Speakers
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Her work centers on climate justice, equity, and sustainable development, with a particular focus on how changing geopolitics affects vulnerable populations and North-South relations. Joyeeta’s research draws on her background in law and her commitment to addressing power imbalances in Global to Local (Glocal) environmental governance. She has written four books on climate change and global governance and was a lead author on the fourth IPCC report. Currently, she co-chairs the UN Secretary-General Appointed Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs. Joyeeta co-chaired the Earth Commission (2019-2024) and won the Spinoza Prize (the “Dutch Nobel Prize”) in 2023.
Joana Setzer
Joana Setzer is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her main areas of expertise are climate litigation, subnational diplomacy, multilevel climate and environmental legislation. She leads the Grantham Research Institute’s “Climate Change Laws of the World” project since 2020 and co-leads the “Mobilising legal, political, and governance systems” theme of LSE’s Global School of Sustainability. She was a contributing author to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Review. Joana was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE after completing her PhD and worked as an environmental lawyer in Brazil prior to that.
Ketan Joshi
Ketan Joshi is a freelance analyst and writer, based in Oslo, Norway, working with a range of climate and energy groups to advocate for, analyse, and report on major issues, including fossil fuel extraction, data centre growth, and greenwashing or climate delay. He writes for outlets like Crikey and RenewEconomy and has previously contributed to The New Republic, The Guardian and Foreign Policy. He is a senior research associate at The Australia Institute, a committee member for Comms Declare, an organisation fighting against the use of PR and marketing to worsen climate change. He wrote a book on Australia’s energy and climate opportunities and disasters in 2021 and also has several academic publications. Previously, he worked for a wind farm company and a government renewable energy agency in Australia.
Vítor Vasconcelos
Vítor Vasconcelos is an Associate Professor at the Computational Science Lab at the University of Amsterdam. He works on mathematical and computational models of human collective behavior to anticipate the intended and unintended consequences of interventions in complex social systems involving humans, resources, and governing institutions. Vítor co-leads the Polder initiative at the Institute for Advanced Study and is the Director of a new Master’s program in ‘Complex Systems and Policy’ at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Previously, Vítor was a visiting research scholar at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, where he also did two postdocs after finishing his PhD in physics at the University of Minho, Portugal.
Adam Mckay
Adam McKay is an Academy Award-winning writer, director, and producer known for the 2021 political satire movie Don’t Look Up, as well as movies like Vice (2018) and The Big Short (2015). Along with a notable career in films and television, McKay is also a prominent voice for climate action. He founded Yellow Dot Studios to raise awareness and mobilize action on the climate emergency. The non-profit company produces videos and campaigns to tackle the misinformation promoted by the oil industry. He has spoken prominently about his experience with climate anxiety and the importance of comedy and humor as tools in addressing the climate crisis, and he has also spoken in support of disruptive climate activism. He is also a part of the Climate Emergency Fund’s board of directors
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