Alexia Kelly has worked for more than 18 years at the intersection of policy and finance to address the climate crisis. Alexia is the Managing Director of the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI) at High Tide Foundation. The CPMI accelerates ambitious climate action and capital mobilization through robust rules and guidance for voluntary corporate action and disclosures, and building the next generation of high-integrity carbon and environmental services markets. She currently serves on the Board of the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets (IC VCM) and the Board of the Advanced and Indirect Mitigation Initiative, as well as on the Expert Advisory Group of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI). Prior to joining High Tide Foundation, she served as Director of Net Zero + Nature at Netflix, where she led the company’s inaugural greenhouse gas inventory, renewable energy strategy, Science Based Target and global carbon credit portfolio. Previously, she worked at the U.S. Department of State, where she served as lead negotiator to the UNFCCC on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. She has also held senior roles at the World Resources Institute, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Climate Trust, and in private equity.

Ashley Allen is a sustainability executive and climate change champion with a 20 year career that spans the private and public sectors, including eight years in the food and beverage sector and 10 years in international diplomacy. Ashley is the Founder and President of CSO Copilot, a professional consultancy that partners with corporate leaders to provide strategic sustainability support. Previously, Ashley served as the Chief Sustainability Officer at Oatly where she built an industry-leading, purpose-driven Global Sustainability Department and designed and set a global corporate sustainability strategy. She modernized and upgraded Oatly’s ESG portfolio and disclosures and helped the company navigate a successful IPO in 2021. She has extensive experience embedding sustainability in all stages along companies’ full value chains. She has championed innovative and collaborative sustainability and climate change strategies and solutions throughout her career with Mars, Inc., the U.S. Department of State, USAID, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality. She is a skilled and seasoned public speaker, facilitator and influencer.

Chris Davis is a Senior Fellow at the High Tide Foundation where he works on efforts to expand corporate climate finance to reverse climate change and protect nature. Chris has worked at the forefront of climate policy and carbon markets or nearly two decades. Prior to joining High Tide Foundation, he oversaw the sustainability practice for Amazon's international public policy practice where he built and led a team that covered renewable energy, sustainable transport, and ESG issues in Europe and Asia. He also supported Amazon's nature-based solutions team and helped lead the company’s contributions to developing global greenhouse gas accounting standards. Prior to joining Amazon, Chris was the Climate and Energy Policy advisor to Governor Jay Inslee of Washington state where he led the Governor’s clean energy legislative agenda and helped pass landmark legislation on clean electricity, carbon pricing and low carbon buildings. Chris was the Conservation Director for the Nature Conservancy of Washington prior to joining the Governor’s office.

Dr Britt Wray is an award-winning science communicator, Stanford researcher and bestselling author whose work is dedicated to building resilience to the mental health impacts of climate change and ecological disruption. She is the Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, a research and action initiative focused on the intersection of climate change and mental health in the Stanford School of Medicine, and is the founder of Unthinkable, a non-profit on a mission to support communities around the world that are struggling with climate distress and trauma. Britt is the author of two books, including Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety (which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award), andRise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics and Risks of De-Extinction (named a best book of the year by the New Yorker in 2017). She is a recipient of the 2025 American Climate Leadership Award (runner up), 2023 Canadian Eco-Hero Award, and Top Prize in Science Communication Excellence from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and Schmidt Futures. Britt holds a PhD in Science Communication from the University of Copenhagen, a Climate Psychology Certificate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and completed her postdoctoral training in Human and Planetary Health at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In her former career as a broadcaster, Britt hosted and produced several science podcasts, radio and TV programs with the BBC and CBC. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, The Guardian, and more. As an international public speaker, Britt has spoken at TED, the World Economic Forum, and other global stages.

Dr. Lea Borkenhagen is the senior vice president of EDF+Business, directing EDF’s strategy to catalyze private sector action that accelerates the transition to net-zero emissions, creates safer products, and ensures global food systems evolve without exacerbating climate risk. Lea’s leadership experience spans food, fashion, retail, tech, and the non-profit sector, and includes roles at the Earthshot Prize, Nike, and Oxfam. She holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Côte d’Ivoire.

Elizabeth Willmott has worked on sustainability in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors for the past 20 years. She most recently spent eight years in leadership roles on Microsoft’s sustainability team, including its carbon negative commitment; carbon removal and sustainable aviation fuel programs; internal sustainability fee; and executive sustainability governance. Prior to Microsoft, Elizabeth ran the New Energy Cities program as part of Climate Solutions’ Strategic Innovation Team. She oversaw American Recovery and Reinvestment Act implementation at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Elizabeth authored the country’s first metropolitan climate plan in her role as King County, WA’s Climate Change Program Coordinator. The focus of her new practice, Earthrise Consulting, is to help accelerate and scale climate solutions through advice on public policy, voluntary market standards, and what "integrity" means to carbon credit buyers and investors. Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and Biology at Williams College and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Holly Lahd has spent her career at the intersection of carbon accounting and energy strategy. From 2009 to 2011 Holly was part of the GHG Protocol Scope 3 and Product Life Cycle Standards project team. Her eight years of experience working at fortune 100 companies gave her first-hand knowledge of the internal processes companies work through to set climate targets and execute decarbonization investments. Holly has negotiated energy supply and renewable energy power purchase agreements in regulated and wholesale energy markets, provided expert witness testimony in electric utility dockets, and analyzed utility rates and energy market data to enable distributed solar, energy storage, and demand response projects. She has a MS in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Jenny Morgan is a passionate advocate for sustainable change, with deep experience in Corporate Social Responsibility, social and environmental impact, the B Corp Movement, and climate strategy. She specializes in fostering collaboration and helping organizations take meaningful, measurable climate action. As a climate strategist, Jenny has inspired thousands of individuals across sectors, guiding businesses, nonprofits, and individuals toward more sustainable and accountable practices. She has spoken at major events including S&P Global’s Carbon Management Americas, PNW Climate Week, B Corp’s BLD Conference, and Microsoft’s Connect Conference. In her debut book, Cancel Culture in Climate, Jenny explores how polarization, blame, and fear are stalling progress, and offers a hopeful roadmap for building trust, uniting diverse perspectives, and driving collective impact. She believes that empathy and collaboration are our most underrated climate tools, and that the future depends on building bridges, not divides. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Jenny lives with her husband, two children, and two big dogs. She continues to work at the intersection of climate, communication, and community, and welcomes collaboration with those ready to do the same.

Kalee Kreider advises major corporate, philanthropic and non-profit clients on issues of sustainability, climate change, and technology. She has advised some of the world’s most innovative thinkers, innovators and companies including Paul G. Allen, Christiana Figueres, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Postcode Lotteries Group, the United Nations Foundation, ClimateWorks Foundations, the Bezos Earth Fund and others. In addition to her work as a consultant, Kalee has served as Chief Media and Public Affairs Officer for the National Geographic Society overseeing brand, marketing, communications, impact media, public events and the Museum. She worked for many years as environmental adviser and communications director for Vice President Al Gore. Early in her career, she ran the Washington Office of Fenton Communications, directed programs for several non-governmental organizations, and began her time in Washington, D.C., as a Truman Scholar working for the federal government.

Lyrica McTiernan has spent more than 15 years helping companies build and grow their sustainability programs. She was one of Facebook’s first sustainability hires, where she spent nearly a decade shaping the company’s strategy, and later led sustainability partnerships at WeWork. Today, as an independent consultant, she draws on that experience to guide organizations through the complex world of corporate sustainability. She lives in San Francisco with her family.

Matt Jordan is a Director within the High Tide Foundation’s Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI). Matt has been working in climate action for more than 15 years, and has a long track record of envisioning, developing and scaling innovative programs and financing tools that deliver lasting global impact. Matt built CLASP’s Clean Energy Access program from a single small project to an integrated portfolio of technical, research, and market stimulation programs with a coherent, issue-defining theory of change and a global team of more than 20. He co-founded Propel Clean Energy Partners, a consulting firm with clients such as the World Resources Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the Asian Development Bank. Following their acquisition of Propel’s work and team, Matt served as a Director in RMI’s Global South portfolio and led their global clean energy workforce development initiative. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University, a Master’s in Public Policy Analysis from the University of California, and a Professional Certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy from Yale University.

Patrick Flynn is a climate action expert who has spent his career at the intersection of business, technology and sustainability. While always working for Planet Earth, he has held roles in engineering, investing and business transformation, including many years leading sustainability for Salesforce. Nowadays, he’s on a mission to supercharge the business world’s most influential climate leaders with Switchboard. Patrick is an advisor to various mission-aligned organizations like Generation Investment Management, TOPO Finance and WattCarbon. He holds an engineering degree from Stanford and a business degree from MIT.

Peter Freed has over 20 years of experience working at the nexus of energy and climate. As the Founding Partner at Near Horizon Group, he provides strategic advice to companies and investors aiming to optimize business performance and climate outcomes within the energy sector. His areas of expertise include enabling load growth, data center development and AI infrastructure, the deployment of advanced energy technologies, utility, regulatory, and policy engagement, as well as commercial structuring and negotiation—all with a focus on accelerating the transition to a clean, reliable grid of the future. In addition to his advisory work, Peter serves as a Research Fellow at the Precourt Institute at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, where he works on innovative strategies to maximize the impact of companies in combating climate change. In his most recent role, Peter spent a decade as the Director of Energy Strategy at Meta, where he led efforts to advance grid decarbonization and reliability, aligning with Meta’s data center energy and net zero objectives. Peter was a founding board member of the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance. He holds a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Richard H. Lawrence, Jr., is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Overlook Investments Group, which he established in 1991. Richard grew up outside New York City and graduated from South Kent School in 1974, and Brown University in 1978 with a degree in Economics. Richard relocated to Asia in 1984 and worked as a founding Vice President at First Pacific Special Assets (FPSAL), a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed company that invested in undervalued assets throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 1986, he became the second Chartered Financial Analyst in Asia. When First Pacific was sold, Richard established Overlook. Richard is a director and co-founder of several non-profit organizations with specific focus on climate change mitigation. In 2004 Richard and his wife, Dee, founded Proyecto Mirador Foundation, a non-profit that has built over 365,000 fuel-efficient stoves in rural communities across Honduras and Guatemala. In 2016 the Lawrences founded Cool Effect, a non-profit online platform that enables individuals, SMEs and Fortune 500 companies to offset their carbon emissions through the highest quality carbon reduction projects worldwide. In 2017 they established High Tide Foundation, a non-profit organization involved in the fight against climate change. In 2020 Richard founded the non-profit Carbon Mapper, which develops satellite technology to pinpoint and track point source emissions, particularly methane. In 2021 he helped establish Global Methane Hub with over $200 million in philanthropic funds to support methane advocacy and mitigation. Richard lives in San Francisco, California, with his wife. They have two adult children and two grandchildren. Richard is the author of two published books: The Model and Carbon Done Correctly.

Tisha Schuller founded Adamantine Energy to help energy companies turn sustainability and decarbonization aspirations into concrete action. Tisha advises Fortune 100 energy companies, environment nonprofits, and public institutions on ESG and decarbonization strategy, managing disruption, energy policy, environmental justice, and stakeholder engagement. She also serves as strategic advisor to Stanford University’s Fuels of the Future Initiative. Tisha holds a B.S. from Stanford University. Tisha serves on numerous academic and nonprofit boards, including as Chair of the Breakthrough Institute, on the boards of the Energy for Growth Hub, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Tisha serves on the Avatar Innovations advisory board and is a member of the National Petroleum Council, advising the U.S. secretary of energy across the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. She is the author of four books, including: The Myth and The Moment: From Polarization to Progress in the New Energy Landscape (2025). Tisha writes Both of These Things Are True, a weekly newsletter, and hosts the Energy Thinks podcast.