Klaus-Michael Ahrend is member of the HEAG Executive Board since 2008. He is part of numerous supervisory bodies, advisory boards, and associations of the municipal economy. He is also a lecturer in energy economics and corporate governance and an honorary professor at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. After studying business administration at the University of St. Gallen and completing his doctorate at the University of Trier, he worked as a management consultant at Accenture. He then took over management tasks at the municipal utilities in Offenbach.

Lewis Akenji is Managing Director of Hot or Cool Institute, a Berlin based think-tank that helps organizations design science-based solutions to climate change. He is the former Executive Director of SEED, a UN partnership promoting entrepreneurship for sustainable development, and Director for Sustainable Consumption and Production at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. He has a MSc. in Sustainable Resource Management and a PhD in Political Economy.

As a full professor at the School of Business, Economics and Social Science of University of Hamburg and Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth of University of Zurich, Timo Busch teaches courses on corporate sustainability, business strategy & the environment, and sustainable finance. He also is a member of the steering committee on the Science Platform Climate Protection advising the German government.

Todd Cort holds several positions at Yale University. He is a Lecturer in Sustainabliity at the Yale School of Management, Faculty Co-Director of the Yale Center for Business and Environment and Faculty Co-Director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance. His teaching and research focus on the barriers to moving capital (either corporate or investor) to more sustainable investments, with an emphasis on ESG metrics, corporate ESG strategy and investor strategies to evaluate and integrate financially-material aspects of ESG data.

Andre Habisch serves as full professor of Social Ethics and Social Policy at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt’s Faculty of Business and Economics, where he also coordinates the MA program for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. His research covers sustainability reporting, sustainable consumption, business ethics, sustainable finance, practical wisdom etc. Moreover, he volunteers as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bayer Cares Foundation and as Scientific Advisor of the Union of Catholic Entrepreneurs (Cologne).

Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum has 30+ years top management experience with Henkel in the areas R&D, production and supply chain as well as sustainability and innovation. As co-chair of the Sustainability Council he was responsible for the global sustainability strategy including an early commitment to climate neutrality and circular economy. Thomas now acts as independent expert and advisor for industry and science, e.g. the Fraunhofer CCPE, the Circular Valley Foundation, the AEPW and the CEID. He teaches innovation management at the Niederrhein University of Applied Science.

Prita Leenheer has 30 years of experience in a range of industries executing PR, marketing strategies and unique experiences across the globe. Her strengths lie in handling marketing budgets and developing new revenue streams and markets by thinking out of the box. Using her global partnerships and networks, Prita launched Earth 300, the largest sustainability & climate change multidisciplinary platform to the world in a well-orchestrated PR launch event in March 2021.

Bremley Lyngdoh is the Founder & CEO of Worldview Impact Foundation. He is a climate change and sustainable development professional with over 20 years of experience working with the public and private sector. He has developed a range of innovative projects in Asia, Africa and South America, aimed at producing ecologically sound and economically viable activities, contributing directly to reducing rural poverty, and generating productive sustainable livelihoods for vulnerable local communities.