Helena Norberg-Hodge is a Swedish-born local economy activist and bestselling author. She has been raising awareness of the destructiveness and the dark side of globalization for over 40 years. Her activism began after she visited the small community of Ladakh, located in Northern India, when she was writing a paper as a linguistics major in university and saw how it had collapsed after access to the region was opened.

 <Ancient Futures>, her book on the experience, has been translated into 50 languages and published around the world. It is now a canonical work in eco-activism and remains a bestseller that is still immensely relevant in the field. Norberg-Hodge is a vocal proponent of a local economy that centers around communities and supports a sustainable life. She is widely recognized for her activism and achievements in promoting the localization movement around the world through various projects, and she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1986, the Goi Peace Award in 2012, and the Arthur Morgan Award in 2017.

 Ian Redmond is a British tropical biologist and conservationist. He’s renowned for his research and activities to protect wild gorillas and elephants in Africa. Redmond, who began researching mountain gorillas in 1976 at Dr. Dian Fossy’s gorilla research center, witnessed the death of a gorilla he considered a friend, Digit. After that, he became a conservationist of wild animals and their habitats and has been involved as a consultant in more than 100 documentaries on the environment on the BBC, National Geographic, and Discovery.

 Recognized early for his passion and expertise in conserving wildlife and their habitats, he served as Ambassador for the UN Year of the Gorilla and for the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species. He also served for more than ten years as Chief Consultant and Envoy for the UNEP Great Apes Survival Partnership.

 Jane Goodall is a world-renowned ethologist and an icon of animal protection and environmental activism. She began studying chimpanzees in the wild in Gombe, Tanzania, after meeting the celebrated paleontologist Louis Leakey in 1957, at the age of 23. In 1977, she established the Jane Goodall Institute for research and education on wild animals. 

 Since the 1980s, she has been raising awareness of the chimpanzees, working to protect their habitat and improve their treatment. With the goal to have humans, animals, and nature coexist and interact in sustainable harmony, she runs a diverse range of programs such as Roots & Shoots and TACARE. She is the author of In the Shadow of Man, Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours, and more.

 Jeffrey Sachs is a professor of economics at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Solutions Network. As a long-time leading scholar in the field of economics, he has served as an advisor to such international organizations as the IMF, World Bank, UNDS, and OECD. Jeffrey Sachs built a reputation as a leading macroeconomist as he helped Bolivia navigate economic hardships in their transition from a dictatorship to a democracy. Thanks to his suggestions, its out-of-control inflation quickly stabilized to ten percent in just one year. Later on, he served as Special Advisor on Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, working on such problems as climate change and the destruction of biological diversity.

 The New York Times described his as “probably the most important economist in the world,” and TIME recognized him as one of “The 100 Most Influential People” in the world in 2004 and 2005. His publications include The End of Poverty, The Age of Sustainable Development, and The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions.