Jonas is the CEO of Katapult Ocean – the most active ocean impact venture funds globally. The fund invests in ocean impact companies such as offshore wind and solar, seaweed and seafood, alternative proteins, ocean health and maritime transportation. Katapult Ocean is based in Norway but invests in and accelerates impactful ocean startups from all over the world. He has fifteen years of experience from banking and global asset management. He joined Katapult after co-founding the successful sustainable investing hedge fund, CARN Capital, proving that profit and purpose can go hand in hand.

Karthik is a Senior Climate Finance Expert with Dalberg Global Development Advisors based in Mumbai. He advises private, public sector, and civil organization partners as well as development finance institutions on climate finance and sustainable finance strategy, strategy planning & implementation, and technical assistance. He has deep knowledge and expertise of best practices and finance access models for environmental and sustainable solutions and has worked with several sovereigns, sub-sovereigns as well as private sector players in Asia/AsiaPac, Europe, Australia, and LatAm.

Suzanne serves as a Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact's Sustainable Ocean Business platform and its work to advance a more productive and sustainable ocean. She is also head of the Lloyd's Register Foundation's Sustainability Program. She has wide ranging experience in the energy sector, having previously worked for energy and water companies in government and regulatory affairs, investor relations and finance. Her energy sector experience also includes investment management, where she was responsible for utilities fixed income for Schroder Investment Management.

15 years with WWF, currently lead for fisheries and finance of WWF’s Coral Triangle Program working with the SEA and Pacific countries towards sustainable fisheries management strategies to maximize conservation and socio-economic impacts on the ground, building human and ecological systems’ resilience against crises, ensure food security, stable livelihoods and ocean health.  2017 to 2020, member of the core team (WWF US and Institute of Food Technologists) that launched the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST), engaging 70+ seafood industry members in forging a global stand

Kushaal is the Acting Manager for Climate Change and the Ocean Specialist for the Climate Change and International Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Economy, Fiji. He coordinates Ocean and Climate activities in Fiji.  He is also responsible for updating the nation’s progress in the role of ocean and climate in climate change frameworks, in particular the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Prior to joining civil service, Kushaal worked as a Lecturer in Science and as a Policy Analyst in Higher Education Research.

Melissa is an experienced conservation leader, responsible for developing and executing strategies, managing teams and ensuring results to address the world’s most pressing challenges to people and nature. Melissa began working with The Nature Conservancy in 2006. She has served as the Deputy State Director for the US Washington State Chapter, took on the role of Managing Director, Global Oceans Strategic Initiatives in 2018, and became the Global Director of Ocean Protection in 2019. She leads the team responsible for TNC’s global ocean protection and blue finance strategies.

Mr. Guo Shaoquan, aged 58, holds a master's degree in Business Administration for senior managers of Nankai University, a master's degree in Business Administration for senior managers of Peking University, and a senior economist. Mr. Guo was appointed as the executive director and chairman of the bank in January 2010. Mr. Guo joined the bank in November 2009 as secretary of the Party committee.

Coral is currently the Senior Advisor to the Director General of SPC and the President of Tofia Niue, a Non Profit implementing the Niue Ocean Wide Project. She has over 20 years of professional experience in the Pacific Region addressing international, regional, and national level issues across the fields of Sustainable Development, climate change, climate financing, and climate security, sustainable ocean management, and Pacific Regionalism. Prior to joining SPC she ran her own Consultancy business and was the Green Climate Fund’s Pacific Regional Advisor.

Dr. Dennis Fritsch leads the United Nations’ Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative, part of UNEP FI, focused on bringing banks, insurers and investors together to develop guidance and tools to enable financial institutions to align their activities with a sustainable ocean economy. The initiative is the host of the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles; the world’s first global guiding framework for aligning financial flows with SDG 14 - Life Below Water.