Venue Partner
In line with Singapore Climate Action week 12 -18 July 2021
Live Filming/Video partner
It kicks off at 5pm Singapore Standard time. We think you’ll find it an inspiring two-and-a-half hours or you can pick and choose which panels to watch – Q&A sections will be held via “YouTube Live Comments”.
Chairperson Dr. Bremley Lyngdoh
Worldview Impact Foundation
Moderator Sarah Begum
Spaced Out UK
Opening address Aaron Olivera
Earth 300
Panel of speakers
Thinkers & Theorists
5PM – 5.30PM : Intro + 7 speakers
5.30PM – 5.50PM : Q & A
Speakers:
Dr. Sandra Piesik
UN Habitat
Professor Martin Kemp
Oxford University
Professor Ben Horton
Earth Observatory of Singapore
Richard Dunne
Harmony Project
Dr. Juan Perellon
EHL Group
Waqas Ahmed
Earth 300
Dr. Ash Brockwell
LIS London
Artists & Activists
5.50PM – 6.15PM : 7 speakers
6.15PM – 6.35PM : Q & A
Speakers:
Fabien Cousteau
The Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Centre
Dr. Jasmine Pradissitto
Pradissitto
Sebastian Copeland
SEDNA Foundation
Jeremy Gilley
Peace One Day
Dianna Cohen
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Marilú Mejía-López
Youth Impact Forum
Festus Kiplagat
Green Planet initiative 2050
Leander Ganzert
25onehundred
Practitioners & Policy-Makers
6.35PM – 7.05PM : 7 speakers
7.05PM – 7.25PM : Q & A
Speakers:
Professor Gunter Pauli
ZERI project
Martin Yates
Dell Technologies
Judith Cunningham
Montessori Model UN
Michele Sofisti
Spin Ventures
Dr. Youssef Nassef
UNFCCC
Rishabh Khanna
Earthbanc
Giulio Ceppi
Politecnico di Milano
Jonathan Hung
SSTL
Speakers Bio
Thinkers & Theorists
Dr. Sandra Izabela Piesik
Director, Architect 3 Ideas, UN Habitat
Sandra Piesik is an award-winning architect, author and researcher specialising in the implementation of global sustainable legislation, nature-based solutions and traditional knowledge adaptation. She is the founder of 3 ideas B.V., an Amsterdam based consultancy, a senior consultant to UN-HABITAT on Urban and Rural Linkages at the Global Solutions Division, and a former Policy Support Consultant on Rural – Urban Dynamics to UNCCD.
Professor Martin Kemp
Professor Emeritus History of Art, Oxford University
Martin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University, and one of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci. He has written, broadcast and curated exhibitions on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. Kemp is Honorary Chair of the DaVinci Network and lectures widely on the relationship between art, science and human perception.
Professor Benjamin Horton
Director, Earth Observatory of Singapore
Benjamin Horton is a Director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His research concerns sea-level change, with the aim of understanding and integrating the external and internal mechanisms that have determined sea-level changes in the past, and which will shape such changes in the future. His research impacts upon important ecological, ethical, social, economic and political problems specifically facing coastal regions.
Richard Dunne
Founder, Director of Education, Harmony Project
Richard is Director of Education for The Harmony Project. He has 30 years teaching experience and was Headteacher of an Ofsted graded Outstanding School for 18 years. His work in redesigning a curriculum around Nature’s principles of Harmony has already begun inspiring the next generation of teachers and children, with the approach to learning already in place in several schools across the UK.
Dr. Juan Perellon
Chief Academic Officer, EHL Group
Juan Perellon is the Chief Academic Officer, EHL Group. He formulates the transversal strategy of the EHL Group in terms of practical and academic training, in Switzerland and abroad. He also oversees the academic quality and accreditation of EHL Group schools and their study programs, with the aim of continuous improvement and promotion of the EHL brand.
Waqās Ahmed
Chief Interdisciplinary Officer, Earth 300
Waqās Ahmed is the Chief Interdisciplinary Officer of Earth 300. He is considered a world authority on multidisciplinary thinking and versatility. He works with organisations across various sectors to integrate such approaches into their strategies and operations. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book The Polymath (Wiley 2019) and is founder of the DaVinci Network.
Dr. Ash Brockwell
Artist, Activist & Academic, LIS London
Ash Brockwell is an artist, activist and academic at the London Interdisciplinary School, where his research and teaching focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to environmental sustainability. He has contributed to over 30 peer-reviewed publications spanning the fields of design, evaluation, environmental management, international public health policy, ethnopharmacology and sustainability.
Artists & Activists
Fabien Cousteau
Executive Director, The Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Centre
Fabien Cousteau is an Aquanaut, Oceanographic Explorer, Environmental Advocate and Founder of Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center. As the first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien spent his early years aboard his famous grandfather’s ships, Calypso and Alcyone. He’s a member of multiple cause-driven and charitable boards, and has been working with local communities and children worldwide to help restore local water ecosystems.
Dr. Jasmine Pradissitto
Artist, Scientist, Academic
Jasmine Pradissitto is an international artist, innovator, and speaker with a PhD in physics. Pradissitto’s sculptures in NOx pollution absorbing ceramics, pioneer materials using new and traditional techniques. Inspired by nature, the human condition, the mythopoetic and a more sustainable future, her forms create a commentary on an unsustainable, increasingly Anthropocene world slowly being reshaped by the things we consume and then disregard.
Sebastian Copeland
SEDNA Foundation, Explorer, Expeditionist, Photographer, Author
Sebastian Copeland is a polar explorer, climate advocate, photographer and author. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Outside, American Photo, The New York Times, People Magazine, USA Today, Paris Match as well on NBC, CBS, NPR and CNN’s Larry King Live. Sebastian uses photography as a medium for activism. “Helping people fall in love with their world,” he says, ”is a catalyst to wanting to save it”.
Jeremy Gilley
Founder, Peace One Day
Jeremy Gilley is founder of Peace One Day. In September 2001, as a result of Jeremy’s efforts, a General Assembly resolution was unanimously adopted by UN member states, establishing 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace – Peace Day. He recently organized Climate Action Live on June 21st.
Dianna Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder, Plastic Pollution Coalition
Dianna is Co-Founder and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC) and is a passionate advocate against plastic pollution. PPC is a growing global alliance of more than 1,000 organizations, businesses, and notable thought leaders working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, and the environment. A Los Angeles based visual artist, Dianna uses plastic in her artwork to make a visual and social impact.
Marilú Mejía-López
Mexico and USA, Youth Impact Forum
Marilú Mejía-López is a Montessori climate activist who developed two projects for the Youth Impact Forum of the Montessori Model United Nations. As part of the Montessori Bech io Science Club, Marilú has received recognition for her models for aquaponic cultivation, and the mangrove as a natural barrier to protect against hurricanes. Likewise, she has given conferences and workshops on solid waste management to raise people’s awareness.
Festus Kiplagat
Chairman, Green Planet initiative 2050
Chairman/Founder GPI2050 which is endorsed by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as an official partner creating more productive and resilient landscapes and agricultural systems, whilst providing small-scale farmers, pastoralists and forest-dependent communities with improved and diversified livelihoods, fostering ‘green’ rural economic growth, and promoting ecosystem restoration.
Leander Ganzert
Co-founder, 25onehundred
Leander Ganzert is a 20-year-old entrepreneur who grew up in Zurich and Bali and is now based in Greece. He is the co-founder and CEO of 25onehundred, a social impact company committed to solving the 10 largest challenges in the world. Focusing on youth empowerment, they invest, build ventures, and are solution creators. He is currently building CLIMA, the first ever climate youth fund.
Practitioners & Policy-Makers
Gunter Pauli
Entrepreneur, Pedagogue, Author
Gunter Pauli is an entrepreneur, pedagogue and author. He pioneers innovations and creates new (disruptive) business models. He accompanied over 200 projects over the past quarter of a century, translating ideas with solid science into a vision implemented through entrepreneurship. These initiatives have evolved into three unicorns and dozens of demonstrations on how to transform society. Gunter adheres to a philosophy summarized in his book “The Blue Economy”.
Martin Yates
Chief Technology Officer, Digital Cities – Dell Technologies
Martin Yates is the Digital Cities Global Chief Technology Officer & Digital Cities Field Consultants Leader for Dell Technologies. Martin and his Digital City Technology team perform research, design, and deployment of technologies meeting the goals of a human-centric, secure, and sustainable environmentally-focused digital cities society.
Judith Cunningham
Founder, Chief Strategic Officer, Montessori Model UN
Judith Cunningham is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Montessori Model UN. Judith founded MMUN to help students find their voices, take action and build peace. This program is poised for the possible by aligning the idealism and capacity of adolescents to understand global problems, to identify local problems that break their hearts and then to take action to have an impact on the world they want.
Michele Sofisti
Partner at Spin Ventures, Head of Global Partnerships, Resolve NGO
Michele Sofisti is Partner at Spin Ventures, Head of Global Partnerships at Resolve NGO, and he’s also the Founder and President of SOFOS Management. He has deep expertise in international strategic consulting for the entertainment, food, automobile, fashion, and outdoor industries. He has built partnerships with NASA, the Olympic Committee, Song Chin Ling Foundation, the Grammy Awards, the Oscars, and more. Michele currently serves on the board of the Global Conservation Corps Foundation, a global conservation education nonprofit.
Youssef Nassef
Director Adaptation Division, UNFCCC
Youssef Nassef is the Director of the Adaptation Division, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as the Chair of the World Adaptation Science programme. He has led the adaptation workstreams under the UNFCCC since their inception. He possesses over 30 years of experience in diplomacy and international environmental policy, and is a seconded diplomat from the Egyptian Foreign Service.
Rishabh Khanna
Chief Impact Officer, Earthbanc
Rishabh Khanna, is the Chief Impact Officer at Earthbanc and steering committee member of ILLP (Initiative of Land, Lives and Peace). For over a decade he has focused on applying new economic and business models in harmony with the planet and all its creatures. He founded The Indian Youth Climate Network and has worked with the WWF, Climate Action Network, UNFCCC, UN Habitat and more.
Giulio Ceppi
Architect and Designer, Politecnico di Milano
Giulio Ceppi was the founder director of the new Master in Business Design at Domus Academy and contract professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Genova, Politecnico di Torino, Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, La Sapienza in Rome, Università Cattolica in Milan. He’s among the founders of Schola Italica. His activities are focused on sensorial design, development of new materials and technologies, and on design strategy.
Jonathan Hung
Executive Chairman, SSTL
Jonathan Hung is the Chairman of Singapore Space and Technology Limited. He’s a Senior Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the aerospace, space & defence, and electronic manufacturing industry. He’s a strong professional skilled in Government, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Strategy, and Partnerships.
