Björn was educated at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Babcock Graduate School, North Carolina and Harvard Business School, Mass and holds a masters degree in mechanical engineering and business administration as well as a doctorate in macroeconomics.

He has 20 years of professional experience in the financial industry with major financial institutions like UBS and Deutsche Bank on Managing Director level. Björn serves as lecturer at German Universities and has extensive background in major programming languages.

His research interests include machine learning and digitalization of financial services.

Marcus specializes in impact analysis, advanced analytics, and data science. He has implemented and lead impact assessment projects at several MNCs and associations.

He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and has 15+ years research and teaching experience in quantum information theory, applied mathematics, and statistical physics at German, UK, and US universities.

Marcus has extensive industry experience in advanced statistical and mathematical modeling, including natural language processing and machine learning.

Willem is specialized in sustainable finance. His book ‘Principles of Sustainable Finance’ (with Prof. Dirk Schoenmaker) appeared with Oxford University Press in 2018.

Willem has 20 years business experience, of which 12 years in asset management, at NN Investment Partners & Robeco.

Previously, he also held positions at GE, PWC and Erasmus University, where he obtained his PhD in corporate finance in 2006.

Fredi is associate director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and an Associate Professor in the Global Climate Science Programme.

Her main research interest is on extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves and storms, and understanding whether and to what extent these are made more likely or intense due to climate change. She leads several projects understanding the impacts of man-made climate change on natural and social systems with a particular focus on Africa and India.

In 2019 Fredi was named one of New Scientist's 'Ones to Watch' and in 2020 climate change attribution was named one of MIT Tech Review's top ten breakthrough technologies. In 2020, Fredi became one of just 10 international climate scientists to join the core writing team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) - the document that will integrate all the IPCC reports in the current assessment cycle.

Fredi's work has been featured extensively in global media including the FT, Economist, Times of India, the Sun, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, BBC, and CNN.