This international body consists of distinguished professionals who draw on their individual and collective experiences in politics, business, academia and civil society. Members of the Advisory Council actively engage in advancing ECF’s mission both by providing strategic advice and through advocacy.

John Schellnhuber (Chair)

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; External Professor at Santa Fe University; Advisor on Energy and Climate Change to EU Commission President Manuel Barroso

Bert Metz

Former Co-Chair of the Working Group on Mitigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Prize in 2007

Jeremy Oppenheim

Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company and Global Director of their Sustainability & Resource Productivity Initiative

Jonathan Powell

Former Chief of Staff to British Prime Minister Tony Blair; Former Chief Negotiator on Northern Ireland

Laurence Tubiana

Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI); Director of the Sustainable Development Centre at Sciences Po'

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

Professor and Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy at Budapest's Central European University

Anders Wijkman

Former Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of Globe EU; Vice-President of the Club of Rome; Vice Chair of the Tällberg Foundation

Mark Woodall

Founder, former CEO and Senior Advisor, Climate Change Capital; also a non-executive director of a number of clean tech companies