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) (Germany)

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.

Antony Burgmans (The Netherlands)

Former Chairman and CEO of Unilever; Director of BP; Member of the Supervisory Boards of Aegon and Akzo Nobel; Chairman of WWF - the Netherlands; Board Member of the World Resources Institute.

Bert Metz (The Netherlands)

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 (United Kingdom)

Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company leading the global Climate Change Special Initiative (CCSI); formerly with the World Bank.

Jonathan Powell (United Kingdom)

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

Laurence Tubiana (France)

Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris; Director of the Sustainable Development Centre at Science Po.

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (Hungary)

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

Anders Wijkman (Sweden)

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 (United Kingdom)

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