In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

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Bret Willers

Head of Climate Change & Sustainability at Coventry City Council + social entrepreneur + lobbyist & campaigner

Bret Willers is a social environmentalist working as the Head of Climate Change and Sustainability at Coventry City Council. He has dedicated himself to leading the development of multi-agency Strategies and Action Plans to promote quality of life and address issues impacting upon the environment and sustainability. Alongside this, he is a successful lobbyist and campaigner covering environment, regeneration and sustainability issues at the UK and EU levels.

Fiona Nunan

Dr Fiona Nunan is a Professor of Environment and Development at the University of Birmingham. Her interests and experience focus on natural resource governance and management in developing country settings, particularly within inland fisheries and coastal locations in East and Southern Africa, and on exploring the links between poverty and the environment.

Jonathan Neale

Jonathan Neale is an American author who most recently wrote the book ‘Fight the Fire’, a compelling and concise guide to averting climate breakdown. He questions what can be done about the economy and climate change? His passion for stopping climate change is evident in other works too, such as ‘Stop Global Warming: Change the World.’

Nick Lawrence

Dr Nick Lawrence is an associate professor at the University of Warwick, whose research and teaching interests include American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, especially within a world-ecological frame; Hawthorne and Whitman; Marxism, the Frankfurt School and critical media theory; modernism/modernity, world-literature and the Anthropocene; and contemporary avant-garde poetry and poetics.

Nicola Blasetti

Nicola Blasetti is a graduate of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick, who is currently working on a climate change and hydrogen project at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He is also part of the Youth 20 Italian delegation.

Ryuji Chua

Ryuji is an animal rights activist who is behind Peace by Vegan. He is a filmmaker raised in France who dedicated his life to changing the way we as humans view animals through social media content.