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Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway

Juha Sipilä, Prime Minister of Finland

Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

Margot Wallström, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden

Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary

Jan Tore Sanner, Minister of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway

Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Per Sandberg, Minister of Fisheries of Norway

Vidar Helgesen, Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway

Øyvind Fylling-Jensen, Managing Director Nofima AS, Norway

Julienne Stroeve, University College London, Great Britain

Gisle Nondal, R&D Manager, Global Centres of Expertise, GCE Subsea, Bergen, Norway

Rachel Kallander, Managing Partner, Kallander & Associates

Grete Ellingsen, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation

Cecilie Myrseth, Chair of Troms County government

Marit Dolmen, RD&I Manager, GCE NODE

Aslak Holmberg, Member of the Saami Parliament

Stephen Van Dine, Assistant Deputy Minister of the Northern Affairs Organization

Elena Tikhonova, Minister of Economic Development of the Murmansk region

Johannes Dyring, Director Industry Liaison Office, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Anna Bjørn, Kongsbakken Second Uppendary school, Tromsø

Vibeke Larsen, President of the Sámi Parliament of Norway

Karen Ellemann, Minister for Equal Opportunities and Nordic Cooperation, Denmark

Robert M. McDowell, Leader Global Communication, Cooley

Christin Kristoffersen, Partner, AAG Conow

Jessica Shadian, Nansen Professor, University of Akureyri and Partner, Arctic Advocacy Group

Carolina Behe, Indigenous Knowledge/Science Advisor at the Inuit Circumpolar Council – Alaska

Willy Ørnebakk, Executive Councillor for Health, Culture and Business Development in Troms County Council

Attilio Gambardella, Policy Officer, Climate Action and Earth Observations Unit, DG Research & Innovation of the European Commission

Dmitry Shparo, Director of the Adventure Club

Masao Fukasawa, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and National Institute of Polar Research (NiPR), Japan

Timo Koivurova, Professor, University of Lapland, Director of the Arctic Centre

Bjørn Haugland, Chief Sustainability Officer, DNV GL Group

Karl Almås, Special Advisor, SINTEF

Khaled N. Sedrak, Founder and CEO, NxtVn Group

Petteri Talaas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization

Frigg Jørgensen, Executive Director, AECO- Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators

Runi M. Hansen, Chairman, Tjaldur

Jiang Hansong, Managing Partner Arctic Green Seafood, Hangzhou, China

Connie Hedegaard, Public Investigator for the Norwegian government’s project on Green Competitiveness

Renée Sauvé, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. Chair of the Arctic Council's Working Group on the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment

Alexandra Bech Gjørv, SINTEF

Paul Holthus, CEO and President, World Ocean Council

Marina Kalinina, UArctic Vice-President for inter-regional cooperation, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia

Kari Aga Myklebost, Professor/Barents Chair in Russian Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Ursula Witte, Oceanlab - Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen

Karoline Trollvik, Head of Riddu Riddu Festival

Tor Eldevik, (moderator) University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

Maureen McLaughlin, VP of Public Policy, Iridium

Nikita Lomagin, Vice-Rector for GR, European University in St. Petersburg

Ronald van der Breggen, Chief Commercial Officer of LeoSat Enterprises

Qingchao Xu, Postdoc. & Lecturer, Peking University

Anita Krohn Traaseth, CEO Innovation Norway

Christoph Wolff, Managing Director of the European Climate Foundation

Kirsten Isensee, Project Specialist - Ocean Carbon, IOC-UNESCO

Kristin Røymo, Mayor Tromsø Kommune

Bobo Lo, Associate Research Fellow, Russia-NIS Center, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Edel Oddny Elvevoll, Dean, Professor Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT

Daniel Skjeldam, CEO of the Norwegian explorer cruise line Hurtigruten

Per Erik Dalen, CEO, GCE Blue Maritime

Frederic Hauge, Founder of Bellona

Wenche Cumming, Leader, Peoples action for an oil free Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja

Marit Kvalvåg Pettersen, Senior Researcher, Nofima

Paul Friedrich Wassmann, Professor, Arctic University of Norway

Bjørn Otto Sverdrup, Senior vice-president, Corporate Sustainability, Statoil

Ingrid Skjoldvær, Head of Nature and Youth, Norway

Bernice Notenboom, Journalist, filmmaker and polar explorer (Moderator)

Skjalg Fjellheim, Politisk Redaktør, Avisa Nordlys (Moderator)

Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes, Member of the Storting for Troms County

Jan Roger Lerbukt, General Manager, Hermes AS

Hans-Otto Portner, Professor Alfred Wegner Institute and co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2

Morten Skandfer, Member of the Storting for Troms County

Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace

Liv Monica Stubholt, Moderator

Tara Sweeney, Arctic Economic Council

Kristina Woolston, VP External Relations Quintillion

Stephen Sackur, Moderator

Nina Jensen, WWF-Norway

Sturla Henriksen, Norwegian Shipowners Association

Jan-Gunnar Winther, Norwegian Polar Institute

Poul Degnbol, Institute of Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development in Hirtshals, Denmark

Daniel Pauly, The University of British Colombia

Jeffrey Sachs, Earth Institute, University of Colombia

Peter Haugan, President of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO

Kitack Lim, Secretary General International Maritime Organisation

Suvi Linden, Chair of NxtVn Finland

Johann-Dietrich Wörner, General Director of the European Space Agency