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Roy Angelvik, State secretary

Vidar Helgesen, Norway's Special Representative for the Ocean

Anne Husebekk, Chair of Framsenteret and rector of UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Niklas Labba, Academic Director of Sámi Research Senter at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Einar Sneve Martinussen, Associate Professor and Chair of Interaction Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)

Bjarte Hoff, Bjarte Hoff, Associate professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Alexandra Middleton, Assistant Professor, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland

Henna Longi, Doctoral student, Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM), University of Oulu, Finland

Sergey Khrushcev, Director, Department of State policy and Regulation of Hydrometeorology, Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation.

Ingeborg Gjerdrum Foshaug, Leader of Troms Youth County Council

Erlend Bullvåg, Dean of Business School, Nord University

Nick Hughes, Leader of the Norwegian Ice Service

Anna Hyrske, Head of Responsible Investments, Ilmarinen

Kayleigh Wyles, Environmental Psychology lecturer, University of Surrey, UK

Myles Allen, Professor, University of Oxford, and co-Director, Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative

Marius Årthun, Researcher, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway

John Jensen, Alaska Board of Fisheries

Ulf Sverdrup, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs - NUPI

Elana Wilson Rowe, Professor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI and Nord University

Stephanie Pezard, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation

Kikki Kleiven, Associate professor at the University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Change

Madeleine Redfern, Mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut

Espen Barth Eide, Member of Parliament, Stortinget (the Norwegian Parliament)

Trudy M.A. Wijnhoven, Nutrition and Food Systems Division, FAO

Ingrid Lomelde, Policy Director, WWF Norway

Göran Cars, Professor in Urban Planning, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden

Valborg Lundegaard, Executive Vice President, Customer Management, Aker Solutions AS

Eirik Sivertsen, Member of Parliament of Norway representing the Labor Party and the County of Nordland

Ilan Kelman, University College London

Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde, State Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy of Norway

Wouter-Jan Strietman, University Wageningen

Katri Kulmuni, Member of Finnish Parliament and Chair of the Finnish Delegation of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region

Aili Keskitalo, President of the Sami Parliament of Norway

Mairi Gougeon, Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment, Scotland

Lisa Murkowski, United States Senator for Alaska

Veronika Mikos, Healthy Seas

Sam Tan, Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore

Carola van Rijnsoever, NL Arctic Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Netherlands

Ásthildur Sturludóttir, Mayor of Akureyri, Iceland

Sarah Auffret, Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators

Trevor Bell, Founder/Director SmartICE, Canada

Tore Furevik, Professor, University of Bergen and Director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

Tahnee Prior, Co-lead of Women of the Arctic, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada

Daniel Skjeldam, CEO of the Norwegian explorer cruise line Hurtigruten

Ronald Lanters, Wing Process Consultancy

Siri Espedal Kindem, Senior Vice President Operations North, Equinor

Tommy Torvanger, CEO and chairman, Nergård AS, Norway

Ane Lone Bagger, Minister of Education, Culture, Church and Foreign Affairs, Government of Greenland

Frances A. Ulmer, Chair of the US Arctic Research Commission (USARC)

Mikael Thinghuus, CEO, Royal Greenland A/S

Yun Sun, Stimson Centre, United States

Peter Winsor, Arctic Program Director, WWF

Kristin Færøvik, Managing Director, Lundin Norway AS

Geir Huse, Research Director Marine Ecosystem and Resources, Marine Research Institute of Norway

Arve Dimmen, Director, Department for Maritime Safety, Kystverket, Norway

Sabine Pahl, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Plymouth

Kimmo Tiilikainen, Minister of the Environment, Energy and Housing, Finland

David A. Balton, Senior Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, United States

Dalee Sambo Dorough, Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council

Monica Mæland, Minister of Local Government and Modernization of Norway

Ola Elvestuen, Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway

Anne Christine Brusendorff, General Secretary ICES

Ine Eriksen Søreide, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

Nettie La Belle-Hamer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

Geir-Henning Wintervoll, Administrative Director, Finnfjord AS

Rune Rafaelsen, Mayor of Sør-Varanger kommune

Tero Kiviniemi, Chair, AEC Investments & Infrastructure Working Group and President & CEO of Destia Group Plc.

Ken Coates, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Christian Hauglie-Hanssen, Director General, Norwegian Space Centre

Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London

Ingrid Schjølberg, Director, NTNU Oceans

Aziz Merchant, Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited

Professor John-Arne Røttingen, Chief Executive of the Research Council of Norway

Yang Jian, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, China

Mikael Damberg, Minister of Enterprise and Innovation of Sweden

Per Sandberg, Minister of Fisheries of Norway

Ketil Solvik-Olsen, Minister of Transport and Communications of Norway

Åsa Larsson-Blind, President of the Saami Council, Sweden

Anne Berner, Minister of Transport and Communications of Finland

Martin Sommerkorn, WWF Arctic Programme

Urmas Paet, Member of European Parliament, Committee for Foreign Affairs

Terje Søviknes, Minister of Petroleum and Energy of Norway

Per Grieg, Chairman of the Board, Grieg Seafoods, Norway

Anne Karin Olli, State Secretary Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway

Pierre Moreau, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources for the National Assembly of Quebec

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

Prof. Dr James D. Ford, Professor & Priestley Chair in Climate Adaptation Priestley International Centre for Climate University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Iselin Nybø, Minister for Research and Higher Education of Norway

Jan Dusik, Principal Adviser for Strategic Engagement for the Arctic and Antarctic at UN Environment

Jan Moström, CEO of LKAB, Sweden

Kristin Holth, Executive Vice President Global Head of Ocean Industries DNB ASA

Ségolène Royal, Ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic Affairs of France

Jan Tore Sanner,

Heather Carnahan, Marine Institute, Memorial University, Canada

Robert Stephenson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada

Chandrika Nath, Acting Director, UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Bert Stedman, Senator, Southeast Alaska

Antje Boetius, Director Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

Jonas Gahr Støre, Leader of the Labour Party, Norway

Volker Rachold, Head, German Arctic Office

Anne Grete Ellingsen, GCE NODE

Paul Webb, SAR specialist, US Coast Guard

Juhani Damski, Director, Finnish Metereological Institute

Letizia Tedesco, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland

Michael Sfraga, Director of the Polar Initiative

Natalia Kukarenko, Director of the Institute for Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Northern Arctic Federal University, Russia

Anthony Hobley, Chief Executive Officer, Carbon Tracker Initiative

Else Grete Broderstad, Centre for Sami Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Berit Svendsen, CEO, Telenor Norway

John Markus Lervik, CEO & Founder, Cognite AS

Anne-Marie Turcotte, Concordia University, Canada

Karla Jessen Williamson, Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Jürgen Brandes, Chief Executive Officer of Process Industries and Drives Division, Siemens AG

Christine Batruch, Vice President, Lundin Petroleum

Tina Pidgeon, Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer, General Communication, Inc.

Kay Endre Fjørtoft, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Ocean

Anja Bakken Riise, Leader, Future in our Hands (Framtiden i våre hender)

Marius Holm, Managing director of the Zero Emission Resource Organisation

Tero Vauraste, Chair Arctic Economic Council

Inge André Sandvik, CDO, Wilhelmsen Group

Simon Francis, Commercial Director, Arundo Analytics

Sigrid Ina Simonsen, County Councillor for Culture and Industry

Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean

Kristin Skogen Lund, Director general of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO)

David Barber, University of Manitoba

Atle Vartdal, Ramoen

Owe Hagesæther, GCE Subsea

Julie Decker, Anchorage Museum Director and CEO

Thierry Rodon, Université Laval

Michaela Aschan, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø

Francois Massonnet, Université catholique de Louvain

Frode M. Nilsen, Managing Director, Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner AS

Esben Poulsson, Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping

Juha Sipilä, Prime Minister of Finland

Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

Margot Wallström, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden

Bert Koenders, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland

Jenna Jambeck, University of Georgia, USA

Michael Byers, University of British Colombia, Canada

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

Machiel Lamers, Wageningen University

Nathalie Le Francois, Researcher, Biodôme de Montréal/Espace pour la vie, Québec, Canada

Øyvind Fylling-Jensen, Managing Director Nofima AS, Norway

Paul Arthur Berkman, Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy

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

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, Chair of Troms County Government

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

Evgeny Goman, Creator and director of Arctic Theater in Murmansk

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

Paul Holthus, CEO and President, World Ocean Council

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, UiT The 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, Head of Research Expedition Vessel

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