Arne Fjortoft is a Norwegian citizen with a strong international commitment. He has broad communication and journalist experience, including print media, radio and television, and the newest digital communication technologies. While working at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation as a foreign correspondent, he specialized on North/South issues and the human drama dominating the development process. He spearheaded new program formats, using television as a conscious tool in providing information to create better understanding of major global issues. As a follow up of the first declaration for a new International Information. Order by the Heads of State of the Non Aligned Countries in 1976, and later at the General Assembly of the United Nations and UNESCO, he initiated an international non governmental organization, Worldview International Foundation, with the purpose of strengthening people's right to free flow of information by training and development of new communication capacities in developing countries, and to use information and communication as a tool to help the poor and disadvantaged in solving problems related to basic needs. Mr. Fjortoft served as the Chairman of the Liberal Party of Norway for four years. During his leadership, the party widened its political agenda with a global commitment to sustainable development. He has written several books and has been honored with national and international awards for his achievements. Worldview has implemented projects in 28 countries and created 16 national media centres and a number of media initiatives, such as Young Asia Television, Mandate the Future, International Worldview College, Worldview Institute, Worldview Rights, Thai Worldview Foundation, Boats 4 Life, Paradise Farm and others.

Bremley started his journey in Sustainable Development back in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit. That experience left him convinced that working towards helping people build a better life through social, environmental and economic development was what he wanted to do. So he joined the Consortium of Indian Scientists for Sustainable Development in 1993 and worked on a project to combat decertification and regenerate the desert ecosystem in Rajasthan, India. In 1997 Bremley received the WWF Prince Berhnard Scholarship for Environmental Leadership from Geneva which inspired him to later Pedal for the Planet with Bike Aid traveling 3700 miles by bicycle from San Francisco to Washington D.C. and raising half a million dollars to fund environmental projects in 53 developing countries. In 1999 he joined the Global Environment Facility Division of UNDP and worked on the Gulf of Mannar biodiversity protection project in Tamil Nadu, India after which he moved to New York and joined the Commission on Sustainable Development Secretariat at United Nations and worked with different the major groups of Agenda 21. Bremley was later appointed by the Prime Minister to represent his country at the historic United Nations Millennium Summit where he addressed the 2000 Millennium Assembly. In 2001 Bremley joined the Permanent Mission of India and worked with the UN Ambassador's office and after graduating from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in 2002 with a degree in Environmental Policy Studies he worked with the World Environment Center developing their Corporate Social Responsibility protocols to guide business and industry reach their triple-bottom-line and sustainable development goals. Later that year he participated in the Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable Development completing his 10 year journey working on global sustainable development projects. Bremley then joined the Environment Department of the World Bank in 2003 and worked on linking poverty reduction and environmental management by analyzing policy challenges and opportunities, a project funded by DFID, European Commission, UNDP and World Bank. Later he worked as Program Manager at the Education Development Center in Boston developing and managing projects of the 75 country network of the Youth Employment Summit Campaign. Bremley completed his post graduate research work on analising the relationships between Sustainable Forest Management and Rural Livelihood Strategies at the Development Studies Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007. He is the Co-founder of the Global Youth Action Network and sits on the Board of Directors of PCI Media Impact.

Gideon is a Director at Forests for Life, who are committed to delivering sustainable returns for investors in a way, that also ensures high standards of environmental integrity, and which helps lift people out of poverty. He worked with Lord Stern, on his review of the Economics of Climate Change, and led all work on forests for the review. The Stern Review has been widely credited by investors, NGOs and Governments for bringing international focus to reducing emissions from forests and land use change. His decade long career at HM Treasury spanned many policy areas covering taxes, spending and international affairs, but included posts overseeing environment policy and most recently worked on corporate strategy where he oversaw the sustainability of HMT Group's own operations, and transformed performance so that HMT was acclaimed as the best performing government department by the Sustainable Development Commission and awarded the Carbon Trust Standard by the Carbon Trust. He was a Fulbright Scholar and took an MBA (Management and Entrepreneurship) at Columbia University, where he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma, the top honours society. While a student he worked alongside President Clinton, for his Harlem small business initiative, and he remains committed to working with startups and social enterprises, and has interests that include climate change, health and technology. He sits on the committee of the British Fulbright Schollars Association, and is committed to helping Senator Fulbright's vision of promoting leadership, learning and empathy between nations through educational exchange.

Tom has a background working in corporate engagement and strategy in the UK and the US on climate change. He has been at CarbonSense since 2005 where his role as a principal consultant is to take senior people at UK based companies through a framework that they call the "carbon journey". They do this so that they begin to really understand the impacts that their company is having both directly and indirectly through their supply chain. They pride themselves on walking the path between NGOs and traditional consultancies in that they are challenging but non-confrontational and inspire business leaders to make the changes because they realise it is the right thing to do. Ultimately, they believe this means challenging the business models and the very principle of consumption but that is very hard for these people to hear! Apart from this Tom is also a Trustee of the Earth Charter UK and he Chairs the Business Policy Engagement section of this. This is an area that he finds very exciting and believes he could have a powerful role to play. He is also finishing off a Masters at Schumacher College in Whole Systems Science in which he is taking a systemic view of society and seeking leverage points for change around climate change. Prior to these things his background is very diverse. He was a professional craftsman for 3 years and a Buddhist monk for 2 years.

Katherine Tubb set up and runs overseas volunteer agency, 2Way Development, an organisation which places volunteers to work in a skilled capacity alongside locally run civil society organisations involved with poverty reduction worldwide. Katherine was a volunteer herself (VSO) in Nepal for one year, working for an environmental NGO in 1999/2000. Katherine then started her career working in the tourism industry, primarily as a researcher and published work relating to eco and sustainable tourism. She has a masters in development studies from the London School of Economics, and has conducted in depth research into the links between international volunteering and local movements in the development sector in primarily East Africa and Central America, published on www.gapyearesearch.org. Katherine is a part time travel writer and has co authored a Lonely Planet publication entitled ‘Volunteering – making a difference around the world’ released worldwide in July 2007. She recently set up her own working ‘hub’ in London called 2Way Space – a shared working space for small businesses and freelancers.