Laura Cozzi – Director of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks at the International Energy Agency. She plans and coordinates the IEA’s work on energy sustainability, encompassing energy technology policy and climate change. She is also the Agency’s Chief Energy Modeller and in this capacity she co-leads the World Energy Outlook.

Leon Clarke – Director of Decarbonization Pathways at the Bezos Earth Fund and a Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland’s (UMD’s) Center for Global Sustainability (CGS). Before joining CGS, he led the Integrated Human Earth System Science Group at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between UMD and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Clarke has served as an author and coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Climate Assessment, and the National Research Council. He has also led multiple multi-institution studies on climate mitigation. Dr. Clarke has a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley

Asami Miketa – Head of Energy Transition Planning and Power Sector Transformation at International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Before joining IRENA, she worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), executing energy planning capacity building programs, mainly in Africa and Asia, and also contributing to several energy assessment studies. Asami received her Ph.D. from Keio University in Japan in 2002, while working with the Energy Program at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria.