Florent Kaiser

CEO, Global Forest Generation

Florent Kaiser is a conservation entrepreneur and CEO of Global Forest Generation. He co-leads Acción Andina, an Andes-wide initiative dedicated to large-scale forest ecosystem restoration and conservation. Leveraging his expertise in financing and scaling over 200 global projects, he builds strategic alliances with international partners to implement transformative ecosystem solutions. Under his leadership, Acción Andina has earned prestigious recognition, including the 2023 Earthshot Prize and 2024 designation as a World Restoration Flagship initiative.

Tim Christophersen

VP, Climate Action, Salesforce

Tim Christophersen joined Salesforce as VP, Climate Action in May 2022. Within the global Impact Team, he leads the work on climate and nature action and investments. Tim is based in Denmark. He is the author of ‘Generation Restoration’, a book about restoring nature at planetary scale. Before joining Salesforce, Tim was Head of the ‘Nature for Climate’ Branch at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and led a growing global movement backed by all UN Member States and over 300 partner organizations to ‘prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide’: the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.

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Samantha Taylor

Vice President for Development and Partnerships, Terraformation

Samantha Taylor is VP of Development at Terraformation, where she leads global fundraising and strategic partnerships to mobilize capital for high-integrity, native, biodiverse reforestation. She was formerly VP of Development at Emergent Climate and Managing Director at Bozell Worldwide, and served as Senior Advisor to American Forests, The Nature Conservancy, and Safe Water Network. A native of London and raised in Kenya, Samantha brings more than two decades of international leadership building the partnerships and resources needed to turn ambitious environmental solutions into impact at scale.