Christopher Case is the Chief Technology Officer at Oxford PV, a spin-out of Oxford University (UK) that is commercialising perovskites for tandem solar cell applications. Most recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Linde Electronics, a gas and equipment supplier and the former Chief Scientific Officer of The BOC Group (UK). A long time chair of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, he spent 10 years at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ (US). He was an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University and director of the Thin Film Institute. He was a Fulbright-Hays scholar at the Université de Bordeaux and holds a Ph.D. degree in materials science from Brown University where he studied thin film chalcopyrite photovoltaic materials.

Professor Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA Chairman and Founder of Resilience Brokers Ltd, Visiting Professor University of Bristol in sustainable systems engineering.

Peter is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognised world leader in major bridges, advanced composite technology and in sustainable development in cities and regions.

In 2008 he was named by the Guardian Newspaper as one of 50 people that could ‘save the planet’.

He was cited by Time magazine in 2008 as one of 30 global eco-heroes and has been one of CNN’s Principle Voices.

In 2011 he was awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to Civil Engineering and the Environment.

In April 2011 he left Arup to set up The Ecological Sequestration Trust, a Charity which has brought together the world’s top scientists, engineers, economists, financiers, health, ecology and other specialists to create, demonstrate and scale a CHEER (Collaborative Human-Ecological-Economics-Resource systems) GIS platform to enable regions all over the world to plan, design and implement inclusive resilient growth using low carbon urban-rural development approaches which are energy, water and food secure. The first prototype was tested in Accra Ghana in 2016 and Peter is now leading a plan in Resilience Brokers Ltd with global partners to develop it fully and roll it out to 200 city region demonstrators in most countries by 2025.

Peter was a member of SDSN Thematic Group 9 that wrote and lobbied successfully for an urban SDG, SDG11.

Peter was one of the authors of the Planetary Health Commission 2015 Report on Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Era. He was also one of the authors of the Royal Society Report on Resilience to Extreme Weather 2015. He was editor of Roadmap 2030 an action plan for financing SDG delivery in cities including the key role of the Faiths. This was presented at Habitat III in Quito as the New Urban Agenda was launched.

He is a member of the UNDRR GAR 19/22 Advisory Board and a member of the Global Risk Assessment Framework GRAF working group.

Peter was a member of the Swansea University SPECIFIC advisory board until 2019 when he became the Chair of the associated SUNRISE Advisory Board.

Heading, ECOFIRST, A Tata Enterprise, subsidiary of Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) since last 8 years. Chitranjan has played an instrumental role in the growth of the company and in its regional and sectoral spread. Ecofirst has delivered more than 600 sustainable projects and has grown 5 times in revenue and employee strength in last 5 years only.

Chitranjan is an individual who make a difference by deepening self awareness in relation to the world around. In doing so, adopt new ways of seeing, thinking and interacting that result in innovative, sustainable solutions. His vision is to deliver superior quality sustainable products and services to the community through innovations, leadership and partnerships. Chitranjan is convinced that technology is the primary driver of change, however, the change may not be limited to technologies / newer (futuristic) technologies, but also largely attributes from human behaviour, new innovations, political, socio-cultural or economic activities, which all shall lead to sustainable future for all.

Chitranjan is an intrepid person who can take calculated risks, more focused on execution and ground realities, optimistically pursue new opportunities, little bit thick skinned but not insensitive. Always prefer to prepare for future in professional and personal life, pragmatically inclusive and comfortable with variety of people. Good at team building capabilities and managing multicultural teams. Chitranjan has won Prof Wil Segeren Award in UNESCO-IHE as recognition for international co-operation amongst representation of participants from sixty countries.

Chitranjan is a Civil Engineer and member of Institution of Engineers in India. He has done master’s in water resources (Hydroinformatics) from UNESCO-IHE. Chitranjan has widespread experience ranging from working with government for over 10 years, for land development and Knowledge outsourcing works for North America and India. He is the key person at the inception of Ecofirst, which is the firm established in 2008 to push clean tech and sustainable development. Ecofirst is founder member of Indian Green Building council and Chitranjan is member of the Executive Committee. Chitranjan cherish a dream of making a sustainable Senior Citizen home along with child care and Autistic child care home at same place as mutual support for sustainable life and society building. He is freemason and love reading history and philosophy.

I am a research officer based in the Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) and I am currently working on the Active Building Centre (ABC) project. This project aims to combine solar and low/zero carbon technologies with building design and operation to transform the construction and energy sectors. Our centre is involved with the ABC project to examine the impact of Active Builds on older people. We want to understand older people’s motives and the decision-making processes around moving to an ‘active’ home. I am particularly interested in public involvement and engagement in the research process and this is central to our research. We will be working with older people to devise and conduct the research. I retain an active role in the SUNRISE project (Strategic University Network to Revolutionize International Solar Energy and was involved in piloting arts based approaches to involvement and engagement in India (this blog has further details) as part of my role within the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR) Cymru. I have also recently been awarded my PhD on the role of social support networks in the dementia literacy of older adults in Wales.

Co founded Gram Oorja Solutions in 2008. We are a renewable energy company that focuses on energy access in remote rural communities in India. We have recently started projects in Africa and aim to be in parts of South Asia soon.

Prior to Gram Oorja, I have worked in Banking and Software industries for 15 years