Stanford Sustainability Summit 2025
Location
Stanford Graduate School of Business
About the Summit
The event is broadly inclusive, covering the full range of sustainability issues such as land use, agriculture, food security, biodiversity, biological preservation and conservation, freshwater and watersheds, population, poverty, environmental justice, climate, greenhouse gas removal, energy, the built environment, oceans, and sea-level rise, to name just some.
The event is bringing in 40 changemakers from all over the world. These changemakers include representatives from five different areas of human organization: entrepreneurs, innovative established firms, NGOs, policymakers, and leaders in health & education. Some of these change makers deal with the technical aspects of climate adaptation. Others with behavioral adaptation and change. Still others focus on issues of ethical importance in the area of environmental justice. But across all this diversity, the participants share a common concern about the world’s great sustainability challenges, especially as these challenges are manifesting in the poorest and least developed areas of the world.
Thank you for your interest in the Stanford Sustainability Summit. This event is now fully booked. Attendance is by invitation only and open to Faculty, Staff, Stanford Community, and Alumni. If you received an email confirmation, your registration is confirmed and we look forward to seeing you on July 14. If you are no longer able to attend, please let us know. For further inquiries, please contact Marissa Mendoza.
2025 Participating Changemakers
| Organization / Individual | Representative(s) |
| Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Jessica Fain, Director of Planning |
| CelerateX | Jason Cheng, Founder and CEO |
| Connect Earth UK | Josh Couchman, Head of Data |
| Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation (CREF) | Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas, President Emeritus, CEO of CREF |
| Earthrights International | Shannon Young, Deputy Executive Director |
| Elephantech | Shinya Shimizu, Co-Founder and CEO |
| Enomad | Hyerin Park, Founder and CEO |
| Foundation for Innovations in Health | Dr. Satadal Saha, Founder and President |
| GOONJ | Anshu Gupta, Founder |
| Green Grid | Mr. Chinmoy Saha, Co-Founder and CEO |
| Haley Rains | UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (UC Santa Cruz, Film & Digital Media) |
| Ho’Okua’Aina | Dean Wilhelm, Executive Co-Director Michele Wilhelm, Co-Director Mahie Wilhelm, Executive Administrative Assistant |
| J-Impact Fund | Eran Sandhaus, Managing Partner |
| JP II Foundation for the Sahel | Fr. Prosper Kiema, Executive Director |
| Kwangu Kwako Limited | Winnie Gitau, Co-Founder |
| Lightrock | Hanaan Marwah, Executive Director of Energy Access Value Creation |
| Lojas Bemol | Denis Minev, Director President |
| Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) | Ryo Tateishi, Director of Business Development |
| Natura | Angela Pinhati, Chief Sustainability Officer |
| New Nomad Institute | Badruun Gardi, Co-Founder |
| Niparaja | Laura Martinez, Executive Director |
| Parlamento Latino Americano y Caribeno | Yosep Lee, Senior Aid to Alternate President of the Latin American Parliament |
| PermitPal | Emily Tench, Founder |
| Pravah | Mohak Mangal, Co-Founder Dhruv Suri, Co-Founder Aman Gupta, Co-Founder |
| Prof. Jonathan Anticamara | Professor, Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines-Diliman |
| rrreefs | Dr. Ulrike Pfreundt, Co-Founder, Co-CEO & Head of Science and Development |
| Silva | Daniel Jimenez, Founder and CEO Plinio Ribeiro, Co-Founder |
| Social Alpha | Manoj Kumar, Founder Vidya Phalke, CEO |
| Spottswoode Winery | Molly Sheppard, Director of Winery Strategy |
| Startup Nation Central | Gary Soleiman, Manager, Global Partnerships |
| Tabah Asia | Norita Ja’afar, Founding Partner, Certified Sustainable Practitioner & Climate Change Officer |
| The Economist | Edward Glanville, Senior Program Editor and Head of Sustainability Events Programming |
| Yong-Geun Kim, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Management, Hallym University |
| Zero Cow Factory | Sohil Kapadia, Co-Founder and CEO Parini Kapadia, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer |