Alec Baldwin

Actor and Environmental Activist

Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor, writer, producer, and comedian.Baldwin first gained recognition appearing on seasons 6 and 7 of the CBS television drama Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. He has played both leading and supporting roles in films such as the horror comedy fantasy film Beetlejuice (1988), as Jack Ryan in the action thriller The Hunt for Red October (1990), the romantic comedy The Marrying Man (1991), and two films directed by Martin Scorsese: the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004) and the neo-noir crime drama The Departed (2006). His performance in the 2003 romantic drama The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.From 2006 to 2013, Baldwin starred as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, winning two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show, making him the male performer with the most SAG Awards. Baldwin co-starred in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth instalment of the Mission: Impossible series, released on July 31, 2015. He is also a columnist for The Huffington Post. Since 2016, he has been the host of Match Game. He has received worldwide attention and acclaim for his portrayal of Donald Trump on the long-running sketch series Saturday Night Live, both during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and following the inauguration, a role for which he won a Primetime Emmy in 2017.During his 2010–2013 stint as a spokesperson for Capital One, Baldwin's contract was written to fund Baldwin's charity foundation. He was paid $15 million over nearly five years. After taxes and accounting fees, the remainder, $14.125 million, was given to charity.In March 2011, Baldwin donated $1 million to the New York Philharmonic (on whose board he served), and $500,000 to the Roundabout Theatre Company, where he has performed plays in New York.

Mary Robinson

Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Republic of Ireland

She previously served as president of Ireland and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is a member of the Elders and the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama. A former president of the International Commission of Jurists and former chair of the Council of Women World Leaders she was president and founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. She serves as honorary president of Oxfam International and chair of the board of the Institute of Human Rights and Business in addition to being a board member of several organizations including the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the European Climate Foundation. She is also chancellor of Ireland’s University of Dublin.

Sadhguru

Mystic and visionary - Founder, Isha Foundation

Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and bestselling author. Sadhguru has been conferred the "Padma Vibhushan" by the Government of India in 2017, the highest amongst the annual civilian awards, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.Probing and passionate, insightful, logical and unfailingly witty, Sadhguru's talks have earned him the reputation of a speaker and opinion-maker of renown. With his astute and incisive grasp of current issues and world affairs, as well as his unerringly scientific approach to the question of human well-being, he has been a primary speaker at the United Nations World Headquarters, a regular at the World Economic Forum, and a special invitee at the Australian Leadership Retreat, Indian Economic Summit and TED to name a few. He has also been invited to speak at leading educational institutions, including Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Wharton and MIT among others.Sadhguru recently started a historic nationwide Rally for Rivers campaign for a comprehensive draft policy for revitalization of India’s fast-depleting rivers. Sadhguru personally drove over 9300 kilometre covering 16 states and over 142 public events. The rally received bipartisan support across the political spectrum from all the state governments, the central government and people from all walks of life.With a celebratory engagement with life on all levels, Sadhguru’s areas of active involvement encompass fields as diverse as architecture and visual design, poetry and painting, ecology and horticulture, sports, music and aviation.Three decades ago, Sadhguru founded Isha Foundation: a non-profit human-service organization, with human well-being as its core commitment, supported by over nine million volunteers in over 250 centers worldwide.Further information:Rally for Rivers

Jennifer Morris

President, Conservation International

As Conservation International's President, Jennifer Morris draws on decades of experience in conservation and economic development to ensure the organization's programs deliver the best impact possible. That path started with an important discovery.Almost thirty years ago, Jennifer was teaching in Namibia, with an eye on a career in public health. Years of working and living in a small community on the coast showed her that the health of each individual and each family was inextricably linked to the health of the environment. She decided to serve both through working in economic development, and went on to receive a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University with a focus on business development and microfinance. Her first step after grad school: Conservation International.Over the next three decades, Jennifer developed some of Conservation International's most enduring programs and partnerships, and innovative strategies using business development as a tool to protect nature for the well-being of humanity.She started on the conservation enterprise team, where she helped small businesses in rural communities earn income while using nature sustainably. She later oversaw the Global Conservation Fund, which helped protect more than 80 million hectares around the world investing more than US$ 350 million towards conservation efforts, and the Verde Ventures program, whose business partners today employ nearly 60,000 local people in 14 countries with half a million hectares of important lands protected or restored. Jennifer also took on leadership of Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership and Business, which partners with corporations to amplify conservation efforts and increase sustainability throughout supply chains. Over time, she rose to be the organization's chief operating officer, adding organizational operations to her portfolio of conservation efforts, and led the organization through significant growth in budget and staff. Today, Jennifer serves as President. She oversees all of Conservation International's programs across 29 countries and more than 600 million hectares of protected land. She leads the more than 1,000 scientists, policy experts and passionate conservation professionals implementing cutting-edge initiatives and working with more than 2,000 diverse partners - from Indigenous communities to multinational corporations. She serves on the boards of several organizations including the Conservation Strategy Fund, Natural Capital Coalition and Nia Tero, an organization working to secure Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems around the world. She is a frequent presenter at international conferences, corporate events and universities on issues related to conservation finance, corporate engagement and climate change and women's leadership.Jennifer lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and daughter.

Autumn Peltier

Chief Water Commissioner, The Anishinabek Nation

PeAutumn Peltier is a Canadian water activist who advocates for clean drinking in First Nations communities and across Mother Earth. Autumn lives on the Unceded Anishinaabe Territory on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario and began her advocacy work at the age of eight, inspired by her great aunt, Josephine Mandamin, who was a founding member of the water protectors movement.Autumn is Anishinaabe-kwe and a member of the Wikwemikong First Nation, is a water protector and has been called a “water warrior”. Peltier addressed world leaders at the UN General Assembly on the issue of water protection at the age of thirteen in 2018. Autumn was also invited by the UN as a keynote speaker for World Water Week that year in Stockholm, Sweden. She has been honoured by the Canadian Assembly of First Nations as a water protector.

Rocky Dawuni

International Artist and Humanitarian

GRAMMY nominated musician and activist, Rocky Dawuni, straddles the boundaries between Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S. to create his appealing Afro Roots sound that unites generations and cultures. A galvanizing performer, Dawuni has shared the stage with Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Jason Mraz, Janelle Monae and John Legend, among many others. Named one of Africa's Top 10 global stars by CNN, he has showcased his talent at prestigious venues such as The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and The Hollywood Bowl. Rocky is a UN Goodwill Ambassador for the Environment for Africa as well as a UN Foundation Ambassador for the Clean Cooking Alliance. Through these designations he uses his music to shine a light on crucial issues facing humanity cross the globe through live concerts, speaking roles, panels, youth empowerment and beyond. http://www.rockydawuni.com Photo by Robert KozekWatch his interview during GLF Nairobi 2018.Watch his live perform from GLF Nairobi.

Lawrence Haddad

Executive director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

He and David Nabarro, former special adviser to the U.N. Secretary General, received the World Food Prize for their “extraordinary intellectual and policy leadership in bringing maternal and child nutrition to the forefront of the global food security agenda and thereby significantly reducing childhood stunting.” Before joining Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, he was the founding co-chair and lead author of the Global Nutrition Report. He also served as director of the Institute of Development Studies, and as director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute. He was Britain’s representative on the steering committee of the high level panel of experts of the U.N.’s Committee on World Food Security. He was president of the UK and Ireland’s Development Studies Association. An economist, Lawrence completed his Ph.D. in food research at Stanford University in the United States.

Natalie Isaacs

CEO , 1 Million Women

Natalie Isaacs is the founder and CEO of 1 Million Women, a global movement of women and girls who take practical action to fight climate change by changing the way they live. A former cosmetics manufacturer, Natalie realised that individual action is key to a powerful path to solving the climate crisis. She decided to leave behind the over-packaged world of skin and beauty care, to create an organisation that inspires and empowers women to act. Under Natalie’s leadership, 1 Million Women has become one of Australia’s largest networks acting on climate change, is rapidly-expanding internationally and has grown to more than 800,000 women and counting. A pioneer in the gender and climate change arena in Australia, Natalie’s climate journey from apathy to action cuts through complexity and delivers a simple message that resonates with women and girls of all ages. As the Australian Geographic Society’s 2017 Conservationist of the Year, Natalie is a sought-after presenter and is recognised and supported by some of the world’s most influential women climate leaders.

Vuyo Mpantsha

Producer, I See A Different You

Vuyo Mpantsha, Producer at the I See A Different You creative collective which works with major companies across the globe to change the narrative on Africa through an art-based approach to branding and the consumer market. Born and bred in Soweto, the internationally acclaimed I See A Different You duo, featuring Vuyo Mpantsha and Innocent Mukheli, shot to fame through their photographic blog launched in 2011. Their movement was born from a pure love in the very place they are from. The friends wanted to show a different Soweto – their Soweto – to the world, simultaneously retelling and reframing the township story in an optimistic and creative light to alter negative, contrived and outdated perceptions.Find out more:

• Session at GLF Bonn 2019
• Video
• News article: Now playing: The age of enlightenment on Africa

Renan Ozturk

Filmmaker

Renan lives to tell stories about our connection to the natural world, often set within the most challenging environments on Earth. He’s constantly searching for projects that move him -- films that have a strong visual identity matched with some deeply compelling human element.He began his career as an expedition climber and landscape artist, spending years living in a tent beneath the big walls of U.S. National Parks and in the snowy Himalayan mountains. All of his paintings were created on expedition, carrying large cotton canvases on his back, sometimes even using natural pigments pulled straight from the earth to capture these wildly beautiful landscapes. He received National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2013 for his combination of cutting-edge first ascents and visual storytelling.Currently, Renan works as a commercial and documentary filmmaker, an expedition climber for The North Face, and a photojournalist for Sony and National Geographic. The films he’s made over the years have had a global presence; he’s probably best known for MERU (cinematographer/subject), which won the 2015 Audience Choice Award at Sundance, and the critically acclaimed Sherpa (cinematographer/co-director), which screened at TIFF and Telluride. He’s directed and shot commercial work for major international brands such as Apple, Google, DJI and Nike.

Lina Dolores Pohl Alfaro

Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Mexico,

Lina Dolores Pohl was appointed as Minister of the Environment and the Natural Resource of El Salvador (MARN) in 2014. She holds her position in the administration of the President of the Republic of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Prior to joining the administration, la Lcda. Lina Dolores Pohl was the Vice-Minister of the Environment and the Natural Resources.During her time as Vice-Minister, Lina Dolores Pohl established la Presidencia del Fondo de la Iniciative par las Américas (FIAES) and la Presidencia de la Red de Comités Nacionalies MaB y Reservas de la Biosfera de Iberoamérica y El Caribe (IBEROMAB).Pohl was a member of the Consejo de Administración del Fondo de Inversión Social para el Desarrollo Local (FISDL) and an active member of the Junta Directiva del Fondo Ambiental de El Salvador (FONAES), the Junta Directiva de la Corporación Salvadoreña de Turismo (CORSATUR) and of the Comisión Política Intersectorial de CISALUD.She held the positon of Local Director for Central America of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, where she led the implementation of the Strategy of the Foundation as well as the coordination with the Mexican regional office. Pohl was also an active participant in the Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad (MPDL) promoting various projects for supporting communities affected by the 1999 Mitch hurricanes. Between 1996 and 1999, she was in charge of the design and implementation of el Sistema de Información Gerencial in el Ministerio de Salud and of the Sistema de Información Geográfico.Minister Pohl Alfara holds a degree in Sociology from the Universidad Centroameicana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), a Master of Social Sciences from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, Sede México, México D.F., and a Master of Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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