Lily coordinates the Cool Coalition, a new initiative that was an official outcome of the Energy Transition Track of the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019. The Coalition supports governments’ transition to efficient, climate-friendly cooling through a holistic approach to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Xiaoyi Jin is a Senior Associate at the ClimateWorks Foundation and serves as the Head of Access for the Clean Cooling Collaborative (CCC). She manages CCC's activities on passive cooling and support the Access portfolio, including awareness raising initiatives and exploratory work on sustainable agriculture cold chain. Prior to ClimateWorks, Xiaoyi was a Program Associate at The Asia Foundation where she supported the Foundation’s annual planning and budget process and researched on international development aids to Advanced Middle-Income Countries (AMICs) in Asia.

Eric Roeder boasts of two decades of service to the United Nations, specializing in diverse sustainability projects. Notable contributions encompass mitigating dust storms with UNCCD, promoting energy efficiency via UNEP, fostering smart agriculture with UNESCAP, and enhancing rural infrastructure in Laos through ILO. Eric's private sector involvement champions inclusive and self-sustaining growth, exemplified by his initiative linking companies with tsunami monitoring infrastructure.

Vinita has a Masters Degre in 'Natural Resources and Governance' from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She worked with an NGO working with rural communities in India. She engaged in socioecological research and supported community-based participatory action reserch work aimed at landscape restoration and also worked on creating knowledge material based on this work and related efforts. She has also freelanced for projects focusing on historical research and degradation of urban wetland areas. 

Hasan is a Mechanical Engineer who works on Energy Efficiency, Energy Audit, Energy Advisory, and Water Consumption Reduction related climate crisis mitigation projects. He has worked with Architecture and Engineering academia on integrating passive design and sustainable cooling concepts in the curriculum. He has also worked with informal housing communities to co-create simple, cheap, and effective thermal comfort solutions. v

Dr. Huraera Jabeen is an academic and development professional with 20 years of experience on urban resilience, gender, and the built environment, with a specific focus on the intersection of gender and climate change in cities. She works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, BRAC University in Bangladesh.