Speakers at COP29
Featured Speakers










H.E. Ambassador Majid Al Suwaidi
Chief Executive Officer
ALTÉRRA climate investment fund
ALTÉRRA climate investment fund

Lisbeth Kaufman
Head of Climate Tech Startups Business Development
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services




Daniel Stephens
Partner
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company

McKinsey Speakers

Vishal Agarwal
Senior PartnerSingapore
Leads our sustainability work in Asia with a focus on energy-transition strategy, green business building, and sustainable finance

Rory Clune
PartnerBoston
Brings broad experience in strategic and operational topics to companies across the energy value chain, along with deep expertise in decarbonizing energy systems

Diego Hernandez Diaz
PartnerGeneva
Leads McKinsey’s Global Energy Perspective and advises energy and industrial companies on strategy and digital to navigate the energy transition, drive growth, improve performance, and build operational excellence

Sebastian Sjöberg
Managing Partner and Senior PartnerStockholm
Advises principal investors and financial institutions on strategy, growth, organization, governance, and transactions, and is the managing partner of the McKinsey office in Sweden

Patrick Hertzke
PartnerLondon
Drives impact for automotive and industrial clients in a variety of areas, including strategy, marketing, and product development, with considerable experience in driving large-scale transformations, and acts as the leader of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility’s global vehicle-electrification work

Philipp Kampshoff
Senior Partner and Global Coleader, Automotive & AssemblyHouston
Global coleader of the Automotive & Assembly Practice, serving clients along the entire mobility value chain

Mark Patel
Senior PartnerBay Area - San Francisco
Advises clients across sectors on sustainability with a focus on climate technologies; leads client work across industrial, high-tech, and semiconductor sectors

Alexis Trittipo
PartnerNew York
Leads our global climate analytics work and serves companies on climate risk, resilience, and adaptation

Mekala Krishnan
McKinsey Global Institute PartnerBoston
Leads the McKinsey Global Institute’s research on topics related to sustainable and inclusive growth, including climate risk and the net-zero transition, globalization, productivity growth, and gender economics