.

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Ingrid Laerdal is the Executive Chair of Laerdal Global Health, a not-for-profit focused on helping save lives at birth and from time-critical emergencies in low-resource settings. She is also Assisting General Director of Laerdal Foundation, and Chief Impact Officer and among the 3rd generation owners of the Laerdal family companies. Combining this, she has a key role in supporting Laerdal’s 80-year-old mission of helping save lives by strengthening emergency care systems.  Ingrid holds a Master’s in Business Performance Management from Aarhus School of Business.

Eirik Mofoss is the chairman of Gi Effektivt, a foundation providing information about and facilitating easy philanthropic giving to some of the most cost-effective charities in the world. They advise several philanthropists on their giving strategy and portfolio. In addition, he is the Managing Director of the think tank Langsikt— Center for Long-Term Policy.  Eirik has previously worked as a policy director at Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and as an advisor on finance and economics to the Conservative Party in Norway. 

Mabel is a serial entrepreneur for social change ann experienced movement-builder, committed to advancing equality, freedom, and justice. She has founded and led numerous network organisations, campaigns, and initiatives promoting international human rights and development. Most recently, she has played a catalytic role in the global movement to end child marriage, including the creation and growth of three backbone organisations: the Girls First Fund, Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, and VOW for Girls. Mabel is a board member of Fondation Chanel, More in Common and the European Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund and Global Witness.

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Through her Family Office, Ingrid supports education, Diversity- Equality and Inclusion, climate as well as arts, as an impact investor and philanthropist. She chairs  Eng’s Children Foundation, and is a board member at Ivar Løge Foundation, both focus on children and youth. She is the founder of Partnership for Change, focusing on empowering women and childrenmin East Africa. With an MSc from the Norwegian School of Economics, an MBA from UC Berkeley, a background at McKinsey and Venture Capital, she has focused on social business and philanthropy for the past 30 + years

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Gunhild is the founder and executive chair of EAT. She is recognised as a driving force linking climate, health and sustainability issues to transform the global food system. She founded the “EAT Initiative” with Professor Johan Rockström and the Stockholm Resilience Center. In 2016, the Wellcome Trust joined as core partner of EAT and helped grow the initiative to become a global multi-stakeholder platform for transforming the world’s food system.

Jens is an investor and climate activist. He is chair and founder of Umoe a producer of renewable energy in Brazil, Norway and China. Global warming in his view is our principal challenge as humanity. Consequently he founded Klimastiftelsen Umoe, and is chair of Cicero, the climate research organization of Oslo University, as well as chair of the climate festival Varmere Våtere Villere.  He is on the board of Skift, the organization for Norwegian CEOs for climate ,Ruter and EDF, the Environmental Defence Fund for Europe.  He is a former president of NHO and Rederiforbundet. He was educated at Columbia University and NHH.

Anders is ED of Civil Rights Defenders, a human rights organisation based in Sweden with a core commitment to the belief that strong civil societies are vital to achieving a world of democratic societies. CRD partners with and supports human rights defenders working in some of the world’s most repressive regions. Anders has been leading teams working in difficult environments for three decades.

Annika is a social entrepreneur, investor and Co-Founder of The Inner Foundation, a global mission and impact-driven foundation, investing in innovative solutions, uniting public, private and non-profit efforts to improve inner health and promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Annika’s vision is to propel new ways of investing in the accelerating global mental health crisis to improve and sustain inner health.

Cristina is co-founder of The Case for Her, a blended-finance investment portfolio addressing the key women’s health issues of menstruation, women’s sexual health & pleasure including abortion access. Before The Case for Her, Cristina established the foundation Giving Wings in 2010. She is also an active board member for Acumen, focused on poverty alleviation through impact investing and leadership development

Chief Executive of CTRF, Dave has worked in the international development and environment sectors in a variety of leadership roles. He has a deep commitment to people and the environment and the scale of the climate crisis has driven his desire to seek and support solutions to climate change. He is a Trustee for the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Northern Kenya.

Gunnar is a philanthropist and chairman for Futura Green, a Stockholm-based foundation supporting scientific research in climate technologies with a special love for CO2 capture and transport. Sometimes we digress and stick our hands into interesting climate friendly startups

Executive Chairman of Dalberg Group, Henrik’s time is dedicated to industry innovation. He has led a series of institutional reviews in the development sector and has been involved in launching several global commissions and thought leadership initiatives.

Hugo is CEO at Leksell Social Ventures, a social investment company that invests to catalyze innovation and system change within society. With the belief that society is bigger than the state and with a background in international development, Hugo works daily with entrepreneurs as well as actors in the public sector to jointly build, test and scale more efficient and investable social functions - especially emphasizing the potential of outcomes models.

Ingrid (MSc, MBA) is the founder of Partnership for Change and is a pioneer in the Montessori community in Norway. With her business background, she has focused entirely on Impact investment and philanthropy for the past 30 + years. She is a long time director at of Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest peace building organization. as well as Norwegian boards, within education, DIE, social change, climate and culture.

Jo is a philanthropy advisor, educator and coach. As CEO of Pi she works with philanthropists and their families globally to support strategies and enhance impact. With a background in child protection, health, education and climate, she has worked across 70 countries in the global South. She serves on the boards of several family Foundations.

Kristian is Associate Partner at Dalberg Media with core competencies within global development, social entrepreneurship, and communication. Kristian is also Head of Secretariat at UNLEASH – a global innovation program for the SDGs

Kristina is the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center. Kristina runs a large research group that focuses on medical abortion, mifepristone, and the prevention of breast and ovarian cancer. She is a member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet which selects the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine.

Lennard is a businessman, philanthropist and artist. Based in Gothenburg and London. Since the 1980s his artistry has revolved around the fundamentals of our existence: On the one hand the logical and measurable aspects represented by e.g. time and mathematics, and on the other hand mankind and the limits of our humanity.

Mari is Co- Founder of Scope Impact, a social impact company founded in 2008 in Helsinki to promote and protect health in an unstable and changing climate. Mari has 25 years experience working in the global health and social innovation space for WHO, UNFPA, IPPF and AMREF and sits on the advisory boards of Ashoka and Design for Health.

Ph D Student in Art History at Åbo Akademi and in Business Administration at Stockholm School of Economics. Founder and Executive Chairman CFHILL and Rodebjer , Executive Chairman A Day’s March, former Board Member of Acne Studios, Stockholm School of Economics and Fidelio Capital AB. Former CEO of at auction house Bukowskis AB. Former columnist in largest business daily Dagens Industri.

Morten is head of Nordics at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and co-owner at Dalberg Media leading work on advocacy. Prior to joining Dalberg, Morten worked with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish Embassy in Ramallah, the European Parliament, the University of Copenhagen, and the largest Danish public affairs consultancy, Rud Pedersen.

PJ is Co-Founder and Non-Executive Board member of The Inner Foundation, equal parts impact investor, grant giver, and thought leader. By engaging with powerful, scalable initiatives, we create connections between individuals and organizations that together build a healthier, more holistic society.

Rebecca is a Dutch physician and activist for women's rights, in particular abortion rights. She is the founder of Women on Waves and Women on Web, providing reproductive health services for women in countries where they are not available. In 2018, she founded Aid Access. A trained abortion specialist and activist, she is generally considered the first abortion rights activist to cross international borders. Gomperts was included in Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2020.

Rena is an award-winning social entrepreneur, philanthropy leader, and advocate for women and girls. She currently leads Experiential Philanthropy at PSI and is Managing Director of the Maverick Collective, a community of women philanthropists making catalytic investments in health and reproductive rights.

Sara CEO of Stenbecks Stiftelse and one of Sweden's most prominent social entrepreneurs. In 1997, she founded Friends, which today is the largest organization in Scandinavia that works against bullying. Since then, she has dedicated her life to fighting for children's rights. Sara has also led change projects within the public sector at national, regional and local level.

Sara has extensive experience working within and in collaboration with civil society. having previously worked with policy and advocacy, campaigning to strengthen human rights. Her interest in children's rights has followed her throughout her career, resulting in the Children's Think Tank and the cross-sector initiative "All children have the right to pass school”.

Sarah is an activist and organizer and co-director of Multitudes, a European Foundation supporting political changemakers working to make politics more inclusive, hopeful and human. Previously, Sarah launched and led the 13 million members mobilisation platform Change.org in France and helped millions of French people to change laws, business practices, and grow movements that changed the conversation in the country.

Sarah is Executive Director at the Impact Investing Institute, where she leads on sizing the impact investing market, place-based impact investing and encouraging charitable endowments to allocate for impact. Previously she worked at the intersection of social impact, sustainability and private capital

Stig is Founder of CTRF and CEO & Founder Fremr. For the past two decades Stig has worked within the finance sector, establishing several successful business ventures. Stig created CTRF to pursue brilliant scientific ideas that increase the chances of preserving a livable planet. Stig has a PhD in physics from the University of Oslo and an MBA from the Norwegian School of Management (BI).

Vilhelm runs Impact Academy, a non-profit organization aiming to equip young talent from around the world with the tools and resources they need to find careers contributing to the safe and beneficial development of AI. He is an affiliate of Longview Philanthropy, a leading grantmaker in the AI space, and consults several organizations on their AI safety strategies.

Philanthropist and CEO, FERD

Co-founder & CEO Global Impact Investing Network

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Philanthropist and Founder, Indigo Trust

Author and CEO, Acumen

Partners & Co-Founders The Inner Foundation

Co-Director Multitudes Foundation

Founder & CEO 2030beyond, former Minister of Environment of Denmark

CEO Apolitical Foundation & Co-Founder Apolitical

CEO The Freedom Fund

CEO IKEA Foundation

Co-CEO Norrsken Foundation