Fascinated by the crossovers between climate change, public health, and human rights, Chloé is currently a Climate Change Research Fellow at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Chloé is a certified Swiss attorney and a recipient of an LL.M. in Environmental Law at UC Berkeley. Chloé’s most recent work involved filing a complaint with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights regarding military contamination on the indigenous island of Sivuqaq in the Bering Sea (commonly known as St. Lawrence Island), Alaska, with a nonprofit organization called Alaska Community Action on Toxics and the Environmental Law Clinic of UC Berkeley. She is also a board member of the South African non-profit Chemicals Alert Africa and a member of Avocat. e.s pour le Climat (a network of climate-sensitive attorneys in Switzerland) and a member of the Plastics and Health Working Group at Stanford University. Chloé’s current research at Berkeley focuses on climate change issues and solutions, with an emphasis on heavy-duty truck zero-emission truck regulations, supply-side regulations, and policy scaling the production of e-fuels powered by renewable energy for aviation and/or maritime sectors in California.

Gaurav is a Professor and the Pritzker Endowed Chair in Sustainability at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Gaurav has published over 225 journal publications and has an h-index of 60. He is the Director of UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management (ICM): a cross-campus technology translation institute. Gaurav is the CTO/Co-Founder of Equatic Inc., the Grand Prize Winner of the Temasek Foundation’s 2021 Liveability Challenge, the Co-Founder of Concrete-AI Inc., the Co-Founder of Nextli Technologies Inc., and the Founder of CarbonBuilt Inc., a Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Gaurav has served as an expert providing: a) testimony to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and the California State Senate, and b) strategic consulting, core R&D, and innovation support to Fortune500 corporations, government agencies, foundations, and industry organizations globally. Gaurav earned his B.S. (2006), M.S. (2007), and Ph.D. (2009) from Purdue University. Gaurav is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and was selected to the TIME100 Climate and Forbes Sustainability Leader lists in 2024.

Arthur Groh is the CTO of KUORI GmbH, a materials innovation company transforming food industry by-products into high-performance, biodegradable alternatives to conventional plastics and rubber. With a background in polymer chemistry and a strong entrepreneurial track record, Arthur has co-founded multiple ventures including Spaceafrica and Groh Technologies. His work focuses on bridging deep-tech R&D with industrial scalability to drive systemic change in materials science. Committed to a sustainable future, he integrates scientific precision with circular design principles to tackle global environmental challenges.

Tom oversees government relations in the United States and Canada for Frontiers, a Gold Open Access publisher helping researchers collaborate better and innovate faster. He focuses on improving science and technology policy, with an emphasis on open science and public access. Tom is formerly the manager of Publisher Relations for the Web of Science Group (part of Clarivate) and runs a consultancy that works with startups and STM publishers. He lives in Chicago.