Richard van de Sanden is scientific director of the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES) and professor at the Department of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe). He is head of research at the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), where he was director from 2011 to 2020.
Niels Debonne is senior policy analyst Food and Agriculture at Milieudefensie. Previously, he was associate professor of environmental geography at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and active at Scientist Rebellion.
Arnaud Cohen Stuart is Head of Business Ethics at ING where he has worked since 2009.
Judith van Erp holds the chair ‘Regulatory Governance’ at Utrecht University, within the Department of Management and Organisation Science. Her research focuses on the supervision of companies and organisations, and the interaction between public and private regulatory and supervisory arrangements. She was head of the committee that advised Utrecht University on their policy on research funding from the fossil industry.
Mathieu Blondeel is a University Lecturer in the Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA) department of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at VU Amsterdam. His work is at the intersection of global energy and climate politics. Within VU Amsterdam, Mathieu Blondeel has worked on policy around research funding from the fossil industry.
Philipp Pattberg is director of the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and professor of transnational environmental governance and policy. Within VU Amsterdam, Philipp Pattberg has worked on policy around research funding from the fossil industry.
Kees Foekema ( moderator) is a programme maker and moderator at De Balie. He specialises in programmes on sustainability, agriculture and nature.