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Advisory Board

Nandita Bajaj

Nandita Bajaj

Advisory board chair

Nandita is Executive Director of Population Balance, a non-profit that educates about—and offers solutions to address—impacts of human overpopulation and over-consumption on the planet, people, and animals...

Chris Tucker

Chris Tucker

Advisor - co-founder

Dr Chris Tucker is a co-founder of Stable Planet Alliance, author of A Planet of Three Billion, and Chair of the American Geographical Society. Chris’s work with Stable Planet Alliance emphasizes a geographically...

Eileen Crist

Eileen Crist

Advisor - civilization

Eileen is Associate Professor Emerita of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. She holds a BA and PhD in Sociology. Her work focuses on the ecological crisis and its root causes and pathways toward...

Carter Dillard

Carter Dillard

Advisor - justice

Carter's ethics, legal and policy career started with the US Dept of Justice, and his thesis and 2021 book "Justice as a Fair Start in Life" reframed the right to have children in inter-generational and child-centric...

Chidera Benoit

Chidera Benoit

Advisor - population

Chidera Benoit is the Founder and Executive Director of Population Explosion Awareness Initiative (PEA Initiative), an indigenous Nigerian non-profit dedicated to raising awareness about the exponential rate...

Rachel Donald

Rachel Donald

Advisor - media

Rachel Donald is a climate corruption journalist, exposing the greenwashing policies facilitating climate change in industry and politics. She hosts Planet: Critical, the podcast for a world in crisis, interviewing experts on...

Bill Ryerson

Bill Ryerson

Advisor - media

Bill is founder and President of the highly acclaimed Population Media Center, which strives to improve the health and wellbeing of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies...

Cécile Ndjebet

Cécile Ndjebet

Advisor - gender

Dr Cécile Ndjebet is an agronomist, forester, gender specialist and women’s leadership trainer and adviser. She holds a MSc in social forestry from Wageningen Agricultural University and a PhD on women’s access...

Oying Rimon

Oying Rimon

Advisor - everything

Jose "Oying" G. Rimon II is Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and concurrent Principal Investigator...

Elise Buckle

Elise Buckle

Advisor - climate

Elise Buckle is President and CEO of Climate & Sustainability, based near Geneva, Switzerland. Co-founder of SHE Changes Climate, facilitator of the Planetary Emergency Partnership and other initiatives, Elise is...

Susan Allen

Susan Allen

Advisor - repro health

Susan Allen, MD, MPH, is a Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, and founder of the Rwanda-Zambia Health Research Group. Since 1986 Dr Allen and colleagues...

Joseph Merz

Joseph Merz

Advisor - marketing

Joseph started his first business at 16 and has founded a number of organizations since. Within these he has developed new concepts like setting commercial limits to growth and profit. His exceptionally ethical...

Laura Aghwana

Laura Aghwana

Advisor - law

Laura is a goal-driven lawyer and barrister in Nigeria with the zeal to build a better world with her practice of law and policy research. She is passionate about practical legal solutions in law, litigation, public policy...

Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin

Advisor - sustainability

Vicki Robin is a well known and prolific social innovator, cultural scout, writer and speaker. She hosts the YouTube podcast interview series, What Could Possibly Go Right?, inviting cultural scouts to shine a light...

Karen Hardee

Karen Hardee

Advisor - demography

Dr Karen Hardee is president and CEO of the What Works Association. She has a PhD in social demography from Cornell University, and >25 years of international technical and leadership experience working with...

Amanda Janoo

Amanda Janoo

Advisor - economies

Amanda Janoo is the Wellbeing Economy Alliance’s (WEAll’s) knowledge and policy lead. She is an economic policy expert with rich experience with governments and global development institutions...

Abidemi Raji

Abidemi Raji

Advisor - gender

Dr Abi Raji is a young community ecologist and educator passionate about biodiversity conservation, people and their relationship with the environment. She works on ecosystem services, land-use impacts...

Elizabeth Essien

Elizabeth Essien

Advisor - systems

Dr Lizzy Andrew-Essien is a professor of systems ecology at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She works on ecosystem resilience and how social/ industrial processes facilitate economic, urban and infrastructure growth...

Amy Lewis

Amy Lewis

Advisor - rewilding

Amy is WILD Foundation's Vice President of Policy & Communications, and has spent the last 15 years researching building blocks of collective action. She has brought this knowledge into her award-winning...

Linda W. Chang

Linda W. Chang

Advisor - behavior

Psychologist Linda Chang works on behavior change as it affects sustainability, consumption, climate change and inequality. She has a Harvard psychology PhD, Yale BA, and Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the Wharton School of...

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