Speakers &
Featured Faculty
At the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, we are building a new nexus for breakthroughs, fueled by optimism, hard work, creativity, and a clear mission.
Over the course of this two-day event, leaders will share valuable insights into our most pressing sustainability challenges and opportunities related to water, energy, food, and extreme weather. Topics of discussion also will include AI, geopolitics, and the latest trends in business and finance. Your participation will help us develop actionable plans and foster connections that translate research breakthroughs into scalable solutions. Please check back regularly for updates.
Pranav Adani
Adani Enterprises Director
José Andrés
Internationally renowned chef, New York Times bestselling author, educator, and humanitarian
Edward Apraku
Ph.D. candidate, Environmental Engineering
Nicole Ardoin
Associate Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Frances Arnold
Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology
Jack Baker
William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor
Halleh B. Balch
Assistant Professor, Oceans and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering, and HHMI Hanna H Gray Faculty Fellow at Stanford University
Ban Ki-moon
Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations
Sally Benson
Precourt Family Professor, Professor of Energy Science Engineering, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy
Hélène Benveniste
Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Steven and Roberta Denning Faculty Fellow in Global Governance for Sustainability, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Greg Beroza
Wayne Loel Professor of Earth Science, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology (by courtesy) at Stanford University
Marshall Burke
Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Maxine Burkett
Emerson Collective Professor of Climate, Environment, and Society & Faculty Director, Center for Just Environmental Futures
Jen Burney
Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Sierra Rose Castaneda
Ph.D. candidate, Earth System Science
Divya Chalise
Co-Founder and CTO, TheZero Inc.
Sarah Chandler
Vice President of Environment and Supply Chain Innovation, Apple
Edward Chen
Sophomore, Stanford University. Executive Director, Stanford Climate Week. U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts
June Choi
Ph.D. candidate, Earth System Science
Steven Chu
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University
William Chueh
Director, Precourt Institute for Energy; Kimmelman Professor, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, of Energy Science and Engineering; and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Danny Collins
Knight-Hennessy Scholar and a second-year PhD student in Oceans Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Yi Cui
Founding Faculty Director of Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, previous Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, Fortinet Founders Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Steve Davis
Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Energy Science and Engineering Department of Earth System Science
Brian Deese
Co-Founder and CEO of Foundry-Logic
Noah Diffenbaugh
William Wrigley Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
John Doerr
Chair, Kleiner Perkins
Ira Ehrenpreis
Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners
Scott Fendorf
Terry Huffington Professor, Earth System Science and Senior Associate Dean, Research Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Chris Field
Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute of the Environment; the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences (Biology) and Professor of Earth System Science in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University; former co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Anne Finucane
Former Vice Chair of Bank of America and Chair of Bank of America Europe, Senior Advisor, TPG Rise Climate Fund and Chair, Rubicon Carbon
Jendayi Frazer
Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Hoover Institution
Thomas L. Friedman
Author and Journalist
Conner Galloway
CEO & Co-Founder, Xcimer Energy Corporation
Rwaida Gharib
PhD Student in Environment and Resources; Environmental and Climate Justice Graduate Fellow, Center for Just Environmental Futures
Jamshyd N. Godrej
Godrej & Boyce Chair
Steven Gorelick
Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Director, Global Freshwater Initiative
Rodi Guidero
Executive Director, Breakthrough Energy; Managing Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Parul Gupta
Managing Director for Mobilization, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Beth Hart
McDonald’s Chief Sustainability & Social Impact Officer
James Kanoff
CEO & Co-Founder
Rosemary Knight
The George L. Harrington Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Jon Krosnick
Frederic O. Glover Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication and of Political Science, of Environmental Social Sciences and, by courtesy, of Psychology
Tomo Kumahira
Co-Founder and CEO, WaterOne.AI
Tim Latimer
Fervo Energy Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jim Leape
William and Eva Price Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Jonathan Levin
President and Bing Presidential Professor, Stanford University
Fei-Fei Li
Denning Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI); Sequoia Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Co-founder & CEO, World Labs
Yingjie Li
Postdoctoral scholar, Natural Capital Alliance
David Lobell
Benjamin M. Page Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Andrew Luck
Stanford Football Program General Manager
Evan Ludington
M.S. student, Earth System Science
Arunava Majumdar
Chester Naramore Dean of Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Jay Precourt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Energy Science and Engineering, and Senior Fellow of Precourt Institute for Energy & Hoover Institution
Jade Marcus
CEO and co-founder, Mafix
Michael Mastrandrea
Research Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program and Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Director of Policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Accelerator
Meagan Mauter
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, of Photon Science, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford School of Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Chemical Engineering
Ernest Moniz
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Special Advisor to the MIT President, co-chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and inaugural Distinguished Fellow of the Emerson Collective and CEO of the non-profit Energy Futures Initiative
Amit Narayan
Founder and CEO, GridCARE
Rosamond Naylor
William Wrigley Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute, and at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Emerita
Jack Norbec
Fervo Energy Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Edward Norton
Filmmaker, Co-founder, Stax Engineering, Co-founder – Conservation Equity, UN Ambassador for Biodiversity
Emily Paris
PhD, Earth System Science
Ann Patterson
Policy Scholar at the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Jonathan (Jon) Payne
Dorrell William Kirby Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences, and (By courtesy), Biology and Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Charlotte Pera
Executive Director, Sustainability Accelerator
Ana Paula Pessoa
Founder, Kunumi Institute
Laurene Powell Jobs
Founder and President, Emerson Collective
Kelly Redmond
Co-founder and co-CEO, Oleo
Condoleezza Rice
Tad and Dianne Taube Director and Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow in Public Policy, Hoover Institution; Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy; Professor of Political Science
Lily Sarafan
Executive Chair and Co-Founder, TheKey
Barbara Simpson
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Tao Sun
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eric Toone
Chief Technology Officer of Breakthrough Energy
Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson
Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences
Susan Uthayakumar
Chief Energy and Sustainability Officer and Member of the Executive Committee, Prologis
Rob Walton
Business Leader, Conservationist, and Owner of the Denver Broncos
Michael Wara
Stanford Sustainability Accelerator Senior Director of Policy
Gita Wirjawan
Former Minister of Trade of Indonesia and Visiting Scholar at the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Associate Professor of Earth System Science, Ishiyama Family Faculty Scholar, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Jane Woodward
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
Akiko Yamazaki
Chair, Stanford Sustainability Task Force and Co-Founder and Director, Wildlife Conservation Network
Jerry Yang
Founding Partner, AME Cloud Ventures