SPEAKERS

Indigenous Leader
Anishinaabe strategist, writer, and philanthropic leader honoring the 'first light.' Cultivating new systems for collective liberation and Indigenous sovereignty. For more than two decades, my work has moved across philanthropy, Tribal sovereignty, environmental protection, and civic power. I help funding move with the responsibility it carries.

CEO of the Nature Data Lab at One Earth
Karl Burkart has been at the forefront of research exploring the connections between human systems, the natural world, and climate change. As CEO of the Nature Data Lab at One Earth, and previously the Director of Science & Technology at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Karl brings together multi-disciplinary teams that apply innovations in big data, earth observation, and artificial intelligence to support the transition towards a sustainable, nature-positive future for all.

Secretary General, Foundations Platform F20
Before joining F20, Katrin was Chief Operations Officer of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. In that role, she worked closely with global leaders and young changemakers to accelerate progress towards the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, as part of the legacy of former UN-SG Ban Ki-moon.
In over 15 years working in the fields of sustainability, climate action, clean energy, and organizational management, Katrin has managed projects in Europe, Africa, and Asia in partnership with philanthropic organisations, UN agencies, the EU, and governmental development agencies. In her work she focused on climate change adaptation, sustainable agriculture and food systems, clean energy access, climate change education and capacity building, public-private dialogue, and on facilitating South-South and South-North knowledge exchange among experts in energy efficiency, energy regulation and international law.
Katrin has academic degrees in language studies and international development.

President of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and Senior Advisor at F20
Kumi Naidoo is a South African human rights and environmental justice activist who is currently the President of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. He is the former Secretary-General of Amnesty International (2018-2020) and the first person from the Global South to lead Greenpeace International (2009-2015). He is an advisor for the Community Arts Network. He serves as a global ambassador for Africans Rising for Unity, Justice, Peace and Dignity. His family started the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism to build on the positive legacies left by popular South African rapper Rikhado “Riky Rick” Makhado through his music and life’s work. Through this Foundation, he co-founded the Global Artivism Initiative. Kumi is also the author of award-winning Letters To My Mother: The Makings of a Troublemaker and the host of the podcast Power, People and Planet.

Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Justice
Laura Schäfer is Co-Head of International Climate Policy at Germanwatch, focusing on climate foreign policy, climate risk management, climate resilience, and loss and damage. She is an expert in international climate policy and co-author of the annual Climate Risk Index, which analyses the impacts of extreme weather events worldwide. Laura has extensive experience working on climate-just and human rights-based approaches to addressing climate change impacts, including through international processes such as the UNFCCC, G7, and G20.

Luke Malhi is Research Assistant to Achim Steiner at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and Co-Director of Meridian, a Ghana-based policy analysis lab. He is the recipient of the Oxford-Sir David Butler Graduate Scholarship in Comparative Government.
At the Oxford Martin School, Luke supports Achim Steiner's work on the Security Futures Lab (SFL), a global platform building integrated, systemic approaches to 21st-century security. His research focuses on how risks such as climate change, geopolitical fragmentation, algorithmic manipulation, health security, and populism intersect and compound one another, generating cascading threats that outpace conventional policy responses. With a background in public affairs and communications, Luke is particularly interested in how these complex ideas can be translated for public audiences in ways that foster agency and understanding, as well as in developing tools that help policymakers prioritise combatting the drivers of cascading risks.

Co-Founder and CEO, Starling Institute
With over two decades of experience in executive leadership, multilateral diplomacy, peacebuilding, and international development, including as an advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Minh-Thu Pham leads Starling as Co-founder and CEO. They drive innovation in multilateral systems, by providing support to and building coalitions among countries and organizations, facilitating honest dialogue that builds momentum for change, and translating cutting-edge ideas and strategic research into clear, actionable insights on the most pressing global challenges.

CEO and Director of EdelGive Foundation.
EdelGive Foundation is one of India’s leading philanthropic organizations committed to strengthening the social sector and advancing equitable, sustainable development. Naghma has led EdelGive’s evolution from a traditional grant-making organization into a philanthropic asset manager. Naghma Mulla also led the GROW Fund and now leads GROW+.

Executive Director, Accountability Accelerator, and F20 Chair
Dr. Natasha M. Matic is a global strategist with more than 25 years of experience shaping philanthropy, sustainability, and economic transformation across the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the United States. She is the founding Executive Director of the Accountability Accelerator, an international initiative driving corporate accountability for nature and people.

Programme Manager at Democracy Works Foundation, responsible for the Climate, Energy, and Resource Governance Programme.
Shannon is a sustainability and safeguarding specialist with extensive experience in ESG advisory, environmental and social risk management, and stakeholder engagement across international development, mining, and renewable energy sectors across Southern and Eastern Africa.

Dawn Knickerbocker

Karl Burkart