Kate Raworth (pronounced ‘Ray-worth’) is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab.

Her internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist has been translated into over 20 languages and has been widely influential with diverse audiences, from the UN General Assembly to Pope Francis to Extinction Rebellion.

Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles, released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity.

Indy Johar is an architect, teacher and leader focused on systemically changing the way we build our urban environments through regenerative redesign, distributional care and democratising access to spaces. He is the founding Executive Director of both Architecture 00 and Dark Matter Labs and co-founder of Impact Hub Birmingham and Open Systems Lab. He was a Senior Innovation Associate at the Young Foundation, has lectured at many universities globally and is currently teaching at RMIT. His work includes concern for aligning our incentives across civic systems to more accurately orient our lives toward intrinsic value.

Katherine is a political economist, writer, and advocate for economic system change. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and its Scottish hub, and played a key role in forming the Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo) initiative. She is Writer-at-Large at the University of Edinburgh, Economic Change Lead at The Next Economy, and Strategic Advisor to the Centre for Policy Development. A member of the Club of Rome, she also serves on boards including the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity and The Democracy Collaborative. Katherine is currently a 2024 Thinker-in-Residence with the Australian Health Promotion Association and a Senior Fellow at the ZOE Institute.

John is a consultant in the field of Defence and National Security. He is the Board Chair of the Institute of Integrated Economics Research - Australia, an Executive Member of the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group, a Fellow of the Institute For Regional Security, the Sir Richard Williams Foundation and the Australian Institute of Energy. He has extensive experience across the fields of strategy, policy, planning, operational command, capability development and material acquisition. He has written and spoken on National security and Resilience, Energy Security, Economic Security, Integrated Air and Missile Defence, the 5th Gen Air Force, Cyber Security, Space Policy, Defence Logistics, Defence White Papers and Fuel Security.Other Board roles have included: Chairman of the Kokoda Foundation (renamed the Institute for Regional Security,) Deputy Chairman of the Williams Foundation, and Council member of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Council member.

Dominic initiated and incubated the TransCap Initiative when he was the Director of Capital and Investments at EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest climate innovation initiative, where he was responsible for building the organisation’s nascent investment function. Before joining EIT Climate-KIC in 2015, Dominic had worked as an entrepreneur at the renewable energy start-up Electrochaea, as a private equity investor at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, and as a finance professional in the institutional asset management division of Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an MSc from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.

Charly Kleissner is an impact investor who sees true wealth as contributing to humanity and the planet. A leader in the deep impact movement, he focuses on addressing the root causes of systemic issues with a non-anthropocentric perspective. For him, impact investing is an expression of identity, not just an intellectual pursuit. He co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation, Social-Impact International, Toniic, and the 100% Network, which directs over $10 billion toward impact. He serves on multiple boards, including The Club of Rome and the Schwab Foundation. A former Silicon Valley executive at NeXT and Ariba, he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Technology, Vienna.