He was the 68th US Secretary of State between 2013 and 2017. As the country's chief diplomat, he defined the State Department's strategy for nuclear non-proliferation, combating radical extremism and climate change. His tenure was distinguished by his success in negotiating the nuclear agreement with Iran and the Paris Agreement. Between 1985 and 2013, he was the senator for Massachusetts and between 2009 and 2013 he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He served in the US Navy, with two tours of duty in Vietnam, for which he received a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for bravery in combat, as well as three Purple Hearts. He graduated from Yale University and specialised in law at Boston College Law School. Author of the bestsellers «A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America and This Moment on Earth», Secretary of State John Kerry published a memoir entitled «Every Day Is Extra» in 2018. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs at Yale University, as well as a Visiting Distinguished Statesman at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
A Resident Researcher at the National Geographic Society, Sylvia Earle founded the Deep Search Foundation, is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Harte Research Institute and the Marine Science and Technology Foundation and was Lead Researcher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She has authored over 175 publications, led over 100 expeditions, logged over 7,000 hours of diving and has received over 100 awards in the US and abroad. A graduate of Florida State University, with a master's and doctorate from Duke University, her research focuses on the ecology and conservation of marine ecosystems and the development of deep-water access technologies. Time named her a «Hero of the Planet» and the Library of Congress a «Living Legend». In 2009, she received the TED Prize.
After working for SIC as producer and correspondent, she attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (New York). Since then, she has dedicated herself to reporting from danger zones: She worked undercover to report on the mujahideen crossing from Syria into Iraq; she camped in the Amazon jungle to cover the dispute between indigenous tribes and miners over the largest diamond mine in South America; and she travelled on the «Train of Death», which carries migrants from Central America to the US, etc. She has received several journalistic awards, as well as an Emmy nomination. She is a correspondent for National Geographic's Explorer series.
A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.
Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Potsdam and Professor of Global Sustainability and Aquatic Systems at Stockholm University.
He gained international recognition for developing the concept of “planetary barriers”, which has become the paradigm of sustainability science. He received the prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and was considered one of the most influential and cited scientists in the world by Clarivate Analytics.
He founded the Stockholm Resilience Centre and was Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute. He holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University, a Master’s degree in Science and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy.
He was awarded the Climate Change Award (2020) by Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Hillary Laureate (2017), the knighthood of the French National Order of the Legion of Honor (2016), the German Environmental Prize (2015) and the Cosmos Prize (2015).
American environmentalist, writer and journalist specialising in the impact of global warming on the planet.
He is a Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has won the Gandhi Peace Prize, as well as honorary degrees from 20 colleges and universities.
He founded and leads 350.org, the first global climate campaign, which has organised protests against climate change on every continent, including Antarctica. He also founded Third Act, which mobilises people over 60 to take action on climate and justice.
His 1989 book, «The End of Nature», is considered the first book for the general public on climate change and has been published in 24 languages. He is the author of 20 books, and his work appears regularly in the press, from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone.
A writer and journalist specialising in the environment, he has been researching climate change and responsiveness to a rapidly changing environment for ProPublica, an independent investigative journalism newsroom in New York, which collaborates with the New York Times Magazine.
He is a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to write his next book on climate migration. He also teaches narrative writing on climate change at the University of California, Berkeley.
His most recent research includes a three-part series on global climate migration, an analysis of the global palm oil trade, the climatic factors behind pandemics and how climate change is evidencing a global water shortage. Another of his series on the causes of water scarcity in the American West, «Killing the Colorado», was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize and received the top honour from the National Academy of Sciences.
Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.
His primary area of expertise is the history of the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, China and Central Asia. His research on the Crusades is considered one of the greatest contributions of this generation to a new way of understanding this topic.
His book, «The Silk Roads: A New History of the World», was named one of the 25 most influential books translated into Chinese and is a top-selling non-fiction book all over the world. He is also the author of «The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World», already considered a map of the new geopolitical order and, more recently, «The Earth Transformed – An Untold History».
Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.
Historian of science, with significant contributions to the philosophy and sociology of science. She published a hugely influential article (in Science magazine in 2004) quantifying the scientific consensus on climate change. She co-authored the book «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from «Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming» (2010) and recently published Why Trust Science?» (2019). She is a columnist for «Scientific American» magazine.
