Alex Luebke has led climate related programs like grid scale energy storage, zero emission fuels and carbon sequestration technologies. Alex is an Aerospace Engineer by trade and has extensive innovation and leadership experience in bringing global scale projects into reality.

Ken Mankoff is a senior scientist who studies ice sheets, glacier hydrology, and polar oceanography. He has participated in or led ~30 field campaigns to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Norway, and Alaska.

Drawing on her training as a theoretical physicist and her work experience in international disaster mitigation at the United Nations, Jenny Suckale’s research group at Stanford works on understanding and reducing the disaster risk created by nature’s extremes.

Vinton Cerf is one of the fathers of the Internet and serves as Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He has received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US National Medal of Technology and the IEEE Medal of Honor.

Robert Axelrod is a political scientist best known for his work on cooperation. He received the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for scientific achievement and leadership.

Stephen Crocker is an Internet pioneer best known for his work developing the protocols for the Arpanet and, more recently, chairmanship of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Dr. Crocker is the recipient of the IEEE Internet Award and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame.

Baruch Fischhoff is a decision scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for his work on risk analysis and risk communication. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.