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Adam Sweidan
Adam Sweidan is a founding partner and Chief Investment Officer of Aurum Fund Management Ltd., and Chairman of Synchronicity Earth.
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Azad Shivdasani
Azad Shivdasani is Chairman of the Inlaks Group and Chairman of the Inlaks Foundation.
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Bruce Bromley
Bruce is the CFO of Soneva Resorts, Residences and Spas. Prior to Soneva, Bruce had a 17 year career in investment banking and fund management.
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Chris Gorell Barnes
Chris Gorell Barnes is the Co-Founder of the BLUE Marine Foundation. BLUE exists to fix the largest solvable problem on the planet – the crisis in the oceans.
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Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah has starred and acted in over forty films and has been an effective, passionate activist and advocate for a more ethical sustainable world for decades.
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David de Rothschild
David is an environmentalist, explorer, eternal optimist and the founder of the Sculpt The Future Foundation, a group that uses exploration, adventure and storytelling as a way to give nature a voice.
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Dorinda Elliott
Dorinda Elliott is a Commissioning Editor at Condé Nast Traveler, where she edits, writes, and helps spearhead the magazine’s coverage of ethical travel and social responsibility in the travel industry.
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Eva Malmström Shivdasani
As Creative Director of the Soneva Group, Eva puts into practice her intensely personal vision of locally crafted and environmentally responsible villas. She is also the Co-Founder of the SLOW LIFE Foundation.
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Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob von Uexkull is a writer, lecturer, philanthropist and activist. He is the Chairman of the World Future Council (WFC), an independent non-profit organisation that works to safeguard the rights of future generations.
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Jenifer Willig
Jenifer Wilig is the co-founder of WHOLE WORLD Water, a new social enterprise on a mission to unite the hospitality and tourism to help solve our global water crisis.
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Jessica Sweidan
Jessica Sweidan is on the Board of Trustees of Synchronicity Earth, which has a mission to scale up and deepen the impact of environmental philanthropy and to deliver effective solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time.
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Jochen Zeitz
Jochen Zeitz is Director of Kering and Chairman of the board’s sustainable development committee and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of The B Team, aimed at transforming the future of business.
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Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström led the international team of scientists that developed the ground-breaking ‘Planetary Boudaries’ concept, a quantified a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come – while crossing them could generate abrupt or irreversible environmental changes.
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Jon Bowermaster
Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and an award-winning writer and filmmaker.
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Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. He has advised governments, royalty and business on the environment and sustainability. He is the Chair of the 2013 SLOW LIFE Symposium.
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Karena Albers
Karena Albers is the co-founder of WHOLE WORLD Water, a new social enterprise on a mission to unite the hospitality and tourism to help solve our global water crisis.
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Kelly Clark
Kelly is the Director of the Tellus Mater Foundation and Managing Director of Marmanie Consulting. She spent 10 years as a banker in the US, London and Hong Kong, and she is a life-long competitive athlete, completing in ski racing, triathlons, marathons and ultra marathons.
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Laura Turner Seydel
Laura Turner Seydel is an international environmental advocate and eco-living expert. Laura is chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation and she serves on her family’s foundation boards including The Turner Foundation, Jane Smith Turner Foundation, the Turner Endangered Species Fund, and Ted’s Montana Grill.
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Leo Johnson
Leo Johnson is a Visiting Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University, and the Presenter of the BBC World News programmes World Challenge and One Square Mile.
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Lida Pet-Soede
Lida Pet-Soede leads WWFs Coral Triangle Program www.panda.org/coraltriangle in support of the goals developed by the six governments of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security.
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Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev is founder and author of Corporation 2020, which demonstrates how corporations and society can collaborate to build a green economy. He is the founder of GIST Advisory, a consulting firm specialising in externality valuations, and was study lead of the hugely influential UN TEEB reports.
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Peggy Liu
Peggy Liu, Chairperson of JUCCCE, leads a coalition in accelerating the greening of China and in fostering international collaboration with China. JUCCCE creates systemic change in sustainable cities, sustainable consumerism and smart grid, and most noted for its multi-sector convening power. She is a Time Magazine ‘Hero of the Environment’ and one of Forbes’ ‘Women to Watch in Asia’.
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Sonu Shivdasani
Sonu Shivdasani is the Chairman and CEO of the Soneva Group. He is the Founder of the SLOW LIFE Foundation and the host of the SLOW LIFE Symposium. He is a pioneer of luxury eco-tourism and is deeply committed to progressing sustainability within the business community.