Tony Capon
Tony is the inaugural Professor of Planetary Health at the University of Sydney. A public health physician and authority on environmental health and health promotion, his research focuses on urbanisation, sustainable development and human health. Previously, Tony directed the global health institute at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) and held professorial appointments at Australian National University and University of Canberra.
Visit Website
Xuemei Bai
Professor Bai joined ANU in 2011, as a professor in Urban Environment and Human Ecology at the Fenner School of Environment and Society. Prio to ANU, she was a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO, and senior researcher at environment and ecology research institutes in Japan. She is an Adjunct Professor at Beijing Normal University.
Visit Website
Peter Søgaard Jørgensen
I am a PhD from the University of Copenhagen currently working as a post doc level research assistant at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, and the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen. My research combines macroecological analysis on the biological effects of global environmental change with a solution-oriented focus to increase sustainability of food, health, natural resource and environmental systems through strategies of applied evolutionary biology.
Visit Website
Thomas Elmqvist
Thomas Elmqvist is a professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. His research is focused on ecosystem services, land use change, urbanization, natural disturbances and components of resilience including the role of social institutions.
Visit Website
Kensuke Fukushi
Kensuke is a civil-environmental engineer and holds appointments at the Graduate Schools of Engineering and Frontier Sciences, where he organizes the Urban Sustainability Science Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is one of the founding faculty members of IR3S and achieved remarkable progress in promoting sustainability science in various academic communities.
Visit Website
Organizing Committee
- Wendy Broadgate, Future Earth
- Owen Gaffney, Future Earth
- Rebecca Oliver, Future Earth
- Hideyuki Mohri, Future Earth
- Christina Cook, Future Earth
- Hannah Moersberger, Future Earth