EarthxSpeakers

Dan Etsy

Daniel C. Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy. As a professor at Yale since 1994, he holds faculty appointments in both Yale’s Environment and Law Schools with a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He directs the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and serves on the Board of the Center for Business & Environment at Yale, which he founded in 2006.

Marcius Extavour

Marcius Extavour is a leader and expert working at the intersection of science, technology and public policy. At XPRIZE he leads environment, energy, and climate work, including the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a global competition to recycle CO2 into valuable products.

Rick Fedrizzi

Rick Fedrizzi joined the International WELL Building Institute as chairman and CEO in Nov. 2016, bringing his global environmental track record and keen business insight to IWBI’s work to advance human health through better buildings and communities.

Brent Fewell

Earth & Water Law Group Chair and Founder, Brent Fewell, has over 28 years of environmental experience in public policy, advocacy, finance, and law. He is an environmental lawyer and former corporate executive and former senior U.S. EPA official in the G.W. Bush Administration.

Catherine Coleman Flowers

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice which seeks to address the reduction of health and economic disparities, and improve access to clean air, water, and soil in marginalized rural communities by influencing policy, inspiring innovation, catalyzing relevant research, and amplifying voices of community leaders.

EarthxSpeakers

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is a two-time Academy Award winner (Best Actress in 1971 for Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home), author, activist, and fitness guru. Her career has spanned over 50 years, including over 45 films and crucial work on behalf of political causes such as women’s rights, Native Americans, and the environment.

Chad Frischmann

Chad Frischmann is a co-author and the lead researcher of the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin, 2017) and the Drawdown Review (February, 2020).

Angie Fyfe

Angie Fyfe is the Executive Director of ICLEI USA and a member of ICLEI’s global senior management team. Since 1990, ICLEI has built and served a movement of local governments pursuing deep reductions in carbon emissions and tangible improvements in community sustainability and resilience.

Mayor Eric Garcetti

Eric Garcetti is a fourth-generation Angeleno and the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles. Born and raised in the SanFernando Valley as the son of public servants and the grandson and great-grandson of immigrants from Mexico and Eastern Europe, Mayor Garcetti’s life has been shaped by a deep commitment to the core values of justice, dignity, and equality for all people.

Senator Cory Gardner

Cory Gardner is a member of the U.S. Senate from Colorado. He previously was the U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011.

Pam Giblin

Pam Giblin spent 24 years as a Partner at Baker Botts, L.L.P, where she provided strategic counsel on a broad array of environmental issues, particularly in the areas of air quality and climate.

Karenna Gore

Karenna Gore is founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. She is also an ex officio member of the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and former director of Union Forum at Union Theological Seminary.

Lindsay Gorrill

Lindsay Gorrill has 30 years of experience developing companies worldwide, with an expertise in bringing companies from conception to market. He has developed plant and mining operational teams in three countries.

Billy Grayson

Billy Grayson is the Executive Director for the Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance at the Urban Land Institute.

Jeevan Grewal

Jeevan Grewal is a teenager, like any other teenager. Unlike many other teenagers, he has had the privilege of visiting the Amazon and of participating in personal growth and leadership programs that have trained him to become someone who doesn’t just talk about making a difference.

Jeremy Harrell

Jeremy Harrell is the Managing Director, Policy at ClearPath, a research and advocacy organization. Previously, he advised Congressional Republicans on energy, environmental, technology, national security, transportation, and tax policies for nearly a decade.

Dr. Jason Hartke

Dr. Jason Hartke is the Executive Vice President of Advocacy and Policy at the International WELL Building Institute where he leads efforts to advance policies that address health and well-being in buildings and communities. He manages strategic outreach to Congress, governors, state legislatures, mayors and city councils across the nation.

Beth Hartman

Beth Hartman is Chief of Staff for the CEO and a Manager in the Electricity Practice at the Rocky Mountain Institute, where she supports a variety of initiatives focused on innovation in the energy industry including the eLab Accelerator and several utility projects with ComEd, Duke Energy and others.

Mark Herrema

Mark Herrema is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Newlight Technologies. Newlight Technologies is an advanced biotechnology company using carbon capture technology to produce highperformance polymers that replace oil-based materials by out-competing on price and performance.

David Hertz

David Hertz graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. In 2008 he was elected to the prestigious American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. David is founder of The Resilience Lab which creates technologies for self reliance, climate resilience and disaster relief.

General Russel L. Honoré

Lieutenant General Russel Honoré is a native of Lakeland, Louisiana. Prior to his command of Joint Task ForceKatrina—leading the Department of Defense response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—General Honoré served in a variety of command and staff positions which focused on Defense Support to Civil Authorities and Homeland Defense.

Andrew Horvath

Andrew Horvath is Global Group Chairman at Star Scientific Limited a research and development company focused on hydrogen power generation based in Australia. Their patented technology called HERO ® (Hydrogen Energy Release Optimiser) promises an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy future that the world needs.