EarthxSpeakers

Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers is the editor of D Magazine, where he has worked since 2001. He won the National Magazine Award for profile writing in 2012. He has lived in East Dallas since 1978 and has not shaved since March 11, 2020.

John F. Rohe

John F. Rohe received a bachelor of science degree, with honors, in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1972. He then served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines, attended law school, and practiced law in northern Michigan for 30 years before joining Colcom Foundation in 2006.

Vince Romanin

Vince Romanin is the CEO of Treau, making climate control cool again. Vince earned his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he focused on heat transfer and fluid mechanics of micro turbines for small-scale solar combined heat and power.

Dr. Adam Rome

Dr. Adam Rome is professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo. A leading expert on the history of environmental activism, he is the author of The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation.

Theodore Roosevelt IV

Theodore Roosevelt IV is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Barclays, based in New York. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the firm’s Clean Tech Initiative and is a Co-Chair of Barclays Military Services Network.

Emma Russell

Emma Russell is a Vice President at Vision Ridge Partners, focused on energy and mobility. Previously, Emma was an Associate on BlackRock’s Private Markets team, a Private Equity Group focused on opportunistic illiquid investments on behalf of the firm and its clients.

Dr. Enric Sala

Dr. Enric Sala is a National Geographic Explorer-inResidence dedicated to restoring the health and productivity of the ocean. His more than 120 scientific publications are widely recognized and used for real-world conservation efforts such as the creation of marine reserves.

Ben Schecter

Ben Schecter is a co-founder of Feed the Front Line, an organization that has provided ~25k meals to front line healthcare workers treating patients with COVID-19, all purchased from struggling local restaurants. Ben is passionate about finding solutions to complex problems in order to help people.

Seth Schultz

Seth Schultz is the Executive Director of The Resilience Shift, which works to inspire and empower communities to make the world safer through resilient infrastructure. Through strategic convening, coalition building, and thought leadership, it works to accelerate a shift of resilience thinking into practice for those working with critical infrastructure.

Jess Search

Jess Search is founder of Doc Society and Climate Story Lab, and Trustee of Marie Stokes International.

Isha Sesay

Isha Sesay has worked as an anchor and correspondent for CNN International. She left CNN in 2018 to support her organization, W.E. Can Lead, which works on girls education projects in Africa.

Laura Turner Seydel

As Chair of Captain Planet Foundation and Director of Turner Foundation, Laura Turner Seydel works with and supports organizations that address urgent challenges affecting the health, functionality and vitality of our life support system: our air, water, land, food, biodiversity and climate.

Vasser Seydel

Vasser Seydel recently graduated with cum laude honors from the University of Georgia, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. Vasser worked for UGA’S Office of Sustainability as the Grants and Engagement Director, and as an intern at the United Nations Foundation and TEDWomen.

Bill Shireman

Bill Shireman is Future 500’s founder and fearless leader. In today’s culture of “us vs. them,” he’s a walking contradiction and trend bucker. He’s a lifelong Republican and an environmental activist, a social progressive and a free-market enthusiast. Bill believes that our economics and our ecosystems don’t have to be at odds and that the left and right both have ample room to learn from each other.

Seth M. Siegel

Seth M. Siegel is a serial entrepreneur, water activist and a New York Times bestselling author. His critically acclaimed award-winning book Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World has been published in 17 languages and is on sale in more than 50 countries.

Scott Sklar

Scott Sklar, founder and president of The Stella Group, Ltd., is the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Energy Coalition and serves on the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and The Solar Foundation. Sklar is an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University teaching two unique inter-disciplinary courses on sustainable energy, and is an Affiliated Professor of CATIE, the graduate university based in Costa Rica.

Steven G. Smith

RADM Steven G. Smith U.S. Navy (Retired) is a former Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, and a Senior Government Executive (SES) in the federal government as Director of the Office of Disaster Planning and Risk Management for the U.S. Small Business Administration.