Paolo Frankl is the Head of the Renewable Energy Division (RED) at the International Energy Agency (IEA), which he joined in summer 2007. In this role Dr. Frankl coordinates the Division’s activities, encompassing the status and progress of renewable energy technologies; renewable energy policies and markets; and system-integration issues. A physicist by training, Dr. Frankl holds a Ph.D in energy and environmental technologies from the University of Rome. Previous positions held were in academia and in private Italian consultancy firms researching renewable energy, life cycle assessment and eco-labeling.

As President Director and CEO of Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned energy company and the only Indonesian company in Fortune Global 500, Nicke oversees an enterprise with more than $84 billion in annual revenue and more than 40,000 employees around the globe. She is listed as of The Most Powerful Women International by Fortune and The World’s Most Powerful Women by Forbes in 2022. 
She got her Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (1991) and Master of Business Law from Universitas Padjajaran (2009). Nicke has more than 30 years experience in engineering, procurement, construction, electricity, energy, oil & gas sector. The government recently reaffirmed its confidence in her to carry out Pertamina’s transformation to a holding company with publicly listed subsidiaries over the next few years. 
With various experience in several state-owned enterprises, Nicke has committed around $69 billion investment for the next five years in an ambitious vision to ensure the availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and sustainability of energy in the country. She is working to support Indonesia's energy transition by building a portfolio of renewable energy sources to power the country in the future. 

Arnold Milner Simwaba is a Zambian by nationality. He holds a Masters and Bachelors of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, obtained from the Russians People’s Friendship University. He is a registered member of the Engineering Institute of Zambia (EIZ). He joined Government under the Ministry of Energy as a Senior Electrification Officer and rose through the ranks to the current position of Director at Department of Energy, with 19 years’ experience in the energy sector. Currently, Arnold Simwaba sits in different Boards of companies, and is a Co-Chairperson for the Project Steering Committee under the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA).

Sidatte Fall has more than 10 years of experience in the off-grid energy sector and project development in solar, hydro, biomass and wind technologies, access to clean energy and the promotion of productive uses electricity in West Africa. Before joining ANER in 2017, he worked with France Volontaires/CDS in Mauritania, Africa Development Solution (ADS) in Guinea/Niger and Energy 4 Impact in Senegal. Sidatte is an energy engineer and industrial process engineering trained at the International Institute of Water and the Environment of Ouagadougou (2IE).

Harish Hande is a renewable energy entrepreneur with over 28 years of grassroots experience in understanding, developing and deploying sustainable energy solutions for underserved communities. He co-founded SELCO India in 1995 as a for-profit social enterprise and SELCO Foundation in 2010- a not-for-profit ecosystem builder to enable sustainable energy solutions for agriculture, livelihoods and healthcare. The efforts seek to demonstrate that decentralised energy solutions can be truly sustainable when combined with appropriate technology, financing and ownership models suited to the contexts of the poor, and these can bring developmental benefits in a climate resilient manner for last mile communities.

Gül Bayrakci Özdingiş, graduated from Ege University; Faculty of Science in 2006. She received her MSc Degree in 2009 and PhD in 2017 from Institute of Solar Energy, Ege University, Turkey. She is a researcher and lecturer at Ege University Biomass Energy Systems and Technology Application and Research Center (BESTMER). She has worked as a project manager in 1 project and as researcher more than 15 national and international founded projects. Profession fields are use of biomass energy production though microbiologic pathways, bioethanol production and, use of biomass energy in different technologies.

Mr. Frederik Schoenberger is a German engineer specialized in photovoltaics.
He holds a Master of Science in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management, obtained at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, and is currently working as a Research Engineer on Integrated Photovoltaics at the Fraunhofer Research in Chile.
Mr. Schoenberge’s expertise includes agrovoltaics, feasibility studies, Agro PV system design evaluation, economics and policy analysis, geospatial potential studies. He is the author of four publications on agrivoltaics and a member of the International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Program.