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Professor and Academic Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, University of British Columbia. I work on agroecology and food sovereignty transitions, primarily in North, Central, and South America.
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Dr. Jiaying Zhao is the Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Sustainability, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Zhao received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University. For more information, please visit Dr. Zhao's lab website: https://zhaolab.psych.ubc.ca
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Empirical social scientist with particular expertise in the analysis of large scale social survey data. Main area of work involves understanding consumer adoption of low carbon innovations across mobility, food, homes and energy domains. In particular the importance of product and service attributes to adoption and how these vary.
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Techpreuner and Head at Off-Field. Leading systems integration and automation (IoT and smart cities) expert. Iridium mobile specialist. His website is at https://off-field.com
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Senior Research Fellow (Humanitarian Policy Group/ODI) focused on gender, sexuality and disability in humanitarian crises.
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Alexander Reitzenstein works as a Senior Policy Advisor in E3G’s Berlin office. His work aims at the transition to a net zero economy, with foci on the energy and industry sectors, sustainable finance, green deal and climate politics. He coordinates E3G’s global activities on just transition.
Since 2019, Alexander is a Visiting Fellow at Das Progressive Zentrum, focusing on structural change, inclusive growth and the links of climate change and foreign policy. He previously worked as a consultant with SEEK Development, specializing in development finance, advocacy strategies, and organizational change, in support of clients in the UN system, philanthropic foundations, NGOs, and the public sector. Prior to SEEK, he contributed to the efforts of various organizations including adelphi, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance on tasks ranging from the analysis of transformation pathways towards a green economy, to the evaluation of political processes in the European Union.
Alexander holds master’s degrees in Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Hertie School of Governance, where he focused on climate change, economic policy, and organizational strategy. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science, business, and economics from University of Munich, which included a semester abroad at American University, Washington, DC.
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I currently work as a junior-advisor on reducing poverty and inequality and I coordinate workshops for policy makers and the civil society on different aspects of inequality.
Before that I gathered experience working with asylum-seekers and refugees - mainly dealing with topics such as the use of language, perception, justice and natural resource management.
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I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Münster. My interests include industrial organization theory for energy and climate modelling, energy efficiency policies, energy system transitions, and machine learning for policy questions. I also enjoy to model electricity systems and have work experience at grid operators.
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Human geographer interested in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and in improving the science-policy interface
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I head the Climate change works in Government of India. I also lead the multi sectoral indian team for international negotiations on Climate Change.
Currently, I am also holding charge of Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board of India coordinating and enforcing Air, Waterand noise Pollution issues in the country,.
I also deal with other environmnetal issues like project environmental clearance, SDGs, coastal management etc.