Bo Normark

Bo is an Industrial Strategy Executiveat EIT Innoenergy.

He was instrumentalin creating the industrial development programme of the European Battery Alliance with a strong focus on sustainability and supply chain topics. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and Dr.h.c. in the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He has served in several public and private boards and has wast experiencies in the power system and the industrial implications of energy transition.

Anders Ahnlid

Anders is the Director-General of the Swedish National Board of Trade, appointed as of 2020. Prior to this role, Mr. Ahnlid, has served the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in various capacities such as Swedish Ambassador to Finland, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the EU in Brussels, Ambassador to the OECD and to UNESCO in Paris as well as Minister, Head of the Trade and Economic Department at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC.

Within the MFA he has also been Director-General for Trade, Deputy Director-General, Head of Department for International Trade Policy as well as Trade Policy Analyst at the National Board of Trade that he currently heads. He was a negotiator in the GATT Uruguay Round that led to the creation of the World Trade Organization.

Mr. Anders Ahnlid holds a University degree in Political Science and Economics, University of Lund.

Cynthia-Christie Jonströmer

Cynthia is the founder of the Stockholm Climate Leadership Forum, bringing with her a wealth of experience in investment. She currently serves as CEO of BHC Invest AB and was formerly the CEO of BrainHeart Capital AB. Throughout her career, she has made notable investments in companies such as Mobeon, Åkerströms, Meur Networks, Trux, and Spring Mobil. In 2021, Cynthia launched the private equity fund Antarez ClimateTech Capital, which is dedicated to climate transition and sustainability investments. She holds both GMP (2008-2009) and AMP (2018) credentials from Harvard Business School. Today, she serves as a board director of the Harvard Business School Swedish Club, with a focus on Sustainability and Climate Change.

Ingmar Rentzhog

CEO and Founder of We Don't Have Time.

Ingmar is serial entrepreneur within financial communication and nominated for a DI Gasell Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Sweden’s Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year 2020, and Green Warrior 2021. Ingmar Rentzhog has been the chairman of the environmental think tank Global Challenge. He is on the board of Naventus Corporate Finance. He’s a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force and he was in 2022 appointed a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission.

Anna König Jerlmyr

Khashayar Farmanbar

Former Energy Minister of Sweden.

Vanessa Butani

Canadian-Swedish Vanessa Butani is Electrolux Group VP Sustainability since 2021. Butani was previously Head of Sustainability for Electrolux Europe and before that Director of Sustainable Business at Scandic Hotel Group. She has held several senior managerial roles in connected appliances and sustainability. Vanessa is passionate about driving sustainable business and integrating sustainability thinking into every aspect of the business.

Vanessa Butani - Stockholm Climate Leadership Forum Interview

Patrik Lundström

As CEO of Renewcell, Patrik Lundström leads a path-breaking textile-to-textile recycling business aiming to make fashion circular globally. He has led the scale-up of Renewcell’s operations from demo to industrial scale with the opening of the world’s first commercial scale textile-to-textile chemical recycling plant, Renewcell 1 in Sundsvall, in 2022. Prior to joining Renewcell, Patrik worked for international corporations such as Royal DSM and General Electric.

Sir David King

Chair and Founder, Climate Crisis Advisory Group

Professor Sir David King is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Founder and Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) and the Founder of the Centre for Climate Repair (CCR) at Cambridge University. Additionally, he is an Affiliate Partner of Systemiq. Previously, he served as the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000-2007 and the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change from 2013-2017.

Anders Hedfalk

Chairman of HBSC

Reynir Indahl

Founder and Managing Partner, Summa Equity

Emily Bolon

CEO of Looper Textile Co.

Harald Mix

Debora Spar

Debora is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Global Business and Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between technological change and broader social structures.

Spar served as the President of Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and as President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 2017 to 2018. Before joining Barnard, Spar spent 17 years on the HBS faculty as the Spangler Family Professor as well as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. A prolific writer, Spar’s books include The Baby Business (2006), Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (2013), and Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny (2020).

Spar earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and her B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Liisa Raasakka

Since 2020, Liisa is representing the EIB Group in Sweden. She is an experienced banker with history working in the International Financing Institutes (EIB, EBRD, NEFCO). She enjoys financing investments that creates an added value to society, in particular environmental investments. She grew up in the towns of Lund and Stockholm and has a master’s degree in finance from the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland.

Inga Pichler