Series - Business, Science, Culture: Climate Edition

Andrea Wulf is a historian and award-winning author of several books, among them the NYT bestseller “The Invention of Nature. Alexander von Humboldt’s New World” which was published in 27 languages and has won fifteen international literary awards. She is also a regular contributor on radio and TV in Europe and the US. Based on her book “Founding Gardeners” of the early presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams she will discuss the roots of Environmentalism in the Early Republic.

Dr. Friederike Otto serves as Associate Director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University and leads the distributed computing climate modelling project climateprediction.net. With her main research interest being on extreme weather events, Dr. Otto develops methodologies to answer the question 'whether and to what extent external climate drivers alter the likelihood of extreme weather.' Dr. Otto was named a New Scientist “One to Watch” and one of just ten international climate scientists to join the core writing team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Katherina Reiche is CEO of Westenergie AG and Chairperson of the German National Hydrogen Council as well as a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development. She served as Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2009-2013) and at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (2013-2015).