Zero Carbon the Climate Justice Way
Speakers
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Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Sir David King is The Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change and Chairman of the Futures Cities Catapult.
Sir David King was Senior Scientific Advisor to UBS, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, Chair of the UK National Oceanography Advisory Board and NED of Midatech Limited, as well as Adviser to President Kagame of Rwanda.
He was the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2000 - 2007. He served as Founding Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University, 2008 – 2012, Head of the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, 1993 – 2000, and Master of Downing College Cambridge 1995 – 2000.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991; Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002; knighted in 2003; made “Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honeur” in 2009.
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Tasso Azevedo is a forester and social entrepreneur on forests, climate and sustainability. Tasso is the general coordinator of MapBiomas (land cover and land use change monitoring initiative) and Chair of the Board Conection Forest People initiative. Tasso was founder and general director of IMAFLORA and General Director of the Brazilian Forest Service. He is a visiting scholar of Brazil Lab at Princeton University, an Ashoka Senior Fellow (2021) and Skoll Award Fellow (2022) and board member of Rainforest Alliance, Preferred by Nature and Santander.
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Managing Principal, Capricorn Investment Group
Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004, and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and as such is one of the original impact investors. Prior to Capricorn, Ion was a Director with Koch Industries, executing a range of acquisitions and investments. Prior to Koch, he was a founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bivio, a software startup in Colorado, and the second employee of Olsen & Associates, a foreign exchange analytics company. Ion was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University and holds a Masters in Physics from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Stanford University.
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Chair of The Elders, The Elders
Mary Robinson is a founding member and Chair of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007, who work together for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet. She has served as Chair since 2018, and is a passionate advocate for gender equality, human rights and climate justice. She has addressed the UN Security Council on multiple occasions and has met with world leaders including President Ramaphosa in South Africa, Pope Francis in the Vatican, President Macron in Paris and President Xi Jinping in Beijing. She was the first woman President of Ireland (1990–1997) and is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997–2002). From 2013- 2016, she served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in three roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change and then on El Niño and Climate. She was appointed Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice at Trinity College Dublin in 2019.
