Linda Greer is an environmental toxicologist who worked on industrial pollution with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the largest environmental groups in North America, for nearly 30 years. She is currently serving as a Senior Global Fellow with the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, the leading environmental organization in China. For more than a decade, Linda has concentrated her work internationally -- on pollution caused by globalized manufacturing. In the past decade, Linda focused her efforts on global apparel manufacturing, a hot spot of water pollution from the dyeing and finishing of fabric around the world. Linda created NRDC’s Clean by Design Program, a highly successful green supply chain initiative for the apparel industry that promotes ten simple best practice improvements in production efficiency to significantly reduce the use of water, energy and chemicals in manufacturing while saving money. Clean by Design has been implemented at more than 200 factories around the world.

Linda has served on many expert panels, commissions, and boards, including the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Sciences and Toxicology, the National Academy of Sciences Board on Life Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Emerging Issues, and the Executive Committee of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board. She recently served on the Board of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. Linda is the author of over a dozen technical and policy articles on environmental matters and has frequently testified before the U.S. Congress. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology (U of Maryland), a M.S.P.H. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering (UNC School of Public Health, Chapel Hill), and a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology (Tufts University).

Nate Aden leads interdisciplinary projects focused on industrial sector transformation, methods to align company GHG targets with ambitious climate stabilization scenarios, and components of country-level GHG-GDP divergence. As a core member of the Science Based Targets initiative, he works directly with companies, financial institutions, industry associations, and other stakeholders to map and implement pathways to a competitive low-carbon economy.

Nate has more than 15 years of experience working on industry, trade, energy, and climate in Asia, the U.S., and Europe. He has authored or co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles and reports, including the 2019 Apparel and Footwear Sector Science-Based Targets Guidance. He works with some of the world’s largest textile and apparel brands to help them set Science-Based Targets for GHG emissions reduction. His research on country low-carbon transformation has been written up in the New York Times and he is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences. Nate earned a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, a master’s degree from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Lynn Price is a Senior Advisor for the International Energy Analysis Department and the China Energy Group in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Energy Technologies Area, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).  She previously served as a Senior Scientist, Acting Division Director for the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Head of International Energy Analysis Department, and Leader of the China Energy Group. She is also an Affiliated Faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California-Berkeley.

Lynn Price has a MS in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked at LBNL since 1990. She has been a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, since 1994 and was a lead author of IPCC’s Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Assessment Reports on Mitigation of Climate Change. She has provided technical and policy-making assistance related to energy efficiency and climate change mitigation on a variety of projects since the early 1990s for the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. State Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, World Bank, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, U.S. Agency for International Development, California Energy Commission, California Air Resources Board, Energy Foundation China, ClimateWorks Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Oak Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and others. 

Dr. Eichhammer is a physicist with professional experience gathered in various countries of the European Union and worldwide in designing and evaluating energy efficiency, renewables, and climate policies. He is the head of the Competence Center Energy Policy and Energy Markets at The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is also a professor for energy efficiency and energy systems modeling at Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University in The Netherlands.

Dr. Eichhammer has served as the project lead of numerous national and international studies on modeling and simulating the impacts of climate change mitigation measures, energy conservation and renewable energy policies. He is the technical coordinator of the ODYSSEE-MURE project on energy efficiency indicators and policies (www.odyssee-mure.eu). He has served as technical advisor to the EU-Commission on the implementation of EU Emission Trading (Benchmarking), the EU Effort Sharing Decision, the EU Directive on Energy Services as well as the follow-up Directive on Energy Efficiency, among others. He has also worked on various projects in these fields for international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, UNIDO, etc. He has extensive experiences working internationally namely in Asian countries (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, South Korea), Central and Eastern European countries (Serbia, Russia), North Africa (Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria) and South/Central America (Mexico, Brazil, Chile).

Tienan Li is the director of Center for Industrial Energy Efficiency (CIEE) in Beijing, China. He is also the general manager of China Standard Conformity Assessment Co.,Ltd. In addition, he has served as the director of ELI Quality Certification Institute, the general manager of China Standard Certification Center (CSC) (former China Certification Center for Energy Conservation Products) and a senior engineer at China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS).

Tienan Li has over 30 years experience in various areas of energy efficiency policy and standards in China and internationally. He is the chairman of ISO/TC 257 Evaluation of Energy Savings under which he is leading the development of series of ISO standards on energy savings measurement and verification protocols. He led the development of China’s national standard for "Energy Management System" and participated in the development of ISO50001 standard. As technical expert to UNIDO and ISO, he promotes the application of energy management system standard in developing countries, and has participated in international training as a lead trainer. He has extensive experience on energy efficiency standards and measurement and verification protocols and has led several large-scale national and international projects in this area in China.