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Executive Director of the European Environment Agency since 2013. In 1996 he completed a PhD in international environmental politics at Colorado State University and for the past 20 years he has conducted research in more than a dozen countries, in areas including environmental politics, climate change, and sustainable development.

Founding director of the Urban-Rural Bridge International Consultancy and Founder and Board Chairman of the Dingjia Rural Community Development Co-op. Fred is a farming advocate working to reduce food waste by helping farmers plan their production and to grow crops in natural settings without chemicals.

Organizational and business development project leader at MatVett. Matvett is a non-profit corporation owned by the food industry in Norway, that aims to prevent and reduce unnecessary food waste by working with the food value chain and the government while sharing information with media and consumers to raise awareness.

Host of the Nordic Talks podcast. As an independent consultant and a transdisciplinary scientist, Dr. Afton Halloran has worked on sustainable development issues with organizations such as the World Bank, World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Sustainable Cities International. Afton is also an External Consultant to the Nordic Council of Ministers and a researcher at the University of Copenhagen. Originally from Canada, Afton has lived and worked in Norway, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Japan and Thailand. She currently resides in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Professor Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, which introduced 12 weeks' unpaid family leave, the first legislation of its kind in the States.

Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business and Lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. PhD. Robert Strand researches and teaches in corporate social responsibility, the SGDs and Nordic sustainable business.