Nicole Schwab is Co-Founder of Ostara and Chair of the Forum of Young Global Leaders. She previously served as Co-Head of the Nature Positive Pillar at the World Economic Forum, overseeing the Forum’s work on the transition to a nature-positive economy, as well as 1t.org, the Forum’s trillion trees platform focusing on restoration and conservation of forest landscapes. Prior to joining the Forum, she served as a consultant and strategic advisor to non-profit organizations focusing on forest and ocean conservation and restoration, including National Geographic Society’s Campaign for Nature. With a scientific and public policy background, she started her career working on health policy in the Andes for the Government of Bolivia and the World Bank, before returning to Europe to co-found EDGE Certified Foundation, a business certification standard for gender equality in the workplace.

Vaishali Nigam Sinha is the Co-Founder of ReNew, India's leading clean energy company. As Chairperson Sustainability, Vaishali has been responsible for ReNew’s emergence as a global ESG trailblazer, advancing the Net-Zero agenda, and delivering outcome-driven ESG strategies with top global rankings. Vaishali is also the Founding Chair of the ReNew Foundation—the
company’s philanthropic arm—driving the ReNew India Initiative for pathbreaking work in corporate social responsibility. She is
also Co-Chair of the Finance and Infrastructure Task Force of B20, the global business forum of G20 Brazil.
Vaishali has completed the Owners and Presidents Management Program from Harvard Business School and has a Masters’ in Public Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she was an American Association of University Women (AAUW) scholar.

Ann Dumaliang is an Ashoka Fellow, a Global Shaper, National Geographic Explorer, Vanity Fair Changing Your Mind Awardee and Esquire Philippines' Man at His Best Warrior of the Year who co-founded the Masungi Georeserve - an award-winning project using the triple approach of conservation & research, education and sustainable development through geotourism as a bottoms-up approach to conserving a 60 million year old pinnacle karst formation and aiding rural growth.

Her project now involves the ambitious aim to manage & restore a 2,700 hectare area at no cost to government. These areas constitute portions of a critically deteriorated watershed important to 20 million Filipinos - making it important as a disaster-risk resilience approach and as a nature-based solution to the climate crisis in some of the most at risk countries and communities in the world.

Awards and accolades for the project include:
(1) Special commendations at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD) 14th Conference of Parties in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt in October 2018 for innovations in resourcing and financing for conservation
(2) Global finalist for Destination Stewardship Award at the World Travel and Tourism Council’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards in Seville, Spain in 2019 out of about 150 nominations
(3) Being considered as one of the top three most sustainable and innovative tourism projects in the world by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation out of 200 nominations in 2019
(4) Most recently, Masungi Georeserve has also the Global Water Changemaker Award for speaking truth to power & overcoming inertia for watershed rehabilitation
(5) The prestigious United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Action Award for creating youth-led movements for conservation
(6) The International Ranger Federation Award for demonstrated bravery at the frontlines for protecting tropical rainforests against illegal and syndicated activities